Huskies goaltender Camryn Drever warms up in net before the team's game against Mount Royal University at the Flames Community Arenas on Feb. 10, 2023. (Daniella Ponticelli/HuskieFAN)
By Daniella Ponticelli
Sask. women finish 5th in Canada West

Huskies fall 2-0 to Mount Royal, lose shot at hosting playoff series

Feb 11, 2023 | 12:14 AM

The University of Saskatchewan Huskies women’s hockey team will return to Calgary next weekend for their first playoff series.

The team is in the Alberta city this weekend to close the regular season against the third-ranked Mount Royal University Cougars (19-5-3).

Following a 2-0 loss Friday night, the Huskies (13-11-3) can’t move past fifth in the conference standings and will visit the fourth-place University of Calgary Dinos (14-9-3) for a best-of-three quarterfinal series Feb. 17-19.

“We now can start the planning for that I guess. Lots of things other than what you see on the ice when travelling with a group this large for playoffs,” Kook said after the game.

“But it doesn’t take focus off us making sure we play with detail and execution tomorrow in our last game going into playoffs. That’s the goal tomorrow. Detail and execution.”

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Mount Royal’s Alliya Jomha opened scoring Friday 11:21 into the first period off a pass from Courtney Kollman.

Despite Saskatchewan successfully killing two penalties in the second period, the Cougars added to their count with a goal from Emma Bergeson, helped by Athena Hauck, at 8:14.

Huskies goaltender Camryn Drever finished the night with 23 saves, while opposing netminder Kaitlyn Ross turned away 21 for her sixth shutout of the season.

Saskatchewan and Mount Royal close their 2022-23 regular seasons on Saturday, Feb. 11, at Flames Community Arenas starting 7 p.m. CST.

2023 Canada West postseason set

Friday night solidified the 2022-23 Canada West regular season standings.

Heading into the postseason, No. 1 UBC Thunderbirds (23-2-2) and No. 2 University of Alberta Pandas (21-5-1) have byes in the Quarterfinal round.

Both quarterfinals will be played in Calgary. The No. 6-ranked Trinity Western Spartans (11-13-3) visit the third-place Mount Royal University Cougars (19-5-3) Feb. 17-19.

The fifth-ranked University of Saskatchewan Huskies (13-11-3) will visit the fourth-place University of Calgary Dinos (14-9-3).

The lowest-ranked winner in the quarterfinal will visit the UBC thunderbirds in the semifinal Feb. 24-26.

The higher-seed will go to Edmonton to face the Pandas.

Finals are hosted March 3-5 by whomever is the higher seed winner in the semifinal. Both Canada West finalists get Berths to nationals in Montreal March 16-19.

All playoff rounds are best-of-three series, with the U Sports Women’s Hockey Championship scheduled as a bracketed tournament.

Listen to all Huskies women’s hockey games live and archived on the HuskieFAN app and on huskiefan.ca

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