LAVAL, Quebec — Shiann Darkangelo broke a third-period tie, Gwyneth Philips made 31 saves and the Ottawa Cost beat the Montreal Victoire 3-2 on Thursday night time in Sport 1 of the PWHL semifinal sequence.
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Darkangelo took a cross from Emily Clark, and beat goalie Ann-Renee Desbiens with a wrist shot from the correct aspect at 9:17.
“Clarky made a great pass out to me and kind of made my job easy to get the puck on net — and in back the net,” Darkangelo mentioned. “Just try to hit the net there, and good things happen.”
Cost captain Brianne Jenner had a power-play aim and Ashton Bell additionally scored.
Sport 2 of the best-of-five sequence is Sunday in Laval.
Common-season champion Montreal elected to face third-place Ottawa as an alternative of fourth-place Minnesota.
“We don’t need external motivation,” Ottawa coach Carla MacLeod mentioned. “We’ve come into this playoffs confident in what allowed us to get to this point. It’s not about who we’re playing or where we’re playing. It’s that we are playing, and we’re playing Ottawa Charge hockey right now.”
Maureen Murphy and Marie-Philip Poulin had power-play objectives for Montreal. Desbiens stopped 24 photographs.
“It’s tough. Hockey is tough,” Montreal ahead Laura Stacey mentioned. “I had to take a deep breath before coming in here, because it hurts. Losing hurts, especially in the playoffs when you want it that bad.”
Jenner opened the scoring on an influence play at 4:54 of the primary interval, and Murphy tied it on an influence play with 7:47 left within the interval.
Bell put Ottawa again on prime at 5:07 of the second, and Poulin tied it on an influence play at 7:12 of the interval.
“We have a lot of respect for them and a lot of respect for the way that they play,” Jenner mentioned. “But at the same time, we’re confident. When we bring a solid 60 minutes, we have a great chance of beating any club.”
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