Making the cut
Blayre Turnbull to compete in World Championships.
Stellarton’s Blayre Turnbull has been named to the 23-player Team Canada roster for the upcoming 2017 IIHF Women’s World Championship.
She joins well-known players such as Natalie Spooner, Meghan Mikkelson, Marie Philip Poulin and Jennifer Wakefield on the team, which will play March 31-April 7 in Plymouth, Michigan.
“This is a determined group of players that have been chosen to wear the red-and-white on the international stage,” said Laura Schuler, head coach of Canada’s National Women’s Team. “As our evaluation process continues leading into the selection of our Olympic centralization roster later this year, we’re confident this group will make Canada proud in Plymouth and we’re looking forward to building on our successes from the 2016-17 season.”
Turnbull was also a member of the national women’s team that won the two-game 2016 December Series against the United States, and the team that won a silver medal at last year’s world championship.
Canada will open the 2017 IIHF Women’s World Championship against the United States on March 31, and also faces Finland (April 1) and Russia (April 3) in the preliminary round.
All of Canada’s games at the 2017 IIHF Women’s World Championship will be broadcast by TSN and RDS, the official broadcasters of Hockey Canada.
The 2017 IIHF Women’s World Championship is the 18th since the tournament’s 1990 inception. Canada’s National Women’s Team has appeared in every world championship gold-medal game, winning 10 gold medals (1990, 1992, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2007 and 2012) and seven silver (2005, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2016).
Players in Canada’s National Women’s Team program will continue to be monitored with their club teams leading into and during the 2017 IIHF Women’s World Championship by Hockey Canada scouts, along with the coaching staff, prior to the announcement of Canada’s National Women’s Team Olympic centralization roster this spring.