PWHL TAKEOVER TOUR: MINNESOTA FROST AT NEW YORK SIRENS PRE-GAME PRIMER – PWHL

Sunday, March 16, 2025 | 7:30 p.m. ET | Little Caesars Area (Detroit)
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Clay Matvick (Play-by-Play), Alexis Pearson (Analyst), Natalie Kerwin (Reporter)
MINNESOTA FROST
7-5-4-8 | 35 PTS | 4^TH PLACE
High Scorer: Kendall Coyne Schofield–24 GP, 10-11-21 PTS
Final Sport: 3-2 L at OTT on Mar. 11
NEW YORK SIRENS                                                  
4-4-4-10 | 24 PTS | 6^TH PLACE
High Scorer: Sarah Fillier – 22 GP, 9-14-23 PTS
Final Sport: 3-2 OTW vs. MTL on Mar. 12
2024-25 SEASON SERIES: NEW YORK LEADS 8-4 IN POINTS (MINNESOTA WON 9-6 IN 2024)
Dec. 1 at MIN: 4-3 NY (OT) | Dec. 22 at NY: 4-3 MIN (SO) | Jan. 4 at MIN: 5-0 NY | Jan. 15 at NY: 3-2 NY (SO) | Apr. 26 at MIN
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW
Final season on at the present time, Mar. 16, 2024, the PWHL debuted at Detroit’s Little Caesars Area as a part of the league’s first Takeover Weekend. New York’s Taylor Girard competed as a member of Boston in a 2-1 shootout victory over Ottawa, and Sirens rookie Elle Hartje attended the sport as a fan. The sport set a U.S. attendance file for knowledgeable girls’s hockey sport with a crowd of 13,736. The file was damaged this season on Jan. 12 in the course of the Takeover Tour in Denver with a crowd of 14,018.
4 gamers in right now’s sport are Michigan natives, together with Minnesota’s Mellissa Channell-Watkins (Plymouth) who performed with the Little Caesars group earlier than transferring to the Toronto space. She additionally served as a coach within the Little Caesars program after graduating from Wisconsin. Hartje (Detroit) additionally performed for Little Caesars and Belle Tire earlier than attending Yale, Girard (Macomb) performed for the Honeybaked program earlier than attending Lindenwood and Quinnipiac, and Abby Roque (Sault Ste. Marie) performed her NCAA profession with the Badgers. It’s additionally an area sport for Sirens assistant coaches Josh Sciba (Westland) and Lauren Williams (Windsor, ON).
Frost captain Kendall Coyne Schofield is related to Detroit by way of her husband Michael Schofield, who performed School Soccer on the College of Michigan and spent his ultimate season of his nine-year NFL profession with the Detroit Lions.
The Frost misplaced to the Cost, 3-2, in Ottawa on Tuesday. Minnesota has now scored two or fewer targets in 4 of their final 5 video games, with the lone exception coming within the type of a 5-0 win in Raleigh on Mar. 7. Seven of the Frost’s eight regulation losses this season have come when scoring two or fewer targets (1-2-3-7).
Taylor Heise had a aim (her sixth of the season) and an help (her thirteenth of the season) on Tuesday, however it was her first sport with one in every of every in six multi-point performances this season. Together with the playoffs, Heise had 4 video games final season with a minimum of one aim and one help.
Frost rookies Britta Curl-Salemme (3A) and Brooke McQuigge (2G, 1A) each carry three-game level streaks into tonight’s motion.
Minnesota’s win in Raleigh was their second Takeover Tour victory of the season following a 4-2 win over Montréal in Denver. The Frost wish to grow to be the one workforce with three such victories in 2025. New York misplaced their first Takeover Tour sport in Buffalo, 3-2 in a shootout to Boston on Feb. 23.
New York has had the sting on this matchup this season, going 1-2-1-0 within the 4 conferences and scoring a minimum of three targets in each sport. The Sirens have a minimum of two regulation losses towards every of the opposite 4 PWHL groups and have scored three or extra targets in simply 5 of their different 18 video games.
The Sirens snapped their PWHL-record nine-game winless streak (0-0-3-6) with a 3-2 additional time win at residence towards Montréal on Wednesday, their first win since Jan. 27. The Sirens have earned a minimum of one level in each sport through which they’ve scored a minimum of three targets (4-3-2-0).
Sarah Fillier scored a aim for the fourth consecutive sport, tying Montréal’s Laura Stacey for the longest aim streak this season, and her 23 factors this season are tied with Toronto’s Hannah Miller for second within the league (Boston’s Hilary Knight, 24). Fillier is now additionally on a five-game level streak and had a six-game level streak earlier this season (Jan. 12 – Feb. 2). She’s the one participant with a number of five-game level streaks this season.
Roque is presently driving a four-game level streak (2G, 3A) and has already set a brand new career-high for factors in a season with 14 (5G, 9A) by means of 22 video games.
These have been the 2 least-penalized groups within the league, with the Frost averaging 5:23 of PIM per sport and the Sirens averaging 6:22 (each different workforce is over seven minutes). Neither workforce has had greater than six PIM in any of the 4 video games between them this season, and 18 of the 22 mixed targets in these video games have been scored at even power.
Again on Feb. 17, 2019, Little Caesars Area hosted the third sport of the inaugural Rivalry Sequence. Minnesota’s Coyne Schofield, Lee Stecklein, and New York’s Alex Carpenter represented the US in a 2-0 loss to Canada. Coyne Schofield (4G, 1A) and Carpenter (4G, 2A) lead their respective groups in head-to-head scoring by means of 4 video games of the season sequence.
WHAT THEY’RE SAYING
“Everybody is worked up to be right here in Hockeytown and we’ve been trying ahead to this sport. Detroit has nice followers, an excellent constructing, and an excellent hockey neighborhood. We have to maintain getting factors by enjoying a strong 60 minutes. New York is a gifted workforce, and we all know will probably be a really aggressive sport.” – Frost Head Coach Ken Klee.
“As a bit of child going to Joe Louis Area after which rising up and watching the Purple Wings at Little Caesars Area, it by no means appeared like a possible dream to think about myself enjoying on that stage. I by no means imagined that that is the place my profession might take me. We’re coming off an enormous OT win and we acknowledge the significance of utilizing that momentum. Our workforce has been enjoying nice hockey for some time now and we like our matchup towards Minnesota – we’re assured that if we present up and play Sirens hockey, we shall be in a great place.” – Sirens ahead Elle Hartje.
SUNDAY’S GAME: The PWHL Takeover Tour™ Detroit Offered by Ally is the eighth of 9 stops on the tour. Little Caesars Area is one in every of 14 NHL venues and 24 venues general to host a PWHL sport all-time. Tour attendance has totaled 100,735 by means of seven video games. Ally has partnered with the PWHL for tonight’s sport with a rally towel giveaway, a fortunate row contest, dance cam and ‘AthleticALLY Shootout’ throughout intermission, amongst their activations. Throughout the pre-game, the PWHL will honor the lifetime of 12-year-old Natalia Moore, an area hockey participant and proud member of the Fox Motors Hockey Membership who handed away earlier this yr. Gamers will put on helmet decals in her reminiscence, celebrating her love for the sport. In assist of this second, the league can even share psychological well being sources. Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin shall be in attendance and has a particular position to begin the sport. The PWHL has partnered with native nonprofits Detroit PAL, SAY Detroit, Particular Olympics, Clark Park Coalition, Boys and Ladies Membership and Black Woman Hockey Membership for tonight’s sport. The initiative goals to advertise gender fairness and empower the subsequent era of leaders by providing entry to dwell girls’s sports activities experiences. By partnering with organizations targeted on youth growth, the PWHL goals to encourage confidence, break limitations, and encourage women to see themselves in sports activities, whether or not as gamers or leaders. It’s a near-home sport for 3 of tonight’s on-ice officers from southwestern Ontario, together with referee Chad Ingalls (Woodstock), and linespersons Ali Beres (Brant) and Luke Pye (Belle River).
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