The story of the week is not actually this Shannon Szabados profile behind the Athletic’s paywall. It’s what this part of the profile implies:
A middle-aged gentleman wanders over to check out the morning's on-ice session, two dozen swirling players in helmets and masks.
“So who's this?”
The Canadian women's squad, he is told.
Suddenly he's dying to know something else: “Which one is Szabados?”
From this anecdote, Cruikshank implies Szabados is on the ice for practice with Team Canada, although he never says it straight out, or dates the anecdote.