The PWHL season doesn’t begin until Nov. 21, but the competition among the women looking to make the Canadian Olympic hockey team is already in full swing.

Two of three training blocks for the Canadian Olympic team are now in the books, after camp wrapped in Toronto at the end of last week.

The final training block begins at the end of this month in Montreal. It will be followed by just four games together as a team in the shortened Canada-U.S. Rivalry Series: two in the U.S. (in Cleveland on Nov. 6 and Buffalo, N.Y. on Nov. 8) and two in Edmonton (on Dec. 10 and 13).

“We’ve been pleasantly happy and surprised with how everyone has come to compete for a spot,” GM Gina Kingsbury told CBC Sports on Friday, after the Toronto camp ended. “I think we’ve got the right group here in place.”

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