What we learned about all 6 PWHL teams in February
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As the calendar turns to March, the six Professional Women's Hockey League teams face three busy weeks before a break for April's world championship.
With two full months of hockey in the books, it's clear this league is competitive. More than half of the games so far have been decided by one goal.
Part of the explanation is stellar goaltending, which makes it hard to score goals. The other is the way the league was designed. All six teams have the same owner with access to the same resources. Players were distributed through a draft and free-agency process with parity as the goal.
The PWHL is back in action on Saturday with two games that will stream on CBC Gem, cbcsports.ca and the CBC Sports app for iOS and Android devices: Toronto at Ottawa at 3:30 p.m. ET (which also airs on CBC TV) and Boston at Montreal at 4 p.m. ET.
"I don't think we could have figured that out better from the results we're seeing right now," Jayna Hefford, the league's senior vice-president of hockey operations, said this week.
Here's what the numbers say about each PWHL team heading into Saturday's games.
Montreal has been consistently good this season, and enters March atop the standings.
The team is fun to watch, whether it's Laura Stacey's ability to break out with speed or Marie-Philip Poulin's magic with the puck.
But perhaps no player has been relied on more by Montreal this season than defender and power-play quarterback Erin Ambrose, who sees the ice like few others can.
Over the month of February, Ambrose played an average of almost 27 minutes per game, more than anyone else in the league, according to a CBC Sports analysis of the PWHL's time on ice data.
She has three points in that time, including an assist that set up Stacey's overtime game-winner in Boston on Feb. 4.
"I just drove the net, [Ambrose] had a ton of patience, and I put my stick on the ice and she made a perfect pass to me [at the] back door," Stacey said after that game.
Like Ambrose, Montreal relies on Stacey a lot. She played more than 22 minutes on average per game in February, more than all but one other forward in the league.
Minnesota enters March on a three-game losing streak after a solid start to the season.
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