If it were up to Melodie Daoust, she wouldn’t play in the Canadian Women’s Hockey League until after the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Daoust, Les Canadiennes’ first-round pick in the 2017 Draft, is currently in Calgary practising with Team Canada in preparation for the Olympics. Five of the 28 players at the camp will be cut from the final roster. She was on the 2014 Olympic team, and was the youngest player on the roster that won Canada a fourth straight Olympic gold medal.
That puts her in a unique position now: a veteran of the Olympic Team, yet still among the younger players in camp.