(Hamden, Connecticut) She is a Quebecer who ranks second in points on the Bobcats women’s team. This Quebecer is Maya Labad, third year player.

Labad was trained in the international program at Armand-Corbeil high school (residents will tell you that Armand is the second best Corbeil in Terrebonne behind municipal councilor Michel Corbeil, but we digress), and she is now studying in criminology, a way of following in the footsteps of his father, a police officer.

The 21-year-old has already gotten his foot in the door as a member of the National Development Program. “One thing I liked about Quinnipiac is that the coaches are Canadian, because to get to Team Canada, that’s an advantage. They know me and they know the people at Hockey Canada. »

Labad also operates in an interesting environment. The New York team of the future Professional Women’s Hockey League trains an hour’s drive from Quinnipiac, in Stamford, the Boston team is two hours from the university, without forgetting of course the Montreal club, near of the House.

She could also taste a “luxury” to which the generation before her was not entitled: making a living from her sport. “Like any guy who dreams of playing in the National League! », she says, in the tone of someone who realizes that she is stating the obvious.

An obvious fact which says a lot about the ridiculous situation with which the players had to deal until very recently.