Taylor Heise, the PWHL’s first draft pick, was a teammate on both teams, last year’s Walter Cup winners and last month’s world champions. Stecklein is seven years older.
“She has done it all, and I look up to her for that,” Heise said. “She has been doing this for a while, but she continues to break barriers. She has been on championship-winning teams, which I can’t say I have. The Olympics, I have not done that. She has done so many things that have added up and her career has been so successful. I’m super proud of her.
“I know she would never say how successful she has been, but the statistics prove it, and so do the championships. She’s got them all.”
Now the question is — with the Frost one win away from reaching the finals with the chance to play the Montreal-Ottawa winner for the Walter Cup — how many more championship does Stecklein have in her?
“We’ll have to see,” she said.
Frost vs. Toronto
6 p.m. Wednesday at Xcel Energy Center
