“To be honest I try not to think about that game anymore because I’m pretty sick of it,” said Les Canadiennes goaltender Charline Labonté.
Almost exactly a year later, Montreal’s best players are still asked about their loss in last year’s Clarkson Cup. After a season and playoff that saw them go 23-3, they were expected to continue rolling in the Canadian Women’s Hockey League’s championship game. But they ran into a Calgary Inferno team that dealt with adversity throughout the season in an 8-3 loss.