OTTAWA -
The sting from a year earlier was still very much with Les Canadiennes de Montreal on Sunday.
When they took the ice to face the Calgary Inferno for the Clarkson Cup at Canadian Tire Centre, the 8-3 loss they suffered to the same team, in the same championship game, was fresh on their minds.
“Yes, it was there,” Canadiennes captain Marie-Philip Poulin said convincingly, with a growing grin, when asked about the revenge factor. “I think it’s been 365 days that we’ve been waiting for that game. We were really ready.”
That much was evident.