Kim St-Pierre

Kim St- Pierre ( born December 14, 1978 in Châteauguay, Quebec ) is a Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper, who won the Canadian Women's National Team several gold medals at World Championships and Olympic Winter Games.

  • 2.1 International

Career

At the age of eight years, Kim St- Pierre Hockey started playing and practicing this sport until the age of 18 years exclusively in men with male athletes from. 1998 St-Pierre began studying kinesiology at McGill University and played for the women's hockey team at the University, the McGill Martlets in the CIS. During the 2003/ 04 season it was parallel to the squad of men's teams of the University. They defeated on 15 November 2003 with the men's team at the University of Ryerson University with 5:2 and became the first goalkeeper in a CIS League, which was victorious in a men's game.

NWHL and CWHL

Upon graduating in St- Pierre played until 2006 for the Quebec Avalanche NWHL. Subsequently, this league was disbanded, and St- Pierre joined the Montreal Stars in the Canadian Women's Hockey League. In the 2007 /08 season, she was honored as CWHL Top Goaltender and selected All- Star team in the Eastern CWHL. In October 2008, wrote St- Pierre Hockey history as she stood during a training of the Montreal Canadiens in the Denis Savard Arena in goal and the flu diseased Carey Price took. She was thus the second woman in the history of the NHL after Manon Rheaume, who has been with NHL players on the ice.

In 2009 she won the championship trophy with the stars of the league, the Clarkson Cup and was the third wife, who won the Clarkson Cup, an Olympic gold medal and a gold medal at the world championships. This makes it one of the unofficial Triple Gold Club in the women's ice hockey.

In September 2011, St- Pierre announced suspended for the 2011/12 season from playing because she was pregnant. For the season 2012/13 she was planning to turn professional to play hockey and fight for their place in the national team want to. End of October 2012 they were in the 1:4 defeat against the Boston Blades comeback for the stars in the CWHL.

Internationally

1999 Kim St- Pierre was appointed for the first time in the squad of Team Canada, having previously tried several times unsuccessfully to be included in the regional selection team of the province of Quebec. They then took part in the 1999 World Cup and won with Team Canada the gold medal. For more World Cup titles followed in the years 2000, 2001, 2004, 2008 and 2011.

At the World Championships in 2005, 2008 and 2009, St- Pierre won the silver medal each. In addition, she was honored at the tournaments in 2001 and 2004 as the best goalkeeper.

In 2002 she was a member of the Olympic team at the Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City. It reached as the root goalkeeper with the national team the final against the United States, where it was defeated 3-2 and won her first Olympic gold medal. At the end of the tournament, she was also named the best goalkeeper.

At the Olympic Winter Games 2006 in Turin, she won her third Olympic gold medal and their second in 2010 in Vancouver.

St- Pierre holds several international records, including records for most shutouts (15 ), most of the goalkeeper wins (24) and the lowest Gegentorschnitt (0.84 ).

Awards and achievements

  • CIS Most Outstanding Player: 2003
  • CWHL Top Goaltender: 2007/ 08 and 2008/ 09
  • CWHL First All -Star Team: 2008/ 09
  • CWHL Eastern All-Stars: 2007/ 08
  • Most valuable player of the Esso Canadian National Championship: 2002

Internationally

  • Gold medal at the World Championship in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2008, 2011
  • Gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics, 2006 and 2010
  • Silver medal at the World Championship in 2005, 2008, 2009
  • Gold medal in the 4 Nations Cup 2010
  • Best goalkeeper of the World Cup in 2001, 2004
  • Best goalkeeper of the 2002 Winter Olympics

International statistics

( Key to the goalkeeper stats: GP or Sp = Total Games; W or W = Wins, L = Losses, or N, T or D = Draw or shootout defeat, min = minutes; SOG or ZAT = Shots on goal, GA or GT = Goals against; SO = shutouts, GAA or GTS = Gegentorschnitt; Sv % or SVS % = quota, EN = Empty Net Goal; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )

Canada women's national ice hockey team Ice hockey at the Olympic Games 1999 IIHF Women's World Championship 2000 IIHF Women's World Championship 2001 IIHF Women's World Championship 2004 IIHF Women's World Championship 2011 IIHF Women's World Championship 2005 IIHF Women's World Championship 2009 IIHF Women's World Championship Ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Women's tournament
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