NEW YORK AND TORONTO– Montréal Victoire ahead Laura Stacey, Ottawa Cost ahead Gabbie Hughes and Victoire defender Kati Tabin have been named the Skilled Girls’s Hockey League (PWHL) ‘3 Stars of the Week’ introduced by Shark Magnificence Canada following video games from Feb. 24-Mar. 2.
FIRST STAR – LAURA STACEY, F, MONTRÉAL VICTOIRE
With a purpose and an help in every contest, Stacey helped Montréal make some franchise historical past, sweep its two-game week and construct its first-place result in seven factors over Toronto coming into Girls’s Empowerment Month. Saturday towards Boston, earlier than a “Duel At The High” crowd of 17,324 at Montréal’s Bell Centre, Stacey scored with 16.3 seconds remaining in time beyond regulation – launching herself towards the rebound of a Cayla Barnes shot and sending a 10-foot backhand into the web as she landed. The Victoire have two time beyond regulation victories this season and Stacey has scored the winner in each of them; she notched the opposite simply 15 seconds into further time at Toronto on Dec. 21. Simply 36 seconds into The Duel, Stacey assisted on the quickest purpose from the beginning of a recreation in Victoire historical past, teaming with Jennifer Gardiner to arrange the primary of two targets by defender Kati Tabin. In Montréal’s different contest, Feb. 25 towards Toronto, Stacey arrange Gardiner’s 1-1 purpose at 4:01 of the second interval and added the 3-1 tally into an empty internet with precisely one minute left in regulation. With targets in three straight video games and 7-5—12 for the season, Stacey is second on the workforce in tallies to the 12 by Marie-Philip Poulin (12-5—17).
SECOND STAR – GABBIE HUGHES, F, OTTAWA CHARGE
Hughes earned 3 Stars Of The Week recognition for the second time in three weeks after scoring two targets and establishing a 3rd in Ottawa’s solely contest – a 5-4 time beyond regulation conquest of the New York Sirens at TD Place Feb. 26. In doing so, Hughes recorded her second three-point efficiency and third multi-point effort in a five-game span because the worldwide break, totaling 5-3—8. The second Star of the Week for video games of Feb. 10-16 opened the scoring 3:15 into the sport and closed it simply 36 seconds into time beyond regulation, giving Ottawa its first time beyond regulation victory in workforce historical past and pulling the Cost inside two factors of fourth-place Minnesota. She additionally arrange the purpose by Emily Clark that gave the Cost a 4-3 lead at 5:21 of the third interval. Hughes has 14 targets in her PWHL profession and 4 of them have been game-winners. With 5-5—10 for the season, she is inside two factors of matching final yr’s 9-3—12. Hughes is tied for third on the Cost in targets, behind Clark (7) and Tereza Vanišová (9), and her level whole is third on the workforce behind Clark (14) and Vanišová (13).
THIRD STAR – KATI TABIN, D, MONTRÉAL VICTOIRE
Tabin had a career-best two targets, and a season-high 5 photographs on internet, in Saturday’s Duel on the Bell Centre. Her two-goal efficiency – the primary by a Victoire defender in workforce historical past – began with a 50-foot wrist shot from the left level that sailed previous Stacey’s display and beat Boston goalie Aerin Frankel contained in the publish to her proper simply 36 seconds after the opening draw. Tabin’s second purpose was a slap shot, additionally from the left level, that tied the rating 2-2 at 13:01 of the third interval and set the stage for Stacey’s dramatic OT winner. The five-shot recreation ended a nine-game stretch wherein Tabin had totaled solely six photographs. The 5 photographs additionally topped her earlier season-high of 4, at Toronto Dec. 21, and was the second-highest whole of her profession; Tabin had seven photographs on purpose at Boston, Feb. 4, 2024. With 3-2—5 for the season, the 27-year-old from Winnipeg is one level shy of matching final season’s 1-5—6.
The ‘3 Stars of the Week’ are introduced every Monday all through the common season and playoffs, encompassing video games from the earlier Monday by Sunday. Factors can be awarded to every choice and can assist decide rankings on the finish of the yr.
