That’s because the 17-year-old three-year veteran of the AAA wars has already signed with a team for next season -- and it isn’t your run-of-the-mill regular squad, either.
No, Gauvin will be heading off to Providence, R.I. to suit up for the NCAA Division I Brown University Bears in the ECAC Hockey conference after signing her letter of intent back in November.
Before she joins the Ivy League school, though, there’s the business to attend to back home.
Gauvin is one of six Moose Jaw Minor Hockey products playing for SFAAAHL teams this season, and the veteran defenceman has already seen plenty of success with the 10-1-1-1 Hounds.
Through Notre Dame’s 13 games, Gauvin has put up three goals and eight points, already surpassing her overall career totals -- a goal and two points in four games in 2020-21, one goal and five points in 2019-20. Gauvin also played two games with Weyburn as a 14-year-old but didn’t hit the scoresheet.
Goaltender Schay Camphaug is also on the Notre Dame roster but has yet to play a game.
Odds are that if Notre Dame goes deep in the playoffs they’ll have to deal with the Regina Rebels at some point, and that means facing off against a pair of fellow Moose Jaw-born players.
Defenceman Brooklyn Nimegeers has continued her impressive play through her young career, and despite being only 15 years old has put up four goals and 14 points in 16 games to sit fifth in team scoring.
Nimegeers is also the top-scoring defenceman in the league and 14th overall in SFAAAHL scoring for the 12-1-1-2 Rebels.
She’s joined in the Regina lineup by 15-year-old rookie forward Ashley Breitkeuz, who scored her first SFAAAHL goal back on Oct. 16 when the Rebels visited the Saskatoon Stars.
The Prince Albert Northern Bears also have a Moose Jaw flavour, with forward Jasmine Kohl in her second season with the team. Kohl, 16, has a goal and six points over 16 games for the 5-9-1-1 Bears after scoring twice in four games to kick off her SFAAAHL career last season.
Mossbank's Brooke Archer, who played minor hockey in Moose Jaw, is also in her second season with the Bears. The 16-year-old netminder has appeared in eight games and has a 4.27 goals against average and .877 save percentage this season. She saw action in two games in 2020-21 and had a 4.00 GAA and .857 SP.
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