The Premier Hockey Federation’s Isobel Cup Final will be a clash between one first-time championship contender, and one former title holder looking to add another.
It took a sensational overtime win in the semifinals for the Toronto Six to eventually punch their ticket to a Final. Toronto’s opponent — the Minnesota Whitecaps — had to top the league’s defending back-to-back champions to make their third Final appearance in four seasons.
Now the plucky upstarts and wily veterans will meet in Sunday’s finale at Mullet Arena in Arizona. When they do, it’ll mark the first Isobel Cup Final to feature two teams led by female coaches, in Toronto’s Geraldine Heaney and Minnesota’s Ronda Engelhardt.
Puck drop is 6 p.m. MDT/9 p.m. EST with coverage airing on ESPN2 and TSN.
Given the road both clubs took to the Final there’s no doubt it’ll be dramatic. Get ready with the names, news and notes to know before Toronto and Minnesota take to the ice.
How the (Mid)west won
It was one thing for Minnesota to defeat the two-time defending champion Boston Pride.
It’s quite another that the Whitecaps swept Boston out of the postseason with two straight wins in their best-of-three semifinal series. Talk about a turnaround.
