Daryl Watts scores twice as Sceptres take down Sirens

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PWHL

Daryl Watts scored doubly to pb the Toronto Sceptres to a 2-1 triumph implicit the New York Sirens connected Wednesday nighttime successful Toronto.

Toronto remains 3rd successful the PWHL standings with 6 games remaining

The Associated Press

· Posted: Mar 20, 2025 6:52 AM EDT | Last Updated: 7 minutes ago

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Daryl Watts scored doubly to pb the Toronto Sceptres to a 2-1 triumph implicit the New York Sirens connected Wednesday nighttime successful Toronto.

Kristen Campbell made 27 saves for Toronto, which has won 2 of its past three.

The Sceptres stay successful 3rd successful the PWHL standings with six games left, 1 constituent down Boston aft the Fleet's 3-2 shootout triumph implicit league-leading Montreal connected Tuesday.

Alex Carpenter scored for New York, which had its two-game triumph streak snapped. Corinne Schroeder stopped 27 shots.

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Daryl Watts scores doubly to pb Sceptres implicit Sirens

Forward Daryl Watts scores some of Toronto's goals successful their 2-1 triumph implicit New York and present trails Boston by conscionable 1 constituent for 2nd spot successful the PWHL standings.

Entering the contest, Toronto led the league with 23 power-play goals and a power-play ratio of 38.3%, followed by New York with 15 power-play goals and a 27.3% occurrence rate.

However, the Sceptres went 0 for 3, portion the Sirens were 0 for 5 with the vantage connected Wednesday.

Takeaways

New York recovered immoderate beingness aft Carpenter's goal, pushing the gait and uncovering much violative opportunities. But beating Campbell proved excessively gangly a task contempt immoderate threatening chances, including a Sarah Fillier breakaway successful the last period.

Toronto defeated New York for the 3rd consecutive crippled this play aft dropping its archetypal 2 against the Sirens. The Sceptres were the much carnal side, controlling overmuch of the action, but missed connected a fig of scoring chances that looked similar sure-fire goals.

Key moment

Watts got the puck from adjacent the extremity boards connected a walk from Anna Kjellbin, circled astir to the slot and fired a changeable done postulation that bushed Schroeder 1:20 into the 2nd period. New York challenged the play for goaltender interference but was unsuccessful.

Key stat

Watts snapped a five-game extremity drought with her two-goal outing. The past clip she scored was Feb. 16 erstwhile she scored doubly successful a 3-2 overtime triumph against Ottawa.