Goal by Goal: Game 1 of the Calgary Secret Dream Gap Tour

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The Canadian leg of the Secret Dream Gap Tour opened with a bang, as Montréal’s Team Bauer took home a 3-2 victory over Toronto’s Team Sonnet. While the opening frames were on the slower side, the third period was anything but.

TEAM SONNET GOAL

Ella Shelton (Nicole Kosta, Loren Gabel) at 4-on-4 gets her first professional point at 12:50 of the first

Team Sonnet: 1 – Team Bauer: 0

Ella Shelton roofs one past Ann-Renée Desbiens to open the scoring midway into the first period. She should get bonus points for the celly game.

TEAM BAUER GOAL

Erin Ambrose (Jessie Eldridge, Marie-Philip Poulin) on the powerplay at 6:11 of the second period

Team Sonnet: 1 – Team Bauer: 1

You absolutely cannot discount the effort by Marie-Philip Poulin to keep that puck in the zone, and she — and Ambrose and Eldridge — are rewarded with their first points of the Canadian Secret Dream Gap Tour.

TEAM BAUER GOAL

Rebecca Leslie (Ann-Sophie Bettez, Alexandra Labelle) sends it through traffic at 9:47 of the third period.

Team Sonnet: 1 – Team Bauer: 2

Right off the face-off, Leslie gets the puck and somehow diverts it past a sea of Team Sonnet players and past Shea Tiley.

TEAM BAUER GOAL

Marie-Philip Poulin, shorthanded, roofs it clean over Tiley at 13:23 of the third period.

Team Sonnet: 1 – Team Bauer: 3

There’s no stopping Marie-Philip Poulin on a shorthanded breakaway, though Shelton makes a valiant effort at slowing down the Team Bauer forward.

TEAM SONNET GOAL

Natalie Spooner (Jocelyne Larocque) deflects the puck behind Desbiens at 19:56 of the third period, at 6-on-5.

Team Sonnet: 2 – Team Bauer: 3

Team Sonnet nearly — nearly! — redeemed themselves with a last-ditch goal after pulling Tiley. It was too little too late for the Toronto region, though, as time expired three seconds later.

With a regulation win AND a shorthanded goal, Team Bauer skates away from this meeting with 3 points in the standings for the Canadian Secret Dream Gap Tour.

Canadian Secret Dream Gap Tour Standings (Day 1)

The second game of the tournament, this time between Team Bauer (Montréal) and Team Scotiabank (Calgary) starts at 5 PM ET on May 25, and will be streamed internationally on the PWHPA’s YouTube.

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