Last night’s games started off with Kunlun Red Star facing off against the Toronto Furies for the second time this weekend. This time, Furies head coach Jeff Flanagan had arrived in China and was present on the bench. Instead of Sonja van der Bliek in net, Amanda Makela made her first career CWHL start in net for the Furies, opposite Noora Räty for Kunlun.
After about five minutes of back-and-forth play with neither team looking particularly dangerous, Red Star scored on one of the weirder goals I’ve seen this year—Beiwei Yu’s dump-in from the blue line took a funny bounce and got past Makela.