Beauts Lose To Boston In HarborCenter - Budd Bailey - Buffalo News - Sunday, November 20.
The Boston Pride certainly look like the class of the National Women’s Hockey League so far in the young season. Ask the Buffalo Beauts. The two teams met for the third time on Sunday afternoon, and the Pride skated away with a 5-0 victory for its third straight win in the series. The contest was played at HarborCenter. Boston improved to 6-0, having outscored its opponents, 25-6, in the process. Buffalo fell to 2-4-0-1.
Beauts’ goalie Brianne McLaughlin figured out quickly that it wasn’t her team’s day. Boston had a 20-4 edge in shots in the opening period, but McLaughlin only allowed a goal to Alexandra Bender. But the netminder could only hold off the Pride for so long. Meghan Duggan and Gigi Marvin scored goals about three minutes apart in the second period; Marvin’s goal was on the power play. The play was a bit more level in the third period, but Boston scored the only goals. Rachel Llanes and Alex Carpenter scored for the Pride. McLaughlin finished with 41 saves on 46 shots. Brittany Ott of Boston had 24 saves in her shutout. The Pride had a 43-14 edge in faceoffs.
The lack of Buffalo goals delayed a team promotion for a while. Fans were asked to bring stuffed animals to the game that would be thrown on the ice after the first Beauts’ goal. Due to the shutout, the toss was done after the final buzzer. The toys will be donated to the “Gold Star Moms” organization. (
LaxSabre - Same thing happened when I attended a Niagara Falls Thunder game back in the early 90's - Thunder got shutout - and we had to throw our stuffed animals after the game ended.)
The Beauts won’t have to worry about Boston for a while. The teams won’t play again until Feburary 18. In the meantime, Buffalo gets next weekend off. In their next start, the Beauts will play a road game against the New York Riveters on December 3. (New York moved into a second-place tie with Buffalo on Sunday because of its win over Connecticut.) The Beauts won’t be home again until a January 14 game against New York. Buffalo had played six of its first seven games at home.
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