NOV. 29: VANCOUVER AT NEW YORK PRE-GAME PRIMER – PWHL

Saturday, November 29, 2025 | 12 p.m. ET | Prudential Middle
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Eric Gallanty (Play-by-Play), Gigi Marvin (Analyst), Abby Labar (Reporter)
VANCOUVER GOLDENEYES                  
0-1-0-1 | 2 PTS | 7TH PLACE
High Scorer: Claire Thompson – 2 GP, 2-1-3 PTS
Final Sport: 5-1 L at OTT on Nov. 26
NEW YORK SIRENS                    
1-0-0-1 | 3 PTS | 1ST PLACE (TIED)
High Scorer: Taylor Girard – 2 GP, 3-0-3 PTS
Final Sport: 4-0 L at MTL on Nov. 25
2025-26 HEAD-TO-HEAD SEASON SCHEDULE:
Nov. 29 at NY | Dec. 6 at VAN | Dec. 31 at NY | Mar. 18 at VAN
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW
Vancouver suffered their first ever defeat Wednesday, of their first ever highway recreation, 5-1, at Ottawa. The Goldeneyes have scored 4 of their 5 objectives within the third interval or extra time this season.
Claire Thompson has scored a purpose in every of the Goldeneyes’ first two video games this season. It’s the first time in her profession with a purpose in back-to-back video games. Her solely longer profession level streak was a five-game stretch (1G, 8A) in December and January final season for Minnesota.
Michela Cava assisted on Thompson’s energy play purpose Wednesday. The 2 have been teammates in Minnesota final season however solely mixed on two objectives collectively (each of which have been Thompson assists to Cava energy play objectives).
Michelle Karvinen, Vancouver’s first-round choose in June’s draft, picked up an help on Wednesday to grow to be the fourth participant in PWHL historical past to file their first profession level at age 35 or older. The primary three have been Gigi Marvin (BOS), Ann-Sophie Bettez (MTL) and Jocelyne Larocque (TOR) in Season One.
Anna Segedi, who made her PWHL debut for Vancouver on Wednesday, performed her NCAA profession at St. Lawrence College and completed second in Saints scoring her freshman season, behind Sirens ahead Kayla Vespa.
Goldeneyes rookies Katie Chan and Darcie Lappan and New Hartford, NY, native Sydney Bard performed collectively at Colgate College in 2021-22 for New York Head Coach Greg Fargo and alongside Sirens ahead Kristýna Kaltounková, defender Allyson Simpson and goaltender Kayle Osborne.
Vancouver GM Cara Gardner Morey returns to New Jersey, not removed from Princeton College, the place she spent 14 seasons with the ladies’s hockey program together with eight as Head Coach. Thompson and Sirens star ahead Sarah Fillier are among the many many gamers she helped develop throughout her Tigers tenure.
New York beat Toronto, 4-2, within the crew’s 2024-25 house opener on Dec. 18 at Prudential Middle. It turned out to be the season’s first and solely regulation win at their major house venue, happening to put up a 1-3-1-8 file at ‘The Rock’.
The Sirens opened on the highway for the third straight season and have been shut out of their final recreation, 4-0, Tuesday in Montréal. It matches the Sirens’ largest shutout loss in crew historical past. The opposite was Feb. 12 final season towards Boston, the Sirens’ solely shutout lack of 2024-25.
Fillier recorded her seventh multi-point efficiency (1G, 1A) of her rookie season in her final recreation at Prudential Middle on Could 3. She recorded seven pictures on purpose Tuesday, which set a profession excessive, and matches essentially the most pictures on purpose in a recreation in Sirens historical past (eighth time). Taylor Girard additionally had seven pictures with a hat trick within the Sirens’ season opener.
Casey O’Brien received 17 of her 24 faceoffs on Tuesday. She is the third Sirens participant to ever win 17 faceoffs in a recreation, becoming a member of Alex Carpenter (5 occasions) and Abby Roque (as soon as). Saturday marks a hometown debut for the third general choose and 2025 Patty Kazmaier Award recipient who started taking part in hockey for the New York Metropolis Cyclones earlier than shifting to Milton, MA.
Sirens followers will get their first house have a look at the crew’s 2025 draft class, which has featured a league-high 5 rookie forwards within the lineup for the season’s first two video games. The group consists of first-round picks Kaltounková and O’Brien, second-round choose Anne Cherkowski, fourth-round choose Maddi Wheeler and fifth-round choose Anna Bargman.
Gabby Rosenthal, who recorded 4 factors (1G, 3A) in 29 video games with the Sirens final season, returns to New York for the primary time as a member of the Goldeneyes. She has one purpose in two video games to this point with Vancouver.
This marks the thirty fifth matchup for New York towards a Canadian opponent all-time, with the Sirens holding an 8-4-3-19 file general in such video games.
WHAT THEY’RE SAYING
“We simply need to exit humble, and clearly we have now some issues we have to clear up from the final recreation. Each recreation is a chance to get higher. We’re wanting ahead to bouncing again and get again to our approach of taking part in, so are tremendous excited for Saturday.” – Goldeneyes ahead Michelle Karvinen
“We’re thrilled to open our season at house in entrance of our followers. The Prudential Middle is house, and there’s an actual pleasure in our room about bringing the brand new model of the New York Sirens to our crowd. Our group has labored onerous to construct an identification that’s tenacious, aggressive, and linked. We will’t anticipate our followers to see it – this can be a crew they’re going to get pleasure from watching.” – Sirens Head Coach Greg Fargo     
SATURDAY’S GAME: New York welcomes its followers again to Prudential Middle to launch the house schedule towards the growth Vancouver Goldeneyes who make their first-ever PWHL journey over the border. It’s one among six afternoon video games on the Sirens’ house schedule this season, with no scarcity of activations to get followers of all ages excited for puck drop. The favored bracelet making station returns to the concourse together with an indication making station offered by Midea. Followers received’t need to miss the pre-game ceremony highlighted by full participant introductions of the 2025-25 Sirens roster.
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