TORONTO – Natalie Spooner was happy to shed the knee brace when the time came after getting some advice from Edmonton Oilers forward Zach Hyman.

The Toronto Sceptres forward crossed paths with the NHLer at Hockey Canada’s Olympic orientation camp in late August that brought together players from the men’s, women’s and paralympic teams.

“I was talking to Zach Hyman because I’d heard how he had the same surgery as me,” Spooner told reporters at the Sceptres’ opening day of training camp. “And I was like, you know, I’m just, I’m feeling slow and he’s like, ‘don’t worry, it comes back after the year.’

“(He asked) ‘oh, are you running? What are you doing?’ And he was like ‘are you in the brace?’ And I said, I am in the brace. And he was like ‘Get out of the brace. It will help you so much.’

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