LAVAL, Quebec — High draft decide Sarah Fillier scored her first two Skilled Girls’s Hockey League objectives and assisted on the winner to guide the New York Sirens to a 4-1 victory over the Montreal Victoire on Wednesday evening.
Alex Carpenter scored her third of the season for New York and Jade Downie-Landry added an empty-netter. Corinne Schroeder made 28 saves for the win.
Cayla Barnes scored her first PWHL aim with backhand deke for Montreal. Ann-Renée Desbiens stopped 32 pictures.
New York capitalized on a turnover from Montreal’s Anna Kjellbin 11:32 earlier than Fillier slid the puck into the web 11:32 into the primary interval.
The 24-year-old Fillier, an Olympic gold medalist and three-time world champion with Canada, scored her second with 18 seconds left.
The Sirens drafted Fillier first total on this yr’s draft out of Princeton.
Takeaways
Sirens: The Fillier and Carpenter duo stored rolling. The Sirens additionally performed with out Ella Shelton, who led all defenders with 21 factors in 24 video games final season.
Victoire: Montreal struggled to generate offense early on.
The Sirens led the pictures 18-4 after the primary interval, earlier than the Victoire led 10-8 within the second and 15-10 within the third after coach Kori Cheverie shuffled her traces.
Key second
Fillier obtained the puck behind the web and shortly spun to make a no-look go to Carpenter within the slot. Carpenter made no mistake and beat Desbiens to place the Sirens up 2-1 at 9:09 of the third.
Key stat
Montreal dominated the season sequence with 4 wins to 1 within the inaugural 2024 marketing campaign, securing 13 out of a attainable 15 factors.
Montreal completed in second place with 41 factors, New York was final with 26.
Up subsequent
The Victoire go to the Ottawa Cost on Friday evening and the Sirens wrap up a season-opening street journey Sunday in opposition to the Boston Fleet.
