Friday night, after the Toronto Furies defeated the Calgary Inferno in the first game of their three-game series, hopes were high. The Furies scored five goals, Jenelle Kohanchuk had a hat trick, and Christina Kessler made 47 saves in a sparkling performance. It was a cause for optimism among those of us who had assumed a Calgary win to be inevitable. Unfortunately, both yesterday’s game and this afternoon’s played out in a similar fashion—a good, but uneven, performance by an underdog team that just couldn’t manage to pull out a win.
First Period
The Furies got off to a slow start, with Natalie Spooner taking a body-checking penalty twelve seconds in, and Julie Allen called for it again four minutes later.