September 23, 1992 - Manon Rheaume - a podcast by Stephen Hammond

Manon Rheaume becomes the first woman to play for the NHL. Manon Rheaume was born in Lac Beauport, Quebec on February 24, 1972. She began skating at the age of three and joined hockey games as a goaltender by age five. So it may not have seemed a big deal to her when, on September 23, 1992, she goal-tended for the NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning team in a pre-season game against the St. Louis Blues. She became the NHL’s first female player that day, but Rheaume was used to firsts. She was the first woman to play in an international pee wee hockey tournament and the first woman to play in a major junior game. Rheaume’s career in various minor league teams and in the NHL carried on until 1997. Her experience as the goaltender for the gold medal-winning Women’s Canadian National Team at the 1992 and 1994 Women’s World Championships gave her the experience to play on the Canadian women’s Olympic hockey team. There, of course, she helped the team bring home a silver medal in 1998. In 1997 Rheaume wrote her book, Manon: Alone In Front Of The Net.

---

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Further episodes of Human Rights a Day

Further podcasts by Stephen Hammond

Website of Stephen Hammond