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WATER BREAK – Yukon goalie Wynne Anderson-Lindsay takes a much-deserved break during an extremely busy game against P.E.I. Monday at the 2023 Canada Winter Games. Anderson-Lindsay made 66 saves in a 3-1 loss to the Islanders. Photo courtesy of CANADA WINTER GAMES/RUDI TERSTEGE

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AMAZING EMERY – Yukon's Emery Twardochleb on the ice against P.E.I. Monday at the 2023 Canada Winter Games. Twardochleb notched a penalty-shot goal today in a losing effort against Newfoundland and Labrador. Photo courtesy of CANADA WINTER GAMES/MATTHEW MURNAGHAN

2023 CWG: Yukon goalie Anderson-Lindsay stops over 60 shots in loss to P.E.I.

Yukon goalie Wynne Anderson-Lindsay delivered a game for the ages Monday at the 2023 Canada Winter Games.

By Whitehorse Star on February 28, 2023

Yukon goalie Wynne Anderson-Lindsay delivered a game for the ages Monday at the 2023 Canada Winter Games.

Anderson-Lindsay stood on her head, stopping 66 of 69 shots in a 3-1 loss to P.E.I.

Despite constant pressure by the Islanders, the game was knotted at 0-0 after the first period.

P.E.I. broke though for three goals in the second, leaving the score at 3-0 for P.E.I after two periods. The shots were 46-6 for P.E.I. after two.

Cassie Cebuliak scored with 15:40 left in the third period to pull the Yukon into the game. She spun around and fired a puck upstairs on P.E.I. goalie Cyriah Richard.

P.E.I. took a penalty 14 seconds later. Yukon came agonizingly close to pulling within one on the ensuing power play when a Yukon shot from the point almost trickled over the goal line. Another good scoring chance followed on a rebound opportunity.

Goalie Wynne Anderson-Lindsay then made an excellent poke-check on a P.E.I. player as she bore down on the net during a Grade-A short-handed opportunity.

Partway through the third, the shots were 60-12 for the Islanders. But Anderson-Lindsay stood tall for the Yukon.

P.E.I. was given another penalty with 5:51 left in the game, but Yukon couldn't capitalize.

Yukon also failed to score on a 2-on-1 late in the game.

Anderson-Lindsay made a point-blank save on Petra Klimes with about one minute left to keep the score close.

Yukon called a timeout and pulled Lyndsey-Anderson in favour of an extra attacker, but couldn't get on the score sheet a second time. The game ended 3-1 P.E.I.

The female hockey team were the only Yukon athletes in action Monday.

The Yukon girls played Newfoundland and Labrador (N.L.) in Charlottetown this morning. Yukon got off to a much better start, but a power play for N.L. seemed to give them momentum. Alix ("The Wall") Walchuk started in net in place of an obviously exhausted Anderson-Lindsay and was very solid in the first period.

Unfortunately, N.L. broke through with a goal off a rebound with 10:16 left in the first. Walchuck had no chance on the goal.

Yukon was given a power play with 8:28 left, but couldn't capitalize.

Walchuk made two big stops with about 4:38 left in the period to keep the game close.

N.L. took another penalty with 2:13 left in the first, but had the better scoring chances. Walchuk stopped Haley Ryan, a fast and skilled player, on a breakaway, and then followed that up with a save on Cassie Drover on another breakaway.

Yukon took another penalty with 31 seconds left in the period, and Walchuk was forced to make another big save on Ryan in the dying seconds of the period, which ended 1-0 N.L.

The second period saw N.L. go up 2-0 just 48 seconds in, Ryan getting the goal.

Leah Wicks added a third goal for N.L. with 15:21 to play in the period.

Yukon's Emery Twardochleb drew a hooking penalty on a breakaway with 9:03 left. That meant one thing – a penalty shot. Twardochleb didn't disappoint, deking to the right and then burying the puck in the left side of the net to get Yukon on the board.

Yukon got fingered for another infraction with 4:54 left in the second, and Jessica Mercer capitalized with 4:35 left to restore N.L.'s three-goal lead.

Walchuk made a point-blank save on Ryan with 2:27 left to give Yukon hope. She followed that up with another point-blank save with 1:34 left.

The second period ended 4-1 N.L.

N.L. added to their lead with 13:56 left in the third period, Molly Gill scoring to make it 5-1 N.L.

With 9:05 left, N.L. took a penalty for too many girls on the ice.

Unfortunately for Yukon, N.L's Mercer scored her second goal of the game on a short-handed one-timer goal to ice the game for N.L., 6-1.

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