LOWELL — If first-year bench boss Kris Sparre and the Boston Fleet are looking for a winning blueprint, Sunday’s Professional Women’s Hockey League season opener serves as a promising paradigm.

Boston scored first, received strong goaltending and played a structured and simple game to skate to a 2-0 victory over the Montreal Victoire in front of an excited crowd of 5,166 at the Tsongas Center to open a season clouded with uncertainty in the win column.

“I thought we started really, really well,” Sparre said. “We had good energy in the first period, I thought they pushed back in the second and I liked how we responded in the third. It was a gutsy team effort.”

The impressive victory came against a star-driven Montreal lineup that boasts reigning league MVP Marie-Philip Poulin and Goalten

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