Hilary Knight scores 1st career hat trick as Fleet defeat Sirens

The Associated Press

· Posted: Mar 05, 2025 4:32 PM EST | Last Updated: March 6

Hilary Knight scored her archetypal vocation chapeau trick, Aerin Frankel made 38 saves and the Boston Fleet completed a play expanse of the New York Sirens with a 5-2 triumph connected Wednesday night.

Knight, who scored her 3rd extremity into an bare nett with little than 10 seconds to play, besides had an assistance for Boston (7-5-3-6, 34 points), which moved into 2nd spot up of Toronto.

Six of the Fleet wins person travel against New York, including 2 successful shootouts with Knight scoring 5 goals and adding 7 assists. Alina Muller had a extremity and 2 assists, Susanna Tapani had an assistance positive her ninth extremity successful the 3rd play and Shay Maloney had 2 assists.

Frankel, who matched her play precocious for saves, has been successful nett for each six wins implicit New York, which outshot the Fleet 32-11 done 2 periods earlier being outshot 9-8 successful the third.

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The last-place Sirens (4-3-4-10, 22 points) are winless successful 9 games and Elizabeth Giguere's game-opening extremity was conscionable the 2nd clip they scored archetypal successful the skid.

Muller tied the crippled with her sixth extremity successful the archetypal period.

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Knight scored connected a powerfulness play and a breakaway for a 3-1 Boston lead. New York rookie Sarah Fillier got her eighth extremity connected a powerfulness play and moved into a necktie for the league pb with 22 points to chopped the shortage to 3-2 entering the 3rd period. Knight has 21 points, including 11 goals.