PWHL Gameday: Sceptres host Boston

Toronto Sceptres vs Boston Fleet
7:00 pm at Coca-Cola Coliseum
Watch/Stream on TSN and NESN+

Games are available to stream on the YouTube channel and at PWHL.com outside Canada.

Toronto's last game was on December 21 where they lost 4-3 to Montréal at home. They have a record of 1-0-1-3 (W-OTW-OTL-L) for a Points % of .267, tied with Ottawa for last place.

Boston's last game was on December 17 where they beat Ottawa 3-2 at home. They have a record of 2-0-0-2 for a Points % of .500 and hold the last playoff spot in fourth place.

Them

By Save %, Boston has the second-best goalie so far this season in Aerin Frankel who has played every game. There's been a lot of time off, so that's not been a problem with workload. They have the least goals against, but they just don't score. Alina Müller is not going to remain pointless forever, so that's going to change.

They also have had, in what is likely an early season statistical oddity, very few power play opportunities, where they've scored twice. They've allowed one shorthanded goal and two power play goals against on 16 times shorthanded, giving them a negative goal differential on special teams. That's not likely to stay that way either, but that penalty differential has got to be rankling them right now.

Lines will be out closer to game time, but there is no sign of major changes.

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The Sceptres will be down a defender today:

Hard to complain about this if you want to see less head hits in the game:

Toronto's problems are twofold, Kristen Campbell hasn't been very good in net and their offensive quality comes and goes like a radio station fading in and out. You see, before everything was digital and you listened over the air ...

Anyway, the Sceptres need to promote a defender to the playing roster for today, and they should consider getting near the net with their shots before the other team has the game in the bag. Toronto is scoring at a decent pace, 3.25 goals per game, but they are allowing 4.5. They should be a higher scoring team and overall a team that's hard to beat.

They also have a penalty differential with 10 PPO up against 15 TSH (Times Shorthanded). That's at least in part the team chasing the play and taking stupid penalties, but it's also just what you get in four games sometimes. They've given up five goals against on the PK and scored one Jailbreak, which makes either the PK or the goaltending pretty terrible shorthanded (why not both?)

Rookie draftee Megan Carter was put on LTIR in November, so the only other defender on the roster is Jessica Kondas who was signed to a short term SPA today.

Go Sceptres Go! Just not to the penalty box.