The Minnesota Whitecaps captured the National Women's Hockey League title in their inaugural season Sunday.
A little more than six months after making their debut in front of a sold-out crowd at TRIA Rink in St. Paul, the Whitecaps were the last team standing, capturing the Isobel Cup in the same place where it all started.
U.S. Olympian and former Minnesota Gophers star Lee Stecklein scored the game-winning goal 49 seconds into overtime to lift the Whitecaps to a 2-1 victory over the Buffalo Beauts.
Former Minnesota Duluth players Emma Stauber, a Duluth Marshall graduate, and Katherine McGovern are members of the Whitecaps, who were purchased by the NWHL as the fifth team in the league last May.
