- Danielle Dube
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Danielle Dube 200pxBorn March 10, 1976
Vancouver, BC, CANHeight 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) Weight 145 lb (66 kg; 10 st 5 lb) Position Goaltender Catches Left WCHL team Long Beach Ice Dogs National team Canada Playing career 2008–present Danielle Dube (born March 10, 1976) played for the Canadian National women's ice hockey team from 1994 to 1998 and from 2000 to 2002.[1] She was a late cut from the 1998 and 2002 Canadian Olympic teams.
On December 11, 2002, Danielle Dube became the third female goaltender to start in goal for a professional men's team.[2] Dube was the goalie for the Long Beach Ice Dogs in a loss against the San Diego Gulls.[3] She stopped 12 of 13 shots for the Ice Dogs.[4] In 2008, she had considered approaching the Vancouver Canucks, with hopes of earning a recommendation to play for the ECHL's Victoria Salmon Kings.[5]
On August 26, 2011, she participated in the Longest Ice Hockey Game 4 CF, at Canlan Ice Sports Burnaby 8 Rinks in Burnaby, British Columbia. The goal was to play for the next 10 days as 40 women attempted to set a new Guinness World Record for playing the longest hockey game while also raising funds and awareness for the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.[6]
Awards and honors
British Columbia Female Athlete of the Year, 1996[7]
Personal
She lives with her husband Steve Peregoodoff in New Westminster and have two children, son Porter and daughter Camden. When she was eight-and-a-half weeks pregnant with Porter, she played in a Sea-to-Sky Challenge game.
References
- ^ http://www.hockeycanada.ca/index.php/ci_id/5836/la_id/1.htm
- ^ Who's Who in Canadian Sport, Volume 4, p.118, Bob Ferguson, Fitzhenry and Whiteside Ltd., Markham, ON and Allston, MA, ISBN 1-55041-855-6
- ^ Hockey’s Book of Firsts, p.54, James Duplacey, JG Press, ISBN 978-1-57215-037-9
- ^ http://articles.latimes.com/2002/dec/11/sports/sp-icedogs11
- ^ http://www.canada.com/story_print.html?id=ae3ecb0b-2f65-4801-ac6b-44a88f94e301&sponsor=
- ^ http://www.burnabynow.com/health/Shooting+record/4096936/story.html
- ^ Who's Who in Canadian Sport, Volume 4, p.118, Bob Ferguson, Fitzhenry and Whiteside Ltd., Markham, ON and Allston, MA, ISBN 1-55041-855-6
Categories:- 1976 births
- Canadian ice hockey goaltenders
- Canadian women's ice hockey players
- Ice hockey people from British Columbia
- Living people
- Long Beach Ice Dogs (WCHL) players
- People from Vancouver
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