QUÉBEC — Veteran forward Sarah Nurse has been removed from the Canadian women’s hockey team selection camp roster for the upcoming world championship and replaced by college forward Alexia Aubin.
Hockey Canada announced the roster change Thursday in a social media post on X on the first day of camp in Quebec City and didn’t give a reason for it.
Canada’s world championship team of 25 players will be selected from 42 invited to the seven-day camp.
Nurse, a three-time Olympian, set a tournament points and assists record en route to gold at the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing. She’s helped Canada’s women win world championships in 2021, 2022 and 2024.
The 31-year-old missed almost eight weeks of the Vancouver Goldeneyes’ first PWHL season after her arm was injured in the season opener. Nurse scored the first goal in Goldeneyes’ history in that game.
Aubin, from Lévis, Que., is a junior at Colgate University. The 20-year-old played for Canada’s development team in a three-game summer series against the United States.
The Nov. 6-16 women’s world championship will be played in Esbjerg and Herning, Denmark. The U.S. is the defending champion.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 8, 2026.
The Canadian Press