Huskies goaltender Camryn Drever leads the team out on the ice at the Wayne Fleming Arena in Winnipeg on Feb. 5, 2022. (Daniella Ponticelli/HuskieFAN)

By Daniella Ponticelli

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Huskies women return to Manitoba for Canada West quarter-final

Feb 21, 2022 | 7:30 AM

Two weeks after closing the regular season in Winnipeg, Huskies women’s hockey will return to Wayne Fleming Arena for their first stop of the postseason.

The best-of-three series runs Feb. 25-27 with a game scheduled each of those dates.

Canada West women’s hockey standings for 2021-22 regular season closed Saturday night. Here are the top six heading into the postseason:

1. Mount Royal University Cougars (Bye into semifinal March 4-6)
2. University of British Columbia Thunderbirds (Bye into semifinal March 4-6)
3. University of Alberta Pandas (Hosts #6 in quarter-final)
4. University of Manitoba Bisons (Hosts #5 in quarter-final)
5. University of Saskatchewan Huskies
6. University of Regina Cougars

After a thrilling five-game win streak, the Huskies (11-7-2) finished the regular season on the road with a two-game losing skid against the Bisons (13-7-0).

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Manitoba swept Saskatchewan in all four regular-season meetings.

Both Friday games resulted in shutout losses for the Huskies, the first going to overtime in Saskatoon, while both Saturday rematches ended in 2-1 defeats.

The only two goals against Manitoba were scored by Huskies third-year forward, Sophie Lalor, in the third period.

There is one scenario where Huskies women’s hockey could return to Merlis Belsher Place in the postseason.

Saskatchewan would need to make it to the Canada West championship, and face lowest-seed University of Regina Cougars, to host the final series on March 11-13.

The Cougars (8-10-2) visit the number-three ranked University of Alberta Pandas (13-5-1) in Edmonton for the other Canada West quarter-final.

Regular Season Round-up

With the Canada West postseason schedule decided, here’s a look at who leads the team in the following categories through the 2021-22 regular season:

Points: Bailee Bourassa, fifth-year forward, captain. 11 points.

Noteworthy: Defender Kendra Zuchotzki is the team’s rookie points leader, with six, landing her eighth overall on the Huskies regular-season leaderboard.

Goals: Bailee Bourassa, seven goals.

Noteworthy: Bourassa scored her first career hat-trick on Feb. 4, 2022, at Merlis Belsher Place in Saskatoon.

It marked the program’s first hat-trick since Feb. 19, 2016.

Kaitlin Willoughby scored three times in Game 1 of the Canada West quarter-final against the University of Manitoba Bisons at Rutherford Rink.

Honorable mention: Zuchotzki is the rookie leader in goals this regular season, with three.

Huskies captain Bailee Bourassa with cancer survivor Rhodes McNairn after the team’s Play for a Cure game on Feb. 4, 2022. (Daniella Ponticelli/HuskieFAN)

Assists: Kate Ball and Kara Kondrat, third-year forwards, tied with seven assists each.

Ball scored two goals through her 18 regular season appearances. Kondrat notched one goal through 20 games.

Noteworthy: Kendra Zuchotzki and Mallory Dyer are the rookie leaders in assists with three each.

Attendance in regular season games: Bailee Bourassa, Sophie Lalor, Kara Kondrat, Isabella Pozzi, Kendra Zuchotzki, Nicole Fry with 20 games.

This distinction is affected by several factors including practice and game performance, along with health considerations such as injuries and COVID-19 isolation periods.

Noteworthy: Zuchotzki was the only first-year player in the line-up for every game. The Huskies had 13 rookies on the team this year.

Most PIMs: Brooklyn Stevely, first-year defender, tied with Bourassa with 14 minutes.

Goaltender Stats:

Third-year Camryn Drever and first-year Colby Wilson each recorded two regular-season shutouts.

Neither goaltender was pulled for backup through twenty games.

Drever recorded eight wins, seven losses and one over-time loss in her 16 starts.

Over the regular season, she played 938:09 minutes in net, allowing 24 goals against and making 394 saves.

Drever finished sixth in Canada West rankings for qualified goaltenders* with a goals against average (GAA) of 1.49 and a save percentage of 0.939.

Wilson recorded three wins and one double-overtime loss in her four starts for Saskatchewan.

She allowed just two goals against, and made 79 saves, for a regular season GAA of 0.49 and a 0.975 save percentage.

The net was empty for a total of five minutes, 11 seconds over the entire regular season.

*Goaltenders must have 360 minutes to be considered qualified in U Sports.