CALIFORNIA DREAMING

Dominique Petrie is one of two California-born rookies in the PWHL this year. She hopes to see expansion to The Golden State one day: ‘That would be really cool’

BY IAN KENNEDY

WHILE MANY CALIFORNIA kids were out playing beach volleyball or paddling to catch a wave, Dominique Petrie was inside an arena chasing a puck and her hockey dreams. In fact, her biggest hockey influence growing up was a fictional chimpanzee from California named Jack, the star of the 2000 comedy film MVP: Most Valuable Primate. “I was obsessed with the movie MVP as a kid,” Petrie said. “Jack, he used to go around and skate under people’s legs with all fours on the ice, and I thought it was the coolest thing ever, so when I started skating, that was kind of who I was replicating.” As a PWHL rookie this season, Petrie quickly got the chimpanzee off her back by scoring goals in each of her first three games for…

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