Today the Professional Women’s Hockey League announced their Player of the Week for the week of February 26th through March 1st.
Ann-Renée Desbiens (G – MON)
- Montréal’s Ann-Renée Desbiens returned from Milan with an Olympic silver medal for Canada and jumped right back into the action with two wins, including one shutout, and has been named PWHL Player of the Week presented by SharkNinja. The 31-year-old from Clermont, QC, made 34 saves in the Victoire’s 4-1 win against New York on Thursday, then turned aside all 17 shots faced against Minnesota in a 4-0 shutout on Sunday for a combined 0.50 goals-against-average and .986 save percentage. The shutout was her fourth of the campaign, tying the PWHL single-season record set by Corinne Schroeder last season with the Sirens. Desbiens, Schroeder and Boston’s Aerin Frankel are all tied for the all-time lead with five career shutouts. Desbiens leads all PWHL goaltenders this season with 11 wins, a 1.06 GAA and .958 SV%, and has not surrendered more than two goals against in 15 starts, including 10 games with one or fewer goals against. Click here to see this season’s goaltending leaders.
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*Player Profiles written by PWHL Staff.
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