After finishing in first place, the team earned a rare opportunity in pro sports: the right to choose between the third- and fourth-place finishers, Boston and Minnesota
Toronto’s Natalie Spooner holds her son, Rory, who appeared in an Instagram video that showed Toronto chose Minnesota as its opponent for the first round of the PWHL playoffs.In the latest unique twist in the inaugural Professional Women’s Hockey League season, top-seeded Toronto announced in a lighthearted social-media post that the team has chosen Minnesota as its first-round playoff opponent.– the right to choose between the third- and fourth-place finishers, Boston and Minnesota.
The top four teams in this new six-team league have made the playoffs – the latest watershed moment for the breakout league that has boasted several sellouts and bought-up merchandise since its Jan. 1 launch. The playoffs will feature just two rounds, both best-of-five series. The winning team will hoist the Walter Cup, a brand new 35-pound silver trophy that has on its base an image of a puck shattering a glass ceiling.
Toronto was the top-scoring team in the PWHL’s first season, with 69 goals. Spooner topped the PWHL leaderboard in points and goals . She finished the regular season on a torrid pace – four goals over the last two games. Sarah Nurse said Toronto wanted to “send a message to the league that we’re not taking our foot off the gas.”
This series will feature a rematch between goalies from the gold-medal final at the recent IIHF Women’s World Championship in Utica, N.Y., where Boston’s Aerin Frankel suited up for the U.S., and settled for silver across from Canada’s netminder Ann-Renée Desbiens.
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