Phillips records 1st playoff shutout as Charge beat Victoire, taking control of semifinal series

Lisa Wallace · The Canadian Press

· Posted: May 13, 2025 10:15 PM EDT | Last Updated: 12 minutes ago

Mannon McMahon broke a scoreless necktie astatine 8:42 of the 3rd play to assistance the Ottawa Charge to a 1-0 playoff triumph implicit the Montreal Victoire Tuesday night.

McMahon won a conflict on the boards to escaped the puck and skated to the beforehand of the nett wherever she enactment location a Gabbie Hughes rebound to springiness the Charge the triumph and 2-1 pb successful the best-of-five Professional Women's Hockey League semifinal series.

Rookie Gwyneth Philips picked up her archetypal playoff vocation shutout stopping 26 shots.

Ottawa tin punch its summons to the PWHL title last with a triumph Friday nighttime connected location ice.

WATCH | Phillips blanks Victoire, Ottawa wrong a crippled of PWHL final:

Both goaltenders picked up wherever they near disconnected pursuing Sunday's quadruple overtime game.

A infinitesimal aft McMahon scored for the Charge, an unfastened crystal deed by Laura Stacey connected Ottawa's Ashton Bell was initially ruled a large but pursuing reappraisal was reduced to a insignificant for amerciable assemblage checking. Hughes took a roughing punishment coming to her teammate's defence negating the imaginable powerfulness play.

Ottawa skipper Brianne Jenner had a large accidental successful the 2nd play but was stopped, portion Jennifer Gardiner challenged Philips from successful adjacent but was besides stopped.

The physicality betwixt the 2 teams continued to escalate arsenic the crippled progressed with some teams battling for the important archetypal goal.

Ottawa had its 2nd powerfulness play accidental aft Kati Tabin cross-checked Tereza Vanisova from down precocious successful the 2nd but the Charge failed to make a changeable connected goal.

Montreal's Ann-Renee Desbiens, who stopped 24 shots, was the quality shaper for the Victoire successful the opening period. Ottawa came retired firing and had 5 shots connected extremity but were incapable to get thing past Desbiens.

Montreal generated a mates chances aft immoderate sloppy play by the Charge but failed to bushed Philips. The Charge had a precocious powerfulness play but were incapable to capitalize with the crippled remaining scoreless aft the first.