Hayley Wickenheiser
Canadian ice hockey legend, Olympic gold medalist, and Hall of Famer.
Wickenheiser is the career points leader for Canada's women's national team with 168 goals and 211 assists in 276 games.[1]
Quick Facts
- Hall of Fame
- 2019
- Position
- Centre
- Shoots
- Right
- Played for
- Calgary Oval X-Treme
- Edmonton Chimos
- HC Salamat
- Linden HC
- University of Calgary
- Calgary Inferno
- Born
- 12 August 1978
- Birthplace
- Shaunavon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Facts from the source article.
Life and work
Wickenheiser began playing minor hockey on outdoor rinks at age five and played on boys' teams until she was 13.[2] In 2003, Wickenheiser became the first woman to score a goal in a men's semi-professional league, playing for HC Salamat in Finland's third-division Suomi-sarja.[3] In 1994, when she was 15 years old, Wickenheiser received her first call-up to the Canada women's national team.[4] The 1994 World Championship in Lake Placid, New York, marked Wickenheiser's debut international tournament, and Canada took the gold medal there.[5]
Across five Winter Olympic appearances, Wickenheiser earned four gold medals and one silver, and she also competed once at the Summer Olympics in softball.[1] The Toronto Maple Leafs appointed Wickenheiser as assistant general manager in July 2022.[6]
What the cited sources add
A 2017 article by Jared Clinton notes that Wickenheiser's resume includes four Olympic gold medals, two Olympic MVPs, and seven World Championship titles.[7] The same source states that over her Olympic career she scored 18 goals and 51 points, averaging nearly two points per game.[7] Clinton also reports that during her four-year tenure with the University of Calgary Dinos, Wickenheiser posted 55 goals and 134 points in 68 games.[7] A 2010 Sportsnet article reports that Hockey Canada president Bob Nicholson conceded there is a danger women's hockey could be removed from the Olympics due to domination by Canada and the U.S.[8]
The same article states that Canada and the U.S. are the only two countries to claim gold since women's hockey became an Olympic sport in 1998.[8]
References
- Wikipedia, "Hayley Wickenheiser" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Spencer, "Hayley Wickenheiser calls end to gold-plated career", CBC Sports, January 13, 2017 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Hayley Wickenheiser" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Hayley Wickenheiser", Canadian Broadcast Corporation, October 21, 2008; "AOL Canada Chat with Hockey Player Hayley Wickenheiser", AOL Canada; Leigh Montville, "1998 Nagano Olympics-Hayley Wickenheiser", February 4, 1998 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Hayley Wickenheiser" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Hayley Wickenheiser teki jääkiekkohistoriaa Suomessa", Yle Urheilu, March 31, 2014 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Hayley Wickenheiser" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: John A. Fantino, "Hayley Wickenheiser is a Canadian icon", The Burlington Free Press, April 12, 2012 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Hayley Wickenheiser" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Hockey Canada Player Profile: Hayley Wickenheiser", Hockey Canada (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Hayley Wickenheiser" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Olympic hockey great Hayley Wickenheiser promoted to assistant GM of Toronto Maple Leafs", CBC Sports, 5 July 2022; Kristen Shilton, "Maple Leafs fire Hayley Wickenheiser amid front office purge", ESPN.com, July 10, 2025 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Clinton, "Hayley Wickenheiser is Hall of Fame Bound After Retirement From Canada's Women's Team", January 13, 2017. facts only, no text reused. thehockeynews.com
- "World hockey summit arrives in Toronto", Sportsnet, August 22, 2010. facts only, no text reused. sportsnet.ca
Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Hayley Wickenheiser (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.
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