Penalty Box Post - Two Minute Minor
Sunday, October 4, 2020
GWH alumna Rosenthal re-signs with Whitecaps for 2020-2021
Two-time NCAA champion and 2019 NWHL Isobel Cup winner Chelsey (Brodt) Rosenthal has re-signed with the Minnesota Whitecaps for the 2020-2021 season, her third year with the club in the NWHL, as announced last Wednesday. In her first two seasons in the league, including the playoffs, Rosenthal has 7 assists and a +7 plus-minus rating.
Rosenthal is the third Gopher alumna to join an NWHL roster for the upcoming season after Amanda Leveille and Meghan Lorence re-signed with Minnesota earlier this off-season. (Photo courtesy of the NWHL / MN Whitecaps)
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Räty signs one-year extension with KRS Vanke Rays in China
Another two-time NCAA champion, Noora Räty, has signed an extension to remain with the KRS Vanke Rays in Shenzhen, China, for the 2020-2021 season, her fourth with the organization. The signing was reported in her native Finland as occurring on September 3, and Räty announced her preparation for the upcoming season in an Instagram post yesterday.
The Vanke Rays are the defending Russian Women's Hockey League (WHL) champions, with Räty posting a 4-0 record and a 1.50 goals-against average in last season's playoffs, including a 4-2 victory in the title-clinching third game of the best-of-5 WHL championship series. The team opens its new season this Wednesday, October 7, against Biryusia.
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Correction: 10 Gopher alumnae in the PWHPA for 2020-2021
Though we reported in our July 2 issue of the Penalty Box Post that Lee Stecklein and Kelly Pannek had signed with the Professional Women's Hockey Players Association (PWHPA) for 2020-2021 – the seventh and eighth Gopher Women's Hockey alumnae to do so at that time – we erroneously failed to list and count them when Amanda Kessel became the ninth Minnesota alumna to sign with the PWHPA in August, and again overlooked Stecklein when we reported that Nicole Schammel signed as the 10th Gopher in the organization last month. We apologize for the oversight.
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