Lina Ljungblom notched her first two factors of the season and Ann-Renée Desbiens saved 34 pictures to steer the Montréal Victoire over the New York Sirens 4-1 on Thursday night time within the first PWHL recreation because the Olympic break.
Dara Greig opened the scoring 5 minutes into the sport for the Victoire (8-3-0-5), with Ljungblom and Natálie Mlýnková helping. J ade Downie-Landry doubled the Victoire’s tally simply 47 seconds later.
Skylar Irving made it a 3-0 lead on an unassisted aim with 9:53 left within the first interval, making it three targets on 4 pictures for the Victoire (8-3-0-5), which moved right into a 30-point tie for first place with the Boston Fleet.
The Victoire had one other aim taken off the board resulting from goaltender interference. The fourth-place Sirens (7-0-3-7) rapidly made a goalie change, switching out Kayle Osborne for Callie Shanahan early within the second interval.
The lone Sirens aim got here on an influence play a couple of minutes in a while a shot by Casey O’Brien assisted by Maja Nylen Persson and Sarah Fillier, who picked up her tenth help of the 12 months (second within the PWHL).
The Victoire prolonged their result in 4-1 with a power-play aim early within the third on a puck that deflected awkwardly off the stick of Ljungblom — her first aim of the season — over the top of Shanahan.
Desbiens, who entered with the second-lowest goals-against common (1.16 per recreation) completed with a .971 save proportion, saving all however one of many 35 pictures she confronted. Erin Ambrose and Marie-Philip Poulin have been out resulting from accidents.