Huskies score gold with Team Canada at FISU World University Winter Games
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A pair of Huskie women's hockey players are coming home with gold medals from the FISU World University Winter Games.
Defenceman Isabella Pozzi and goaltender Camryn Drever from the University of Saskatchewan squad were part of Team Canada that downed Japan 5-0 in the gold medal game on Saturday in Lake Placid, New York.
"It was incredible," said Drever of the experience. "It honestly felt so long, but so short at the same time, and just the relationship and the way that the team bonded. It just made it feel like a home away from home."
Pozzi, who was an assistant captain on the team, said it was an experience of a lifetime.
"Winning the gold medal is right at the top," Pozzi said, adding meeting all of the players and coaches from across the country made it even more memorable.
"Sharing this experience with all of them was very special and that's something that I'll never forget."
Canada went undefeated in the tournament scoring 42 goals while giving up just three.
In the gold medal game it took until late in the first period for Canada to score, but after that the game was never in doubt.
It's the first time in a decade that Canada has won gold in the event.
Drever said she got into the spirit of playing in Lake Placid — the site of the Miracle on Ice when the U.S. men's team won Olympic gold — on the flight there.
"I had never watched the movie Miracle until the plane ride there. My roommate, Kennedy Brown, she loves that movie and told me to watch it before I went there.
"And honestly, it was so inspiring. And just to be able to be in that rink was super cool."
Drever said at the start of their first skate, head coach Greg Bowles lined them up at the end of the rink and had them skate up to the line.
"Then he asked one of our teammates, I think it was Maria. He was like, Maria, what's your name and who do you play for [mimicking a scene from the movie]? And then just kind of made that little Miracle quote and yeah, it was pretty special."
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