Teenage phenom Chloe Primerano made her senior international debut for Team Canada on Thursday afternoon at the 2025 women’s world hockey championship in České Budějovice, Czechia.
Having just turned 18 in January, Primerano is the youngest player on Team Canada and the youngest defender to make a Canadian world championship roster since Cheryl Pounder in 1994.
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Primerano started the game against Finland on the third pair with Jocelyne Larocque, one of Canada’s longest-tenured players, who has a shutdown defensive mindset to go along with Primerano’s offensive skills.
It’s yet another benchmark for Primerano, who is charting a singular path in women’s hockey.
In September, she made her highly anticipated NCAA debut with the University of Minnesota a year earlier than expected after graduating high school early and starting college at 17. Not long after that, Primerano debuted for Canada’s senior team at the Canada-USA Rivalry Series and scored the game-winner in a shootout over the U.S.
CHLOE PRIMERANO CALLS GAME 🚨
The 17-year-old seals the win with a spectacular shootout goal! 🔥 pic.twitter.com/EgpEL65uwZ
— TSN (@TSN_Sports) November 9, 2024
Earlier this year, Primerano captained Canada’s U18 team to a world championship title and was named the tournament’s top defender. Now, she’s set to play for another gold medal, this time on the biggest stage.
“I feel like I’m ready,” Primerano told the Canadian Press this week. “I’m surrounded by pretty amazing players and a great team, so I know they’re going to set me up pretty well, and it’s going to be awesome.”
She has already established herself as one of the most promising prospects in women’s hockey. She is dynamic on the blue line with elite skating and edgework and sees the game at a very high level: a rare breed of defender who can make something out of nothing.
“There’s players that are elite skaters, there’s players that are elite puck handlers, there’s players that have a really high hockey IQ or they’re goal scorers or they set people up — Chloe is a culmination of all of it,” said Minnesota coach Brad Frost.
Primerano first made headlines in May 2022 when she was drafted by the WHL’s Vancouver Giants (268th overall), becoming the first female skater ever selected in a Canadian Hockey League draft. She only made the transition to women’s hockey in 2022-23, joining the RINK Academy elite girls program and winning back-to-back CSSHL championships and league MVPs. In two seasons at RINK, Primerano finished third all-time in scoring (137 points in 59 games) and first among defenders.
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In her U18 worlds debut last season, Primerano scored 16 points in six games — a record for a defender in a single tournament — and was named MVP. Her 26 career points at U18s matches Canadian captain Marie-Philip Poulin’s production at the tournament before she made the jump to the senior national team in 2009.
That Primerano even cracked the Canadian roster is significant, given the program — led by general manager Gina Kingsbury — has typically been conservative when it comes to rushing teenagers into major international competition. But, according to Kingsbury, Primerano is ready.
“She’s a great skater, she sees the game extremely well, she brings all the attributes that are valuable at that level already,” she told CP. “It’s not a matter of developing or looking at the future. We think she can come in and impact our success and impact our team.”
At the tournament, Primerano will have a prime opportunity to showcase her game to Canada’s braintrust at a critical time in the women’s hockey calendar, with the 2026 Olympics only 10 months away. Making an Olympic team as a teenager is a tough task, given the strength of Canada’s blueline and the fact that Olympic rosters are only 23 players (Canada typically brings seven defenders) versus 25 at worlds.
But with a strong tournament in Czechia, Primerano could give herself an inside track to Milan.
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