The PWHL’s most chaotic tradition continues: Top seed chooses its fate
Montreal finished the PWHL regular season with the top seed. The Victoire's reward? Choosing their playoff opponent.
Welcome to the most chaotic postseason selection process in sports, where even the matchup itself can become bulletin board material. The top-seeded Montreal Victoire will open their Pro Women’s Hockey League playoff run against the Minnesota Frost on Saturday. Simple, right?
Not quite. Four PWHL clubs make the postseason. Montreal finished in first place and Minnesota in third, meaning the Victoire will not face the lowest remaining seed, despite earning the top spot.
That’s because they actually chose to face the “better” team. It’s part postseason hockey, part reality TV. “It's something that's completely out of our control,” Minnesota forward Kendall Coyne-Schofield said of having to play the top seed despite finishing in the third spot.
“We were more looking at do we leave this day to go to Boston, or this day to go to Montreal? “When we got the news, we were like, alright, what's the schedule? And so we start preparing for Montreal, because that's where we're going, that's where we're told to go, and it's out of our control.
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