It's been almost a month since the Minnesota Frost placed at their home arena. Sunday they returned home with a new look from shuffled lines, and it resulted in a 6-2 win over Seattle.
The Minnesota Frost played their first home game in almost a month on Sunday, a 6-2 win over the Seattle Torrent in front of 9,787 fans. For Minnesota fans, the Frost's roster featured the same names but in a new look as the team recently shuffled their lines looking for more.
“We make no secret that when you're part of the Frost, we expect a lot from you, and we need you to contribute. Today, all the lines were rolling. We switched them up a little bit the other day, and I know we can put different combinations, different players with different people," said Minnesota head coach Ken Klee. Then, when we have injuries, it's not as big a deal trying to figure out how you're going to plug holes. Great effort by all of our [players] tonight.”
Seattle continues to struggle to generate offense and were again outshot 45-26 at the hands of the Frost.
Grace Zumwinkle and Katy Knoll each scored a pair in the win, with Taylor Heise added a goal and two assists. Rookie Abby Hustler capped off the scoring.
On the other side of the puck, Jessie Eldridge and Danielle Serdachny scored for the Torrent. While the Frost had been away from home for nearly a month, the Torrent are currently closing in on three weeks away from home themselves.
“We didn’t talk about it but coming in here we knew this was going to be tough for us. This was our day 17 of a road trip and then it's sitting here waiting for us," said Seattle head coach Steven O'Rourke. "We don’t make the schedule, but they [Minnesota] were well prepared and they’re a good hockey team and came at us in ways. We had some pushback at times but just couldn’t sustain it, especially second period I thought there was some good momentum and then those timeouts came and you kind of sit and wait for two minutes. Every single time we had some good momentum going those timeouts hit, but I liked our group in terms of just no quit. They kept competing right until the very end.”