Don't think that's true. From the recap of the semi:
Clark dominated faceoffs through the first period and a half. She won the first eight straight against Minnesota’s Kelly Pannek. (Remember Pannek was a freshman...she's on a different level this year). From there, Minnesota coach Brad Frost adjusted his lines, putting his No. 1 against Wisconsin’s No. 2 when there was a draw in the Gophers’ defensive end.
“[We had a slow start because] we had some matchups that we wanted, line-wise, early on and they weren’t working,” Frost said. “Starting in the second period, once we put Hannah [Brandt]‘s line on the Clark-Pankowski line, the tide turned a little bit.”
“Similar to our game last Saturday, when you’re playing against world class athletes, at the end of the game you don’t want to see them on the score sheet,” said Johnson. “It just seems like the past two years, Hannah always seems to play a strong game against us. Rachel Ramsey plays a strong game against us. Cameranesi plays a strong game against us. Their elite players, their go-to players, seem to come up big in the big moments. When they needed a boost in today’s game, Hannah stepped up and scored then she set up a couple of more plays.
“That’s why she’s so special.”
