{"id":395079,"date":"2022-12-07T21:26:35","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T02:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=395079"},"modified":"2022-12-08T04:41:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T09:41:27","slug":"poulin-canadas-athlete-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/poulin-canadas-athlete-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Poulin named Canada\u2019s athlete of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marie-Philip Poulin has cemented her status as a big game performer and one of the best female players of the hockey history after being named this year\u2019s recipient of the award given annually to Canada\u2019s athlete of the year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6 SIMPLY THE BEST! \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to National Women&#39;s Team captain Marie-Philip Poulin for becoming the first women&#39;s hockey player EVER to win the Northern Star Award as Canada&#39;s top athlete!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pou29?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@pou29<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HockeyQuebec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@HockeyQuebec<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/APRtjebJ7d\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/APRtjebJ7d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hockey Canada (@HockeyCanada) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HockeyCanada\/status\/1600569791525580800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 7, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old captain of Canada\u2019s women\u2019s team, who led her team to Olympic and world championship gold in 2022, became the first female hockey player honored with the award.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\u201cHonestly, I didn\u2019t think I was the first one,\u201d she said in a video conference. \u201cIt\u2019s a real honour because the ladies have been there before us, before me, I\u2019ve watched them on TV. They\u2019re my idols and my role models.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cObviously I\u2019m not going to be the only one,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Poulin, at the age of 18, had been the youngest member of the team that won gold at Vancouver 2010. Four years later, she was Canada\u2019s leading scorer with three goals and two assists at Sochi 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCaptain Clutch\u201d was given the honour of being Team Canada\u2019s Opening Ceremony flag bearer, alongside short track speed skater Charles Hamelin.<\/p>\n<p>She went on to become the first hockey player \u2014 male or female \u2014 to score in four Olympic gold medal games.<\/p>\n<p>Poulin scored two goals, including the eventual game-winner, in the final against the United States. She finished the tournament with six goals and 11 assists for 17 points, second only to teammate Sarah Nurse for the scoring lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marie-Philip Poulin has cemented her status as a big game performer and one of the best female players of the hockey history after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":395080,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[],"news_category":[16709,16715],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"\u201cCaptain Clutch\u201d became the first female hockey player honored with the award","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395079"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=395079"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=395079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}