Montreal Victoire clinch playoff spot with win over Minnesota Frost

The Associated Press

· Posted: Mar 27, 2025 7:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago

Marie-Philip Poulin and Laura Stacey each scored 2 goals to assistance the Montreal Victoire unafraid the archetypal PWHL playoff spot this play aft a 4-1 triumph implicit the Minnesota Frost connected Wednesday nighttime successful St. Paul, Minn.

Montreal (11-6-3-6) moved into sole possession of archetypal spot successful the standings aft its archetypal regularisation triumph successful its past six roadworthy games (1-1-2-2). Toronto had pulled into a first-place necktie earlier successful the evening with a triumph against Boston to scope 45 points.

Minnesota (7-5-4-10) was backmost astatine location for the archetypal clip successful 36 days. The Frost person scored conscionable 13 goals implicit the past 7 games, with 5 of those coming successful a triumph implicit Ottawa connected March 7.

Poulin accrued her league-leading full to 17 goals. It was her 11th crippled this play with astatine slightest 1 extremity and 3 shots connected goal, astir successful the league.

WATCH | Stacey leads Victoire to triumph implicit Frost:

Stacey besides had 2 assists for her archetypal four-point crippled of her career.

Victoire goalie Elaine Chuli stopped 19 of 20 shots for the win.

The teams alternated wins and losses successful their erstwhile 5 meetings this season, with the Victoire earning a 2-1 shootout triumph successful the past contention March 4.

Sceptres 4, Fleet 2

Daryl Watts scored 2 of Toronto's 4 goals successful the 3rd play to summation her full to 10 connected the season, and the Sceptres bushed the Boston Fleet 4-2.

Toronto (12-2-5-7) has won 5 of its past six roadworthy games (4-1-0-1).

Boston (8-6-4-7) had its nine-game points streak travel to an extremity successful its instrumentality to Agganis Arena aft debuting astatine the Boston University venue March 8 successful beforehand of a sold-out assemblage of 5,968.

Toronto scored 2 goals successful a span of 1 minute, 34 seconds successful the 3rd to instrumentality a 2-1 lead. Watts tied it astatine 1-all erstwhile she controlled the puck down the nett and sent it disconnected goaltender Aerin Frankel's skates. Hayley Scamurra added her archetypal extremity of the play connected a deflection.

WATCH | Sceptres' Watts scores doubly in win implicit Fleet:

Renata Fast gave Toronto its 3rd consecutive extremity connected a changeable betwixt the pads of Frankel to summation her league-lead to six goals by a defender.

After Hilary Knight scored her 2nd extremity of the crippled — and 15th of the play — for Boston, Watts added her 2nd connected a 5-on-3 powerfulness play with 3:34 near to seal it.

Each of the 5 games this play betwixt the teams has been decided by aggregate goals, with the victor scoring astatine slightest 3 goals successful each. Toronto leads the league with 9 multi-goal wins, followed by Boston with seven.