USA's Cayla Barnes has won medals and championships but Monday in a Rivalry Series game against Canada she finally gets to play in her SoCal homeland.
’ athletic talents have taken her far from Eastvale, in Riverside County, where she grew up playing soccer and roller hockey before she followed her older brothers out to the ice and launched a stellar career.
But there’s one significant experience missing from her list of accomplishments: feeling the thrill of playing a home game with the USA crest on her jersey.Through grit and determination, Jordan Chiles excelled at the world championships. The Olympic gymnast heads back to UCLA with renewed confidence.
That will change Monday, when Barnes suits up for Team USA at Crypto.com Arena against Canada for the fifth game in their teams’ seven-game Rivalry Series. It will be wonderfully familiar for her. It also will be oddly different. Her parents planned to travel to Los Angeles for the game, which will be aired on NHL Network. Two of her brothers still live in Southern California, and they planned to bring their families. Members of the LA Lions, the girls’ youth hockey program supported by the Kings, are scheduled to meet her afterward.
Barnes blossomed in Beijing earlier this year, scoring a goal and contributing six assists while becoming a link between the team’s 30-something veterans and the youngsters who must surpass them for the U.S. to reclaim world and Olympic supremacy from Canada. The path from girls’ hockey in California to the world stage has been traveled before but rarely, because it requires moving to the Midwest or East for a higher caliber of competition.
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