{"id":240560,"date":"2026-04-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/no-1-seed-montreal-victoire-select-no-3-minnesota-frost-as-semifinal-opponent-the-gist\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T00:00:00","slug":"no-1-seed-montreal-victoire-select-no-3-minnesota-frost-as-semifinal-opponent-the-gist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/no-1-seed-montreal-victoire-select-no-3-minnesota-frost-as-semifinal-opponent-the-gist\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 1 seed Montr\u00e9al Victoire select No. 3 Minnesota Frost as semifinal opponent | The GIST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>The GIST: <\/strong>The regular season is in the books and the playoff matchups are officially set ahead of postseason puck drop on Thursday. That means it\u2019s time for the league\u2019s innovative rule book to really shine \u2014 let\u2019s brush up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\ud83e\udee8 No. 1 seed Montr\u00e9al Victoire chooses No. 3 Minnesota Frost as semifinal opponent: <\/strong>Finishing atop the regular-season standings not only secures home-ice advantage throughout the playoffs \u2014 the No. 1 seed also earns the right to choose whether they\u2019ll face the third or fourth seed in the best-of-five semis.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Montr\u00e9al picked the two-time defending champ Frost, a team they went undefeated against in the regular season, leaving the No. 2 Boston Fleet to face the No. 4 Ottawa Charge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Notably, the top seed was bounced by their semis opponent in the previous two PWHL seasons. Maybe the third time will be the charm.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u2b50 Vancouver Goldeneyes land No. 1 pick in 2026 PWHL Draft: <\/strong>The expansion team Goldeneyes earned the right to draft <a href=\"https:\/\/thehockeynews.com\/womens\/pwhl\/vancouver-goldeneyes-will-pick-first-overall-in-2026-pwhl-draft-with-chance-to-select-caroline-harvey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">generational talent Caroline Harvey<\/a> after defeating Minnesota 4\u20133 in overtime during Saturday\u2019s regular-season finale. Here\u2019s why:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\n  n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\n  document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '1716705275141133'); \/\/ Insert your pixel ID here.\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n      <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegistsports.com\/article\/pwhl-semifinals-set\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GIST: The regular season is in the books and the playoff matchups are officially set ahead of postseason puck drop on Thursday. That means it\u2019s time for the league\u2019s innovative rule book to really shine \u2014 let\u2019s brush up. \ud83e\udee8 No. 1 seed Montr\u00e9al Victoire chooses No. 3 Minnesota Frost as semifinal opponent: Finishing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6805],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-240560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-womens"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}