Canada wins opening game at inaugural women’s Para hockey world championships

DOLNY KUBIN, Slovakia (IPC)  Alyssa White and Raphaelle Tousignant both scored hat tricks on Tuesday in Canada’s 10-0 victory over Team World in its historic first game at the inaugural women’ Para ice hockey tournament.

Tousignant found the net twice in the first minute of the game. Canada added six more goals in the second period with Emilie Charron-Pilotte, White (twice), Claire Buchanan, Alanna Mah and Tousignant again. White and Peggy Assinck closed the score in the third period. 

“Getting that first game under your belt is what you look forward to, to get that checkmark. It feels like we’re in the right path, just to continue building throughout the week,” Buchanan said.

Head Coach Tara Chisholm was pleased with the opportunity for Canada to play in the opening day of the tournament.

“For us it’s always exciting for these women to grow together every game, and so even though we were playing a newer team, a team that don’t play together as Team World, it’s still about what we’re doing as a team,’’ she said. ‘’We had some women that don’t typically score, work on some systems that we don’t always work in other games, so it was a great opportunity for us to play different styles of team play.”

Team World was composed of athletes from nine different countries – including host Slovak players Ema Simakova and Michaela Hozakova.

In Tuesday’s other game, the U.S. blanked Australia 8-0.

Canada returns to action Thursday against Great Britain.

Full game below