Minnesota Taking It One Game At A Time, With Only One Game Left

Kendall Coyne Schofield says PWHL Minnesota is taking things one game at a time, and there's only one game left with a Walter Cup on the line.

After a 24 game inaugural season, and two playoff series, it all comes down to one game again. For many involved, one game, winner takes all situations are the norm. From IIHF finals, to the NCAA championships, or the Isobel Cup. 

It's the situation PWHL Boston and PWHL Minnesota find themselves in as they face-off in game five of the PWHL finals, with the winner of the fifth and deciding game taking the Walter Cup. 

"I think our mindset all year has been to focus on the game that's right in front of us....it's one game at a time and there's only one game left," said captain Kendall Coyne Schofield.

"There's no looking ahead to the future in this situation."

Minnesota will try not to look back either. In game four Minnesota flooded the ice believing they'd won the title after Sophie Jaques scored what appeared to be the series clinching goal with 2:34 remaining in double overtime of a 0-0 game. Minutes into their on ice celebration however, the goal was called back. The team collected their equipment and lined back up to go again, but only 1:10 later, Boston scored to send the game to a deciding contest. 

Now it comes down to a single game, but as Kendall Coyne Schofield stated, it's different than tournament's or other single game competitions. Minnesota and Boston both enter with the experience and knowledge they've gained from facing each other in the first four games of the PWHL finals.

"Yes it comes down to one game, but we can't forget that four games have been played and there's a lot to take away from those four games," Coyne Schofield stated.

The first ever Walter Cup will be handed out tonight as game five gets underway at 7pm at a sold out Tsongas Center in Lowell, MA.