From Happy Faces to Hall of Fame
Kim St-Pierre became the first female goaltender to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame on Monday, capping an impressive Team Canada career with saw her win three Olympic gold medals (2002, 2006, 2010) and five World Championships (1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2007).
Add in a gold medal at the 4 Nation’s Cup in 2010, and a Clarkson Cup CWHL Championship in 2011, and it’s clear St. Pierre is no stranger to big games.
So how did the now 42-year-old manage the pressure of playing under bright lights on the world’s biggest stages?
For St. Pierre it involved several methods learned through experience and from Hockey Canada sports psychologists, including writing key words on her stick as in-game reminders.
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The words she wrote on her stick came from a specific source — a sports psychologist named below who spent 20 years working with Canadian Olympians, and the full list of St-Pierre's pressure strategies follows in the next paragraph.
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