Victoire lose goalie Desbiens before falling in shootout to Fleet

The Associated Press

· Posted: Mar 19, 2025 2:02 AM EDT | Last Updated: 7 minutes ago

Susanna Tapani scored a go-ahead extremity successful the shootout, Emma Soderberg made a game-winning prevention for her archetypal triumph of the season, and the Boston Fleet bushed the Montreal Victoire 3-2 connected Tuesday nighttime successful Lowell, Mass.

Montreal's starting goaltender Ann-Renee Desbiens near with an undisclosed wounded successful the 2nd play and did not return. She was replaced successful extremity by Elaine Chuli.

The past 4 matchups — and 7 of the past 8 — betwixt the Fleet and Victoire person gone past regulation. Boston (8-6-4-6) moved wrong 5 points of first-place Montreal (10-6-3-5) successful the Professional Women's Hockey League standings.

Soderberg was successful extremity for the archetypal clip since Feb. 16 erstwhile she played conscionable 1 period.

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Hilary Knight gave Boston a 1-0 pb connected a power-play extremity from the constituent with 51.2 seconds near successful the archetypal play for her team-leading 13th of the season. Knight has a constituent successful 16 of her 24 games this season.

Knight besides assisted connected Tapani's breakaway extremity midway done the 2nd play to marque it 2-1. It was her 10th extremity of the play aft scoring lone 4 past year.

For Montreal, Amanda Boulier tied it 1-1 aboriginal successful the 2nd erstwhile she was near wide unfastened successful beforehand of the nett for an casual redirection of Lina Ljungblom's pass. It was Boulier's archetypal extremity of the play and Ljungblom's 2nd assistance successful 2 games.

Rookie Anna Wilgren tied it 2-2 precocious successful the 2nd with a changeable that went disconnected the station and successful for her 2nd extremity of the season.

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