... NE's goalie reminds me of Ken Dryden. She averages 0.67 GAA and had 9 SO during the season. You will see her on the US Olympic team and at the World Championships. Her name is Aerin Frankel. She is 5'5" but plays like 6'0". The Badgers hit the post about 4 times but Frankel is amazing at positioning herself.
I second your feelings about
Frankel, with amplification. She is a generational women's hockey player, her name worthy of being spoken in the same breath as
Marie-Philip Poulin &
Hilary Knight. Not sure what her near-future plans are in hockey, but IMO they have to be split between the 2022 Olympics (presuming the U.S. stays committed to sending the athletes to Beijing) & returning for a second senior year @ Northeastern (with 5th year options added by the NCAA due to COVID interruptions). In either case (both don't seem workable together), or maybe even the NWHL (presuming that league survives) , she will continue to be fun to watch.
Meanwhile, there are some extraordinarily talented young women on the Badgers' championship team as well: senior forward
Daryl Watts (she of the 2021 Frozen Four Final OT game winner); junior forward
Sophie Shirley; another junior forward
Britta Curl; and freshman forward
Makenna Webster (from my hometown
) to name a few.
Coach Johnson has a very strong collection of underclasswomen who could compete for another national championship (or two), and he & his senior ladies have some big decisions ahead - if not already made - about returning for another year. Women's hockey should see a peak year in 2021-22 with the 5th year options open, making it an even more entertaining game to follow than it already is.