What a game it was. A game-tying goal called back. Impressive offensive showings on both sides. The league’s best player unable to take the ice. And an exclamation mark on a near-perfect season for Calgary. KrRutherford on a wild ClarksonCup:
TORONTO — Long after she’d scored the game-winner, Zoe Hickel still had most of her gear on — including her skates, which were covered by a set of pink guards. Her helmet and gloves and stick were long gone, though, fired in the air in celebration while she was on the ice.
When the buzzer went, the Inferno players spilled off the bench and piled atop goalie Alex Rigsby, who faced 25 shots in the final. Jenner used her jersey to wipe away tears, and her eyes watered again as she hoisted the Clarkson Cup over her head, with most of the 4,696 fans still in the stands to take in the celebration.
The captain was the last Montreal player off the bench when it was all over, slowly skating to join her teammates in the crease with goalie Emerance Maschmeyer while DJ Khaled’sWe Are The ChampionsPoulin went around to each of her teammates and gave them a low fist-bump. The 27-year-old, who’s probably the best player in the world, didn’t play in Montreal’s semi-final series, either — “day-to-day,” according to her team.
Decker extended Calgary’s lead back to two on the power play, with an absolute rocket from the right faceoff dot. As she put it: “I had a great screen in front and just had to feather it through and make sure I put everything into it.” That she did. Instead, Calgary extended its lead soon after, when Hickel scored her second on a feed from Rebecca Johnston, in close. Johnston added the empty-netter with 22 seconds to go, and that was all she wrote.
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