Hayley Wickenheiser

Hayley Wickenheiser OC ( born August 12, 1978 in Shaunavon, Saskatchewan ) is a Canadian ice hockey player. She is considered one of the best players in the world. Wickenheiser was the first woman to score a goal in a men's professional league. In addition to its operations for Team Canada at four Olympic Winter Games and twelve Ice Hockey World Championships, she played at the Summer Olympic Games in 2000 for the Canadian softball team. During the 2014 Winter Olympics, she was elected for eight years in the Athletes' Commission of the IOC.

Career

Hayley Wickenheiser started with the sport of ice hockey at the age of five years in her hometown of Shaunavon. She plays since 1994 in the Canadian National Hockey Team of Women and won with the Canadian team in 1998 the silver and in both 2002 and 2006 and 2010 the gold medal. In the prolongation They scored the decisive goal in 2002 to 3-2 victory Canadians in Sudden Death. From the 11th January to the 12th of November 2003, she played at Kirkkonummi Salamat, a Finnish men's ice hockey team from the Suomi- sarja, and was the first woman who got in a men's professional league points scorer.

My cousin Doug Wickenheiser, who died of cancer in 1999, was also a hockey player and was selected as the first overall in the NHL Entry Draft in 1980. Wickenheiser 's athlete ambassador of development organization Right to Play.

Wickenheiser spoke on behalf of all athletes at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games the Olympic oath. At the opening ceremony of the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014 she was flag bearer for the Canadian Olympic Team.

Career Stats

Internationally

( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )