Saturday, January 25, 2025 | 2:00 p.m. ET | Scotiabank Area
WATCH LIVE: CBC TV, CBC Gem, cbcsports.ca, MSG/MSGHD, PWHL YouTube & thepwhl.com (U.S. / Worldwide)
Daniella Ponticelli (Play-by-Play), Becky Kellar (Analyst), Rob Pizzo (Reporter);
Andi Petrillo (CBC Studio Host), Hailey Salvian (CBC Studio Analyst), Saroya Tinker (CBC Studio Analyst)
NEW YORK SIRENS
3-3-1-3 | 16 PTS | 4TH PLACE
High Scorer: Sarah Fillier – 10 GP, 5-6-11 PTS
Final Sport: 3-2 SOW vs. MIN on Jan. 15
TORONTO SCEPTRES
3-0-2-6 | 11 PTS | 6TH PLACE
High Scorer: Renata Quick – 11 GP, 0-8-8 PTS
Final Sport: 4-1 L at BOS on Jan. 22
2024-25 SEASON SERIES: NEW YORK LEADS 6-0 IN POINTS (TOR WON 11-4 IN 2024)
Dec. 18 at NY: 4-2 NY | Jan. 12 at NY: 1-0 NY | Jan. 25 at TOR | Feb. 19 at NY | Mar. 19 at TOR | Apr. 29 at TOR
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW
Within the final assembly between the Sirens and Sceptres, New York scored a 1-0 time beyond regulation win on Jessie Eldridge’s first profession purpose in opposition to Toronto. That sport is the one regular-season sport in PWHL historical past to have zero targets scored in regulation.
The Sirens are coming off a 3-2 shootout victory in opposition to Minnesota which adopted the OT victory over Toronto. New York is the one staff in PWHL historical past to have three straight OT/SO wins with a three-game streak Feb. 4-21, 2024.
First general choose Sarah Fillier (Georgetown) will play her first PWHL sport in Ontario. She’s certainly one of 5 gamers from the province within the Sirens lineup together with Eldridge (Barrie), Jaime Bourbonnais (Mississauga), Ella Shelton (Ingersoll) and Kayle Osborne (Westport). Every participant may have 10+ relations and mates in attendance.
Olivia Knowles returns to Toronto for the primary time to face-off in opposition to her former staff. The defender started 2024-25 as a Sceptres reserve and performed 20 video games for Toronto final season.
Taylor Girard will make her Sirens debut after being acquired from Boston in a commerce for Jill Saulnier on Tuesday. She has six factors in 28 profession video games along with her greatest offensive efficiency in opposition to Toronto final Feb. 14 (1G, 1A).
Gabby Rosenthal leads each the Sirens and all PWHL rookies with a plus-6 score this season. The fourth-round choose has had a constructive score in six of New York’s 10 video games this season, essentially the most by any rookie this season.
Toronto defeated Montréal 3-0 in final season’s Battle on Bay Avenue on Feb. 16 earlier than a sold-out crowd of 19,285, setting an expert girls’s hockey attendance report on the time. Jesse Compher, Hannah Miller and Victoria Bach had been the scorers, whereas Kristen Campbell secured the shutout.
Toronto’s lone purpose in its 4-1 loss to Boston got here at 14:50 of the third interval. The Sceptres have scored eight targets within the ultimate six minutes of the third interval this season, essentially the most by any PWHL staff (Minnesota second – seven).
Blayre Turnbull has scored a purpose in consecutive video games, becoming a member of Sarah Nurse (Nov. 30 – Dec. 3) as the one Toronto gamers to take action this season. The staff report for consecutive video games with a purpose is three, finished twice by Natalie Spooner final season.
Megan Carter will make her Sceptres debut after starting the season on LTIR. The defender was chosen within the second spherical of the draft from Northeastern College.
The Sceptres lead the PWHL in shots-per-game with a median of 30.91 and have outshot their opponent in six consecutive video games.
New York is averaging 1.6 factors per sport this season in comparison with 1.1 final season, the most important enchancment by any PWHL staff. In the meantime, Toronto’s drop from 2.0 factors per sport final season to 1.0 this season is the most important lower by a staff.
WHAT THEY’RE SAYING
“At the moment’s sport at Scotiabank Area is extremely thrilling for the entire staff, and for me personally. Rising up watching the Leafs play there, I by no means imagined I’d get the possibility to play in my very own skilled hockey sport on that ice. For many people, this would be the largest crowd we’ve ever performed in entrance of, and I do know the ladies are excited to reside out our desires.” – Sirens defender Jaime Bourbonnais.
“So, so, so pumped to play in Scotiabank Area once more! These moments are so large for us as a staff, the league and the game of girls’s hockey so they’re such an honour to play in. Our followers are the perfect within the league and I’m excited to have the ability to play in entrance of so a lot of them. As a staff, we’re going to carry the vitality and angle from puck drop to get this win in opposition to the Sirens!” – Sceptres ahead Emma Maltais.
SATURDAY’S GAME: The one dwelling sport for the Sceptres in Toronto this month is right here – and the stage is Scotiabank Area! The Battle On Bay Avenue offered by Scotiabank is again and incorporates a celebration of Toronto’s girls’s sports activities with Teresa Resch, President of the WNBA’s Toronto Tempo performing the ceremonial puck drop, a welcome to native members of Canada’s U18 Nationwide Ladies’s Nationwide Group who lately gained gold on the World Championship, a shoutout to AFC Toronto, and the subsequent era with the primary Nursey Evening offered by Rogers of the 2024-25 season welcoming Hockey 4 Youth. Followers can catch a reside recording of the Jocks in Jills podcast offered by Canadian Tire and hosted by Tessa Bonhomme and Julia Tocheri earlier than the sport close to Gate 1 at 1:05 p.m. Toronto and New York will probably be carrying specialty jerseys in partnership with Molson. The jerseys characteristic the participant’s identify bar on the backside, with the Molson emblem positioned the place the common identify bar can be, usually coated by some gamers’ lengthy hair. The jerseys debuted final season on Worldwide Ladies’s Day to launch Molson’s ‘See My Identify’ marketing campaign and had been worn by groups throughout the PWHL Takeover Tour video games in Vancouver and Québec Metropolis.