Hockey Canada announced their roster for the 2019 IIHF Women’s World Championships, held this year in Espoo, Finland, and both the Markham Thunder and Toronto Furies are well-represented.
As usual, the six GTA Canadian Olympians—Laura Stacey, Laura Fortino, Jocelyne Larocque, Sarah Nurse, Renata Fast, and Natalie Spooner—have made the roster. This will actually be Sarah Nurse’s first World Championships; she’s attended the 4 Nations Tournament multiple times, but never Worlds. Thunder forward Jamie Lee Rattray, who got an injury call-up back to the national team at 4 Nations last fall, has played her way into a roster spot at Worlds from the get-go.