As expected, Team Canada’s women’s hockey team is off to a flying start at the 2018 Winter Olympics, having won its first two games against the Olympic Athletes of Russia and Finland.
In pursuit of an unprecedented fifth consecutive gold medal, Canada has a pair of notable – albeit unsurprising – absences in Hayley Wickenheiser and Jayna Hefford. The PyeongChang Games are the the first in which neither of the now-retired veterans are participating since women’s hockey became an Olympic sport, twenty years ago.
Hefford, 40, will be among the global audience tuned into Wednesday night’s (Thursday afternoon in South Korea) matchup between Canada and the United States, the perennial powerhouses in the sport as both teams close out the preliminary round.