Heise scores twice, provides help as PWHL Minnesota beats Toronto to stay undefeated

Taylor Heise scored two targets with an help as Minnesota stays the one unbeaten crew within the Skilled Ladies’s Hockey League, beating Toronto 3-1 on Wednesday evening at Xcel Vitality Heart in Saint Paul, Minn.

Heise, who set a program file for many video games performed throughout her 5 seasons on the College of Minnesota, recording greater than 200 factors, scored her second and third targets of the season to stake Minnesota (3-0) to a 2-1 lead halfway via the second interval.

Within the third interval she skated to the face-off circle to the appropriate of Toronto goalkeeper Kristen Campbell and fired a centering move to a wide-open Kendall Coyne Schofield, who one-timed the puck house earlier than Campbell might get well.

Toronto (1-2) lone aim got here when Sarah Nurse scored within the fourth minute of the second interval to even the sport at 1-1.

Campbell, who has began all three of Toronto’s video games, had 26 saves on 29 Minnesota pictures. Nicole Hensley earned her second win in aim, turning away 31 of the 32 Toronto pictures she confronted.

Minnesota’s Grace Zumwinkle leads the PWHL in targets scored with 4 after posting a hat trick towards Montreal Saturday. Heise is now tied with Montreal’s Marie-Phillip Poulin, who scored a hat trick Wednesday at New York, with three.

WATCH l Nurse scores her 1st PWHL aim:

Minnesota set a file with 13,316 attend its house opener Saturday. Wednesday’s sport had an introduced attendance of 4,707.

Toronto will host Ottawa on Saturday at 2 p.m. ET. You may watch the sport on CBC Gem, cbcsports.ca, the CBC Sports activities app for iOS and Android units, and CBC TV.

The complete schedule of PWHL video games airing on CBC Sports activities this season is out there right here.

WATCH l Minnesota’s Zumwinkle displays on scoring 1st-ever PWHL hat trick: