Laura Rachel Stacey (born May 5, 1994) is a Canadian

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player, currently affiliated with the Montreal chapter of the

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(PWHPA) and a member of the

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. She previously played with the

Markham Thunder The Markham Thunder was a professional women's ice hockey team in the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL). From 1998 through 2017, the franchise was known as the Brampton Thunder and Brampton Canadettes-Thunder before relocating from Brampton, O ...

and the

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and competed internationally with the Canadian women's national under-18 and under-22 teams. She won a silver medal with Team Canada at the

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and a gold medal at the

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Playing career

She represented Team Ontario at the 2011 Canada Winter Games. During the

2011–12 Canada women's national ice hockey team The 2011–12 women's national hockey team represented Canada in various tournaments during the 2011-12 hockey season. The head coach of the National team was York Lions women's ice hockey coach Dan Church. News and notes *June 23, 2011: Sixteen ...

season, she was a member of the Canadian National Under 18 team that participated in a three-game series vs. the US in August 2011. She scored a goal in the gold medal game of the

2011 Canadian National Women's Under-18 Championships The 2011 Canadian National Women's Under-18 Championships in ice hockey were held in Saguenay, Quebec. All games were contested at the Centre Georges-Vézina. Team Ontario Red claimed their sixth gold medal. Team Manitoba claimed their third bro ...

for Team Ontario Red. In the first game of the

2012 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship The 2012 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship was the fifth IIHF World Women's U18 Championships and was hosted in Zlín and Přerov, Czech Republic. It began on December 31, 2011 with the gold medal game played on January 7, 2012. Canada won the ...

(contested on December 31, 2011), Laura Stacey accumulated three points in a 13–1 rout of Switzerland. Stacey played for Team Canada at the

, playing in five games and earning a silver medal. On January 11, 2022, Stacey was named to Canada's 2022 Olympic team.

NCAA

On January 23, 2012, it was announced that Stacey committed to the Dartmouth Big Green. In her first season, she was named to the ECAC Hockey All-Rookie Team and was one of three finalists for the ECAC Rookie of the Year. As a junior, she earned All-Ivy Honorable Mention. In her senior year (2015-16), she captained the Big Green and earned All-Ivy first-team honours.

CWHL

Stacey was selected third overall by the Brampton Thunder in the

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. Making her CWHL debut in a road contest against the Calgary Inferno on October 8, 2016, she would log her first goal with the Thunder on October 9. An October 16 tilt with Les Canadiennes de Montreal resulted in the first multi-point performance of her CWHL career, as she recorded a pair of assists. In her first season in the league, Stacey was named among the participants in the

3rd CWHL All-Star Game The 3rd Canadian Women's Hockey League All-Star Game took place on February 12, 2017, at Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The event featured three 20-minute periods, and 34 players were named as participants Jess Jones and Jillian Sa ...

. Competing with Team White, she was joined by fellow Thunder teammates

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and

Rebecca Vint Rebecca Vint (born May 5, 1992) is a Canadian-born women's ice hockey player. She played with the Robert Morris Colonials women's ice hockey program and graduated as the program's all-time leading scorer, with 73 goals and 134 points. She most re ...

. Stacey and Vint logged an assist on the ninth goal of the game, scored by

Marie-Philip Poulin Marie-Philip Poulin-Nadeau (born March 28, 1991) is a Canadian ice hockey forward, currently with the PWHPA and who serves as captain of the Canada women's national ice hockey team, Canadian national team. A three-time Olympic and three-time Wo ...

. Appearing in the 2018 Clarkson Cup finals against the

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, Stacey would score with 2:11 left in the 4-on-4 overtime, as Markham prevailed by a 2–1 tally for its first-ever Cup win.

Career statistics

Hockey Canada

*''In progress''

NCAA

CWHL

Awards and honours

*2011 Canada Winter games: Silver medal (with Team Ontario)

NCAA

*2012-13: ECAC Hockey All-Rookie Team *2014-15: All-Ivy Honorable Mention *2014-15: ECAC Hockey All-Academic *2015-16: Dartmouth Team Captain *2015-16: All-Ivy First Team *2015-16: Academic All-Ivy *2015-16: ECAC Hockey Third Team All-League *2015-16: ECAC Hockey All-Academic

CWHL

2018 Clarkson Cup The 2018 Clarkson Cup was held at the Ricoh Coliseum in Toronto on 25 March 2018 with the Markham Thunder defeating the Kunlun Red Star by a score of 2–1. Laura Stacey scored the game-winning goal with 2 minutes 11 seconds remaining in the overtim ...

champion

Personal life

Stacey is the great-granddaughter of

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King Clancy Francis Michael "King" Clancy (February 25, 1902 – November 8, 1986) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player, referee, coach and executive. Clancy played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Ottawa Senators and Toronto ...

. Her great-uncle,

Terry Clancy Terrance John Clancy (born April 2, 1943) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played 93 games in the National Hockey League between 1967 and 1973. He played with the Oakland Seals and the Toronto Maple Leafs. The rest of his ca ...

, played for Team Canada at the

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in Innsbruck, Austria. She is of Irish descent through Clancy. On May 26, 2023, Stacey announced her engagement to Team Canada teammate

References

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