The Minot High girls Hockey team kicked off their season last night with a 3-1 win over Williston. 17 players are out for this year's team that lost only 3 players to graduation. The Majettes are coming off of a 6th place finish at state last year and feel like they're an improved team from last year.

Much like the boys team, the Majettes will look to their defense and goaltending to lead the way while getting the offense on track.

Pat Morelli, MHS girls hockey coach:Going into the season we'd say scoring is going to be our achilles heal that we need to, that's what we need to work on the most. And it was last night. It could have been a different story in the game as far as if we would've buried some of our chances right away. Never did, it went right down to the wire. We didn't want it to, but that's the way it ended up. Our strengths are gonna be our goaltending and our defense. It's gonna start from there on out and hopefully the forwards, hopefully we start to learn how to put that puck in the net.

Samantha Herslip, senior:Our team's pretty fast, we got a lot of people who have came up over the years and we got a lot of determination and a lot of heart. I feel if we can get past the Fargo and Grand Forks teams, we're gonna be pretty successful.

Harly Damron, junior:We got three lines, three good lines like coach Morelli says its quality over quantity and we definitely got that.

The Majettes next action will be next Friday when they host West Fargo. watch the video | save this article / add to your favorites list