2007-08 CWHL REVIEW 2007-08 CWHL INAUGURAL SEASON REVIEW CHAMPIONSHIP RECAP LEAGUE LEADERS AWARD WINNERS & ALL-STARS TEAM-BY-TEAM STATS Championship Game MVP CANADIAN WOMEN’S HOCKEY LEAGUE Lori Dupuis SEASON IN REVIEW hockeyMedia.ca Photo: Lori Dupuis, Vicky Sunohara, Jayna Hefford, Allyson Fox CONTENTS CWHL Champions .......................................................................2 Most Valuable Player ...................................................................4 Monthly Top Scorers....................................................................5 Angela James Bowl .....................................................................6 League Leaders ..........................................................................7 Top Players ................................................................................8 Performances of the Week............................................................9 Outstanding Rookie ...................................................................10 All-Rookie Team........................................................................10 Central All-Stars .......................................................................12 Eastern All-Stars.......................................................................14 Standings ................................................................................16 Statistical Review, Glossary ........................................................17 Team and Player Records ...........................................................18 Team Leaders, Penalties.............................................................19 Brampton Canadettes Thunder....................................................20 Burlington Barracudas ...............................................................22 Mississauga Chiefs ....................................................................24 Vaughan Flames .......................................................................26 Stars de Montréal......................................................................28 Ottawa Capital Canucks .............................................................30 Phénix du Québec .....................................................................32 Playoff Statistics .......................................................................34 The CWHL Season in Review was produced by hockeyMedia.ca (Richard Scott, 2008 Up North Productions). Front cover photo: Lori Dupuis. Back cover photo: Marie-Philip Poulin and teammates. Photos by Richard Scott. Championship photos (pages 1, 2, 6) by Tom Morton. HOCKEYMEDIA.CA - 1 Mandy Cronin (most wins) and MISSISSAUGA 3, BRAMPTON 4 (OT) MISSISSAUGA: 4 Tara French, 7 Cherie Piper, CWHL CHAMPIONS Cindy Eadie (best GAA). 9 Natalie Spooner, 11 Cheryl Pounder, 12 Jennifer In the championship final, it was Raimondi, 14 Mary Modeste, 16 Cheryl Muranko, 17 Jennifer Botterill, 21 Laura Watt, 22 Heather Eadie making 23 saves in 67 min- Logan, 24 Amber Bowman, 27 Myria Heinhuis, 30 Megan Takeda, 31 Sarah Love, 33 Ashley Stephen- utes for the win. Sarah Love was in son, 44 Sommer West, 67 Rebecca Davies. goal for the Chiefs until suffering BRAMPTON: 1 Mandy Cronin, 7 Sue McCutcheon, 8 Lori Loftus, 9 Molly Engstrom, 10 Gillian Apps, an injury with just 5:12 left in the 11 Bobbi Jo Slusar, 12 Lori Dupuis, 16 Jayna Hefford, 17 Tiffany Hagge, 18 Kathleen Kauth, 20 Allyson Fox, third period. Rookie Megan Takeda 23 Meredith Ostrander, 24 Elysia Desmier, 26 Kelsey was called in to make his CWHL Webster, 27 Cathy Hambly, 35 Cindy Eadie, 61 Vicky Sunohara. debut for the final minutes plus the FIRST PERIOD overtime. Takeda made 13 saves 1. BRAM - Jayna Hefford (3) (Dupuis, Fox) PP 13:19 2. MISS - Jennifer Botterill (5) (West) 1:53 before getting beat for the winner. Penalties - MISS Heinhuis 14:49, BRAM Hambly The championship final was 12:32, MISS Davies 10:50. SECOND PERIOD played at the Brampton Powerade 3. BRAM - Lori Dupuis (2) (Sunohara) SH 16:33 Centre in Brampton, ON on 22 4. MISS - Jennifer Botterill (6) (West) PP 15:57 5. MISS - Sommer West (4) (Piper) PP 6:00 March 2008. The final was also Penalties - BRAM Apps 17:07, BRAM Loftus 15:16, broadcast live on the league’s web- BRAM Dupuis 13:51, BRAM Sunohara 12:14, MISS Heinhuis 12:14, MISS Heinhuis 12:14 (10), BRAM site, www.CWHL.ca. Slusar 9:42, BRAM Loftus 8:02, BRAM Slusar 7:30, The new CWHL championship BRAM team 3:02, BRAM Engstrom 1:40. THIRD PERIOD trophy was presented to the 6. BRAM - Vicky Sunohara (1) 8:51 Brampton captain and alternate Penalties - BRAM team 5:57, BRAM Fox 1:35. OVERTIME PERIOD captains. It was the quartet’s sec- 7. BRAM - Molly Engstrom (1) (Dupuis) 2:50 ond-straight championship victory, Penalties - MISS Botterill 9:45. GOALTENDERS having won the final NWHL playoff MISS Love 54:48, 30 SA, 3GA, Takeda 12:22, 13 SA, The Brampton Canadettes Canadettes Thunder. title one year earlier. 1 GA. BRAM Eadie 67:10, 23 SA, 3 GA. Thunder won the inaugural Brampton couldn’t hold its lead, 2008 BRAMPTON CANADETTES THUNDER - PLAYOFFS Canadian Women’s Hockey though, as Botterill scored a League playoff championship. power-play goal just 36 seconds Uni Brampton (Playoffs) Age R GP G A PTS PtPG PM PP SH GW FG 12Dupuis, Lori 35 3 2 4 6 2.00 6 0 1 0 0 Rookie defender Molly Engstrom later. Brampton’s penalty problems 16Hefford, Jayna 30 3 3 2 5 1.67 2 3 0 0 1 scored the winning goal with just continued and Chiefs’ captain Som- 20Fox, Allyson 32 3 0 4 4 1.33 2 0 0 0 0 2:50 left in the first overtime pe- mer West made it 3-2 later in the 10Apps, Gillian 24 3 2 1 3 1.00 6 0 0 1 0 riod, giving the Canadettes Thun- second period. 61Sunohara, Vicky 37 3 1 2 3 1.00 2 0 0 0 0 der a 4-3 victory over the Midway through the third period, 9Engstrom, Molly 25R 3 1 1 2 0.67 2 0 0 1 0 Mississauga Chiefs. it was Brampton’s captain Vicky 17Hagge, Tiffany 23 3 1 1 2 0.67 0 0 0 0 0 Lori Dupuis, who scored a goal Sunohara’s turn to hit the red light. 18Kauth, Kathleen 28 3 0 2 2 0.67 0 0 0 0 0 and two assists, was named the With 8:51 to play, the champi- 6McArthur, Krista 25 2 1 0 1 0.50 2 0 0 0 0 championship game MVP. Dupuis onship final was tied 3-3. 23Ostrander, Meredith 28 3 1 0 1 0.33 2 0 0 0 0 scored an assist on Engstrom’s The tie lasted until late into over- 24Desmier, Elysia 21R 2 0 1 1 0.50 0 0 0 0 0 winning goal. time before Engstrom marked the 11 Slusar, Bobbi Jo 22R 3 0 1 1 0.33 4 0 0 0 0 After Dupuis assisted on Jayna winner. 27Hambly, Cathy 3 0 0 0 0.00 2 0 0 0 0 Hefford’s opening goal, the Missis- The playoff win capped off a ter- 8Loftus, Lori 30 3 0 0 0 0.00 4 0 0 0 0 sauga Chiefs knotted the scored 1- rific first season in the new CWHL. 7McCutcheon, Sue 25 3 0 0 0 0.00 2 0 0 0 0 1 late in the first period. It was Brampton was also Central Division 26Webster, Kelsey 21R 1 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 Jennifer Botterill’s league-leading champions in the regular season. 1Cronin, Mandy 28 1 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 fifth goal of the playoffs. The Brampton lineup featured 35Eadie, Cindy 25 2 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 Just over three minutes into the three of the league’s top-10 scor- Uni Brampton Goaltenders (Playoffs) GP MIN W L GAA GA EN ShO second period, Dupuis made it 2-1 ers - including MVP Jayna Hefford - 1Cronin, Mandy 1 60 1 0 2.00 2 0 0 with a shorthanded goal for the as well as goaltending tandem 35Eadie, Cindy 2 127 1 0 2.83 6 0 0 2 - 2007-08 CANADIAN WOMEN’S HOCKEY LEAGUE HOCKEYMEDIA.CA - 3 MOST VALUABLE PLAYER JaynaHEFFORD The Brampton Canadettes Thun- Hefford owns quite the résumé in der’s Jayna Hefford was the Cana- women’s leagues hockey. Her ca- dian Women’s Hockey League Most reer goes back to the Central On- Valuable Player in the 2007-08 tario Women’s Hockey League season. The 30-year old star for- when she was a goal-per-game ward paced the league with 26 producer for the old Mississauga goals in 27 games as the Chiefs. Canadettes Thunder finished first In 1998-99, Hefford joined the in the Central Division. Brampton Thunder in what would Hefford was hot straight be the inaugural season of the out of the gate, setting National Women’s Hockey a league single-game League. Over the course record of six points in of the league’s nine-year the opening week- history, she set all-time end: a 7-0 win over records of 247 goals and the Burlington Barra- 412 points, all in spite of cudas on 16 Septem- missing two seasons ber. She was the only when she was busy win- player to match her ning Olympic gold medals record, notching another six with Canada’s national team. points in a 7-1 win over the Stars She set the NWHL single-season de Montréal on 26 January. record of 41 goals in 2003-04 and A year-end Central All-Star, Hef- then nearly matched it when she ford was the monthly Top Scorer in scored 40 in 2006-07. three of the season’s six months: In 2007-08, Hefford finished first September, December and Janu- in MVP voting ahead of Montréal’s ary. She finished the season sec- Marie-Philip Poulin and Missis- ond in scoring with 58 points. sauga’s Jennifer Botterill. At year’s end, Canadian Women’s Hockey League coaches and captains were asked to recognise the top players in the league. They were not al- lowed to select players from their own team. The Most Valuable Player was voted by the seven captains, the Outstanding Rookie was voted by the seven coaches, while the Top Forward, Top Defender and Top Goal- tender were voted by the 14 coaches/captains. In each case, coaches and captains were asked to make a first choice (5 points), second choice (3 points), and third choice (1 point). The Central coaches/captains counted for 50% of the vote while the Eastern coaches/captains counted for the other 50% of the vote. MONTHLY TOP SCORERS Coaches were also asked to select Central and Eastern All-Stars. Coaches were asked to make three selections per position (six first place, September 2007 November 2007 January 2008 six second place, six third place) within their own division and one se- Jayna Hefford Jana Harrigan Jayna Hefford lection per position (six first place) from the opposing division.