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While the Canadiens were probably still sound asleep last Saturday morning, Caroline Ouellette woke up at 6:30 a.m., made breakfast, put her hockey equipment in the car and headed off to meet her Montreal Stars teammates for a six-hour bus ride to Brampton, Ont.

While the Canadiens were probably having their afternoon pregame nap around 3 p.m., before facing the New Jersey Devils at the Bell Centre that night, the Stars bus arrived at a Brampton hotel, where the players had about 45 minutes to rest before having a pregame meal and a team meeting, then heading to the arena for a 6:50 p.m. game against the Brampton Thunder.

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“It’s tough sometimes to get yourself going when you’ve been on the bus for six hours,” the 35-year-old Ouellette said Friday.

But Ouellette is used to it. She scored the winning goal for the Stars that night in a 4-3 victory and added two assists. The Montrealer also became the all-time leading scorer in Canadian Women’s Hockey League history with 235 points, breaking Jayna Hefford’s record of 234 set with Brampton.