They remained patient as they probed what turned out to be a human wall in Ottawa goaltender Gwyneth Philips. Their forecheck was fierce. They used their speed. Their penalty-killing was elite. They needed all of it,

The Minnesota Frost won a second consecutive Walter Cup on Monday. Amid the celebration, the reality of PWHL expansion is setting in.

If that’s the way it shakes out and I’m doing my job … then that may be it,” the Frost’s rookie forward, and Game 2 hero, said Friday.

Maddie Rooney backstopped the Minnesota Frost to three straight overtime victories over an Ottawa Charge team full of former UMD teammates to win a second-straight Walter Cup.

The Minnesota Frost are the Walter Cup champions of the Professional Women's Hockey League once again after their Game 4 win Monday night. So it's safe to say we have a dynasty on our hands.

On June 3, the team will have to decide which three players it wants to protect. The rest of them are up for grabs in the expansion draft.

Ottawa’s penalty kill, however, has been very strong in the playoffs, which has kept the special teams battle in the finals (just 1-0 for Minnesota with Britta Curl-Salemme’s late power-play goal in Game 2) more even than it could be.