Women’s Worlds Preview: Canada vs. Switzerland
As Captain Canada reaches a profession milestone, have a look again at just a few of a very powerful moments alongside the best way
Marie-Philip Poulin has gone the place solely 4 ladies have gone earlier than.
The Beauceville, Que., product recorded her 2 hundredth level with Canada’s
National Women’s Team on Monday evening – in her 167th recreation – with the ultimate
purpose of a 5-1 win over the United States, becoming a member of Hayley Wickenheiser
(379), Jayna Hefford (291), Caroline Ouellette (242) and Danielle Goyette
(219) in reaching the milestone.
So how did Poulin get right here? There have been numerous highlights throughout
Poulin’s nearly 16 years sporting the Maple Leaf, however let’s have a look again
at just a few of probably the most memorable and essential factors she recorded on her approach
to 200.
Poulin wanted lower than eight minutes of her first nationwide workforce recreation to
put her title on the scoresheet, incomes the second help on a purpose by
Bobbi Jo Slusar in a 4-1 win over Sweden on the Fall Festival in Prince
George, B.C.
The youngest participant at camp at simply 16 years outdated, Poulin added two objectives in
that first recreation, and potted two extra in a rematch three days later,
ending with 5 factors in two video games and setting the stage for what was
to return.
25TH/26TH POINTS – February 25, 2010
The legend of Poulin as a big-game participant formally started in Vancouver,
when she scored each objectives in a 2-0 win over the United States that gave
Canada a memorable Olympic gold medal, its third in a row, on residence ice.
She opened her unrivalled Olympic account (extra on that later) with a purpose
in a tournament-opening win over Slovakia and added singles towards
Switzerland and Sweden, nevertheless it’s the 2 towards the Americans, in a recreation
watched by greater than 7.5 million Canadians, that made her a family title.
Poulin helped one other Team Canada legend attain a milestone of her personal at
the 2012 4 Nations Cup in Kerava, Finland, incomes the first helper on
Jayna Hefford’s a hundred and fiftieth worldwide purpose to complete off a 6-0 win over the
host Finns.
In addition to her 200 factors, Poulin is inside hanging distance of a
goal-scoring mark – she wants three to hitch Wickenheiser, Hefford and Goyette
and the one gamers to attain 100 objectives with Canada’s National Women’s
Team.
72ND/73RD POINTS – February 20, 2014
The Comeback. Poulin was entrance and centre once more on the sport’s largest stage
as Canada battled again to win an unlikely Olympic gold in Sochi. Down 2-0
to the Americans with lower than 4 minutes to go, Brianne Jenner pulled
Canada to inside one … and Poulin took over from there.
After the U.S. hit the put up on the empty Canadian internet, Poulin buried a feed
from Haley Irwin to tie the sport with 55 seconds left and drive additional time.
And, after all, she supplied the extra-time heroics as nicely, scoring on the
energy play to make it 4 Olympic gold medals in a row for Canada.
100TH POINT – December 19, 2016
Poulin grew to become the twelfth member of the 100-point membership as solely she might,
reaching the century mark when she arrange Jennifer Wakefield for the
game-tying purpose with 24 seconds remaining within the second recreation of a two-game
sequence towards the U.S. in Sarnia, Ont.
In true Poulin style, she added the game-winning purpose 52 seconds into
additional time, serving to Canada to the sequence sweep.
Another milestone, one other additional time purpose. Poulin reached 150 factors – simply
the seventh to do it – 7:22 into the additional interval within the gold medal recreation at
the 2021 IIHF Women’s World Championship in Calgary, giving Canada a 3-2
win and its first world title since 2012.
As is her M.O., she was everywhere in the scoresheet with gold on the road;
level No. 149 got here early within the second interval when she arrange Brianne
Jenner to get the Canadians on the board and minimize the U.S. result in 2-1.
177TH/178TH/179TH POINTS – February 17, 2022
Captain Clutch was simply that in Beijing, getting in on all three Canadian
objectives in a 3-2 gold medal recreation win over the U.S. She arrange Sarah Nurse for
the ice-breaker eight minutes in (passing Meghan Agosta for fifth in
all-time Team Canada scoring), scored seven minutes later and added a
second purpose halfway by the second interval.
Poulin has performed in 4 Olympic gold medal video games and scored in all of
them: two objectives in Vancouver, two objectives in Sochi, a purpose in PyeongChang,
and two objectives and an help in Beijing. In the three Canadian wins, she has
the game-winner in all of them. Remarkable.
