Nurse’s aim electrifies crowd throughout NHL expertise problem

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — The cheers at FLA Reside Enviornment had been the loudest when Sarah Nurse of Canada’s ladies’s staff scored throughout the NHL All-Star expertise competitors Friday evening.

Nurse used a breakaway transfer made well-liked by Swedish participant Peter Forsberg to idiot New York Rangers goalie Igor Shesterkin in a goaltender capturing occasion, electrifying the group.

“One in all my pals again dwelling instructed me to strive it,” Nurse stated, “so I gave it a shot.”

Nurse was joined by fellow Canadian staff members Emily Clark and Rebecca Johnston and American gamers Hilary Knight and Alex Carpenter as feminine hockey gamers returned to the ice to take part in a number of occasions throughout expertise evening.

“The perfect a part of being part of All-Star weekend is the sort of visibility it offers our sport,” Clark stated. “We’re having quite a lot of enjoyable, however we’re tremendous glad we’re capable of characterize ladies’s hockey and to be on the identical ice as among the greatest males on the earth.”

Nurse, who’s an Olympic gold medalist, wore custom skates highlighting Black Historical past month and the Black Woman Hockey Membership, a nonprofit centered on getting extra Black women and girls into the game.

The gamers have been concerned within the expertise competitors since 2019, when Individuals Kendall Coyne Schofield and Brianna Decker, along with Johnston and Canada’s Renata Quick, made appearances.

Coyne Schofield grew to become the primary lady to compete within the NHL All-Star expertise competitors, racing across the rink in 14.346 seconds within the quickest skater competitors in a barrier-breaking second for ladies’s hockey.

Friday evening, gamers took pictures in a brand new occasion the NHL known as the “Tendy Tandem,” which concerned one goaltender from every of the 4 divisions because the capturing goalie and the opposite goalie from that division because the in-net goalie.

The tandem of Nashville Predators goalie Juuse Saros and Connor Hellebuyck of the Winnipeg Jets received the problem for the Central Division.

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