PWHL Supra Stars for March

NEW YORK AND TORONTO (- The Skilled Girls’s Hockey League (PWHL) at present introduced the March SupraStars of the Month, introduced by AIRSUPRA® (albuterol/budesonide) Inhalation Aerosol. The award acknowledges three forwards, two defenders, and one goaltender on the conclusion of every month, decided because the gamers who most excelled on ice all through the PWHL. Forwards are chosen no matter place.

The SupraStars of the Month, introduced by AIRSUPRA, for the month of March have been acknowledged as:  Hilary Knight (F – Boston Fleet), Laura Stacey (F – Montréal Victoire), Tereza Vanišová (F – Ottawa Cost), Renata Quick (D – Toronto Sceptres), Sophie Jaques (D – Minnesota Frost) and Kristen Campbell (G – Toronto Sceptres).

HILARY KNIGHT, F, BOSTON FLEET

Boston’s captain had seven targets, 4 assists and 29 photographs within the Fleet’s seven March contests, ending the month main all PWHL scorers with 15-13—28. One spotlight got here along with her first PWHL hat trick as a part of a single-game file four-point exhibiting in a 5-2 victory over New York on Mar. 5. She went on so as to add three consecutive multi-point performances: 1-2—3 in a 5-2 victory at Ottawa Mar. 15, 1-1—2 in a 3-2 shootout victory over Montréal three days later and two targets (plus seven photographs on objective, tying the private season excessive she established at Minnesota Jan. 26) in a 4-2 loss to Toronto Mar. 26. The productive month gave Knight seven multi-point video games this season, tied with three others for second-best within the league to the eight such video games by Toronto’s Daryl Watts, and her objective whole is second solely to the 17 by Marie-Philip Poulin of Montréal.

LAURA STACEY, F, MONTRÉAL VICTOIRE

Montréal collected 4 victories in March, and Stacey had a minimum of one level in every of them – with multi-point showings in three. Stacey opened by gathering an help, then scoring the game-winner with simply 17 seconds remaining in additional time because the Victoire recorded a 3-2 overcome Boston on the Bell Centre Mar. 1. She adopted three days later by scoring within the Victoire’s 2-1 shootout victory over Minnesota at Place Bell. Stacey contributed two assists to a 3-2 additional time victory over Boston at Agganis Enviornment Mar. 8 to finish a six-game level streak and wrapped up the month with two targets and two assists on Mar. 26 because the Victoire clinched a playoff spot with their 4-1 overcome the Minnesota Frost at Xcel Vitality Middle. That exhibiting made Stacey solely the fifth participant in PWHL historical past, and the fourth this season, to file 4 factors in a contest. The 2 assists gave her 10 for the season – all of which have been recorded at even energy. Stacey leads the PWHL with 101 photographs on objective and had a minimum of 5 photographs in six of the Victoire’s March video games, with three six-shot performances and a seven-shot recreation in a 4-1 loss at Toronto Mar. 6.

TEREZA VANIŠOVÁ, F, OTTAWA CHARGE

Vanišová closed out a six-goal month by making historical past. At Enterprise Middle in St. Louis, Missouri, earlier than a Takeover Tour crowd of 8,578 that represented the biggest crowd ever for a ladies’s professional recreation within the state, the 29-year-old from Strakonice, Czechia, scored twice in 32 seconds – the quickest two PWHL targets ever by the identical participant – and lifted the Cost to a 2-1 victory over Boston. Vanišová scored at 16:26 and 16:58 of the third interval; the Fleet’s Susanna Tapani had established the earlier file by scoring twice in 49 seconds on Jan. 2. The targets have been Vanišová’s seventh and eighth tallies within the closing interval of regulation this season; no participant within the league has extra. Solely Poulin, with 9 second-period scores, has extra targets in a selected interval. The 2-goal burst in St. Louis marked the third multi-goal recreation of the season and second of the month for Vanišová, who notched her file second hat trick of the season – and 9 photographs on internet – in Ottawa’s 5-2 victory at New York Mar. 22. She accomplished March with a career-high four-game level streak (6-1—7).

RENATA FAST, D, TORONTO SCEPTRES

After receiving SupraStars recognition for her contributions to the Sceptres’ success in February, Quick adopted up with two targets, two assists and 12 photographs to assist her crew win 4 of its six March video games, elevate its variety of regulation victories to 12 – tops within the PWHL – and full the month second within the PWHL standings. Quick opened the month with two power-play assists in a 4-1 victory over Montréal at Coca-Cola Coliseum Mar. 6, persevering with the Sceptres’ dominant exhibiting with skater benefits this season. Toronto accomplished March with a league-leading 24 power-play targets on 84 benefits (28.6% success fee) for the season, and with 2-11—13, Quick has factors on greater than half of the targets. With 6-15—21 total, she leads all PWHL defenders in scoring. Quick additionally has greater than half of the 11 whole targets supplied by the Toronto protection and practically half of the whole factors (11-33—44) by the Sceptres’ defenders. With 655:28 in ice time this season – together with a season-high 29:10 in a 2-1 additional time loss to Minnesota Mar. 9 – Quick leads the PWHL in that division. She had the one Toronto objective in that contest and likewise scored her third game-winner in a 4-2 victory at Boston Mar. 26.SOPHIE JAQUES, D, MINNESOTA FROST

Jaques, a SupraStars honoree in February, returned to the SupraStars lineup with 5 factors (2-3—5) and 24 photographs in March. On Mar. 7, she had a objective and an help in Minnesota’s 5-0 Takeover Tourtriumph over Ottawa at Lenovo Middle in Raleigh, N.C. After including an help towards the Cost at TD Place Mar. 11, the 24-year-old arrange Minnesota’s solely objective in one other Takeover Tour contest – a 4-1 loss to New York earlier than a U.S. file crowd of 14,288 at Little Caesars Enviornment in Detroit. Jaques completed the month Mar. 30 with the profitable objective within the Frost’s 5-2 victory over Toronto at Xcel Vitality Middle. She concluded March with 5-14—19 for the marketing campaign – second solely to Quick’s 6-15—21 amongst defenders. All however one in every of Jaques’ assists have come at even energy; she leads the PWHL in that class. She is also third on the Frost in scoring, behind solely Taylor Heise (8-13—21) and captain Kendall Coyne Schofield (10-12—22).

KRISTEN CAMPBELL, G, TORONTO SCEPTRES

Campbell was the goaltender of file in all 4 of Toronto’s March victories, and she or he restricted the opposition to 1 objective in three of these triumphs. She made 25 saves in a 4-1 victory over Montréal at Coca-Cola Coliseum Mar. 6, added 27 stops in a 2-1 overcome New York Mar. 19 and made a season-high 32 saves on Mar. 23 in notching a 2-1 win over the Victoire at Place Bell. In all, Campbell has restricted the opposition to 1 objective eight instances this season, the league-leading whole in that class. She additionally collected a 4-2 triumph at Boston Mar. 26 for her ninth victory of the season; via the top of the month, solely Aerin Frankel of the Fleet (12) and Ann-Renée Desbiens of Montréal (13) had extra. That victory additionally lengthened to 9 Campbell’s streak of video games by which she permitted two targets or fewer. For the season, amongst goaltenders with a minimum of 1,000 minutes performed, her 2.23 goals-against common ranks fourth — as does her .913 save proportion.

In regards to the Skilled Girls’s Hockey League (PWHL) 

The Skilled Girls’s Hockey League (PWHL) is knowledgeable ice hockey league in North America comprised of six groups in Boston, Minnesota, Montréal, New York, Ottawa, and Toronto, every with rosters that includes the perfect ladies’s hockey gamers on the earth. Launched on Jan. 1, 2024, the PWHL has damaged a number of attendance data and holds the worldwide all-time file for a ladies’s hockey recreation. In 2024, the PWHL was acknowledged by Sports activities Enterprise Journal because the Sports activities Breakthrough of the 12 months and obtained the highest place within the first-ever Canadian version of the Harris Ballot, which ranks firms’ reputations. Go to thepwhl.com to buy tickets and merchandise, and subscribe to the PWHL e-newsletter to obtain the most recent league updates. Observe the league on all social media platforms @thepwhlofficial.

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