Overview
- Boston routed Vancouver 5-1 in Edmonton on Tuesday to push its winning streak to five and reinforce its playoff standing.
- Jessie Eldridge scored two goals, including a power-play tally that ended Boston’s drought on the advantage dating to Feb. 28.
- Captain Megan Keller scored shorthanded, and Boston killed all five penalties to back a league-best 88 percent penalty kill.
- Aerin Frankel stopped 28 of 29 shots for her 17th win, tying Montreal’s Renée Desbiens for the league lead, as her shutout streak ended at 235:49 in the third period.
- The neutral-site Takeover Tour game drew an announced 10,794 in Edmonton, a turnout that has prompted talk of the city as a PWHL expansion option.