On Sunday, Toronto hosts a championship game between two teams shot through with world-class talent
TORONTO — Katia Clement-Heydra offers a blunt assessment of Hilary Knight, the Team USA star who became her teammate on Les Canadiennes Montreal this season.
Knight’s move to Montreal this year was part of a tectonic shift in the women’s hockey landscape. Her fellow Olympic gold medallists Brianna Decker and Kacey Bellamy came north to play for the Calgary Inferno. In leaving the U.S.-based NWHL for the Canadian Women’s Hockey League, the American stars gave the CWHL clear bragging rights for having the best depth of talent in the world.
Decker, who decided together with Bellamy — she says she’s her best friend — to make the jump to Calgary and the CWHL, said that given the high-level experience on the two squads, “It’s honestly, no surprise to me that both our teams are meeting in the finals.” “At first, I had never played with any of the Americans before,” she says. “For me, it was weird at first that they were on our team. But I was also really excited to play with them and learn from them.”
“There’s no animosity,” says Clement-Heydra of this season’s inter-mingling of the Canadian and American stars. “Sometimes we make jokes about it. Of course, when I watch a game I want Canada to win, but I also want to do well. She’s the only one allowed to score, I always tell her that.”
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