since her injury last March<\/a>, prompting loud whoops and cheers from the packed arena. Another held up a poster with the words \u201cNo 3-peat,\u201d referring to the Frost\u2019s consecutive championships.<\/p>\n\t\tEditor\u2019s Picks\t<\/p>\n
When assistant captain Laura Stacey notched her third goal \u2014 ultimately tying the game at 4-4 and sending it into overtime \u2014 fans jumped to their feet and hats flew onto the ice for her hat trick.<\/p>\n
Brigitte Guay beamed as she explained she brought her granddaughter Lily for her first game ever, who made a poster for the occasion. They could be seen on the jumbotron at one point, excitedly waving to the crowd.<\/p>\n
Guay, who is a former hockey player and coach, has bought season tickets since the beginning of the PWHL.<\/p>\n
\u201cUsually, I bring one of my daughters who played hockey, too,\u201d she said. \u201cSo we\u2019re practically there for all the games to encourage the Victoire.\u201d<\/p>\n
Charlotte Fillmore-Handlon and Adam Kiesler were excited to watch \u201csome great hockey\u201d with family from out of town. Kiesler described how it important to bring young son Kirby to watch the Victoire.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to get the next generation interested in our local sports and our teams and supporting women\u2019s hockey, which we think is awesome, and we\u2019re super happy to have in Montreal,\u201d Kiesler said.<\/p>\n
\u2018On the edge of our seats the whole time\u2019<\/p>\n
After the Frost won 5-4 in Game 1 with an overtime goal by Jincy Roese, Victoire supporter Aleksandra Urban described as \u201cdisappointing and super sad.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it\u2019s the first game, it\u2019s just the beginning,\u201d she said, before cheekily adding, \u201cand seeing how Minnesota was outside their city, we simply let them have the first win. We\u2019re nice like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elizabeth Michaud called it a \u201cvery tight game\u201d with a lot of goals and \u201cfun\u201d to watch. The action kept them \u201con the edge of our seats the whole time.\u201d<\/p>\n
After the game, Stacey described how \u201cincredible\u201d the energy was from the crowd and how the Victoire loves playing at home. <\/p>\n
The fans\u00a0\u201cshow up night in and night out for us to cheer us on, to lift us up,\u201d the assistant captain said. They continued to believe in Montreal even when the Frost was up 2-0 at the beginning of the game, she added.<\/p>\n
It was \u201ctime to go to bed\u201d after the loss and move on to focusing on the next game, Stacey told reporters.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re really excited to be back here to give them something to cheer about here on Tuesday,\u201d she said of the Victoire\u2019s loyal fanbase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cyndie Matheson proudly donned her Montreal Victoire jersey as she made her way into Place Bell for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-644323","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\/644323","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=644323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}