Women’s Hockey: McKenna Brand ends fifth season with Pride – Park Rapids Enterprise

BOSTON, Mass. McKenna Brand had another good season as a forward for the Boston Pride of the Premier Hockey Federation.

The 2014 Park Rapids graduate had four goals, eight assists and four blocks in 26 games as the Pride won the PHF regular season title this season. 12 points was the team’s ninth best.

Brand had two assists in a 5-4 win over Minnesota on November 19, an assist in a 3-2 overtime win over Toronto on November 26, and had an assist in a 3-0 win over Buffalo. on Dec. 10 and in a 6-4 loss to Connecticut on Dec. 18 and had two goals (including a shorthanded goal) and an assist on a season-high four shots on goal in an 8-0 win over Buffalo in January. 14 before eight games without registering a point. To conclude the regular season, Brand scored a goal in a 5-4 win over Minnesota on March 3 and had two assists in a 5-4 loss to Toronto on March 12. Brand also made four shots on goal in a 2-0 situation. beat Minnesota on Nov. 18.

The Pride finished the regular season at the top of the professional women’s hockey league with a record of 19-4-1 and 54 points. The Toronto Six were second with 17-5-2 and 51 points, while the Connecticut Whale (14-8-2 43 points), Metropolitan Riveters (11-13-0 30 points), Montreal Force (8-14) -2 23 points) and the Buffalo Beauts (5-16-3 18 points) completed the league standings.

Boston entered the four-team playoffs as the No. 1 seed, but saw its goal of winning a third consecutive Isobel Cup fall short. It lost 5-2 in the quarterfinals on March 16 and 4-1 to Minnesota on March 18. -out-of-3 series. Brand had four shots on goal in those two playoff games. In the championship game, Toronto beat Minnesota in overtime 4-3.

In his five-year professional hockey career with the Pride, Brand has 38 goals and 55 assists for 93 points in 100 games, including one goal and five assists in nine playoff games.

1982 Graduate of Dawson-Boyd High School
1987 Moorhead State University graduate
Park Rapids Enterprise sports reporter since 1987