PWHL Toronto’s Natalie Spooner named IIHF Female Player of the Year
Natalie Spooner was named the IIHF’s Female Player of the Year Tuesday, receiving over 33 per cent of the vote from nearly 100 media members from the top 16 nations of the Women’s World Championship program.
It might be safe to say that the Oilers have found their usual goal-scoring touch.
Since the 14:48 mark of the first period in Game 4, the Edmonton Oilers have been on an absurdly hot streak, hotter than the legendary teams of the 1980s have ever been, breaking a franchise record for unanswered goals with nine.
Their 8-1 beatdown of the Florida Panthers surely contributed most of the fuel to that fire with six unanswered, but to open up Game 5, Edmonton stayed in that rhythm, potting three unanswered to establish a solid lead through the second period.
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And who but Connor McDavid to break the record, threading the needle to beat an unusually off-his-game Sergei Bobrovsky from a tight angle.
With that goal, the Oilers captain also reached the 40-point mark this post-season, joining Wayne Gretzky (1985, 1988, 1993) and Mario Lemieux (1991) as the only players to reach that threshold.
The 1980s Oilers, who won four Stanley Cups in the decade under the ever-so-productive guidance of ‘The Great One’, held the record for eight unanswered goals in the 1984 Stanley Cup Final en route to beating the New York Islanders in five games.
They accomplished the feat by scoring six unanswered in Game 3 then adding two more in Game 4.