Heise's OT winner helps Frost sink Sceptres, sending Minnesota back to PWHL final

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Taylor Heise scored successful overtime aft a two-goal effort by Kendall Coyne Schofield and the defending champion Minnesota Frost eliminated the second-seeded Toronto Sceptres with a 4-3 triumph connected Wednesday night.

Defending champions volition look either Montreal Victoire oregon Ottawa Charge

The Associated Press

· Posted: May 14, 2025 10:48 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

A women's hockey squad celebrates aft a win.

Minnesota — the 4th and last effect successful some postseasons — rallied from 2 goals down to go the archetypal squad successful the league's 2 seasons to triumph a best-of-five bid successful little than 5 aft splitting the archetypal 2 matches successful Toronto. The Frost's lone location nonaccomplishment successful the regular play and postseason came successful Game 4 of the finals for the Walter Cup against the Boston Fleet past play — and that was a 1-0 nonaccomplishment successful treble overtime.

Julia Gosling staked Toronto to a 1-0 pb 5:28 into the lucifer and the Sceptres carried the vantage done the archetypal period. It was Gosling's 3rd extremity of the series. Emma Woods notched her 2nd assistance and Anna Kjellbin her first.

Toronto took a two-goal pb astatine 10:33 successful the 2nd erstwhile Hannah Miller scored for the archetypal clip successful the series. Natalie Spooner snagged her archetypal assist.

WATCH | Heise scores successful OT arsenic Frost apical Sceptres, advancing to PWHL final:

Heise sends Frost backmost to PWHL Finals with OT victor that eliminates Sceptres

The reigning Walter Cup champions volition person a accidental to support their rubric arsenic Taylor Heise's overtime extremity lifts Minnesota to a 4-3 triumph implicit Toronto to triumph their semifinal bid 3-1. The Frost volition look either the Montreal Victoire oregon the Ottawa Charge successful the PWHL Finals.

Coyne Schofield scored 14 seconds aboriginal to get Minnesota wrong a goal. Heise tallied her sixth assistance and Michela Cava her archetypal connected Coyne Schofield's archetypal netter this postseason.

Kelly Pannek scored for the archetypal clip successful the bid with 1:12 near successful the play to necktie it a 2-all. Brooke McQuigge had her archetypal assistance and Mellissa Channell-Watkins her third.

Coyne Schofield's 2nd extremity tied it astatine 8:33 connected different assistance from Cava and the 3rd of the bid from Sophie Jacques. Heise scored the victor unassisted with 4 minutes near successful OT.

Nicole Hensley finished with 26 saves successful extremity for Minnesota.

Carly Jackson totalled 22 saves for Toronto.

Lower-seeded teams are 14-6 truthful acold successful 2 postseasons. Ottawa leads top-seed Montreal 2-1 successful the different series. Game 4 is Friday successful Ottawa.

WATCH | Frost bushed Sceptres successful Game 3 of PWHL semifinal: