A feather in the cap for the Nipissing Lakers womens hockey team. The squads head coach Darren Turcotte has been named as assistant coach for the national under 18 womens team that’ll take part in a couple of events. there’s a 3 game series versus the United States’ Women’s Under-18 Select Team next month and the 2018 IIHF U18 Women’s World Championship in Russia. The team for the series against the United States will be chosen at a selection camp in Calgary next month. Turcotte says it’ll be great to see all the top players on the ice at the same time because some players in that situation but others don’t. He says with him being appointed as an assistant coach with Team Canada it’s a positive for the Lakers program.