Jennifer Harris and Mario Maltais of Burlington, Ont., first saw their daughter Emma Maltais pick up a hockey stick when she was a toddler.
Now, 22-year-old Emma is representing Canada as part of the women’s team at the Olympics — something Harris and Maltais never imagined would happen.
“She started pretty early,” said Mario. “[We] made an ice rink in the backyard, and she was like only two and a half or three when she first skated, and [her older brother] Matthew put her in the net with a rubber puck and they were playing in this little patch of ice.”
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