The souvenir Jocelyne Larocque has from last year’s Walter Cup final shares close quarters with her deodorant, nail clippers, lip balm and toothpaste. Article content

“I still have a playoff puck in my toiletry bag, in the (dressing) room,” the Ottawa Charge defender said at the opening of the team’s 2025-26 training camp this week. “I look at that and I’m like, you know what? I want that Walter Cup.” Article content Article content

Larocque, a 37-year-old Frano-Manitoban who grew up just outside of Winnipeg in Sainte-Anne-des-Chenes, is quite familiar with the taste of victory.

Representing Canada’s national women’s team, she has won two gold medals (2014, 2022) and a silver (2018) from the Olympic Games and two golds, along with five silvers, from world championships.

She also ha

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