Boston rides Healey goal to 4-3 win in first game of PWHL championship series

LOWELL, Mass.

— Jess Healey scored from the point late in the second period to lift Boston to a 4-3 win over Minnesota on Sunday night in the first game of the inaugural Walter Cup Final, the championship series of the Professional Women’s Hockey League post-season.Healey, a defenceman who had one goal during the regular season, got her first playoff goal just 15 seconds after Minnesota's Taylor Heise scored her second goal, tying it 3-3 with 2:50 left in the second period.

Healy got the puck at the left point and she sent a high wrist shot through traffic over Rooney's glove into the far, top corner. It was the fourth straight playoff win by one goal for third-seeded Boston, which swept second-seeded Montreal 3-0 with all three games decided in overtime.

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