The Boston Fleet will have to wait to clinch a playoff spot.
The team had a chance to clinch a spot in the PWHL playoffs with a win on Monday against the Montréal Victoire, but fell in overtime on the road, 3-2. The Victoire scored two of their three goals on the power play.
Klára Peslarová made 33 saves on 36 shots faced for Boston, while Ann-Renée Desbiens made 27 stops on 29 shots faced for Montréal.
Laura Stacey scored the winning goal in the first overtime period for Montréal on even strength.
Neither team scored in the first period. Jennifer Gardiner scored the first goal of the game, assisted by Abby Boreen and Catherine Dubois in the second period to put Montréal ahead.
The Victoire got on the board again early in the second period when Catherine Dubois scored her fifth goal of the season, assisted by Maureen Murphy and Anna Wilgren to make it 2-0.
Hannah Brandt and Hannah Bilka came through for Boston later in the period, each scoring a goal within a minute of each other to tie the game at 2-2 and force an overtime period, but Stacey’s goal made the difference in the extra period.
Boston will go again on Saturday, May 3 against the Minnesota Frost at home at 1 p.m.
