Marie-Philip Poulin

Marie-Philip Poulin (born March 28, 1991) is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre and captain for the Montreal Victoire of the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL). She is also the captain of the Canada women's national ice hockey team. She was named the IIHF Female Player of the Year in 2025. Poulin is a three-time Olympic gold medalist and four-time World Champion with the Canadian national team. She scored the game-winning goal in the gold medal games in three out of five of the Olympics in which she competed (2010, 2014 and 2022), for which she was dubbed Captain Clutch by her teammates and the media. Following another game-winning goal at the 2021 IIHF Women's World Championship, she completed an unprecedented "golden goal hat trick" at major international championships. Since 2015 she has served as the captain of Team Canada, leading them to a silver medals at the 2018 and 2026 Winter Olympics and a gold medal at the 2022 Winter Olympics. She is the first person to score 20 Olympic goals in modern ice hockey. Raised in Beauceville, Quebec, Poulin started her career playing for the Montreal Stars in the now-defunct Canadian Women's Hockey League at the age of 17, while also playing college hockey for the Dawson Blues. She left the team in 2010 to join the Boston Terriers women's hockey team. In 2015, Poulin returned to and captained the Stars, by then re-named Les Canadiennes de Montreal, before joining the Professional Women's Hockey Players Association (PWHPA), a non-profit dedicated to increasing the professionalization of women's hockey, in 2019. The PWHPA's efforts culminated in the creation of the PWHL, and Poulin played a key role in the negotiation of the collective bargaining agreement. In 2023, at the inception of the PWHL, she signed with PWHL Montreal (later the Montreal Victoire) and became its captain. While playing with Les Canadiennes, Poulin won the Clarkson Cup twice and was named CWHL MVP three times. With the Victoire, she was the Billie Jean King Most Valuable Player for the PWHL's 2024–25 season, and captained the team to win the 2026 Walter Cup, receiving the Ilana Kloss Playoff Most Valuable Player honour for her efforts. Poulin is the first female hockey player to win the Northern Star Award as Canada's top athlete of the year, and the second to receive the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as The Canadian Press' female athlete of the year. She is widely considered to be one of the greatest hockey players of all time.