NEW YORK AND TORONTO– Ottawa Cost defender Ashton Bell, New York Sirens goaltender Corinne Schroeder and Boston Fleet goaltender Klára Peslarová have been named the Skilled Girls’s Hockey League (PWHL) 3 Stars of the Week offered by Shark Magnificence Canada following video games from April 21-27.
FIRST STAR – ASHTON BELL, D, OTTAWA CHARGE
After scoring simply as soon as in her first 24 video games of the season, Bell scored twice – together with the shorthanded, “jailbreak” game-winner – in Saturday’s 3-2 house overcome Montréal. Bell’s first profession game-winning aim freed Shiann Darkangelo from the penalty field and delighted the group of 8,576, the biggest crowd at TD Place in crew historical past. Bell had offered a 1-0 lead at 10:38 of the primary interval together with her first aim since Dec. 6 (additionally in opposition to Montréal) because the Cost opened the scoring for the 18th time this season – tops within the PWHL. She completed the competition together with her first multi-point efficiency of the season, and her first for the reason that opening recreation of the PWHL’s inaugural marketing campaign. Bell’s 4 photographs on aim Saturday additionally have been a season excessive, one in need of her career-best 5 in opposition to Minnesota on April 20,2024, because the Cost prolonged their profitable streak to 3 video games and matched the season-best streak they mounted from Dec. 29–Jan. 7.
SECOND STAR – CORINNE SCHROEDER, G, NEW YORK SIRENS
Schroeder made PWHL historical past Sunday within the Sirens’ 2-0 victory over the Frost at Xcel Power Middle. Notching a second consecutive shutout for the second time this season, she turned the primary goaltender to file 4 in a marketing campaign – surpassing the three Toronto’s Kristen Campbell compiled in the course of the inaugural marketing campaign. Schroeder made 33 saves within the contest, probably the most in a shutout this season, and prolonged her scoreless streak to 128:33. Schroeder, receiving 3 Stars recognition for the fourth time in 2024-25, additionally has the longest shutout streak at 178 minutes, 16 seconds, which she set from Dec. 29 – Jan. 15. She helped the Sirens survive a primary interval wherein Minnesota outshot New York 17-6 and didn’t have a result in defend till Taylor Girard scored her first aim of the season at 11:07 of the second interval. The sport stayed at 1-0 till Paetyn Levis slid her seventh shot of the sport into the empty Minnesota internet with eight seconds remaining in regulation. Within the contest, Schroeder raised her profession save whole to 1,005, turning into the third PWHL netminder to achieve 1,000 or extra.
THIRD STAR – KLÁRA PESLAROVÁ, G, BOSTON FLEET
On Saturday, in solely her second look of the season and her first since a reduction stint on Feb. 16, Peslarová contributed a 29-save efficiency to the Fleet’s 3-0 overcome visiting Toronto and have become the third PWHL goaltender ever to earn a shutout in her first profession begin. She joined Schroeder and Minnesota’s Maddie Rooney, who recorded that achievement in the course of the inaugural season. Peslarová has not allowed a aim in her PWHL profession, which spans 5 full intervals of motion. In her Feb. 16 debut, Peslarová performed the ultimate 40 minutes in opposition to Minnesota and turned apart all 15 photographs confronted in Boston’s 4-2 comeback victory. Sunday in opposition to Toronto, she had the luxurious of the lead simply 2:35 into the competition, when Lexie Adzija scored on Boston’s first shot of the competition. The aim was the tenth rating Toronto has permitted within the first 5 minutes of play this season, by far probably the most within the league, and helped the Fleet snap a string of three regulation losses to tug inside two factors of the second-place Sceptres getting into the ultimate week of the common season.
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 way of Sunday. Factors might be awarded to every choice and can assist decide rankings on the finish of the yr.
First Star = 30 Factors Second Star = 20 Factors Third Star = 10 Factors
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