The Boston Fleet completed their first regular season sweep, against the New York Sirens. The game featured a hat trick from Boston’s captain Hilary Knight and a 3-point night for Boston’s rookie Shay Maloney.
First Period
Elizabeth Giguère gave New York the early lead in the first period, this goal ended a 15-game goal drought for Giguère.
Alina Muller stayed hot and got her sixth goal of the season to tie the game up with a shot off a feed from Hilary Knight.
Second Period
Hilary Knight had herself a period with two goals to put Boston up 3-1 and putting herself just one goal away from her first ever PWHL Hat trick.
Sarah Fillier kept New York in this game for some time and scored her eighth goal of the season to cut Boston’s lead to one.
Third Period
Susanna Tapani gave Boston a comfortable 2-goal lead in the third period, this was her ninth goal of the season.
Boston’s captain Hilary Knight, recorded her first ever PWHL hat trick with an empty net goal in the final minute of play to complete the regular season sweep against New York with a final score of 5-2.
Final Notes
Hilary Knight and Shay Maloney lifted Boston to a win, with the victory, the Fleet sweep the six-game regular-season series over the Sirens, extend their point streak to six games, and overtake Toronto for second place in the PWHL standings with 34 points.
Boston Fleet Head Coach Courtney Kessel: “I knew this was going to be a hard game, harder than most. We’ve played New York five times in the last month. We’ve been on the better side of those five games and it’s a team that’s desperate, fighting for any point at the bottom. We’ve been there and we know what that feels like… We knew this was going to be a battle. Not the forty we wanted to start with, but the 20 we wanted to end with. At the end of the day, we have Aerin Frankel standing on her head and our leadership group really put the puck in the back of the net.”
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