LOWELL — The excellent news for the Boston Fleet is that three video games stay within the common season slate to clinch a Skilled Ladies’s Hockey League playoff berth.
The unhealthy information is that 24 days lie between Wednesday’s 4-0 loss to the Ottawa Cost and its subsequent contest because of the looming league-wide break for the 2025 IIHF Ladies’s World Championship in Czechia from April 9-20. The Fleet return to motion on April 26 for a matchup with the Toronto Sceptres in Lowell making an attempt to snap a three-game slide.
Till then, Boston will sit on Wednesday’s hiccup on the Tsongas Heart.
Shiann Darkangelo netted a hat trick for Ottawa behind a 17-save shutout from Gwyneth Philips handy the Fleet its first blanking of the season in entrance of three,807 followers.
“We have to be better,” stated Fleet head coach Courtney Kessel. “Took our foot off the pedal here.”
Boston (8-6-4-9) stays in third place and stays in place for a postseason look with 40 factors, trailing Toronto (45 factors) and Montreal (48 factors).
“I thought the group stuck together throughout the whole game,” Ottawa head coach Carla MacLeod stated. “There were some variables we tried to amplify in this game that we didn’t see in the previous and certainly we thought executed really well today.”
The Fleet was assessed a penalty solely 31 seconds into the sport and subsequently relinquished a purpose simply 13 seconds into the Ottawa (11-1-4-11) energy play.
Sydney Bard’s interference infraction offered a statistical benefit for the hosts within the ensuing particular groups battle. Ottawa’s league-worst energy play (15.2%) didn’t want a lot time to unravel Boston’s league-leading penalty kill (85.4%) to take a 1-0 lead.
Anna Meixner wheeled the puck across the offensive zone earlier than discovering Darkangelo within the low slot, slipping a shot beneath Aerin Frankel’s pad to gentle the lamp.
Darkangelo, who was traded to Ottawa from Boston final March, loved a memorable efficiency in a well-recognized setting.
“Obviously it’s kind of exciting being traded from here and being able to do that in the same building,” Darkangelo stated.
Boston examined Philips within the body with a handful of high-danger scoring alternatives however skated to the dressing room dealing with a 1-0 gap. The Cost carried its momentum into the center body, doubling its lead at 7:42. Darkangelo’s shot beat Frankel clear, firing a wrist shot in stride from the highest of the proper circle.
Then, the Cost took a 3-0 benefit with 4:31 left within the interval when Jincy Roese fired a shot from the purpose by site visitors so as to add an insurance coverage tally forward of the third interval.
Kessel opted to deploy Emma Söderberg within the Boston purpose within the third to interchange Frankel, who allowed three targets on 16 pictures.
Nevertheless it took solely 5 pictures for Darkangelo to beat Söderberg and full the ultimate leg of her hat trick throughout four-on-four motion with 13:31 left within the third interval on a booming slap shot from the excessive slot.
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