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Lousy starts are nothing new to the Toronto Sceptres but they no longer dictate results the way they did earlier in the season.
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Games that would start poorly would normally end poorly for the Sceptres earlier in the schedule when they seemed to pay for every little misstep.
But those days are behind this team now and none it was more evident than this result, a 3-2 overtime win on Daryl Watts’s second goal of the night.
Watts, who began her PWHL career in Ottawa, turned down a good opportunity to shoot and chose instead to circle the net 51 seconds into overtime before scoring on the wrap-around.
Toronto has now won four in a row and moved into a second-place tie with the Minnesota Frost. Both teams have played 18 games and have amassed 26 points trailing just league-leading Montreal.
Again, for whatever reason, the Sceptres came out in the first period looking like a team that was a step or five slow as the Ottawa Charge dominated the entire first period of the Takeover Tour game played in Edmonton before a sellout crowd of 17,518 at Rogers Place.
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Outshot 17-2 in the first, the Sceptres couldn’t help but be better than that in the second and they were, pretty much flipping the script on the Charge.
Ottawa had a 1-0 lead after a period on a power play goal by Gabbie Hughes but Toronto answered that and more with a pair of power play goals in the second when they owned the period outshooting Ottawa 17-5 in the second.
Watts circled out of the corner and got to the middle of the ice where she fired through traffic to beat Ottawa goalkeeper Emerance Maschmeyer for Toronto’s first goal.
On the power play again towards the end of the period, Sceptres’ rookie Julia Gosling was set up with some room in the high slot and one-timed a feed from Jesse Compher for Toronto’s second power play goal of the game.
The third period saw Ottawa get back on even terms, one more time on the power play as Tereza Vazinova ripped a shot over Raygan Kirk four the fourth player advantage goal of the game.
mganter@postmedia.com
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