Colonel Green
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Through the many tribulations of the previous quadrennial, we always had ice dance. Gilles & Poirier, who were probably the flagbearers of the whole sport in Canada over the past four years, are taking time away, and I think most of us aren't expecting to see them in ISU competition again, but then, I'd have said the same thing about Eric Radford in 2018, so ??? Meanwhile, Fournier Beaudry & Sorensen soldier on and look set to inherit the national title for the next year or two. Lajoie & Lagha have been a bit stuck in place since turning senior, waiting for the post-Olympic retirement wave; now we'll see if they can really start to move up. A full season of ice dance without the Russian teams promises to be a very different place.
On the junior scene, we had two Canadian teams on the Junior World podium last season, one of which then immediately split/retired, but Bashynska & Beaumont are returning for one final junior season and hopefully another podium at a home Junior Worlds. The junior depth chart below them is now a bit undefined, between retirements, teams like Lim & Quan being released to skate abroad, and a multi-year YKW disruption.
National team
TBD
NextGen team
Nadiia Bashynska & Peter Beaumont
Chaima Ben Khelifa & Everest Zhu
Erica Estepa & Nolan Hickey
Sandrine Gauthier & Quentin Thieren
Emma Goodstadt & Michael Barsoum
Kaitlyn Ho & Daniel Yu
Jordyn Lewis & Noah McMillan
Dana Sabatini-Speciale & Nicholas Buelow
Layla Veillon & Alexander Brandys
Hailey Yu & Brendan Giang
On the junior scene, we had two Canadian teams on the Junior World podium last season, one of which then immediately split/retired, but Bashynska & Beaumont are returning for one final junior season and hopefully another podium at a home Junior Worlds. The junior depth chart below them is now a bit undefined, between retirements, teams like Lim & Quan being released to skate abroad, and a multi-year YKW disruption.
National team
TBD
NextGen team
Nadiia Bashynska & Peter Beaumont
Chaima Ben Khelifa & Everest Zhu
Erica Estepa & Nolan Hickey
Sandrine Gauthier & Quentin Thieren
Emma Goodstadt & Michael Barsoum
Kaitlyn Ho & Daniel Yu
Jordyn Lewis & Noah McMillan
Dana Sabatini-Speciale & Nicholas Buelow
Layla Veillon & Alexander Brandys
Hailey Yu & Brendan Giang