Hanna Bunton (born May 7, 1995) is a Canadian

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forward, currently a free agent. She scored the first goal in Vanke Rays history, while they were competing in the

CWHL The Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL; ) was a women's ice hockey league. Established in 2007 as a Canadian women's senior league in the Greater Toronto Area, Montreal, and Ottawa, the league expanded into Alberta (2011) and internationally i ...

. Along with

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and

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, Bunton joined them on the cover (dated June 2021) of

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Career

As a youth player, Bunton played for the Whitby Wolves in the

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. She finished second overall in rookie scoring in 2011–12, and would finish her junior career with 87 points in 64 PWHL games. After graduating from high school, she moved to the United States to study and play at

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. Across 125

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games with the university, she would score 87 points. She was named Ivy League Rookie of the Year in 2014 and Ivy League Player of the Year in 2017. She was drafted 28th overall in the 2017 CWHL Draft by the

Vanke Rays The Shenzhen Vanke Rays () were a women's ice hockey team that played in the 2017–18 season of the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL). They were based in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China and played at the Shenzhen Dayun Arena. The team was develo ...

. She scored her first

goal in her first game on the 28th of October 2017, the first goal in the franchise's history. She stayed with the team as it merged with Kunlun Red Star ahead of the 2018–19 season, where she would repeat her tally of 26 points in 28 games. After the collapse of the CWHL in May 2019, she joined the

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. She played for Team Johnston at the Unifor Showcase in September 2019 and took part in the PWHPA Skills Competition ahead of the

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alumni game in January 2020. She was named to the roster of the Calgary section for the 2020–21 season.

International

Bunton played for Team Canada at the

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, scoring six points in five games as the country won gold.

Awards and honors

NCAA

*ECAC Hockey All-Rookie Team (2014) *Ivy League Rookie of the Year (2014) *Second-Team All-Ivy (2016) *First-Team All-Ivy (2017) *ECAC Hockey Third Team (2017) *Ivy League Player of the Year (2017)

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bunton, Hanna 1995 births Living people Professional Women's Hockey Players Association players Cornell Big Red women's ice hockey players Ice hockey people from Belleville, Ontario Vanke Rays players