Rooney posts shutout as Frost rout Charge in Takeover Tour game in North Carolina

The Associated Press

· Posted: Mar 08, 2025 7:43 AM EST | Last Updated: 7 minutes ago

Kendall Coyne Schofield scored the game-winning extremity successful the sixth infinitesimal of play and Maddie Rooney earned her 2nd shutout arsenic the Minnesota Frost blanked the Ottawa Charge 5-0 connected Friday nighttime successful a PWHL crippled played connected the location crystal of the NHL's Carolina Hurricanes.

The Lenovo Center in Raleigh, N.C., hosted 10,782 fans for the league's Takeover Tour game.

Ottawa scored 8 goals and the teams combined for 11 successful their past meeting, but Schofield wasted small clip putting the Frost successful beforehand for good, beating starting goalkeeper Emerance Maschmeyer astatine the 5:47 people of the archetypal period. Brooke McQuigge scored successful the 16th infinitesimal and Denisa Křížová scored 2 minutes aboriginal and Minnesota led 3-0 aft a period.

WATCH | Minnesota scores 3 goals successful 1st period:

Ottawa replaced Maschmeyer with Gwyneth Philips to commencement a scoreless 2nd period. But Sophie Jaques pounced connected a escaped puck betwixt the face-off circles and whipped a changeable past Philips conscionable 35 seconds into the third.

Ottawa had a power-play accidental successful the closing minutes, but adjacent with an other attacker the Charge could not get a puck past Rooney. Michela Cava added an bare nett extremity with 1:33 left.

Schofield's extremity is her ninth and she added an assistance for 20 full points, 3 down Toronto's Hannah Miller for the league lead. Cava's extremity is her ninth of the play and Jaques picked up her 12th assist.

Rooney stopped each 19 Ottawa shots to cod the triumph and has present allowed 1 extremity oregon less successful six games.

Hurricanes' skipper Jordan Staal, from Thunder Bay, Ontario, visited the Ottawa dressing country earlier the crippled to work the team's starting lineup, with his young daughters Abigail (10) and Lilah (8).

Raleigh autochthonal Mary Derrenbacher, a two-time subordinate of Team USA's Under 18 Women's World Championship team, was invited into the Frost dressing country to work its starting lineup.