Marie-Philip Poulin scored the game-winning objective with simply over 4 minutes remaining as Team Harvey’s beat Team Sonnet 3-2 on Saturday on the Professional Women’s Hockey Players’ Association’s Dream Gap Tour showcase in Collingwood, Ont.
The Canadian star isn’t any stranger to scoring in huge moments, and the group at Eddie Bush Memorial Arena bought to see it first-hand.
With her Canadian Olympic teammate Emily Clark engaged in a puck battle beneath Team Sonnet’s goalline, fellow Canadian linemate Jessie Eldridge freed the puck up alongside the boards and located Poulin, who wasted no time firing residence a one-timer.
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Team Harvey’s edges Team Sonnet behind Poulin’s late winner
Marie-Philip Poulin’s go-ahead objective propelled Team Harvey’s to a 3-2 victory over Team Sonnet PWHPA Scotiabank Showcase from Collingwood, Ont.
The recreation was a back-and-forth battle, with Team Sonnet’s Brianne Jenner and Lillian Braga every responding to objectives by Sophia Shaver and Savannah Harmon to tie it 2-2 halfway by way of the third interval.
Following Poulin’s go-ahead marker, a Team Sonnet bench minor for an additional attacker on the ice successfully ended the sport with lower than a minute remaining.
Team Scotiabank shuts out Team Adidas
Earlier within the day, Team Scotiabank blanked Team Adidas 3-0 in Owen Sound, Ont., with Canadian Olympic gold-medallists Emerance Maschmeyer and Kristen Campbell combining for the shutout.
American Alex Carpenter opened the scoring for Team Scotiabank early within the first interval on a shot that ricocheted in off a defender. Canada’s Blayre Turnbull set the objective up by profitable an offensive-zone draw and threading a nifty cross to her winger within the slot.
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Team Scotiabank blanks adidas in PWHPA motion from Owen Sound
Team adidas could not get on the board, whereas Scotiabank scored thrice to get the shutout victory.
The goaltenders stood tall in web till midway by way of the ultimate body when four-time Canadian Olympic medallist Rebecca Johnston unleashed a depraved one-timer from the highest of the circle, popping the water bottle off the online and lengthening Team Scotiabank’s lead.
Two minutes later, Johnston helped widen the hole even additional when she centred a cross to American ahead Kelly Pannek off the push, with the puck redirecting into the online for the third and ultimate objective of the sport.
This weekend’s motion wraps up tomorrow in Collingwood when Team Scotiabank takes on Team Sonnet at 9:30 a.m. ET, and Team Harvey’s duels Team Adidas at 12:30 p.m. ET. Watch reside protection on CBCsports.ca, CBC Gem and the CBC Sports app for iOS and Android.
The subsequent leg of the Dream Gap Tour will happen on Feb. 11 and 12 in numerous Ontario cities, which embrace Peterborough, Niagara, Barrie and Kitchener.
Wesley Chapel, Fla., will host the Tampa Bay Showcase (Feb. 25-26), which will probably be adopted by the Capitals showcase in Arlington, Va. (March 4-5).
The 2022-23 PWHPA season has additionally had stops in Montreal, Truro, N.S., Pittsburgh, and Ottawa.
The PWHPA’s mission is to ascertain a viable skilled ladies’s ice hockey league in North America that showcases the best product of girls’s skilled ice hockey on the planet.
