First time hosting national midget girls hockey championship

Deidre Debassige knew, when she and her parents committed to joining the Sudbury Lady Wolves, that they were in for a lot of travel, including regular two-hour trips from M'Chigeeng First Nation on Manitoulin Island to the Nickel City.

They may not have known just how far Debassige would go – to the 2014 Esso Cup national midget girls hockey championship in Stoney Creek, where her Lady Wolves captured bronze, then to the 2015 tournament in Red Deer, Alta., where Sudbury won gold.

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