Teenage phenom Chloe Primerano made her debut for Team Canada on Wednesday night during Game 1 of the Canada-USA Rivalry Series in San Jose, Calif.
The 17-year-old was the youngest player named to Team Canada’s roster for the November slate of games. Primerano is now the second-youngest defender to ever play for Canada’s senior national women’s team behind Cheryl Pounder — a hockey broadcast analyst for TSN — who debuted for Canada as a teenager at the 1994 women’s world championships.
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Primerano started the game on a pair with Jocelyne Larocque, Canada’s long-time top-pair defender.
It’s yet another benchmark for Primerano, who is charting a unique path in women’s hockey. In September, she made her highly-anticipated NCAA debut with the University of Minnesota a year earlier than expected after graduating high school early and starting college at 17. Primerano is the youngest player in women’s college hockey and has six points in 10 games for the No. 3 Golden Gophers — good for second among defenders on her team.
“She has nothing really to prove at this U18 level, and going to the college level she can really see what she really needs to work on at that level…
