Hockey star Marie-Philip Poulin named Canada’s high athlete of 2022
Marie-Philip Poulin was shocked to listen to she was the primary feminine hockey participant to win the Northern Star Award, however she expects to have some firm quickly.
Poulin, the captain of Canada’s ladies’s staff who led her staff to Olympic and world championship gold in 2022, was named this 12 months’s recipient of the award given yearly to Canada’s athlete of the 12 months.
“Truthfully, I did not suppose I used to be the primary one,” the 31-year-old from Beauceville, Que., mentioned in a video convention on Wednesday when requested about being the primary feminine hockey participant honoured with the award.
“It is an actual honour as a result of the women have been there earlier than us, earlier than me, I’ve watched them on TV. They’re my idols and my position fashions.”
“Clearly I am not going to be the one one,” she added.
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Canadian hockey nice Marie-Philip Poulin speaks to CBC Sports activities’ Scott Russell after profitable the Northern Star Award for 2022.
Poulin was instrumental in Canada’s gold medal in Beijing. She scored twice in a 3-2 win over the U.S. within the championship recreation and completed the match second in scoring with 17 factors, one behind teammate Sarah Nurse.
She had 10 factors in seven video games on the world championship in Denmark, together with an help on Brianne Jenner’s opening aim in a 2-1 win over the U.S. within the gold-medal recreation.
Poulin’s award comes slightly over every week after she performed in a Skilled Girls’s Hockey Gamers’ Affiliation Dream Hole Tour occasion in Pittsburgh. She had a hat trick to steer Crew Harvey’s to a 5-2 win over Crew Scotiabank on Nov. 27.
The PWHPA fashioned after the collapse of the Canadian Girls’s Hockey League in 2019. Its members are working to construct a sustainable ladies’s skilled league.
Poulin mentioned the ladies’s recreation is rising previous one thing that solely will get consideration throughout an Olympic 12 months.
“I feel the extra that little ladies and boys come to see us, and having Sarah Nurse on the duvet of NHL 23 , the extra you see that I feel it creates a lot extra and you’ll see persons are speaking about it as a year-to-year factor.”
WATCH | Poulin’s pair powers Canada to Olympic gold medal:
Canadian captain Marie-Philip Poulin scored twice and had three factors, together with the Olympic gold medal profitable aim for a 3rd time, as Canada defeated the USA 3-2 within the ultimate recreation of Beijing 2022.
Poulin is the tenth hockey participant total to win the award. Montreal Canadiens goaltender Carey Worth was the final to win in 2015.
Media members from throughout Canada voted Wednesday on the annual Toronto Star award. Different contenders included tennis participant Felix Auger-Aliassime, golfer Brooke Henderson, swimmer Summer time McIntosh, pace skater Isabelle Weidemann, soccer participant Alphonso Davies, Colorado Avalanche defenceman Cale Makar and B.C. Lions quarterback Nathan Rourke.
The Northern Star Award has been handed out yearly since 1936.
Till this 12 months it was named the Lou Marsh Award after a former soccer participant and NHL referee who spent greater than 40 years working within the Toronto Star’s sports activities division.
The award was lately renamed after issues surfaced lately over among the racist language utilized in Marsh’s writing.
Poulin can be a nominee for the The Canadian Press feminine athlete of the 12 months award, which can be introduced on Dec. 28.
WATCH | Poulin leads Canada to gold at world championship:
Oakville, Ont.’s Brianne Jenner scored each of Canada’s targets en path to a 2-1 victory over their worldwide rivals within the match ultimate.
