[10] The Whitecaps were formed by two Minneapolis–Saint Paul area hockey dads, Jack Brodt and Dwayne Schmidgall in 2004.

They wanted to give their daughters – Winny Brodt-Brown, former Minnesota Golden Gophers player and U.S. national team member, and Jenny Schmidgall-Potter, a four-time U.S. Olympic medalist – a place to play after college.

The Whitecaps then played in the final match of the tournament but lost by a score of 3–1 to the Montreal Stars, who would take home the Clarkson Cup.

The first match of the WWHL qualifying round took place on February 5, 2010, at the Minnesota Pagel Ice Arena and the Whitecaps defeated the Strathmore Rockies by a score of 6–3.

[14] During the second match on February 6 at Victory Memorial Ice Arena, the Whitecaps beat Strathmore by a score of 4–1.

[14] The Whitecaps 2–1 record advanced the team to the 2010 Clarkson Cup tournament in Richmond Hill, Ontario.

[22] The two teams attempted to continue operating the league, but lost several board members and were unable to put together a 2011–12 season.

While independent, the Whitecaps' schedule consisted mostly of games against women's college ice hockey squads.

[24] In February 2018, Kate Schipper and Sadie Lundquist were invited to represent the Whitecaps at the NWHL All-Star Game and Skills Challenge, which were held at TRIA Rink in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

[30] During their first NWHL season, league commissioner Dani Rylan stated that the Whitecaps were the first team in the league to turn a profit by having a league-leading 500 season tickets sold, significant merchandise sales, and all home games sold out through eight games.

[32] On March 17, 2019, the Whitecaps beat the Buffalo Beauts 2–1 in overtime to win the Isobel Cup league playoff championship.

The Whitecaps also ended the season with the highest average attendance by selling out all ten home games including the playoffs.

[38] Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, Pts = Points From the 2011–12 season through the 2017–18 season, the Whitecaps played only exhibition games against CWHL, NCAA, high school and NWHL teams.