Canada News

Get the latest new in Candada

Toronto

Woods helps Toronto Sceptres stay hot with 3-1 win over Boston Fleet

Emma Woods fired home the eventual winner late in the second period to provide the surging Toronto Sceptres with a 3-1 win against the Boston Fleet on Friday in Toronto.

Izzy Daniel set up Woods in front for the go-ahead goal with 20 seconds remaining in the middle frame to give the Sceptres their third straight Professional Women’s Hockey League victory before 8,124 fans at Coca-Cola Coliseum.

Toronto (6-1-4-6) was in last in the six-team league three weeks ago but now occupies third place, four points ahead of the Fleet (4-3-2-6).

Jesse Compher and Emma Maltais scored the other Toronto goals, while Megan Keller replied for Boston.

The Sceptres outshot the visitors 28-17, holding Boston to only three shots in the third period. Kristen Campbell made 16 saves for Toronto, compared to the 25 stops from her Boston counterpart, Aerin Frankel.

Frankel, the goaltender for the United States’ national team, entered the game on a five-game win streak with a 1.16 goals-against average during her stellar run.

WATCH | Woods’ one-timer is the difference as Sceptres down Fleet in Toronto:

Emma Woods’ one-timer is the difference as Sceptres down Fleet in Toronto

3 hours ago

Duration 1:18

Burford Ontario’s Emma Woods scored in the dying seconds of the middle frame to give the Toronto Sceptres a 3-1 win over the Boston Fleet.

Maltais scored first, dribbling a shot over Frankel’s pad early in the opening period.

Fleet defender Keller drifted a pinpoint shot into the top corner to pull her club even 4:58 into the middle frame.

Compher scored a late-game power-play marker.

Up next

Sceptres: Toronto travels to Edmonton to play the Ottawa Charge in Edmonton at Rogers Place on Sunday as part of the PWHL’s Takeover Tour.

Fleet: Boston returns home to meet the defending champion Minnesota Frost on Sunday.

View original article here Source