NEW YORK \u2014 The PWHL has another professional women\u2019s hockey attendance record in the U.S., with the game between the New York Sirens and Seattle Torrent at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night drawing a crowd of 18,006.<\/p>\n
The previous high water mark was 17,335 at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle on Feb. 27, fresh off captain Hilary Knight and the U.S. women winning gold at the Olympics in Milan. A crowd of 17,228 saw a game in Washington on Jan. 28 prior to the Olympics.<\/p>\n
Playing their first game at the Garden, the Sirens won 2-1 in a shootout. Canadian Sarah Fillier scored the tying goal late in regulation and was named the first star of the game.<\/p>\n
Maja Nyl\u00e9n Persson added a shootout goal, while Kayle Osborne stopped 20 shots for the Sirens (8-1-4-12).<\/p>\n
Alex Carpenter scored a goal, and Corinne Schroeder had 37 saves for the Torrent (6-1-3-14).<\/p>\n
Carpenter scored on a one-timer off a pass from Danielle Serdachny at the 2:51 mark of the second period to give the Torrent a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Fillier scored a goal with 3:35 left in the third period that made it 1-1. Anne Cherkowski, on the left side, slipped a pass to Filler at the back post for the finish into a wide-open net.<\/p>\n
Fillier has eight goals and an assist in her last seven games.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Torrent: Play Tuesday at Montreal.<\/p>\n
Sirens: Visit Minnesota next Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 The PWHL has another professional women\u2019s hockey attendance record in the U.S., with the game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-186812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}