The New York Sirens couldn’t crack the scoreboard in their regular-season finale Saturday afternoon, falling 4-0 to the Boston Fleet at Tsongas Center.
Aerin Frankel set a new PWHL record with her eighth shutout of the season, and Boston scored four times in the third period to seal its 16th regulation win.
New York held a 24-8 edge in shots through the first 40 minutes, but failed to get anything past Frankel, who made 30 saves in 60:00. Boston tilted the ice in the third, outshooting the Sirens 16-6.
“I think the game today was a really good indication of our season,” Sirens coach Greg Fargo acknowledged postgame. “We’re playing well, we have the other team on the ropes, and couldn’t find a way to get that first one, or a second one. So you let a team hang around that that’s as good as Boston, and they’re going to make you pay.”
The Sirens finished the season in seventh place with 36 points (9-3-3-15); their 15 regulation losses ranked second-most in the League, behind only the Seattle Torrent (16). The Fleet improved to 62 points (16-5-5-4), tying the Montreal Victoire for first place, though Montreal earned the No. 1 seed via the tiebreaker.
Without any playoff or draft implications on the line Saturday, Sirens coach Greg Fargo turned to rookie goalie Callie Shanahan for her third start this season, and New York kept things in check early. Boston managed just one shot in the first period, completely neutralized by an aggressive Sirens forecheck.
But the Fleet broke through in the third, putting three past Shanahan to snap the scoreless tie. Former Sirens forward Jessie Eldridge deflected a long shot from captain Megan Keller just 2:53 into the frame to give Boston a 1-0 lead. Ella Huber extended the lead to 2-0 at 7:28, collecting the puck in the slot and quickly whipping it past Shanahan on the glove side. With the Fleet on a power play, rookie defender Haley Winn picked the corner on a long shot from the point, blasting in a one-time feed from Keller at 13:43 to make it 3-0.
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Fargo pulled Shanahan to create a 6-on-4 advantage after a boarding penalty on Fleet defender Noemi Neubauerová at 14:29 of the third, but Jill Saulnier won a puck battle in Boston’s zone and scored the empty-netter at 14:56.
Keller, Eldridge, and Liz Shepers each notched two points apiece; Keller led all PWHL defenders in 2025-26 with 22 points (seven goals, 15 assists).
“I thought we did a nice job at both ends of the rink getting first touches on pucks in the first 40 minutes of the game, and that led to a lot of offensive zone time. We had some chances offensively, and really limited their time and the quality of their looks,” Fargo noted. “I gotta give Boston credit, they certainly rolled up their sleeves a little bit in the third period and came at us. And credit to them for doing that, and the way they finished off the game.”
The Fleet won their 11th consecutive game against the Sirens, the longest winning streak in PWHL history between two teams. New York’s last win against Boston came on March 25, 2024, during the League’s inaugural season.
Despite strong shot totals, New York’s offense slowed to a crawl at the close of the 2025-26 season.
The Sirens averaged 1.6 goals in their final nine games after losing star rookie Kristyna Kaltounkova to a season-ending lower-body injury, scoring one goal or less in six of those contests. Saturday marked New York’s fifth shutout loss of the season after being blanked just once in 30 games last season.
Saturday followed a familiar script. The Sirens dictated play over the first 40 minutes, but had nothing to show for it. The power play floundered again, coming up empty on four opportunities.
New York’s offense leaned heavily on star forward Sarah Fillier and rookie center Casey O’Brien in the final month. Both delivered, but the Sirens’ thin attack proved difficult to sustain, especially against a run of red-hot goaltenders in Raygan Kirk, Gwyneth Philips, and Frankel.
The Sirens outshot opponents in six of their last nine games, and Fargo often praised the offensive process, but it’s a results-based business at the end of the day — and the results weren’t there when it mattered most.
At training camp in November, the Sirens set their sights on the first postseason berth in franchise history. For a third straight season, that goal eluded them.
“Being outside the playoff stings, for sure. That’s where we want to be. That’s where we set our goals to be at the start of the year,” Fargo stated postgame. “But at the same time, you’ve got to appreciate the growth of this group.”
New York was, by far, the youngest team in the PWHL this season. When the Sirens acquired Minnesota Frost forward Denisa Křížová in a late-March trade, the 31-year-old immediately became the team’s oldest player — and its only one over 30.