Blades cut down Furies, advance to Clarkson Cup final

Hilary Knight scored three goals and the Boston Blades downed the Toronto Furies 7-3 Thursday and advanced to the final of the Canadian Women's Hockey League championship.

The Blades swept the best-of-three playoff series with the defending Clarkson Cup champion Furies after posting a 3-0 win in Wednesday's opener.

Janine Weber had two goals for Boston, while Brianna Decker, who had a natural hat trick in Wednesday's win, and Casey Pickett also scored.

Megan Bozek, Tessa Bonhomme and Tanis Lamoureux had Toronto's goals.

Genevieve Lacasse stopped 18 shots for Boston.

Toronto goaltender Christina Kessler took the loss after surrendering six goals on 27 shots. Sami Jo Small came in for the third period and stopped 14 of the 15 shots she faced.

Boston will face the winner of the series between the Montreal Stars and the Calgary Inferno in the Clarkson Cup final. Montreal and Calgary met later Thursday with the Stars up 1-0 in the series.

Knight scored two of her three goals in the first period, but Toronto answered both times and the teams were tied 2-2 after 20 minutes.

Boston busted the game open in the second period with four goals.