Huskies outlast Pandas for seventh straight win
Sometimes heroes come from the unlikeliest of places. In just her seventh U SPORTS game, Ava Bergman scored the deciding goal in a shootout to lift the Huskies to a 2-1 win over the Alberta Pandas on Friday night in Edmonton.
The rookie forward took a cue from one of her veteran teammates to net the game winner, following Sara Kendall, who scored on Saskatchewan’s first shooutout attempt, with a near-carbon copy of Kendall’s goal, firing a shot top shelf over the glove hand of Alberta goaltender Halle Oswald.
“I knew I was going to shoot and then I think in the moment I saw that opening again and just went for it,” Bergman said. “Just seeing SK go and find that spot, I thought it would be a good one.”
The dramatic finish came after another hotly contested affair between two of the top teams in the Canada West. The Huskies are now 2-0-1 in the season series with Alberta with one more game to play against the Pandas on Saturday.