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Home Opening

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markham.thecwhl.com ThunderCWHL A message from A message from markham The CWHL

Professional, powerful and praiseworthy; the best of women in The CWHL is proud to bring women’s hockey to Markham and hockey now call Markham home. players its wonderful fans. It’s an exciting and historic home-opening are role models for young athletes in our community and they weekend for the city and the Thunder, as we welcome Kunlun are ambassadors who deepen our connection to ’s Red Star into our League. It’s the first time a Chinese women’s game. This home opening weekend, East meets West on the team will be playing in a professional league and we’re ice as the Markham Thunder take on the Kunlun Red Star, a delighted to have them in ours and debuting in Markham. point of pride for our multi-cultural city, in what is sure to be an Together, the CWHL, City of Markham, and our Chinese teams exhilarating battle of will and talent. I wish them all a successful are building a future for girls around the world. season. Women’s hockey is alive and well in Markham.

Mayor City of Markham Commissioner, CWHL

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# First Last POS. Hometown 2 Becca King F Thunder Bay, ON # First Last POS. 3 D St. Anne, MB 2 BEIWEI YU D 7 F Mississauga, ON 6 MELANIE JUE D 8 D Hamilton, ON 8 LIXUE XING F 9 F Toronto, ON 9 NAIXIN ZHOU D 10 Alexis Woloschuk D Winnipeg, MB 11 TAYLOR MARCHIN D 11 Megan Delay D Fort Erie, ON 12 STEPHANIE ANDERSON F 15 Laura McIntosh F Waterloo, ON 13 SIYE HE G 16 Fielding Montgomery F Toronto, ON 15 MADISON WOO F 17 Nicole Brown F Oshawa, ON 16 F 18 Jessica Hartwick D , ON 18 LIYING YANG F 19 Dania Simmonds D Aurora, ON 21 WENZHUO WANG F 21 Devon Skeats F Whitby, ON 27 SHIANN DARKANGELO F 22 Nicole Kosta F Mississauga, ON 29 BOWEN JIANG F 23 Lindsay Grigg D Oakville, ON 30 YUQING WANG G 24 Kristen Barbara D Hamilton, ON 41 NOORA RATY G 25 F Morden, MB 44 F 26 F Kanata, ON 49 JESSICA WONG F 27 G Ottawa, ON 71 YUE HOU D 28 MELISSA WRONZBERG F THORNHILL, ON 91 RACHEL LIANES F 31 Jamie Miller G Richmond Hill, ON 93 ZHIXIN LIU D 37 Elizabeth Knox G Stouffville, ON 94 LU WEN D 91 Jenna McParland F Schreiber, ON 98 RUI ZHU F 96 Karolina Urban F Wroclaw, Poland head coach...... general manager ...... Chelsea Purcell chiropractor assistant coach...... Rob Morgan head coach...... Jim Jackson s&c coach...... Adam Murphy assistant coach...... Kevin Stone trainer...... Jess Pemberton assistant coach...... Candice Moxley equipment manager...... Brent Graham

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Date Time Opponent Sat, Oct 14 7:00 pm EDT at TORONTO Sun, Oct 15 1:00 pm EDT at TORONTO Sat, Oct 21 7:30 pm EDT vs KUNLUN Sun, Oct 22 12:30 pm EDT vs KUNLUN Sat, Oct 28 7:30 pm EDT vs MONTREAL Sun, Oct 29 12:30 pm EDT vs MONTREAL Sat, Nov 4 6:00 pm MDT at CALGARY Sun, Nov 5 12:15 pm MST at CALGARY Sat, Nov 18 4:30 pm CST at VANKE Schedule The History of Sun, Nov 19 2:30 pm CST at VANKE Wed, Nov 22 4:30 pm CST at KUNLUN ThunderNation Fri, Nov 24 4:30 pm CST at KUNLUN Sat, Dec 2 7:30 pm EST vs MONTREAL Sat, Dec 9 7:30 pm EST vs BOSTON Established in 1998, The Brampton Thunder is the longest running Sun, Dec 10 12:30 pm EST vs BOSTON club in the CWHL. The Thunder played in the National Women’s Sat, Dec 16 5:30 pm EST at MONTREAL Hockey League for 9 seasons, winning the Championship in the Sun, Dec 17 1:30 pm EST at MONTREAL 1998-99 season and then again in the final season. Brampton was Sat, Jan 6 7:30 pm EST vs VANKE the host to the NWHL Championship for all 9 seasons of its existence. Sat, Jan 13 7:30 pm EST vs VANKE The Thunder have been home to several great Olympians including Sun, Jan 14 1:30 pm EST vs VANKE* , , , Gillian Sat, Jan 20 7:30 pm EST vs KUNLUN Apps and . In 2007, the CWHL was Sat, Feb 3 1:00 pm EST vs TORONTO formed and the Thunder continued on as the Sun, Feb 4 12:30 pm EST vs TORONTO Brampton Canadettes-Thunder. It was only in Sat, Feb 24 7:30 pm EST vs TORONTO the inaugural season of the CWHL that the Sat, Mar 3 7:30 pm EST vs CALGARY Thunder won the league championship. Sun, Mar 4 12:30 pm EST vs CALGARY Sat, Mar 10 8:00 pm EST at BOSTON markham.thecwhl.com Sun, Mar 11 2:00 pm EDT at BOSTON *in Clarington connect ThunderCWHL with Us #ThunderNation

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Thunder fundraiser Sunday, October 22, 2017 • 12:30pm Proceeds from Erica Howe shirt sales, Chuck-A-Puck and 50/50 draw will be donated to the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada. markham.thecwhl.com ThunderCWHL