Toronto won three of their four regular-season matchups against Minnesota, including a 4-1 win May 1.
Before the league played its first game on Jan. 1, I had Toronto as my preseason pick to be not just the best team in the league, but its first champion. They struggled out the gate, and many including myself wondered if the team could score enough goals, or if goaltender Kristen Campbell would be good enough to lead this team to glory.
But losing five straight to close out the season, including a May 1 4-1 drubbing to the very Toronto team they’ll face Wednesday night, indicates they’re not in a good spot going into the playoffs. Grace Zumwinkle has had a fantastic rookie season and captain Kendall Coyne-Schofield was just outside the top-10 in points, but it’s going to take outrageously good goaltending and some offensive sparks for this team to get to the Walter Cup Final.After Minnesota won their first contest 3-1 on Jan.
If Toronto really wants to run away with this, then getting depth scoring from the likes of Hannah Miller, Brittany Howard, Rebecca Leslie and team captain Blayre Turnbull will go a long way in ending this series early, as well as giving this team the confidence to know that on any given night, anyone can get on the scoresheet.
Up front, Turnbull will have the same responsibilities against the likes of Zumwinkle and Coyne-Schofield. The Toronto captain is one of the best two-way players in the world, and in an environment like playoff hockey where goals are so valuable, stopping the other team from scoring them can be just as valuable as scoring them yourself.
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