ST. PAUL, Minn. — Liz Schepers scored 12 minutes into extra time and the Minnesota Frost gained their second straight PWHL Walter Cup with a 2-1 win over the Ottawa Cost on Monday evening in Recreation 4.
Every sport within the best-of-five sequence went to no less than one extra time and completed 2-1, with Recreation 3 going to triple extra time, the longest sport in PWHL Finals historical past. The groups performed 81 minutes, eight seconds of additional time within the sequence. The fourth sport got here precisely a 12 months after Minnesota fell to Boston 1-0 in a Recreation 4 double extra time earlier than happening the highway to win the inaugural Walter Cup.
Katy Knoll went alongside the wall and fed Schepers in entrance of the web. Goaltender Gwyneth Philips parried the primary shot, however Schepers poked residence the rebound to clinch back-to-back Walter Cup titles for the Frost. Maddie Rooney had 33 saves for Minnesota.
Halfway by means of the second interval, Claire Thompson pinched in from the left level and fed Kelly Pannek alone on the appropriate aspect of the web. Pannek beat Philips excessive for her second playoff purpose. The purpose marked the primary time within the finals the Cost trailed in regulation.
The Cost trailed till the center of the third interval when Tereza Vanisova was alone in entrance of the web and Danielle Serdachny fed her from under the tip line.
It was the primary level of the postseason for Vanisova, who led Ottawa with 15 objectives.
Philips had 36 saves. The rookie had 148 saves in extra time within the postseason.
Ottawa’s Aneta Tejralova, on a rush, hit the left publish with a shot about 5 minutes into extra time and the Frost’s Taylor Heise hit the appropriate publish about 4 minutes later.