Following the Montréal Victoire’s first Walter Cup championship, and the first title for a Canadian club, there are now five new members of the unofficial Women’s Triple Gold Club, as Canadians Marie-Philip Poulin, Laura Stacey, Ann-Renée Desbiens and Erin Ambrose, along with American Hayley Scamurra, have now added a Walter Cup to their existing Olympic and World Championship Gold medals.
The four Canadians who now join Claire Thompson, who was previously the lone female Canadian in the Club, include a trio who have each won three World Championship Golds (2021, 2022, 2024), followed by their first Olympic Gold in 2022 – goaltender Ann-Renée Desbiens, defender Erin Ambrose and forward Laura Stacey, all aged 32. Desbiens and Stacey were two of the three original members of the Victoire, while Ambrose was the club’s first ever PWHL draft pick; all three have played with Montréal since the league’s inception.
Only Poulin, 35, the long-time captain of Canada’s national team, Victoire captain and defending playoff and league MVP, took home earlier hardware than her teammates, winning her first of three Olympic Gold medals over a decade earlier (2010, 2014, 2022) and her first of four World Championships just under a decade earlier (2012, 2021, 2022, 2024). Poulin, the Victoire’s inaugural captain and first ever player, has also spent her entire career in Montréal, after winning two Clarkson Cups (2009, 2017) and three league MVP titles in the former CWHL.
These four are joined by forward Scamurra, 31, who adds the Walter Cup to her World Championship (2019, 2023, 2025) and Olympic (2026) Gold medals, making her the only player in history of any nationality (so far, as there will surely be more) to win Olympic Gold and the Walter Cup in the same season. Scamurra, a Buffalo native and former NWHL alumnus of the Buffalo Beauts, spent her first two PWHL seasons in Ottawa and Toronto, respectively, before joining the Victoire prior to the 2025-26 season.
The quintet becomes the tenth through fourteenth women to join the Club since the Walter Cup debuted in 2024, with the Club now comprising of nine American and five Canadian women. The Charge also came into the series with five players eligible for the Club, with Canadians Emily Clark, Brianne Jenner and Jocelyne Larocque, along with Americans Rory Guilday and Gwyneth Philips, falling short of the Club with the loss.
While not official members of the Club as players, three members of the Victoire’s coaching staff have now also added the Walter Cup to their respective medals – head coach Kori Cheverie also served as an assistant with Team Canada at the 2021 Worlds and 2022 Olympics, general manager Danièle Sauvageau also won Gold as Canada’s head coach at both the 1997 Worlds and 2002 Olympics, and assistant coach Caroline Ouellette won World Championship and Olympic Gold as a player in 1999 and 2002, respectively.
Our congratulations go out to these five women on their achievement in joining this prestigious club of international hockey stars!
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