Watts scores in OT, Sceptres scrape out 3-2 win over Charge in Edmonton
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Daryl Watts scored a wraparound goal 51 seconds into overtime, lifting the surging Sceptres to a 3-2 Professional Women's Hockey League victory over the Charge.
Sunday marked the third time the Toronto Sceptres have played in an NHL-sized arena this season.
The team talked very little about what it would be like to play in front of a sold-out Rogers Place, because they’d already played in the big arenas the Toronto Maple Leafs and Vancouver Canucks call home.
But the Sceptres, despite being on a three-game win streak, came out flat, gave up a goal to Ottawa’s Gabbie Hughes on the first shot of the game, and were outshot 17-2 in the opening period.
Yet, they found their way back into the game, and when Daryl Watts scored a wraparound goal 51 seconds into overtime, it lifted the surging Sceptres to a 3-2 Professional Women’s Hockey League victory over the Charge.
It was Watts’ second goal of the game following a second-period power-play marker. Julia Gosling also scored for Toronto (6-2-4-6) with the man advantage. Gosling’s marker found its way through the pads of Charge goalie Emerance Maschmeyer with 23.4 seconds left in the second period.
Ottawa fell to 6-0-3-8 with the loss.
The Edmonton game was the fifth of nine PWHL “Takeover Tour” neutral-site games that are on the league’s schedule for 2024-25.
“This is such a cool experience for all of us,” said Watts. “It’s not everyday that you get to play in an NHL rink, especially this one, it’s so beautiful. It was electric. It was hard not to get incredibly excited.”
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