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Yahoo
25-03-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Edmonton Oilers Prospects: William Nicholl Quietly Impressive
EDMONTON – A team is more than its superstar. At least, all of the good teams are. The Edmonton Oilers have proven that (so far) with the two best players on the team, Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl, out of the lineup. With them on the shelf for the next week or so, other players will have to step up. Bookmark The Hockey News Edmonton Oilers team site to never miss the latest news, game-day coverage, and more. That same type of competitiveness is healthy in an organization's prospect pool. The Oilers' latest first-round draft pick, Sam O'Reilly, is having a great season. Goaltender Samuel Jonsson was named Goalie of the Year in the Hockey Allsvenskan. But another Oilers prospect has put their stamp on this season. Oilers Prospect Report: O'Reilly & Akey Playoff Bound The NHL playoffs don't start for another month, but regular seasons are wrapping up across the rest of the hockey world. Former Oilers Holloway & Broberg Come Up Clutch Ex-Oiler Pat Maroon Makes Big Emotional Announcement How Oilers Can Get The Most Out Of Ryan Nugent-Hopkins Oilers Game Schedule For March 2025 3 Best Oilers' Trades By Stan Bowman Oilers Host Special Guest Mark Carney EDMONTON – There's no day quite like a game day, especially when special guests are in the house. William Nicholl has largely flown under the radar this year. Nicholl was also a 2024 draft pick, but drafted in the seventh round, 196th overall. O'Reilly and Nicholl play for the London Knights of the OHL, which begins its playoff journey at the end of this week. However, in their last regular season game, Nicholl hit a professional milestone, his first OHL hat-trick. NICKY'S FIRST CAREER HAT TRICK!@EdmontonOilers | #LetsGoOilers — London Knights (@LondonKnights) March 23, 2025 He finished the season with a monster of a game. In addition to the hat trick, Nicholl recorded an assist, fired seven shots on net, and won 15 of his 21 faceoffs (71 percent). That's not too shabby. He finishes the 2024-25 season with 57 points in 66 games (0.86 points per game). Nicholl more than doubled his points from the previous year, scoring 20 points in 65 games. Nicholl is not a prospect to be taken lightly. While O'Reilly has the two-way fortitude that will endear him to his NHL coach one day, Nicholl has the boots and understated skill to have a higher ceiling than his teammate. For now, Oil Country can keep one eye on the Oilers and the other on the OHL playoffs, which begin for the Knights on Friday. Their first round opponents are the Owen Sound Attack. Add us to your Google News favorites, and never miss a story.
New York Times
23-03-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Wisconsin defeats Ohio State to win NCAA women's hockey national championship
The Wisconsin Badgers won their record eighth national championship in a come-from-behind 4-3 win over the Ohio State Buckeyes on Sunday. The game — a rematch of the 2023 and 2024 championship games — saw the two highest-scoring teams in the country deliver the highest-scoring championship game since 2014. Advertisement It's also the third-straight year the championship game was decided by just one goal. The Buckeyes were the only team in the country to defeat the No. 1-seeded Badgers in regulation all season and nearly did so a second time, if not for the late heroics of Wisconsin star Kirsten Simms, who scored on a penalty shot after a coaches challenge for covering the puck with just 18.9 seconds left. KIRSTEN SIMMS TIES UP THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME WITH 18.9 SECONDS REMAINING 😱 OVERTIME ON ESPNU NOW 🍿 — ESPN (@espn) March 23, 2025 It was Simms, too, who played the hero twice, scoring the overtime winner to complete the comeback early in the fourth period. THE BADGERS ARE BRINGING THE NATTY HOME! 🏆@simmsy0427 scores the OT winner for the Badgers!#WFrozenFour x 🎥 ESPNU / @BadgerWHockey — NCAA Ice Hockey (@NCAAIceHockey) March 23, 2025 The game began with Buckeyes star sophomore Joy Dunne opening the scoring (to cap off her season with a 10-game goal streak) with an end-to-end shorthanded goal. Badgers star junior Laila Edwards (Dunne's teammate with Team USA at the upcoming women's world championships) answered just 12 seconds later to tie the game on the power play. The teams' two-goals-in-12-seconds flurry was the second-fastest in Frozen Four history. Ohio State's Joy Dunne and Wisconsin's Laila Edwards with highlight reel goals 20 secs apart in the women's FF championship — CJ Fogler 🫡 (@cjzero) March 23, 2025 Late in the first period, OSU junior Sloane Matthews re-gave the Buckeyes the advantage, followed by an early-second-period goal from junior defender Emma Peschel to balloon the lead to 3-1. But Badgers junior defender Caroline Harvey — one of the best players in the world, whose four-point game in the Frozen Four's semifinal led Wisconsin back to the title game — cut the lead to 3-2 to set the table for Simms' late heroics. Advertisement It looked, until the dying seconds, like the Buckeyes were going to hold on, coming up with some big blocks and nearly killing a penalty with 1:50 left, but the top-ranked Badgers scored three unanswered to complete the historic comeback. Badgers goalie Ava McNaughton made 20 saves in the win. The championship is the culmination of a dominant season by the Badgers; with the best offense in the country (more than five goals per game), the best defense (just over one goal against per game) and the top special teams. The Badgers also had the National Coach of the Year (Mark Johnson), Goalie of the Year (McNaughton), Patty Kazmaier Award winner (Casey O'Brien) and all three finalists (Edwards and Harvey). All eight of Wisconsin's national championships have now been won under Johnson, the winningest coach in Division I women's hockey history. Sunday marked Wisconsin's 12th appearance in the national championship game and most of its core group will be back next season. They'll be losing senior captain Casey O'Brien — the Patty Kazmaier Award winner who broke Wisconsin's scoring record this season — but the team is still young with stars like Harvey, Edwards and Simms, who each have eligibility remaining. McNaughton, who finished the year with a 36-1-2 record, is also only a 20-year-old sophomore. Despite the loss, the runner-up finish marked the Buckeyes' fourth straight year in the national championship game under head coach Nadine Muzerall, who took over a perennial .500 program in 2016-17 and turned it into a destination for players seeking postseason success.
