Sceptres Gameday:

Toronto Sceptres @ Montréal Victoire
6:30 PM ET @ Place Bell, Laval
Watch in Canada: TSN, RDS

Watch Outside Canada: PWHL YouTube Channel and thepwhl.com

All eight teams play today, the last day before the Olympic break, and this is the picture heading into today's action:

To say that's not good for Toronto is an understatement, but this is just halfway through the season so there is a lot of room to get some three-point wins in regulation and change that picture dramatically.

But they aren't the only team who can say that. The standings are seriously wide open, with only Boston with so many wins they can comfortably absorb bad games.

I think it's now more clear than ever that while the Sceptres aren't scoring – they do have some bad shooting luck with good players who are getting a lot of shots not getting goals – the real problem here is goals against. This is a goalie-first league still.

The league average Save % (a team stat) is .926. The Sceptres are at .911 not counting ENGs. And that's the main reason they are last.

But that is a team stat, so there is absolutely going to be an element of skater responsibility to their situation.

You can't find a smoking gun in Shots on Goal allowed per game. There just isn't enough to go on in only 15 games, an interesting coaching dilemma in the PWHL to be sure. But the Sceptres are not giving up too much, that's actually Ottawa, and even they aren't beyond what a goalie can account for if they're better than average.

So that's the picture. Whatever the mix is between how the team plays and how well the goalies do, the Sceptres can't just continue on and hope their shooting luck changes and it all become sunny and happy. Getting more goals ain't gonna hurt though.