It started with a perfect net-front pass from Montreal defender Erin Ambrose.
The puck found Montreal captain Marie-Philip Poulin alone in front of New York goaltender Corinne Schroeder, which is always a dangerous place for her to be.
Poulin buried the puck. That seemed to open the floodgates. She added two more goals in Wednesday’s game, and is now in a three-way tie for the league lead in points (four) with Minnesota’s Grace Zumwinkle and Taylor Heise.
“[Poulin] is obviously the heartbeat of our team,” Montreal head coach Kori Cheverie said after Wednesday’s game.
“Everything that we ask the group to do, she does it.
