The Boston Fleet earned a shootout victory in Seattle over the Torrent in front of 12,774 fans.
The Boston Fleet held off the Seattle Torrent with Aerin Frankel again playing a starring role for her team in a 2-1 shootout win.
Frankel stopped a season-high 35 shots and all five shootout attempts for the win to silence the 12,774 in attendance at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle.
After Boston failed to record a shot for the first ten minutes of the game, Megan Keller opened the scoring for the Fleet on the power play. It was Keller's league-leading fourth power play goal of the season.
In the second period, Julia Gosling tied the game for Seattle.
The game went to overtime, and then a shootout where the goaltending duel between Frankel and Seattle's Corinne Schroeder continued until the fifth round of the shootout when Boston's Hannah Brandt scored the only goal of the shootout.
“I kind of read as I was going out," said Brandt of her shootout winner. "Coach [Sparre] said, ‘go win it for us.’ We needed the shootout. Aerin was standing on her head all game, in the shootout, and she deserved that. I had to do this for Aerin and the rest of our team.”
Seattle also picked up a much needed point in the standings keeping them out of the PWHL's basement. As coach Steven O'Rourke said, his team showed a consistent effot against the first place Fleet.
“There were a lot of players that were really good tonight from top to bottom," said O'Rourke. "We look at the collection of the two games, five-on-five, 60 minutes; we gave them 23 shots in Boston and 21 tonight. That’s a recipe for success and again, they’ve scored two power play goals against us, one five-on-five, in two games. So, we’re pretty evenly matched. I believe the league is pretty evenly matched, but I think we’re right there with the best of them.”