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Shiann Darkangelo returned to Massachusetts – about 40 minutes from Salem and the notorious witch trials of 1692 – to hang-out her outdated crew Wednesday night time.

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The Ottawa Cost centre scored a hat-trick in a 4-0 victory over the Boston Fleet on the Tsongas Middle in Lowell that clinched a postseason berth for the Toronto Sceptres and scrunched the PWHL standings under them.

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With the regulation time win, Ottawa moved again into the fourth and ultimate playoff spot, one level forward of the Minnesota Fleet and one level again of the Fleet.

Whereas the league-leading Montreal Victoire and Sceptres have sewn up reservations for the post-season match, the Fleet, Cost and Frost will battle for ultimate two spots – with the New York Siren nonetheless having a pulse six factors again – when groups return from the 24-day break for the ladies’s world championship to play the ultimate three video games of the season.

On Wednesday, Cost rookie Gwyneth Philips turned in an excellent 17-save efficiency for her second shutout of the season and her second victory over the Fleet in 4 days.

Darkangelo, who was acquired by the Cost from Boston eventually season’s commerce deadline for Lexie Adzija and the rights to Caitrin Lonergan, transformed a pleasant setup by Anna Meixner to open the scoring on the facility play simply 45 seconds into the primary interval.

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The 31-year-old native of Brighton, Mich., made it 2-0 with a heavy wrister after taking a drop cross from Ronja Savolainen at 7:42 of the second interval and, after Jincy Roese gave Ottawa a three-goal cushion with a seeing-eye level shot by means of a display screen slightly below eight minutes later, Darkangelo accomplished her ‘trick with a giant slap shot from the slot at 6:29 of the third.

The Cost had 24 photographs on purpose, together with 16 on Staff USA beginning goalie Aerin Frankel, who was changed by Emma Soderberg to start out the third.

That ultimate interval featured some huge hits and chippy play, and noticed Cost defender Zoe Boyd take a five-minute main and sport misconduct for a success to the top.

Ottawa’s ultimate three video games after the greater than three-week hiatus will probably be at residence to Montreal and Minnesota after which the regular-season finale in Toronto.

Boston has residence video games in opposition to Toronto and Minnesota sandwiched round a go to to Montreal, whereas the Frost, earlier than visits to Ottawa and Boston, will play host to New York.

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