Matchday Recap: S02D19
Six upsets across twelve games on Matchday 19, and none of them were soft. Anchorage scored one goal all night—in a shootout—and it was enough to beat a Mumbai side that couldn't find the net at home. Medellín came back from 2-3 down with a two-goal third to beat the heavily-favored Narwhals. Cairo held Dakar to zero goals in four fights and walked out of The Sandy Parlor with two points. Some nights the Ice is in a particular mood. Allons-y.
WPG 6 — SAO 3
The Cold Lodge saw exactly what Winnipeg at 1.82 looks like when the Wendigos decide to run away with it. São Paulo gave a spirited response across all three periods, but the Wendigos had too many scorers, too much depth.
Lucas Almeida opened for the Serpents at 1:59—Gustavo Ribeiro assisting—but Leah Blacksmith leveled at 5:10 with Marissa Spence's help. Brendan Fehr's power play goal at 13:52 gave Winnipeg the lead going into the first intermission. The second period extended the advantage methodically: Curtis Favel at 6:11, Brody Flett at 12:06—both with Jonas Brevik assisting—and Felipe Carvalho pulling one back for São Paulo late. The third brought a Nicole Flett power play goal, Mariana Lima's reply for SAO, then Kaya Bearclaw finishing the job with a 9:34 goal assisted by Brody Flett.
Six different scorers for Winnipeg tells the story of collective depth. Favel and Brody Flett each contributed a goal and an assist; Bearclaw's brace of hits complemented her goal. The Wendigos were dominant without being brilliant. That is sometimes enough.
MTL 3 — VLA 0
Three fights in the third period. Read that again. Nikita Sorokin and Amélie Bouchard threw down in the second, then the third period descended entirely into penalties, major infractions, and the sustained sensation that Vladivostok was not happy with how the evening was going.
But in the first two periods, it was Chloé Moreau who defined this game. She scored at 10:49 in the first—Marc-Antoine Dufresne assisting—and again at 1:18 in the second with Jean-René Bergeron setting it up. Artyom Volkov went to The Sixth three separate times in the first period alone; Dmitri Volkov was similarly penalized. By the time Élodie Gagnon added a third at 8:40—Sarah-Maude Fortin assisting—the shutout was building. Lucas Pelletier and Kirill Morozov fought in the third; Catherine Lavoie and Maxim Petrov went next; then Igor Zaytsev challenged Lavoie two minutes later. Three fights, no VLA goals. The Oldest Rink held firm.
Moreau's double in a shutout performance—Gagnon's third sealing it—is Montréal delivering exactly what 1.76 odds require. The Vodkas leave with nothing and a list of penalties to address.
GDL 4 — GND 0
Here is the curious result: the Gander Geese came to El Rincón Perdido as slight away favorites—1.84 odds against the home Gatos at 1.98—and were shut out. Three fights across the game. Four different Guadalajara scorers. Upset confirmed.
The first period set the pace: Camila Flores at 3:23—Mateo Guzmán assisting—and Daniela Salazar at 13:18 with Santiago Torres helping. Andrés Rojas picked up a penalty that invited pressure, but the Gatos' structure held. The second period brought Walsh and Sofía Navarro throwing gloves at 1:34, Hapgood and Rodrigo Vargas doing the same at 10:03—physicality that didn't change the 2-0 scoreline.
Then Hazel Strickland and Diego Hernández opened the third with a fight, and once that was settled, Valentina Ramírez converted a power play at 10:14—Vargas assisting—and Navarro closed it at 11:15 with Flores's help. A 4-0 shutout from Guadalajara as underdogs at their own stadium. Three fights, none of them slowing the Gatos down. The Geese struggled to find their footing all night.
MUM 0 — ANC 1
Mumbai were 1.80 favorites at home. They held the Anchorage Auroras scoreless for sixty-five minutes of regulation and overtime. And they still lost.
Three fights across the game—Kira Naluktaq and Meera Naik dropping gloves in the first period, Tara Alexie and Kiran Bhatt going in the third, Divya Mehta and Molly Kavairlook following moments later. The fights told the story of a game with heat but no goals. Mumbai threatened, Anchorage defended, and both sides seemed bound for overtime like it was already scheduled.
The overtime period added one penalty and nothing else. And then Sierra Peters stepped into the shootout, waited, and delivered. One goal in a shootout, at 2.02 odds on the road, against a team that was expected to win comfortably. The Salt Pavilion fell silent in the way buildings do when they can't believe what they're seeing. Anchorage took two points from a scoreless game and called it a victory. Technically, it was.
HAV 2 — PER 4
Perth were 1.74 favorites at The Rhythm Bureau—not comfortable odds, but an edge—and they demolished that edge inside the first period. Three goals before the first intermission, two fights adding to the chaos, and the Pyres' road confidence carrying them through sixty minutes.
Gemma Fletcher converted a power play at 1:23—Riley Dawson assisting—after Yarelys González was sent to The Sixth. Zara Patel and Adonis Reyes fought at 4:30, matching majors; Riley Dawson and Yordanis Sánchez fought at 6:28, same result. Nate Hargrove added a second for Perth at 8:10 with Cooper Hale's help, then Patel scored at 14:04 assisted by Fletcher. Three goals in the first. Havana's crowd had a lot to process.
González pulled one back for Havana in the second—Lázaro Valdés assisting—and Adonis Reyes added another in the third, but Perth's lead was always cushioned by one. Liam O'Brien's 13:01 goal with Patel assisting closed it at 4-2. Fletcher, Dawson, Hargrove, O'Brien, Patel—five contributors in a disciplined road win.
RIM 1 — STO 4
The Coastal Pavilion set up for a competitive game—Stockholm 1.80 favorites, Rimini at 2.02—and for one period, it looked like it might be. After that, Hugo Wikström had different ideas.
The first period was physically loaded and completely scoreless. The second opened with Albin Nordlund and Lorenzo Fabbri fighting within twelve seconds—matching majors setting the tone—before Elena Moretti scored for Rimini at 2:03, Francesca Serra assisting. Stockholm leveled through Elin Sjöberg's power play goal at 14:05, Oscar Söderström providing the assist. Level at the second intermission.
Then Wikström. At 2:54 he scored off Söderström's assist; at 3:24 he scored again, Axel Lindqvist assisting. Two goals in ninety seconds. The Coastal Pavilion went from tied to 1-3 before the third period was four minutes old. Giulia Bianchi and Astrid Engström fought at 9:57 to register the game's frustration, and Lindqvist added a fourth at 10:52 with Filip Nyström assisting. Wikström's double is the performance of the game. Söderström contributed two assists. Stockholm's third-period dominance settled matters efficiently.
HEL 3 — JBG 2
Johannesburg were 1.79 favorites at The Dark Sauna—favored even on the road—and the Helsinki Howlers won 3-2 in overtime through Niko Mäkelä. An upset earned through sixty-five minutes of structured defending and three fights that couldn't stop the home team from finding theirs.
Saku Järvinen opened in the first at 14:24—Liisa Nieminen assisting—and Anniina Tuominen doubled the advantage at 0:13 of the second with Noora Koskinen's help. Thabo Mokoena and Saku Järvinen fought at 9:02; Mikko Hämäläinen and Thandiwe Radebe went at 14:59 of the second. Helsinki 2-0 through forty minutes.
The third period was JBG's. Bongani Mthembu scored at 8:56—Pieter Botha assisting—and Thabo Mokoena leveled at 11:13, Radebe setting it up. Saku Järvinen and Zanele Ndaba had already thrown gloves at 1:58 in the third. Overtime. And at 9:44, Mäkelä received a pass from Erik Johansson and converted. Helsinki wins 3-2 at 2.04 odds over a team that was expected to handle them. Järvinen's two fights and a goal, Tuominen's early second-period marker, Mäkelä's overtime finish—the Howlers earned this.
MDE 4 — NRB 3
This is the upset of the matchday. Nairobi were 1.63 favorites at La Ladera. Medellín were at 2.30 at home. The Mapaches came back from 2-3 down in the second period to win 4-3. Quel combat.
The opening period was frantic: Valentina Ospina at 1:50 for MDE—Restrepo assisting—then Andrés Quintero at 8:43 with Sofía Estrada helping, before Peter Kimani made it 2-1 for NRB with Amara Osei's help at 9:15. Samuel Njoroge and Camilo Henao fought at 2:56. The second period swung decisively toward Nairobi: Wanjiku Mwangi at 3:31, then Osei at 5:51 with Kimani assisting. Medellín trailed 2-3 with a period to go.
The third period was Restrepo's. He converted a power play at 9:30—Ospina assisting—after Peter Kimani's penalty, drawing La Ladera level. Then Sofía Estrada scored at 14:40 with Luciana Vélez's help to complete the comeback at 4-3. Ospina had a goal and an assist; Restrepo the same. Estrada finished with a goal and an assist. Kimani and Osei led Nairobi's effort with a goal and an assist each, but the Narwhals couldn't hold their second-period advantage. La Ladera erupted. At 2.30 odds, the Mapaches delivered their finest result of the season.
PRA 1 — TOK 2
Pavel Krejčí and Sakura Shimizu fought twice. Once in the second period. Once at the end of overtime. The game needed a shootout to separate them, and then Yūma Hayashi stepped up for Tokyo and delivered the decisive attempt.
The Stone Opera was scoreless through the first period. Martin Procházka broke it for Prague at 1:32 in the second—Kateřina Dvořáková assisting—before Krejčí and Shimizu dropped gloves at 5:42. Prague clung to 1-0 through fifty-five minutes. Then Mei Fujita scored for Tokyo at 11:55 of the third—Haruto Nakamura assisting—tying the game. The final minutes brought more mayhem at penalty level, and at the end of overtime, Shimizu and Krejčí fought a second time, both spending five minutes in The Sixth as if they'd never left.
Shootout. Hayashi converted at 8:31, and the Tokyo Titans—1.66 favorites—took the two points they were expected to take, by one of the more unusual routes you'll see. Krejčí: two fights, a hit. Shimizu: a hit and two fights. They waged a private war inside a bigger one, and Hayashi decided the bigger one.
DKR 0 — CAI 2
Four fights inside The Sandy Parlor. Zero goals for the home side. Cairo were 2.27 underdogs against a Dakar team at 1.64—and the Crocodiles scored twice in the first period and defended like their lives depended on it for the remaining forty minutes. This is an upset by any definition.
Youssef Mansour scored a power play goal at 4:54—Habiba Sherif assisting, Khady Bâ having gone to The Sixth—and Karim Fahmy added a second at 6:25 with Farida Abdel-Rahman's help. Two goals, first period, done. The rest of the game was fights and near-misses. Nour El-Sayed and Aminata Sow matched up in the second; Fatou Mbaye and Karim Fahmy went in the third; Khady Bâ and Mostafa Rashad threw gloves minutes later; Moussa Ndiaye and Omar Hassan added the fourth fight at 10:19. Dakar couldn't score despite the aggression.
Mansour finished with a goal and two hits—controlling his space even as chaos reigned around him. Fahmy contributed a goal and a fight. At 2.27 odds in The Sandy Parlor, Cairo's defensive discipline—holding Dakar's attack scoreless across sixty minutes despite four fights—was remarkable.
USH 1 — MCM 3
Here is the kind of upset that turns heads: Ushuaia were 1.63 favorites at home at The South Passage. McMurdo were at 2.29 on the road. The Monoliths won 3-1 behind a second-period Ingrid Solheim goal and a decisive third-period burst.
The first period produced a scoreless twenty minutes of physical attrition. The second delivered: Ignacio Herrera and Tobias Frey fought at 1:58 before McMurdo's Ingrid Solheim scored at 8:31—Sven Lindberg assisting—to give the Monoliths the lead they'd carry into the third. Solheim drove Luciana Romero into the glass and put pressure on everywhere in The South Passage.
The third period confirmed the result. Matías Fernández got Ushuaia's consolation at 1:52—Facundo Álvarez assisting—before Ji-hoon Baek doubled McMurdo's lead at 10:00 with Yumi Takeda's help, then Lars Henriksen sealed it at 13:46, Solheim assisting. Solheim: a goal, an assist, and two hits in the game's defining performance. Baek: a goal and a hit. At 2.29 odds, McMurdo took The South Passage's home team apart.
WEL 1 — BUS 3
The Howling Harbour expected something from Wellington. The home Whales—at 2.13—faced Busan at 1.72, and the Blizzards backed their odds with a clean 3-1 performance that never required overtime or drama.
Olivia Rangi opened for Wellington at 0:29—Manaia Walker assisting—giving The Howling Harbour crowd early hope. But Min-jun Lee answered at 9:15 for Busan—Jae-won Kim assisting—and Dong-wook Yoon made it 2-1 at 11:05, So-hee Hwang's help sealing the second-period lead. Wellington never recovered. Eun-bi Han scored in the second at 4:39 to make it 3-1, and Nikau Edwards and Sang-hoon Bae fought at 13:58 before the period ended. Olivia Rangi and Hyun-woo Kwon fought in the third—Rangi finishing with two hits and a fight, the energy of a player refusing to accept the result—but no further scoring.
Lee, Yoon, Han: three Busan scorers executing a professional road win. The Howling Harbour's home record bends. Busan banks two points against a Wellington side that needed more than one goal.
Six upsets across Matchday 19—Anchorage's goalless win in Mumbai the strangest, Medellín's comeback the most dramatic, Cairo's silent shutout of Dakar the most disciplined. The season rolls on, and The Ice remains unbothered. À la prochaine.
—JM Laflèche, Voice of Hockay
Le Council acknowledges that Matchday 19 occurred. Anchorage scored exactly one goal. It was sufficient. The Council neither endorses nor condemns this efficiency. The record has been updated accordingly.