P.A.’s Stone in town for CWHL Clarkson Cup Tour
When Danny Stone first started playing in the Canadian Women’s Hockey League, she still couldn’t believe she was playing in a professional league that not only featured some of the best women’s hockey players in the world, but Canadian Olympian players as well.
Name a Canadian Olympian and Stone’s probably played with or against her. Stone, the 24-year-old from Prince Albert, was drafted onto the 2013-2014 Calgary Inferno, finding herself on the same roster with Canadian Olympic gold medalists Shannon Szabados and Meaghan Mikkelson, Jocelyne Larocque and Tara Watchorn (Szabados and Mikkelson have two gold medals each).
“It’s crazy. At first, I won’t lie, I was a little star struck,” said Stone. “I went from watching all these players playing on TV and at the Olympics and definitely having a lot of respect for them. [I’m] not only playing against them, but playing on the same teams with them and creating friendships with them along the way, too. It’s been an unbelievable experience that I’m extremely happy that I’ve gotten to take part in.”
This weekend, Stone may make a few local fans get a little ‘star struck’ themselves. She’ll be in her hometown of Prince Albert on the Prairie Toyota Clarkson Cup Tour on Saturday as part of the Canadian Tire Car Show. Also making the tour is Canadian Olympian Natalie Spooner and Stone’s Inferno teammate Tegan Schroeder from Lumsden.