Goldeneyes star Sarah Nurse set to return from injury against Sceptres
Written by The Canadian Press on January 15, 2026
VANCOUVER — Vancouver Goldeneyes forward Sarah Nurse is set to return from injury against her former team this weekend.
The Goldeneyes announced Thursday that the 31-year-old from Hamilton has been activated from long-term injured reserve and will be available to play when Vancouver faces the Sceptres in Toronto on Saturday.
Nurse spent the first two seasons of her PWHL career in Toronto, where she registered six goals and eight assists over 21 regular-season games in 2024-25.
She joined Vancouver during an exclusive signing window for the league’s two expansion clubs in June and was named an alternate captain ahead of the inaugural season.
Nurse suffered an arm injury during the Goldeneyes’ first game on Nov. 21 and spent eight weeks recovering and rehabbing before joining her teammates in a full practice on Wednesday.
Despite the injury, she was named to Canada’s 23-player roster for the Milan Cortina Games and is set to play in her third Olympics when the tournament begins on Feb. 5.
Nurse said Wednesday that she wasn’t focused on getting back into the lineup in time to face her former team.
“I’m just ready to go when I get the call,” she said. “Obviously, there’s a lot of decisions to be made, based on how I’m feeling, what the medical staff say, when the coaches want to put me in the lineup as well. And so I’m just ready to go whenever I get the call. But very excited to get back in the lineup and participate.”
Vancouver sits at the bottom of the PWHL standings with three regulation wins, one overtime win, one overtime loss and seven regulation losses on the season.
Toronto is sixth in the eight-team league with four regulation wins, no overtime wins, three overtime losses and five regulation losses.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 15, 2026.
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