LAVAL, QC (Dec. 4, 2024) – There was no spectacular comeback within the script for the Montréal Victoire this time, as they fell 4-1 to the New York Sirens of their second outing of the season on Wednesday night time in entrance of 5,415 loud followers at Place Bell. New York’s dynamic duo of Sarah Fillier and Alex Carpenter was as soon as once more deadly, as Fillier scored her first two objectives within the PWHL and added an help, whereas her teammate scored the game-winning aim halfway by way of the third interval to maintain the crew unbeaten.
QUOTES
New York Captain Micah Zandee-Hart on having Sarah Fillier as a teammate: “She’s a type of gamers that as a D, I don’t like taking part in towards as a result of it means I’ve to bear in mind each time she’s on the ice. However as her teammate, I really like being on the ice together with her, competing together with her, and also you noticed what she did tonight.”
New York Head Coach Greg Fargo on Fillier’s dominance: “I don’t know that there’s an individual across the hockey world that didn’t suppose she may are available and dominate. She has been doing it at a excessive stage and on the world’s largest stage. I feel Sarah was prepared for this problem and for the subsequent stage, as a result of she’s been dominating since school previous to getting right here.”
Montréal Head Coach Kori Cheverie: “It was clear that we didn’t have our A-game and we talked about that in between intervals, and the way at instances that can occur, that we don’t have every little thing clicking. However it’s about how do you discover your B-game when your A-game isn’t going. We needed to simplify some issues, and we didn’t get the simplification that we would have liked.”
Montréal rookie Cayla Barnes on scoring her first career-goal, assisted by her former Ohio State College teammate Jennifer Gardiner, one recreation after Gardiner netted her first aim on a cross from Barnes: “For me to do this the opposite night time, and he or she Uno-reversed it to me tonight, it’s thrilling and I’m completely happy she was capable of make that cross and that I used to be capable of capitalize on it at a second that we would have liked the power. I’m simply completely happy we acquired that chance.”
NOTABLES
New York is the PWHL’s solely undefeated crew after their first two video games and is the one crew within the league to have performed each video games on the highway. Final season, the Sirens additionally opened the season with 5 factors of their first two highway video games.
Sirens first general draft decide Sarah Fillier scored her first two profession objectives and recorded the primary three-point recreation of her PWHL profession. She leads the PWHL with 5 factors (2G, 3A) in two video games.
Alex Carpenter (NY) leads the PWHL with three objectives following her second straight game-winner. All three of her objectives have been assisted by Fillier.
Jessie Eldridge (NY) recorded major assists on each Fillier objectives and has opened the season with back-to-back two-point performances. She additionally had two assists in her ultimate recreation of Season One.
Victoire fifth general draft decide Cayla Barnes scored her first profession PWHL aim, assisted by second spherical draft decide Jennifer Gardiner. The previous Ohio State Buckeyes have recorded factors of their first two profession video games.
Sirens third spherical decide Allyson Simpson recorded her first profession PWHL level.
Jade Downie-Landry (NY) scored the crew’s first shorthanded Jailbreak aim of the season and first of her profession. It was additionally the primary time the native of St-Jean-Sur-Richelieu, QC has recorded a PWHL level in three video games in her residence province.
Sirens captain Micah Zandee-Hart has recorded an help in each video games to start out the season.
Corinne Schroeder (NY) is the primary PWHL goaltender to earn two wins this season. Her first 5 wins of the inaugural season have been all recorded on the highway.
Sirens rookie defender Maja Nylén Persson was credited with 26:21 time on ice to guide all gamers, skating alongside Jaime Bourbonnais on the crew’s prime pairing.
Catherine Dubois (MTL) made her season debut and performed 9:29 on the crew’s fourth line.
Taylor Baker (NY) and Kayla Vespa (NY) each performed of their first video games of the season. Vespa was only recently activated from the crew’s Reserve Participant checklist with a Customary Participant Settlement.
New York set an all-time crew report with 36 pictures on aim. Their 18 pictures within the first interval can also be the crew’s new single-period report.
Tonight marked the fifth straight PWHL recreation with an influence play aim to start out the season. 
THREE STARS
1. Sarah Fillier (NY) 2G, 1A
2. Cayla Barnes (MTL) 1G
3. Corinne Schroeder (NY) 28 SV
