Daryl Watts scored three goals to lead Ottawa past visiting Toronto 5-3 in a Professional Women’s Hockey League game Saturday.
The loss snapped Toronto’s 11-game win streak.
Gabbie Hughes and Brianne Jenner also scored for Ottawa (7-0-6-6) while Emerance Maschmeyer made 15 saves.
Natalie Spooner, with two, and Sarah Nurse had the goals for Toronto (10-3-0-6). Kristen Campbell stopped 19 shots.
Ottawa scored three straight goals in the third period to erase a 2-1 deficit.
Ottawa tied the game 38 seconds into the third when Hughes fired a loose puck past Campbell. The home team took its first lead at 8:24 with Katerina Mrazova and Brianne Jenner breaking in on a 2-on-1.
Mrazova made a perfect pass to Jenner, who scored to send the 8,448 fans at TD Place into a frenzy. Watts gave Ottawa a two-goal lead at 14:58.
Nurse cut Toronto’s deficit in half at 16:21 after Maschmeyer mishandled a shot. But Watts scored into the empty net for her first PWHL hat trick.
WATCH | Watts leads Ottawa over Toronto:
PWHL Ottawa ends Toronto’s eleven game winning streak with a 5-3 win courtesy of a hat trick by Daryl Watts.
A turnover at Ottawa’s blue line led to Toronto’s first goal at 8:56 of the second. Spooner came in and beat Maschmeyer to the glove side to open the scoring. Less than four minutes later Spooner, the league’s goal and points leader, recorded her second of the game on a great feed from Kali Flanagan on a 2-on-1.
With 4.5 seconds left on the clock Brianne Jenner found Watts alone in the slot. After pausing briefly, Watts hired a wrist a shot over Campbell.
Ottawa leads the season series 9-3 in points over Toronto. Ottawa is also the only league team to beat first-place Toronto three times this year.
This contest was the last for both teams before the league pauses for an international break until April 18.
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