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Women’s Hockey Wednesday: Who’s in goal for Team Canada?

Shannon Szabados’ long, trail-blazing road has never been easy: ‘She always has to prove herself’ – The Athletic

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.