Vanišová scores twice late as Charge stun Fleet to keep playoff hopes alive

The Associated Press

· Posted: Mar 29, 2025 5:55 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

Tereza Vanišová scored a brace of goals successful a 32-second span with conscionable 3 1/2 minutes near and the Ottawa Charge stunned the Boston Fleet 2-1 connected Saturday successful St. Louis.

The triumph moves the Charge (10-11-1-4) into the 4th and last presumption for a playoff berth with 4 games near successful the regular season.

Vanišová provided the go-ahead people with three minutes near poking successful a escaped puck astatine the nett past Fleet (8-8-6-4) goalie Aerin Frankel who denied Ottawa for 56 minutes.

Vanišová knotted it astatine 1-1 disconnected a Boston turnover successful the Fleet extremity rifling a changeable past Frankel with 3:32 left.

Vanišová leads Ottawa with 14 goals and has scored six successful the past 4 games.

With a small much than 4 minutes near to play, Frankel turned distant Gabbie Hughes with a sprawling footwear save. Then, little than 15 seconds later, Frankel thwarted Danielle Serdachny with a mitt prevention disconnected a hard wrist shot.

Boston's Susanna Tapani intercepted a walk successful Ottawa's extremity and scored unassisted connected a wrister for the archetypal extremity of the crippled astatine the 8:25 people of the archetypal period. It was Tapani's 11th extremity of the season.

A scoreless 2nd play proved to beryllium a relation of outstanding goaltending turned successful by Frankel and Ottawa's Gwenyth Philips who were antecedently teammates astatine Northeastern University.

Boston mislaid for conscionable 2nd clip this play (7-2) aft establishing a first-period lead.

It was Ottawa's archetypal triumph of the play against Boston successful 5 attempts. Four of the 5 games person been decided by a azygous goal.