OTTAWA \u2014 Hannah Brandt scored the shootout winner, and the Boston Fleet moved into sole possession of first place in the Professional Women’s Hockey League with a 3-2 win over the Ottawa Charge Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Abby Newhook and Alina Muller scored in regulation for the Fleet (8-3-2-2), and Aerin Frankel stopped 23 shots.<\/p>\n
Rebecca Leslie scored a pair for the Charge (4-5-1-7) and Gwyneth Phillips made 21 saves.<\/p>\n
Ottawa led 2-1 midway through the third period, but the Fleet tied it on the power play at 13:26 when Muller\u2019s shot deflected off the skate of Ottawa\u2019s Kathryn Reilly.<\/p>\n
The Charge started the third period on the power play and Leslie took a pass from Emily Clark in front and scored her ninth to tie things 1-1.<\/p>\n
Less than two minutes later Leslie took control again, cutting across in front and firing a wrist shot a shot past Frankel to give the Charge a 2-1 lead.<\/p>\n
With her 10th of the season Leslie moved into a five-way tie for the scoring lead with 16 points (10 goals, six assists). Ottawa’s Brianne Jenner also reached 16 points with an assist on Leslie’s first goal.<\/p>\n
Leslie nearly had her third midway through the period, but the puck rolled off her stick as she tried to beat Frankel shortside.<\/p>\n
Both teams were flat in the second period. Ottawa didn\u2019t register its first shot until the midway mark and only got one more.<\/p>\n
The Charge came out with a solid first period, but it was the Fleet who capitalized.<\/p>\n
With 5:08 remaining Muller found Newhook just inside the blue line. Newhook was able to get a shot through traffic to beat Phillips.<\/p>\n
Takeaways <\/p>\n
Charge: Ottawa\u2019s power play capitalized on its first opportunity, scoring eight seconds into the third period. <\/p>\n
Fleet: Frankel was the difference in the first and third as Ottawa pressed.<\/p>\n
Key stat\u2028The game featured 15 Olympians from the Milan Cortina Games.<\/p>\n
Key moment\u2028The Fleet caught a break on the power play when Muller\u2019s shot deflected off Reilly\u2019s skate in front.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Charge: Ottawa hosts the Seattle Torrent, Wednesday, March 4.<\/p>\n
Fleet: Boston will visit the New York Sirens Thursday, March 5.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 28, 2026.<\/p>\n
Lisa Wallace, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 Hannah Brandt scored the shootout winner, and the Boston Fleet moved into sole possession of first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739,82],"class_list":["post-506187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}