Beauts still trying to find themselves in second half of season

Nine games into last season, the Buffalo Beauts were in the basement of the NWHL. They had just one win on the year, and had only recently been united with the five players held up in Canada due to visa issues. It took them until the final two weeks of the season to right the ship, leapfrog over New York in the standings, and finally hit their stride heading to the Isobel Cup Finals.

This season, the Beauts already have three wins under their belt through the 2016 portion of the campaign, which is a marked improvement; however, the year has been marked by inconsistencies, many of them due to a revolving-door lineup and an overall lack of cohesion. As a result, they are currently last place in the standings, though admittedly the three teams not in first place — Connecticut, New York and Buffalo — are separated by just one point.