EDMONTON, AB – Daryl Watts scored her second purpose of the sport to present the Toronto Sceptres a 3-2 additional time victory over the Ottawa Cost in entrance of a sold-out crowd of 17,518 at Sunday’s PWHL Takeover Tour recreation at Rogers Place in Edmonton.
With the victory, the Sceptres prolonged their successful streak to 4 video games, propelling the group right into a tie for second place within the PWHL standings with Minnesota. Lower than 4 minutes into the primary, Gabbie Hughes opened the scoring for the Cost with an influence play purpose, giving Ottawa a 1-0 lead, which they held for the rest of the opening body. Within the ultimate 4 minutes of the second interval, Toronto recorded two consecutive energy play tallies–– from Watts and Julia Gosling respectively–– giving the Sceptres their first lead of the sport with 24 seconds remaining within the center body. Responding early within the third, Ottawa ahead Tereza Vanišová tied the sport at two with the sport’s fourth energy play tally.
Watts’ game-winner got here 51 seconds into the additional time interval –– ahead Hannah Miller, who was celebrating her twenty ninth birthday, recorded her third help of the afternoon on the purpose. Alberta native Emerance Maschmeyer made 31 saves on 34 photographs for Ottawa whereas Toronto’s Raygan Kirk stopped 33 of 35, the rookie’s fifth win of the season.
QUOTES
Sceptres ahead Daryl Watts on her persevering with scorching streak: “That is such a cool expertise for all of us. It’s not day by day that you simply get to play in an NHL rink – particularly this one, it’s so stunning and the gang was electrical, so it’s exhausting to not get extremely excited and pumped as much as play on this ambiance.”
Toronto Head Coach Troy Ryan on altering the tempo and the facility play: “Out energy play the final variety of video games – in all probability the final seven or eight – has been actually scorching. We all know additionally that if we work and compete exhausting 5-on-5 we’ll draw penalties, and that’s what possibly within the first interval we have been getting away from. Perhaps not drawing the varieties of penalties we wished. We knew that if we performed the correct approach, we’d overextend some folks to need to take penalties in opposition to us. Proper now, the facility play is assured, discovering methods to contribute and so they’ve executed an ideal job.”
Cost goalie Emerance Maschmeyer on being again dwelling and enjoying within the Oilers’ rink. “It’s unbelievable. Waking up this morning and realizing that we have been going to be enjoying right here, it actually felt like a house recreation for Danielle Serdachny, Stephanie Markowski and me. We performed in entrance of our family and friends, some coaches and other people we went to high school with. I may by no means think about myself enjoying a professional recreation right here in Edmonton. That was particular.”
Ottawa defender Stephanie Markowski on enjoying in entrance of a bunch of fifty relations and listening to the “we wish a group” chants from followers. “To play right here in entrance of household that hasn’t seen me play stay in near seven years, it was a really particular feeling for me. I’m simply actually proud to be right here. For the indicators and chants, I believe it exhibits that the ladies’s recreation is rising. Trying up in any respect these women and boys with these indicators, it simply exhibits how far we’ve gone.”
NOTABLES
Daryl Watts recorded her first multi-goal recreation of the season and third multi-point effort in her final six contests, powered by a career-high eight photographs on purpose. Her additional time purpose was each her first game-winner of the season and the primary additional time purpose of her PWHL profession. Watts now sits sixth in league scoring with 15 factors (6G, 9A) in 18 video games.
Hannah Miller recorded her first profession three-point recreation (3A), setting a career-high help complete with 10 on the season, exceeding her 23-game help complete of seven throughout the inaugural season. The Sceptres ahead now leads the league in scoring with 18 factors (8G, 10A) in 18 video games.
Gabbie Hughes scored her first energy play purpose of the season and tallied an influence play help, starting a two-game multi-point streak. The Cost ahead has recorded 5 factors (3G, 2A) in her final two video games, bringing her season level complete to seven (3G, 4A) by means of 16 video games performed.
Julia Gosling scored her second purpose of the season with each tallies being scored in opposition to Ottawa on the facility play–– the opposite purpose was recorded on Feb. 1, 2025.
Tereza Vanišová’s third interval tally provides her 4 targets in her final two video games performed. The Ottawa ahead is now tied with Miller for second within the PWHL in targets, with eight.
Renata Quick tallied two assists and is now main all PWHL defenders in each factors (16) and assists (12). She can also be tied for fourth in league scoring amongst all skaters.
Jincy Roese tallied her sixth help of the season, starting a two-game help streak and exceeding her 24-game help complete from the inaugural season (5).
Jocelyne Larocque recorded her third help with the Cost since being traded by the Sceptres on Dec. 30, 2024–– her first level in opposition to her former group.
Jesse Compher recorded some extent for her second straight recreation, bringing her season complete to 12 (6G, 6A), tied for fourth total amongst Toronto skaters.
Emily Clark recorded an help to increase her level streak to three-games (1G, 3A).
Laura Kluge made her Sceptres debut, clocking 3:52 on ice. She arrived at Rogers Place sporting the jersey of fellow German hockey star Leon Draisaitl of the Edmonton Oilers.
Cost Head Coach and Alberta native Carla MacLeod wore an Edmonton Chimos sweater throughout the recreation in honor of the province’s trailblazing ladies’s hockey group.
For the primary time this season, all targets scored in regulation have been energy play markers. Toronto has scored at the least one energy play purpose in seven straight video games and lead the league with 17 targets on the benefit, changing at a 31.5% success price. Ottawa scored two targets on the facility play for the primary time this season and have transformed in consecutive video games to double their energy play purpose complete to 6.
Ottawa tallied 17 photographs within the first interval, the very best single-period complete for the Cost this season, whereas Toronto’s 19 within the second interval marked their highest single-period complete this marketing campaign.
The Cost stay the one PWHL group with out a win past regulation (0-3).
Ottawa will play within the seventh cease of the PWHL Takeover Tour in Raleigh vs. Minnesota on Mar. 7 and the ninth and ultimate cease, in St. Louis, in opposition to Boson on Mar. 29. 
THREE STARS
1. Daryl Watts (TOR) 2G
2. Gabbie Hughes (OTT) 1G, 1A
3. Jesse Compher (TOR) 1A
