A Saturday night special for the Huskies against UBC

Same story line. Different outcome.

Less than 24 hours after falling 2-1 in a shoot-out to the UBC Thunderbirds, the Huskie women’s hockey team prevailed in a 2-1 shoot-out over the T-Birds at Merlis Belsher Place on Saturday night. Saskatchewan was motivated from warm up to games’ end by the return of captain Kennedy Brown. The 5^th-year forward from Okotoks, who missed nearly a year of play following knee surgery, made a triumphant return to the line-up. Head coach Steve Kook described Brown’s return as “automatic lift” to his team. “Everyone was so excited to see her. She short shifted herself at times, but she was good at important times for us.”

Isabella Pozzi, who scored the lone goal in regulation time on Friday night, scored Saskatchewan’s only regulation time goal on Saturday night as well. Pozzi, who now has four goals on the season, gave the home side a 1-0 lead :51 seconds into the second period on the power-play. UBC battled back to tie the game with 4:05 remaining in the third when captain Rylind MacKinnon buried her sixth of the season.

UBC staged substantial pressure in a 5 minute, 3-on-3 overtime session but was unable to get a puck past Huskie 5^th-year goaltender Camryn Drever who made 29 saves. “(UBC) is very offensive, very talented, very quick”, said Drever. “Steve (Kook) talks about handling the noise. “We just have to play our game.”