Defender Lee Stecklein has picked a good time to get her goal-scoring groove on.
She scored twice and assisted on another in the Minnesota Frost’s 5-3 road win over the Toronto Sceptres on Friday to even the Professional Women’s Hockey League first-round series at 1-1.
The three-time United States Olympian has four points in the first two games of this best-of-five series after scoring three goals in Minnesota’s final two regular season games to push the Frost into the playoffs.
“We have a lot of offensive threats and people who must be worried about,” the 31-year-old Stecklein said. “This opens up some stuff, and you just have to be ready to take advantage of it. So luckily, it’s gone my way so far.”
The bevy of big offensive moments in the last two weeks came on the heels of Stecklein returning home after winning her seventh IIHF World Women’s Championship …