The Frost have the championship experience in returning to the finals after a four-game semifinal series win over Toronto. The Charge, who knocked off regular-season champion Montreal in four games, are playoff newcomers after missing the postseason in the PWHL’s inaugural season last year.

The PWHL expansion draft rules are out, and they are as costly to the existing teams as most had predicted. Each team will lose four players from its 2024-25 roster with the ability to protect just three initially and then one more after a team has lost two of its roster members.

When the PWHL announced Seattle as the second city in its first wave of expansion (one week after announcing Pacific Northwest neighbor Vancouver), the decision felt less like a surprise and more like a long-awaited inevitability.

Toronto Sceptres head coach Troy Ryan says being unhappy with the result shouldn't mean being unhappy with where the team is headed. The Sceptres fell 4-3 in overtime on Wednesday to lose its best-of-five semifinal against the defending Walter Cup champion Minnesota Frost in four games.

Almost 200 players seek to get their name called and join the top pro league in women’s hockey. On Thursday, the Professional Women’s Hockey League released the names of the 198 athletes who have formally declared for the 2025 PWHL Draft.