“Got to be really mindful of that, because it’s really easy to go into those camps and be like all-in on just the preparation for the Olympics. If you don’t manage that time properly, you’ll start getting injuries to start the season.” Canadian and Ottawa Charge forward Brianne Jenner is another centralization veteran of 2014, 2018 and 2022, which produced two gold medals and a silver medal. “It was a great model before we had the PWHL,” the 33-year-old said. “Every country is going to be in the same boat, so it’s going to be who’s going to be able to navigate this landscape and set their players up and their team up and their staff up for the most success when it comes to February next year. “There’s pros and cons. We always believe on our team that the more time we’re able to spend together, the better off we are. It’s a fine balance because we have full-time jobs now. There’s a silver lining to not moving away, in my case, with young kids.” Two-time Olympian and Toronto Sceptres defender Renata Fast says she can accept a radical change in preparation for Milan-Cortina in order to be able to play hockey for a living. “This is what we want at the end of the day. We have a league that we can play consistently in and obviously it makes the Olympics look very different,” Fast said. “Centralization has served us very well in the past. We can draw on the experiences that we’ve had through centralization and still take those with us, but just with less time together.”