Isobel Cup
Isobel Cup | |
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Sport | Ice hockey |
Given for | Playoff champion of the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL) |
History | |
First award | 2016[1] |
First winner | Boston Pride |
Most wins | Boston Pride Buffalo Beauts Metropolitan Riveters Minnesota Whitecaps (1) |
Most recent | Minnesota Whitecaps |
The Isobel Cup is the championship trophy awarded annually to the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL) playoff winner.[2] It is named after Lady Isobel Gathorne-Hardy, one of the first known women to play the game and daughter of Lord Stanley (the namesake of the Stanley Cup).[3]
The first Cup was awarded in 2016,[1] at the end of the inaugural season of the NWHL, the first professional women's hockey league in the United States.[4]
Champions
Year | Champion | Coach | Score | Runner-up | Coach | City |
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2016 | Boston Pride | Bobby Jay | 2-games-to-none | Buffalo Beauts | Ric Seiling | Newark, New Jersey |
2017 | Buffalo Beauts | Ric Seiling | 3–2 | Boston Pride | Bobby Jay | Lowell, Massachusetts |
2018 | Metropolitan Riveters | Chad Wiseman | 1–0 | Buffalo Beauts | Ric Seiling | Newark, New Jersey |
2019 | Minnesota Whitecaps | Jack Brodt Ronda Engelhardt |
2–1 (OT) | Buffalo Beauts | Cody McCormick | St. Paul, Minnesota |
References
- ^ a b "Isobel Cup". National Women's Hockey League. Retrieved September 14, 2018.
In 2016, Boston won the league’s first Isobel Cup.
- ^ "NWHL's top two teams ready to face off for the Isobel Cup". espnW. Retrieved May 17, 2018.
- ^ Fink, James (April 16, 2015). "Buffalo Beauts to play at HarborCenter". Buffalo Business First. Archived from the original on June 19, 2015.
- ^ Schram, Carol (October 10, 2017). "NWHL Partnership With NHL's New Jersey Devils Aims To Boost Profile Of Women's Hockey". Forbes. Retrieved May 17, 2018.