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Team Canada Celebrates , The Canadian PressAlmost three decades after the first women's world hockey championship in Ottawa, certain rites are ingrained in the Canadian team.
While the opposition's net is almost always full of pucks waiting for an arena worker to skate out with a bucket and collect them, a handful of Canadians are on their knees plucking pucks from their own crease and putting them in a pail to be skated to the bench."Of course rink staff could do it, but we're using them, so we should be picking them up," Canadian defender Jocelyne Larocque said.
"I think I learned it from girls who played before me," Ouellette said."I hopefully inspired others to do the same." She transitioned out of the job of Hockey Canada's director of national women's teams last year into the role of head scout. Former player Gina Kingsbury took over as director. "I think it was always a sign of respect that was always given by Team Canada to people in the rinks," said former captain Cassie Campbell-Pascall .
"We're a team that has a lot of tradition, a lot of culture," Kingsbury said."We've been around a long time. We've built routines and rituals.It's not a leave-it-to-the-rookie chore either.
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