By Michael Heilman

The Minnesota Whitecaps visited the Danbury Ice Arena Saturday night to take on the Connecticut Whale. The Whitecaps split last weekend with the Metropolitan Riveters and were looking to extend their winning streak to two games.

There was not a lot of action in the first two periods as the game remained scoreless until Whitecaps forward Allie Thunstrom scored two minutes and thirty-four seconds in the third period to give the Whitecaps a 1-0 lead with an assist from Audra Richards and Meaghan Pezon.

Five minutes later, Thunstrom would get her second goal of the game to extend the Whitecaps lead 2-0 with an assist from Sydney Baldwin. The Whale’s pulled goalie Brooke Wolejko late in the third period to get something going, but Allie Thunstrom completed the hat trick on an empty-net goal to extend the Whitecaps lead 3-0. The Whale could not respond to Thunstrom’s three goals, and the Minnesota Whitecaps defeated the Connecticut Whale 3-0.

The Whitecaps won the shots on goal total with forty shots to the Whale’s twenty. There were several penalties committed by both teams. Minnesota Whitecaps goalie Amanda Leveille made all twenty saves while Whale’s goalie Brooke Wolejko thirty-eight of forty saves, allowing two goals.

With the win, the Whitecaps record is now 6-3-2 and remain in second place in the NWHL standings. Both of these teams will go at it again tomorrow at 1:30 pm from the Danbury Ice Arena.