Toronto edges Montreal to prevent Victoire from clinching PWHL playoff berth

Jordan Stoopler · The Canadian Press

· Posted: Mar 23, 2025 3:32 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

Natalie Spooner's second-period extremity proved to beryllium the victor arsenic the Toronto Sceptres edged the Montreal Victoire 2-1 connected Sunday day astatine Place Bell.

Kristin Campbell stopped 32 shots for the Sceptres arsenic she won her eighth crippled of the play and 2nd successful arsenic galore contests. Toronto has yet to suffer successful regularisation this period and improved to 3-0-1-0 successful March.

Marie-Philip Poulin scored her league-leading 15th extremity of the play precocious successful the 3rd for Montreal (10-6-3-6). The Victoire mislaid its 3rd consecutive crippled but for conscionable the archetypal clip successful regularisation since a 4-1 decision to the Sceptres connected March 6.

It marks the team's longest losing streak of the season.

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Elaine Chuli stopped 18 shots for the Victoire. The Waterford, Ont., autochthonal started successful spot of Ann-Renee Desbiens, who suffered a near genu wounded successful Montreal's 3-2 shootout nonaccomplishment successful Boston against the Fleet connected Tuesday. Desbiens leads the PWHL successful wins (13), goals-against mean (1.85) and prevention percent (.932).

The Sceptres welcomed backmost guardant Sarah Nurse to their lineup aft she was activated from semipermanent injured reserve earlier the game. She collected an assistance and had 2 shots connected extremity successful 13 minutes 55 seconds of ice-time successful her return.

The 30-year-old had missed Toronto's past 9 games with a lower-body wounded sustained portion representing Canada during the Rivalry Series connected Feb. 6.