The Minnesota Frost won the 2025 Walter Cup on Monday. They defeated the Ottawa Charge 2-1 in overtime, and won the best out of five series three games to one. In the process, five Canadians won the 2025 Professional Women’s Hockey League Championship. They are Canadian Olympic gold medalist Claire Thompson of Toronto, Ontario, Sophie Jaques of Toronto, Mae Batherson of New Minas, Nova Scotia, Brooke McQuigge of Bowmanville, Ontario, and Michela Cava of Thunder Bay, Ontario. Thompson, Batherson and Jaques are defenders, while McQuigge and Cava are forwards.
Thompson won a gold medal for Canada at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing. In the 2025 PWHL Playoffs, she had six assists for six points in eight games. Thompson was a +2 with four penalty minutes, one faceoff win, and 17 shots on goal. The faceoff win came in game two of the PWHL semifinal, a 5-3 Frost win over the Toronto Sceptres on May 9.
Jaques had two goals and five assists for seven points in the playoffs. She was a +1 with one game-winning goal and 25 shots on goal. Both of Jaques’s goals came against the Sceptres. The first was a game-winning goal at 13:47 of the third period from Taylor Heise in game two against the Sceptres. At the time, Minnesota went up 4-3. The second goal was with two goals and 25 seconds left in the second period from Melissa Channell-Watkins and Kelly Pannek in game three of the PWHL semifinal, a 7-5 Frost win over the Sceptres on May 11. This goal put the Frost up 5-2.
Batherson was a -2 with one shot on goal. The shot on goal came in game two of the series against Toronto.
Cava had three goals and two assists for five points in eight games. She was a -3 with four penalty minutes, one power-play goal, one game-winning goal, and 17 shots on goal. The game-winning goal and power-play goal came in game three of the series against the Sceptres. Cava put the Frost up 6-4 at 7:20 of the third period from Channell-Watkins and Heise with the game-winning goal, and put the Frost up 7-4 at 9:21 of the third period from Heise and Lee Stecklein. In game four against Toronto on May 14, Cava had two assists in a 4-3 win over the Sceptres. Cava set up Kendall Coyne Schofield on one goal in the second and another in the third period.
McQuigge had two goals and one assist for three points in eight games. She was a zero plus/minus rating with two penalty minutes, one power-play goal, one faceoff win, and 13 shots on goal. McQuigge’s goals came in game three against the Sceptres. McQuigge put the Frost up 2-0 at 6:56 of the first period from Grace Zumwinkle and scored again from Coyne Schofield and Jaques at 8:20 of the second period on the power-play to put the Frost up 5-2. McQuigge’s assist came in game four against Toronto. The assist came on a goal by Kelly Pannek which tied the game at two with one minute and 12 seconds left in the second period.
