Emily Clark scores OT winner as Charge edge Frost in Game 1 of PWHL Finals

Lisa Wallace · The Canadian Press

· Posted: May 20, 2025 10:38 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours ago

Emily Clark scored astatine 2:47 of overtime connected Tuesday nighttime to pb the Ottawa Charge to a 2-1 triumph implicit the Minnesota Frost.

With the triumph the Charge instrumentality a 1-0 pb successful the Professional Women's Hockey League best-of-five title bid for the Walter Cup.

Ottawa is simply a cleanable 3-0 connected location crystal done the playoffs. The Frost person ne'er won Game 1 of a playoff bid successful 4 attempts.

Clark came down the helping and wired a changeable past Nicole Hensley, who finished the crippled with 17 saves.

WATCH | Clark's OT victor helps Charge triumph Game 1 of PWHL Finals vs. Frost:

The crippled required other clip aft Gwyneth Philips had a uncommon miscue aboriginal successful the 3rd period, starring to the Frost's tying goal.

Philips, who stopped 25 shots, mishandled the puck portion attempting to play it, turning it implicit to Katy Knoll. Knoll rapidly fed a walk to Klara Hymlarova, who buried the wide-open accidental to necktie the crippled 1-1.

With 6:08 remaining successful regularisation the Charge were acceptable to spell connected the powerfulness play but officials past reviewed an incidental that saw Rebecca Leslie transverse cheque Mellissa Channell-Watkins. It was initially assessed arsenic a large but past downgraded to a insignificant creating offsetting minors.

Moments earlier the Frost had been generating a fig of chances connected the powerfulness play, but Philips was solid. As the punishment was expiring the Charge were capable to wide the puck with Jocelyne Larocque making a cross-ice walk to Tereza Vanisova who dropped a walk to Leslie.

Hensley couldn't get a wide presumption of the shot, partially screened by her teammate Lee Stecklein.

Earlier successful the period, some Brooke McQuigge and Denisa Krisova had prime scoring opportunities — 1 denied by Philips, the different sailing conscionable wide.

A scoreless archetypal play saw some teams neglect to capitalize connected power-play chances.

Minnesota had conscionable 1 changeable connected goal, portion Ottawa generated a mates of bully chances but was incapable to bushed Hensley.

Gabbie Hughes had a accidental successful the dying seconds of the play but couldn't get it done traffic.

Game 2 successful the bid is Thursday successful Ottawa.