New York's Most Recent Win Felt Different With An MSG Date Waiting
The New York Sirens' most recent win felt different. Not only did it snap an unfortunate losing streak, but it preserved New York's playoff hopes, and breathed life into team who is set to play on the biggest stage in franchise history at Madison Square Garden.
Wednesday's New York Sirens' 4-3 overtime victory over the Minnesota Frost at the Prudential Center just hits differently. This win has a stronger pulse and a rapid heartbeat. It isn't the snapping of a four-game losing streak, any change in the overall schematics or any new faces on the ice.
No declarations of it being bound to happen eventually or any generalizations. As Sarah Fillier so correctly pointed out in her television interview right after the game, the real difference was the resolve to fight through Taylor Heise's quick-strike goal for Minnesota, later overcoming a two-goal deficit after knotting things up at 1-1 and showing the ability to get the extra point in OT. While her natural hat trick was decisive to state the obvious, equally important are Fillier's comments about New York's commitment to "make the playoffs as a group in that locker room" and ride that momentum across the Hudson River into Manhattan on Saturday night.
What the Sirens did at The Rock against Minnesota created an intangible that goes far beyond the two points to keep their playoff hopes alive. They rekindled the euphoria for what's to come at Madison Square Garden. Just before 10 p.
m. on Wednesday in Newark, New Jersey, the impulse from that come-from-behind thriller reverberated all the way to the corner of West 34th St. and 7th Ave.
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