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NWHL Three Stars: Decker's historic hat trick, Whale power-play dominance

Jen Neale

 

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No. 1 Star: Brianna Decker, Boston Pride

The Pride continued their offensive dominance with a 5-3 win against the Buffalo Beauts. Decker scored the league's first hat trick. With the three points she picked up tonight, she leads the league with 7 points (in 3 games played).

No. 2 Star: Kelly Babstock, Connecticut Whale

Babstock iced the game against the Buffalo Beauts at 3-1 with an empty net goal in the third period. Her most impressive stat of the night came on face-offs. She won 11 and lost 3 for an 85-percent success rate.

No. 3 Star: Brittany Ott, Boston Pride

The goaltender improved to 2-0-0 on the season in the 25 save performance. She's got a massive amount of offensive weapons in front of her, but occassionally she'll need to make a few incredible saves to keep her team in it, like this one:

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Honorable Mention: On the season thus far, the Connecticut Whale are 4-for-6 on the power play; Alyssa Wohlfeiler and Kaleigh Fracken scored PPGs on Sunday. The Whale's Danielle Ward was 6-and-1 on the dot. Goaltender Nicole Stock gave up 1 goal and made 23 saves in the Whale's win. Riveters forward Brooke Ammerman had a team high 7 shots on goal ... Boston Pride are 10 for 13 on the penalty kill. They put up 48 shots on goal against Buffalo. Kourtney Kunichika picked up a goal and an assist in the loss.

Did You Know? Kelly Steadman went from practice player to the roster of the Beauts to the team's leading scorer. (Via @Hannah_Bevis1)

Dishonorable Mention: Nana Fujimoto had some amazing saves in net but the team in front of her needs to give her the goal support; 17 shots on goal isn't going to cut it. The Riveters dropped to 0-3-0 on the season ... Same can be said for the Buffalo Beauts. They're 0-3-0 and gave up 5 goals to a very strong Boston team.

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Jen Neale is an editor for Puck Daddy on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email her at puckdaddyblog@yahoo.com or follow her on Twitter! Follow @MsJenNeale_PD.

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