The Minnesota Whitecaps are a professional women's ice hockey team that plays in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota area. In 2006-07 they were members of the National Women's Hockey League. They had been part of the Western Women's Hockey League from the fall of 2004 until the summer of 2006. In July 2006 it was announced that team along with other WWHL teams would be joining the National Women's Hockey League for the 2006-07 season. However, this was short lived as the NWHL and WWHL could not reach an agreement upon a playoff schedule. As a result, the merger was not consummated. With the collapse of the NWHL in the summer of 2007, the Western Women's Hockey League was once again a completely independent league. In March 2010, the Whitecaps became the first American team to win the Clark