Sarah Nurse will start her first season with the still-unnamed Vancouver franchise in the Professional Women's Hockey League this fall — but she's already made her mark off the ice with a Barbie doll in her likeness.

The Canadian forward, MVP at the 2022 Olympic women's hockey tournament, was one of two players featured in a recent collaboration between the PWHL, Tim Hortons and Mattel.

Nurse and Montreal Victoire star Marie-Philip Poulin each have dolls dressed in PWHL gear, part of a project celebrating women's achievements in the sport.

Nurse says it's a "big privilege" to show the younger generation that women can be professional hockey players.

"There are so many women who are older than me, who never got the chance to play hockey or never had a hockey-playing Barbie doll to play

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