Sunday, March 1, 2026 | 1 p.m. ET | Place Bell<\/p>\n
WATCH LIVE: Sportsnet ONE, RDS, FanDuel Sports Network North, FOX 9+, PWHL YouTube<\/a> & thepwhl.com<\/a>(U.S. \/ International), More<\/a> MINNESOTA FROST\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 MONTR\u00c9AL VICTOIRE\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2025-26 SEASON SERIES: MONTR\u00c9AL LEADS 4-2 IN POINTS (MTL LEADS 25-14 IN POINTS ALL-TIME) WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW<\/p>\n The Frost had eight players compete in the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026, including a league-high six U.S. gold medalists: Kendall Coyne Schofield, Britta Curl-Salemme, Taylor Heise, Kelly Pannek, Lee Stecklein, Grace Zumwinkle. Minnesota also led the league with two players on Czechia with forwards Kl\u00e1ra Hyml\u00e1rov\u00e1 and Denisa K\u0159\u00ed\u017eov\u00e1.<\/p>\n Coyne Schofield, who will miss the first game of her PWHL career after being placed on LTIR with an upper-body injury, won her second Olympic gold medal along with Pannek and Stecklein. Together, the trio are members of the Double Triple Gold club with two Olympic golds, two World Championship golds, and two Walter Cup titles.<\/p>\n Heise is riding a six-game PWHL point streak with 10 points (2G, 8A), tied for the longest streak of the PWHL season. She had the primary assist on the golden goal and finished her first Olympics with five points, winning her first Olympic gold medal alongside Curl-Salemme and Zumwinkle to bring the league\u2019s Triple Gold Club total to nine players, including Frost goaltenders Nicole Hensley and Maddie Rooney.<\/p>\n Pannek has scored in each of her last four PWHL games. That is tied for the second longest goal streak in PWHL history, one game shy of tying Sarah Fillier (Feb. 23 to Mar. 16, 2025) for the longest. The Frost alternate captain has eight goals, exceeding the seven she scored across both of the league\u2019s first two seasons and is one point shy of her career-high for points. <\/p>\n \u00c9lizabeth Gigu\u00e8re, who was activated from Minnesota\u2019s Reserve Player list on Friday, will make her season debut today in her home province. She is the first player in Frost history who hails from Qu\u00e9bec.<\/p>\n Madison Bizal, who spent the inaugural season with Montr\u00e9al, recently helped the Breck Mustangs capture a Minnesota State Championship title, serving as an Assistant Coach.<\/p>\n Minnesota is on a six-game point streak (3-1-2-0), which is tied for the longest in team history (also Feb. 27 \u2013 Mar. 24, 2024). The only longer point streak by any team this season was a seven-gamer by New York that ended in January.<\/p>\n The Victoire welcome back its nine Olympians, tied with the Sceptres for the most in the PWHL. Montr\u00e9al is one of three squads, along with Ottawa and Seattle, to have players from both the U.S. (Hayley Scamurra) and Canada (Erin Ambrose, Ann-Ren\u00e9e Desbiens, Marie-Philip Poulin, Laura Stacey, Kati Tabin) who went head-to-head in the gold medal final. Montr\u00e9al had players representing five different countries with Sandra Abstreither (GER), Lina Ljungblom (SWE) and Nat\u00e1lie Ml\u00fdnkov\u00e1 (CZE), tied with Boston for most in the PWHL.<\/p>\n Poulin leads the season series with three goals and four points in two games and scored both overtime winning goals. The Victoire captain missed her first game of the season on Thursday with a lower-body injury but returns to action today.<\/p>\n Laura Stacey became the eighth player in PWHL history to reach 50 career points with a two-assist performance Thursday. It was her eighth career game with multiple assists, the second most in league history (Heise \u2013 10).<\/p>\n The Victoire returned from the Olympic break with a 4-1 victory at New York as Montr\u00e9al has won each of its last three games by multiple goals. It\u2019s the only time in Montr\u00e9al\u2019s history that the team has won three straight games, all by two or more goals.<\/p>\n Montr\u00e9al scored three goals in the first period of its win over New York on Thursday. That was the most goals scored by the Victoire in a single period since tallying four in the first period of another win over the Sirens on Feb. 15, 2025.<\/p>\n Montr\u00e9al scored overtime wins over Minnesota in each of their first two meetings this season with a 3-2 home win and a 2-1 road win, both in January. The only other team to beat the Frost twice in overtime or a shootout in a season was New York last season.<\/p>\n The Victoire are undefeated at Place Bell this season, setting a new team record with six straight wins at their primary home venue. Montr\u00e9al\u2019s 6-1-0-1 overall record in home games gives them a league leading win percentage of .833. The Frost rank second in winning percentage on the road at .583.<\/p>\n WHAT THEY\u2019RE SAYING<\/p>\n \u201cReally excited to be back with this team and we\u2019re super excited to come in and play. I think it\u2019s been a long time for us not being around each other, so it\u2019s fun to be back. Our positive energy is really flowing right now, and so it\u2019s about taking what we learned in the first half and running with it here in Montr\u00e9al.\u201d \u2013 Frost forward Taylor Heise<\/p>\n \u201cMinnesota is a great team. They’re fast, they’re deep, and they know how to win. It’s always a great battle us and them. I think our team tends to match that occasion and really knows that our T\u2019s have to be crossed and our I\u2019s have to be dotted against them because they play a good team game. We have to slow them down. Minnesota has shown that they’ve been one of the top teams the past two years.\u201d \u2013 Victoire Head Coach Kori Cheverie<\/p>\n SUNDAY\u2019S GAME: The Victoire return to Place Bell for the first time since Jan. 28 and host the Frost for the second and final time this regular season. Fans will have the opportunity to celebrate the PWHL\u2019s 61 Olympians with a special pre-game video that will honor the players that represented their countries in Milan. There will be more than just Olympic hockey players in attendance today as the Victoire proudly welcome Canadian short track speedskater Val\u00e9rie Maltais. The La Baie, QC, native won three Olympic medals in Milano-Cortina, including gold in team pursuit, as well as bronze medals in the 3,000M and 1,500M races. Honored as one of Canada\u2019s Flag Bearers for the Closing Ceremonies, she has now won a total of five Olympic medals in her career. The U.S. national anthem will be performed today by Jennifer Lee-Dupuy, while the Canadian anthem will be sung by the entire crowd. Today\u2019s game is presented by e.l.f. and the first 6,000 fans will receive a Victoire Collectible Car Plate upon entry, while quantities last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday, March 1, 2026 | 1 p.m. ET | Place Bell WATCH LIVE: Sportsnet ONE, RDS, FanDuel Sports…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-507597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
EN: Matt Cullen (Play-by-Play), Ann-Sophie Bettez (Analyst), Rob Pizzo (Reporter);
FR: Andr\u00e9e-Anne Barbeau \u00a0(Studio Host), Karell \u00c9mard (Studio Analyst), Claudine Douville (Play-by-Play), St\u00e9phanie Poirier (Analyst), Catherine Savoie (Reporter)<\/p>\n
7-2-3-3 | 28 PTS | 3RD PLACE
Top Scorer: Kendall Coyne Schofield \u2013 15 GP, 10-6-16 PTS
Last Game: 4-1 W vs. VAN on Jan. 28<\/a><\/p>\n
8-3-0-5 | 30 PTS | 2ND PLACE
Top Scorer: Marie-Philip Poulin \u2013 15 GP, 7-7-14 PTS
Last Game: 4-1 W at NY on Feb. 26<\/a><\/p>\n
Jan. 4 at MTL: 3-2 MTL (OT)<\/a> | Jan. 21 at MIN: 2-1 MTL (OT)<\/a> | Mar. 1 at MTL | Mar. 25 at MIN<\/p>\n