Canada unveils roster to defend women's hockey world title

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Canada's roster for the women's satellite hockey title has been unveiled. A squad of 25 players are tasked with defending the golden medal erstwhile the 10-day title starts April 9 successful Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic.

Hannah Miller, Sophie Jaques, Chloe Primerano among Canadians making worlds debut

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Mar 21, 2025 3:35 PM EDT | Last Updated: 15 minutes ago

Team Canada's women's hockey squad basal limb successful limb connected the bluish enactment arsenic their emblem is raised successful the arena.

Canada's roster for the women's satellite hockey title has been unveiled.

A squad of 25 players are tasked with defending the golden medal erstwhile the 10-day title starts April 9 successful Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic.

Canada starts defence of its rubric April 10th against Finland.

The squad includes veterans specified forwards Marie-Philip Poulin, Brianne Jenner, Sarah Nurse and defender Jocelyn Larocque, but forwards Darryl Watts and Hannah Miller and defenders Sophie Jaques and Chloe Primerano are among players who volition marque their satellite title debuts for Canada.

There are 17 returning players from the Canadian squad that defeated big United 6-5 successful overtime successful past year's last successful Utica, N.Y.

The 2025 variation was selected by wide manager Gia Kingsbury, caput manager Troy Ryan, elder scouting and improvement manager Cherie Piper, adjunct coaches Kori Cheverie, Caroline Ouellette and Britni Smith, arsenic good arsenic goaltending advisor Brad Kirwood.

The International Ice Hockey Federation accrued the size of women's rosters from 23 players to 25 this twelvemonth to lucifer the men's satellite championship, though women's Olympic rosters volition stay astatine 23 adjacent twelvemonth successful Milan-Cortina, Italy.

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1 twelvemonth retired from the Winter Olympics, Anastasia Bucsis and Karissa Donkin springiness their instrumentality connected who volition marque the Canadian women's Olympic hockey team.

Canada is successful a excavation with the tournament's apical 5 seeds including the United States, big Czechia, Finland and Switzerland.

Germany, Hungary, Japan, Norway and Sweden circular retired the field.

Eve Gascon joins Canada's goaltending trio alongside veterans Ann-Renée Desbiens and Kristen Campbell.

Emerance Maschmeyer, a regular successful Canada's lineup successful caller years, was placed connected semipermanent wounded reserve by the PWHL's Ottawa Charge aft she sustained a lower-body wounded successful a March 11 game.

Danielle Serdachny, who scored the OT victor successful past year's final, joins Laura Stacey, Natalie Spooner, Sarah Fillier, Emily Clark, Emma Maltais, Blayre Turnbull and Kristin O'Neill among returning forwards.

Renata Fast, Ella Shelton, Erin Ambrose, Micah-Zandee Hart and Claire Thompson circular retired the defence.

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Danielle Serdachny scored a power-play extremity successful overtime arsenic Canada reclaimed the women's satellite hockey title from the United States with a 6-5 victory.

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