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1 week ago | 
inforum.com | Dean Spiros
If you had been wanting to pose with the Walter Cup since the founding of the Professional Women’s Hockey League, today was your chance. The Minnesota Frost celebrated their (second) PWHL championship at the Xcel Energy Center in downtown St. Paul on Wednesday evening, and the public was invited.
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1 week ago | 
twincities.com | Dean Spiros
One by one, Frost players made their way onto the stage at Xcel Energy Center on Wednesday night as they were introduced at the start of the ceremony celebrating the team’s second consecutive PWHL championship. Each one wore a big smile and a black T-shirt with an interesting message printed across the front: Minnesota vs. Everyone.
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1 week ago | 
inforum.com | Dean Spiros
Walter will be in town on Memorial Day. The Frost are on a first-name basis with the PWHL championship trophy after winning it — the Walter Cup — last year in the league’s inaugural season. They quickly grew attached to it, calling the union a match made it heaven. Saturday at Xcel Energy Center, the Frost entered Game 3 of the best-of-five PWHL Finals knowing that a win over the Ottawa Charge would leave them just one win away from making Walter theirs to have and to hold for another year.
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3 weeks ago | 
inforum.com | Dean Spiros
ST. PAUL — Toronto Sceptres coach Troy Ryan used the word “chaotic.”Frost coach Ken Klee said it was a fan’s dream and a coach’s nightmare. In other words, anything but a typical, low-scoring playoff hockey game. In the end, it was the Frost who were able to smile through the pain, coming out on top, 7-5, on Sunday at Xcel Energy Center to take a 2 games to 1 lead in the best-of-five series.
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1 month ago | 
inforum.com | Dean Spiros
ST. PAUL — The Frost were done in once again Sunday afternoon at Xcel Energy Center by an inability to finish, and it might have ended their chances of repeating as PWHL champions. Despite outshooting the New York Sirens 33-21 and controlling play for most of the game, the Frost were unable to solve Sirens goaltender Corinne Schroeder in a 2-0 loss that left them 4 points behind the Ottawa Charge for the fourth and final playoff spot with two games to play.
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1 month ago | 
twincities.com | Dean Spiros
From a baseball standout, it’s no stretch to say that 6-foot-8 Saints outfielder Carson McCusker is the talk of the town(s). The 26-year-old former independent league player, signed by the Twins as a minor league free agent in June of 2023, has hit nothing but rockets and tape-measure home runs this young season. As a result, the subject of “exit velocity” also pertains to his likely ascension from Triple-A baseball to the major leagues.
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1 month ago | 
inforum.com | Dean Spiros
With only three regular-season games left and the Frost’s postseason hopes hanging in the balance, the intensity and anxiety usually associated with such a scenario have been replaced by unwanted downtime and a splintered roster. In other words, a less than ideal situation. It’s all due to a nearly month-long break for the World Championships and an unfortunate reality for the fledgling league that could get even worse before it gets better.
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2 months ago | 
twincities.com | Dean Spiros
With spring training dwindling to its final days, right-handed starter David Festa still wasn’t sure whether his season would begin on the banks of the Mississippi River in St. Louis or along the Mississippi in St. Paul. As things turned out, Festa headed north from Fort Myers, not to St. Louis but further north to St. Paul. With Simeon Woods Richardson nailing down the fifth-starter spot with the Twins, Festa was sent to the Triple-A Saints of the International League.
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2 months ago | 
inforum.com | Dean Spiros
After squeaking into the playoffs last season before going on to win the inaugural PWHL championship, it looks as though the Frost are going to have to follow a similar path if they are to have the chance to defend their title in the postseason. Playing their first home game since Feb. 23, the Frost fell to the first-place Montreal Victoire 4-1 on Wednesday night before an announced crowd of 6,330 at Xcel Energy Center.
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2 months ago | 
inforum.com | Dean Spiros
Part of the motivation for the Gophers women’s hockey team for reaching the Frozen Four at Ridder Arena was preventing another team from taking over its locker room. While the Gophers succeeded in that regard, they couldn’t prevent the Wisconsin Badgers — and their fans — from taking over their arena.
