Fleet top Sirens, 4-1 | Pro Hockey News

NEWARK, NJ – Hilary Knight and Alina Müller mixed for 5 factors to steer the Boston Fleet to a 4-1 win over the New York Sirens in a Presidents’ Day matinee at Prudential Heart. The Fleet earned their second regulation win in six days in opposition to the Sirens and have now gained all 4 video games of the season sequence up to now.

Müller tallied the opening objective midway by way of the primary interval on the facility play, with Knight incomes the first helper. Boston held their 1-0 lead till early within the second interval when the Sirens capitalized on a five-minute energy play. Goaltender Kayle Osborne made a stretch move to Jessie Eldridge who transformed on the breakaway to tie issues up 1-1. Simply over 10 minutes later, it was Knight who scored on a breakaway, arrange by Müller, to launch a sequence of three unanswered targets for the Fleet. I

n the third body, Jamie Lee Rattray tallied an unassisted objective at 7:36, adopted by Knight’s second of the sport at 17:45 to cap her first profession multi-goal and three-point efficiency. Aerin Frankel made 35 saves on 36 pictures in her eighth win of the season. Osborne recorded 19 saves on 22 pictures. The win strikes the Fleet right into a three-way tie for second place within the league with 26 factors alongside Toronto and Minnesota. The sixth-place Sirens prolonged their dropping streak to 5.

QUOTES

Boston Head Coach Courtney Kessel: “Slightly little bit of a gritty win on our facet. We’ve been on the road- trains, planes and buses and so I feel coming in right here, we knew we have been going to must grind it out just a little bit. I feel that’s what our group did, and it reveals the character to each single participant we now have in it.”

Fleet ahead Jamie Lee Rattray on her objective: “I didn’t actually know till I appeared again and the puck was within the web. I used to be simply attempting to forecheck so I may really get a change after which the puck ended up popping proper in entrance of the online. I used to be simply attempting to place it again within the combination and caught a superb bounce. I don’t ask how typically, I suppose.”

New York Head Coach Greg Fargo: “We get our probabilities, and our opponent was nice tonight. I feel we’re squeezing our sticks just a little bit proper now and there are a few these pictures which might be entering into however then we begin to overlook about our probabilities. We’re going to hold doing a whole lot of the identical issues and I do know that it’ll return in our favor.”

Sirens ahead Jessie Eldridge: “I feel it (the gang at in the present day’s Child’s Recreation) gave us a whole lot of vitality, and a whole lot of momentum, I simply want we may’ve gotten extra as a result of I do know that they wished to get loud so much longer there. We might simply love in the event that they saved displaying up for us as a result of that’s the place we get our vitality from.”

NOTABLES

Boston scored 4 targets in consecutive video games of their first-ever back-to-back schedule. The Fleet’s season-high objective complete has come 5 occasions this season together with 3 times in opposition to New York.

The Sirens haven’t scored greater than two targets in opposition to the Fleet of their 4 matchups this season and have been held to 2 or fewer targets in all 5 video games of their present dropping streak.

Hilary Knight scored two targets and recorded three factors, each for the primary time in her PWHL profession. The Fleet captain tallied the game-winning objective in back-to-back video games and her career-high eight targets on the season are tied for second within the PWHL. She has additionally recorded an help in all 4 video games in opposition to the Sirens this season.

Alina Müller has recorded two-straight multi-point video games along with her fourth objective and seventh help of the season. The Boston ahead has tallied a degree in all three video games she has performed in opposition to New York this season, scoring two of her 4 targets in opposition to the Sirens.

Müller’s objective was Boston’s first on the facility play in 9 video games, ending an 0/18 stretch for the reason that group scored twice on the benefit on Jan. 5 in Seattle.

Aerin Frankel has recorded 35 saves in three video games this season which is tied with Ottawa’s Emerance Maschmeyer for many within the PWHL. The Fleet goaltender ranks second within the PWHL in wins (8), goals-against-average (1.90) and save share (.932).

Jessie Eldridge scored for the second straight sport along with her sixth objective of the season. The tally was her third on the facility play which places her in a five-way tie for first within the PWHL.

Kayle Osborne turned the primary goaltender to file an help this season. Her main helper is the first-ever from a New York goaltender and fourth all-time amongst PWHL netminders following Maschmeyer, Nicole Hensley (MIN) and Kristen Campbell (TOR).

Jamie Lee Rattray scored for the second straight sport in opposition to New York and now has three targets in 17 video games to tie her inaugural season complete in 24 video games.

Sophie Shirley collected her fourth help of the season and second in back-to-back video games.

Jessica DiGirolamo recorded her third help in 17 video games this season to tie her complete throughout 24 video games within the inaugural season.

Shay Maloney tallied her second help of the season – 14 video games after her first helper in opposition to New York on Dec. 8, 2024. The Fleet rookie has recorded three of her 5 factors in opposition to the Sirens.

The Fleet have gained six out of the eight video games when scoring first.