{"id":582665,"date":"2026-04-04T23:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T23:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/582665\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T23:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T23:24:09","slug":"frost-clinch-pwhl-playoff-spot-with-6-5-victory-over-vancouver-goldeneyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/582665\/","title":{"rendered":"Frost clinch PWHL playoff spot with 6-5 victory over Vancouver Goldeneyes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kelly Pannek had two goals and two assists to pad her PWHL-leading points total and help the Minnesota Frost hold off the Vancouver Goldeneyes 6-5 on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The two-time defending champions ended a three-game losing streak and clinched a spot in the post-season.<\/p>\n

Pannek scored twice on power plays in the third period to give Minnesota (12-3-4-6) a 6-4 lead.<\/p>\n

She tops the league with 14 goals and 28 points with five games left in the regular season. Pannek had seven goals total in her first two PWHL seasons.<\/p>\n

Sarah Nurse redirected a shot by former Frost standout Sophie Jaques just 1:18 after puck drop to give Vancouver a 1-0 lead. It was the earliest goal this season for the Goldeneyes, who had posted regulation victories the previous five times they scored first.<\/p>\n

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Minnesota Frost clinch playoff spot with victory over Vancouver Goldeneyes<\/p>\n

Kelly Pannek scores twice on a power play in the third period as the two-time defending Walter Cup champions Minnesota Frost defeat the Vancouver Goldeneyes 6-5.<\/p>\n

Pannek used a no-look backward pass to set up Grace Zumwinkle in front of the net for her career-high 12th goal of the season, tying it 1-1 at 9:05. Pannek’s 14 assists this season is a career high.<\/p>\n

Minnesota took a 2-1 lead with 2:21 left in the first when Katy Knoll scored her seventh goal \u2014 with assists from Lee Stecklein and Pannek.<\/p>\n

But Tereza Vani\u0161ov\u00e1 beat Frost goaltender Nicole Hensley one on one to tie it and Jaques gave the Goldeneyes a 3-2 lead when she scored on a power play. The two clubs combined for three goals in 40 seconds.<\/p>\n

Vancouver took a two-goal lead 3:30 into the second period on Jenn Gardiner’s fourth goal.<\/p>\n

Mae Batherson scored her third goal, and Taylor Heise followed with her 10th \u2014 on a power-play 1:18 later \u2014 to even it 4-4 at 13:25.<\/p>\n

Pannek gave Minnesota a 5-4 lead a little over four minutes into the third period with Heise notching her career-best 16th assist and rookie Kendall Cooper collecting her 14th.<\/p>\n

Pannek scored another power-play goal with 6:16 remaining for some insurance that became necessary when Izzy Daniel scored her seventh goal for the Goldeneyes with 53 seconds left.<\/p>\n

Hensley finished with 20 saves for Minnesota. Emerance Maschmeyer stopped 29 shots for Vancouver.<\/p>\n

Up next Vancouver hosts the Boston Fleet on Tuesday and Minnesota welcomes the New York Sirens on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-582665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}