Danielle Goyette

Olympic medal record
Women's ice hockey
Competitor for  Canada
Gold	2006 Turin	Team
Gold	2002 Salt Lake City	Team
Silver	1998 Nagano	Team

Danielle Goyette (born January 30, 1966 in St-Nazaire, Quebec) is a retired women's ice hockey player, and has been on the Canadian national team.

Playing career

Hockey Canada

In the gold medal game at the 1998 Winter Olympics, Goyette scored the only goal for Canada.^[1] It would be the first Canadian goal ever scored in an Olympic women’s ice hockey gold medal game. She ranked first at the 2002 Winter Olympics with 7 assists and tied for first with 10 points. Four years earlier, Goyette had 8 goals in the 1998 Olympics. She finished her international career with 113 goals and 105 assists while appearing in 171 games.

In 2006, she was selected to carry the Canadian flag during the Opening Ceremonies of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.^[2] At the age of 42, she was the oldest current member of Team Canada at the time of her retirement in 2008.^[3]

Danielle Goyette has won three Olympic medals, gold in both Turin (2006) and Salt Lake City (2002) and a silver medal in Nagano (1998). She has also had a lot of success with Team Canada at the world championships, capturing seven Gold medals as well as one silver.^[4]

At the IIHF World Championships, she is Canada's all-time leading scorer (29 goals and 53 points in eight tournaments).^[5]

CWHL

She scored a goal in the 2003 Esso Women's National Hockey Championship to help Team Alberta win the Abby Hoffman Cup.^[6]

Coaching

In 2007 she was named head coach of the University of Calgary Dinos women's hockey program.^[7] In the summer of 2010, Goyette participated in the evaluation camp for the 2010–11 Canadian national women's team.^[8] She was a coach for Canada Red (the camp was divided into four teams, Red, White, Yellow, Blue). Goyette coached Hayley Wickenheiser during the 2010–11 Univeristy of Calgary Dinos women's ice hockey season.

World championships

• 2007 - Winnipeg, Canada - Gold
• 2005 - Linköping, Sweden - Silver
• 2004 - Halifax, Canada - Gold
• 2001 - Minneapolis, United States - Gold
• 2000 - Mississauga, Canada - Gold
• 1999 - Espoo, Finland - Gold
• 1997 - Kitchener, Canada - Gold
• 1994 - Lake Placid, United States - Gold
• 1992 - Tampere, Finland - Gold

Awards and honors

• Most Valuable Player, 2003 Esso Women's Nationals^[9]

References

1. ^ IIHF Top 100 Hockey Stories of All Time, p.52, Szymon Szenberg and Andrew Podnieks, 2008, Fenn Publishing Company Ltd, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, ISBN 978-1-55168-358-4
2. ^ "Danielle Goyette". University of Calgary. http://www.ucalgary.ca/news/olympics/goyette. Retrieved 20 January 2010. 
3. ^ "Women's hockey star Danielle Goyette retires". CBC Sports. 2008-01-16. http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/story/2008/01/16/danielle-goyette.html. Retrieved 20 January 2010. 
4. ^ "Danielle GoyetteC". Canadian Olympic Committee. http://www.olympic.ca/en/athletes/danielle-goyette/. Retrieved 20 January 2010. 
5. ^ http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=542878
6. ^ "Esso Canadian National Championships 2003". Ontario Women's Hockey Association. March 16, 2003. http://www.owha.on.ca/esso_2003_winners.asp. Retrieved 6 April 2010. 
7. ^ "Hockey star Goyette new Dinos coach". University of Calgary. http://www.ucalgary.ca/news/uofcpublications/oncampus/weekly/may11-07/goyette. Retrieved 11 May 2007. 
8. ^ http://www.hockeycanada.ca/index.php/ci_id/146470/la_id/1.htm
9. ^ "Team Alberta captures seventh national title". Hockey Canada. http://www.hockeycanada.ca/index.php/ci_id/10808/la_id/1/re-control/146207:536889.htm. Retrieved 25 November 2010. 

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Name	Goyette, Danielle
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Short description	Canadian ice hockey player
Date of birth	1966
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