When you want to send a team of hockey players to China for a week, the more players who are financially able to pick up stakes and leave the country, the better. Unfortunately, the Toronto Furies have the fewest amount of national team players of any Canadian team in the league. A lot of them just can’t afford that much time off from their non-hockey jobs. So, the team arrived in Shenzhen for this week’s roadtrip with just nine forwards, five defenders and two goalies.
Let’s do the count.
In total, five Furies from the regular roster (Julia Fedeski, Shannon Moulson-Nap, Carolyne Prévost, Jess Vella and third goalie Amanda Makela) stayed behind for work reasons.