Heise’s OT winner lifts Frost past Goldneyes 2-1 in Takeover Tour stop in Edmonton

By Canadian Press on December 27, 2025.

EDMONTON — Taylor Heise scored her first goal of the season 3:57 into overtime Saturday afternoon to give the Minnesota Frost a 3-2 victory over the Vancouver Goldeneyes as the Professional Women’s Hockey League Takeover Tour hit Edmonton’s Rogers Place.

Heise worked her way into the left faceoff circle before rifling a shot just under the crossbar to give the Frost (3-1-1-2) the win and keep Vancouver (2-1-1-4) winless on the road.

Abby Hustler also scored for Minnesota, with Maddie Rooney making 27 saves.

Izzy Daniel had Vancouver’s lone goal. Emerance Maschmeyer stopped 33 shots.

With 10,645 mostly partisan Vancouver fans having cheered through 52 minutes of scoreless hockey after two scores in the first three minutes of the game, the Goldeneyes had a golden opportunity with a power play at 15:04 of the third period. Against one of the worst penalty-killing teams in the league, Vancouver failed to generate a single shot on goal.

The Goldeneyes needed Maschmeyer to be brilliant in the final 15 seconds. Minnesota’s Britta Curl-Salemme tested her with a rising slapshot and the Frost crashed the net trying unsuccessfully to get the puck into the net.

The game began ominously for Vancouver. Gabby Rosenthal drew a delay of game penalty just 54 seconds in and it took Minnesota only 24 seconds to capitalize. Hustler rifled a shot from the slot past Maschmeyer to finish off a series of crisp passes that left her wide open.

The Goldeneyes responded less than two minutes later when Daniel backhanded a rebound past Rooney.

A series of penalties enabled Minnesota to control most of the first half of the period and only some sharp saves by Maschmeyer, a couple of key blocks by her teammates and some erratic shooting by Minnesota kept he score tied.

After surviving three consecutive penalties Vancouver found its game and swung the momentum in its favour. Despite a lot of offensive pressure and a number of superb scoring chances, the Goldeneyes couldn’t break the deadlock.

The second period was statistically uneventful with only one penalty and no scoring. Both teams created numerous shooting opportunities but neither could find a crack in either goaltender.

The best scoring chances came in the final six minutes. Minnesota’s Katy Kroll chased down a long pass for a short breakaway that Maschmeyer shut down. In the final seconds, Vancouver winger Michela Cava had a quick break off the right side but Rooney got a pad out to block her move to the backhand.

Playing their sixth straight road game, the Goldeneyes had several opportunities to grab a lead in the third period, including Sophie Jaques’s attempt seven minutes in. She followed her first shot from the left circle to grab the rebound in tight but couldn’t push the puck past Rooney.

The game was the third of 16 Tour stops for the PWHL this season and the first of two visits to Edmonton with the second game scheduled for April 7, 2026.

The Takeover Tour consists of 16 neutral-site regular-season games played outside the league’s current cities. Saturday’s game was the second Tour stop in Edmonton. Last season the Ottawa-Toronto game drew a sold-out crowd of 17,518 to Rogers Place.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 27, 2025.

John Korobanik, The Canadian Press