Natalie Spooner hat trick powers PWHL Toronto past Boston
PWHL Boston's offensive issues continue as they fall 5-3 to Toronto in Wednesday's home matchup.
Natalie Spooner scored a hat trick, giving her 10 goals in PWHL Toronto’s first 10 games, and the visitors beat PWHL Boston, 5-3, on Wednesday night at Lowell’s Tsongas Center.
Boston nearly doubled up Toronto in shots, finishing with a 35-18 edge, but went 0 for 5 on the power play and didn’t get on the board until the third period. By that point, Toronto held a 3-0 lead on a first-period tally by Sarah Nurse and two in the second from Spooner, whose three goals were all scored tight from the slot.
The two sides traded three goals in a span of 2:21 early in the third period, with Jamie Lee Rattray and Hannah Brandt getting Boston within 4-2 — the latter scoring shorthanded. They could get no closer, however, and three-time Olympian Spooner finished her trio with an empty-netter at 17:32. (Boston’s Taylor Girard capped the scoring a minute later.)
Spooner’s 10 goals are four more than any other player in the league; Girard and Loren Gabel lead Boston with three each.
Halfway through a six-game run at Tsongas, Boston (2-2-1-3) hosts New York at 4 p.m. on Saturday.
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