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Even in a building packed with nearly 10,000 cheering hockey fans, you can hear Kristen Campbell on the ice.<\/p>\n
The Vancouver Goldeneyes goalie is talkative in the net, acting as a quarterback for her team.<\/p>\n
“One of the things that I really try to do in my game is command the game. So communicating with the D, calling out the plays, just talking as much as I can to help everyone out,” Campbell said.<\/p>\n
“I like to stay connected to everyone on the ice, and I think that just makes us work as a unit of six out there.”<\/p>\n
The strategy helped the seventh-place Goldeneyes (5-1-3-9) push the PWHL-leading Boston Fleet to overtime on Tuesday. Boston ultimately took a 2-1 win.<\/p>\n
Much of the game was a goalie duel, with Campbell and her Boston counterpart Aerin Frankel turning away a combined 34 shots over the first two periods.<\/p>\n
Fleet defender Haley Winn broke the goalless deadlock early in the third, and Hannah Miller responded for the Goldeneyes late in the frame to force extra time.<\/p>\n
Shay Maloney beat Campbell 41 seconds into overtime, lifting Boston (9-4-2-2) to its sixth straight victory.<\/p>\n
Despite the result, Campbell liked the way her team played.<\/p>\n
“I thought the team was really solid in front of me tonight, and honestly, I’m just really proud of our effort,” said the netminder, who made 25 saves.<\/p>\n
“It was a great game. It could have gone either way, and once you get to overtime, it’s just a game of mistakes. I just thought we were right there the whole time. And I’m just really proud of the whole team, and know that we’ll build off of this and keep going.”<\/p>\n
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Fleet’s Shay Maloney sinks the Goldeneyes in overtime<\/p>\n
Shay Maloney scored 41 seconds into overtime, as the Boston Fleet beat the Vancouver Goldeneyes 2-1 to extend their winning streak to six games.Boston tested Campbell<\/p>\n
Boston tested Campbell repeatedly across the game, including on a second-period power play where Megan Keller launched a rocket on net from inside the faceoff circle.<\/p>\n
The Goldeneyes’ goalie read the play perfectly and calmly plucked the shot out of mid-air.<\/p>\n
“She was terrific. She gave us a chance,” head coach Brian Idalski said of the performance. “I thought she was really good on the (penalty kill). We gave up some grade-A looks there, and she was super solid. So nice outing for her.”<\/p>\n
Campbell spent her first two PWHL seasons in Toronto before the Sceptres dealt her to Vancouver at the draft last June.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old from Brandon, Man., has split the Goldeneyes’ crease with Emerance Maschmeyer, and has a 2-1-0-3 record with a 2.17 goals-against average, a .918 save percentage and one shutout this season.<\/p>\n
It’s a lighter load than she had in Toronto, where she went 16-0-0-6 with a 1.99 GAA, a .927 save percentage and three shutouts in 2024.<\/p>\n
No matter how much she’s playing, Campbell is an important part of the team both on and off the ice, said Miller, who played with her in Toronto.<\/p>\n
“She’s awesome. She always brings energy, great personality in the room for us. And we love playing in front of her,” she said.<\/p>\n
“We have all the confidence in the world and in all of our goalies. … It’s one of the best feelings as a team, just having that trust and belief in your goaltenders. And we’re lucky to have them here.”<\/p>\n
Campbell may need to take on a larger role as the season continues.<\/p>\n
Maschmeyer missed Tuesday’s game with an upper-body injury, and Idalski said she will be evaluated further.<\/p>\n
Taking on a bigger role doesn’t trouble Campbell, who was the starting goalie for much of her time in Toronto.<\/p>\n
“Honestly, it doesn’t change anything for me. I’m just showing up each day and doing what I can to help our team win, sticking to my performance identity out there, and just playing my game,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Being the last two years in Toronto, carrying a lot of that load, I think stepping in now it’s just like I’ve done this kind of 100 times. So I just want to help the team as much as I can and help us get as many points as possible down the stretch.”<\/p>\n
The Goldeneyes are in the midst of a five-game homestand and will look to climb the table Saturday when they host the Ottawa Charge.<\/p>\n
After pushing the league’s top team on Tuesday, the group can take confidence heading into that matchup, Campbell said.<\/p>\n
“It’s really hard to win in this league. It’s best-on-best every night, it can go either way,” she said. “But I think, just our habits and our details and our compete level \u2014 I really think that that was one of the best games that we’ve played a full 60 minutes and really battled. Even if the pucks weren’t going in for us, we created a lot of opportunities.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow Winter Olympic SportsPersonalize Your Feed Even in a building packed with nearly 10,000 cheering hockey fans, you…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-529260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529260","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=529260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}