
Feb 4, 2025 | By: Charlie Yaeger
The common season of women’ hockey has concluded and postseason play picks up this week. Thirteenth-ranked Grand Rapids-Greenway is pink scorching heading into the Part 7AA match, having gained their final 5 video games to complete with a 19-5-1 document.
The Lightning are averaging practically 5 targets a sport, a full purpose per sport higher than their previous two seasons, whereas additionally holding opponents to only two-and-a-half targets. A lot of that may be attributed to their staggering 888 photographs on internet this season, in comparison with their opponents’ 503.
“I feel simply telling women ‘photographs on internet’ actually does come an extended methods,” ahead Mira Rajala stated of the shot differential. “It begins in our defensive zone after which working into the impartial zone. I feel we’ve put a variety of work into that after which our offensive zone, too.”
“We undoubtedly have much more to provide as a result of our season has been fairly uphill this yr in comparison with different years,” the senior captain added. “I feel that each one the women nonetheless have much more to provide.”
GR-G now has their sights set on first spherical part opponent Northern Tier, however there’s a shadow looming within the distance. In three of the final 4 years, Rapids has fallen simply wanting their purpose of constructing the state match, ending because the Part 7AA runner as much as Andover. It’s a development the Lightning want to strike down this season.
“Clearly, we take it one sport at a time, however that’s our finish purpose. We need to beat Andover and go to the state match,” admitted ahead Ryleigh Sherlock. “We don’t need to preserve getting second place. In order that’s simply type of the motivation, the fireplace that’s spreading underneath us.”
“It could simply make all of the work that everyone’s put in for the staff, the years that individuals have had getting second place – it might simply make all of these issues simply go away and it’d be nice,” added the senior captain.
Grand Rapids-Greenway enters the Part 7AA match because the 2-seed, with their opponent Northern Tier because the 7-seed. The Lightning beat Northern Tier within the first spherical of final yr’s part match. Puck drop is that this Thursday, February sixth at 6 p.m. in Yanmar Area.
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