Team Canada women visit the Ultimate Leafs Fan

Between the two of them, Team Canada alumnae Jayna Hefford and Vicky Sunohara helped carry the expectations of an entire nation for almost a quarter-century.

Now retired from the Canadian National Women’s Team, the duo – who has combined to win 6 Olympic gold medals and two silvers, plus 14 World Championship golds – gladly displayed their well-earned hardware for a gathering of hockey history buffs at the Ultimate Leafs Fan museum last month.

Hefford, 39, is one of only two Canadians along with Hayley Wickenheiser, to earn an Olympic medal in each of the first five Games in which women’s hockey has been contested, beginning in 1998. The mother of two grew up in Kingston, Ontario and followed…