A Gabbie Hughes goal with less than five minutes remaining in the game broke a tie in Ottawa’s 4-2 win over New York on Wednesday in the league’s only game on the schedule. professional women’s hockey in front of 6,889 spectators at TD Place.
This fifth goal of the season from Hughes allowed Ottawa to stop its two-game losing streak.
Ottawa quickly opened the scoring at the start of the game with Savannah Harmon unassisted after 2:30 in the first period.
Midway through the second during a penalty kill, Fanni Garát-Gasparics scored her first to add the Ottawa lead.
New York did not give up and managed to eat into the lead of the local players to level the score. Chloe Aurard first beat Emerance Maschmeyer just 38 seconds after Garát-Gasparics’ goal. Then, in the third, Jaime Bourbonnais took advantage of a numerical advantage to bring the two teams back to square one.
This 2-2 tie held for less than six minutes when Hughes scored the winning goal.
Lexie Adzija snuffed out any chance of a New York comeback with an empty-net goal with four seconds left on the board.
The game saw the first major penalty in the history of the new circuit when Abby Roque received a five-minute penalty and a game misconduct for hitting sideways in the second.
2024-02-29 03:07:00
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