Manon Rhéaume, first woman in pro hockey

Manon Rhéaume makes history by becoming the first woman to play professional hockey. She tends goal for the Tampa Bay Lightning in a NHL pre-season exhibition game against the St. Louis Blues. As reported in this TV footage, the 20-year-old Quebec native plays only one period, making seven saves and allowing two goals. But it is enough to thrust the "gorgeous goaltender" into the headlines.

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• Canada
• 1992

[Chapas45]

she's actually kinda hot; I was expecting this super-mega butch dyke.

[darthrevan6]

It was just a marketing stunt. She didnt had the talent to be there.

[Legend33Larry]

@queeirdeaux,

Everybody on the NHL roster is a beast. My friend personally played a few games with Darcy Verot (2PTS in 37 NHL games) and he admitted he wasn't his caliber! My friend played 2 games in QMJHL (more games than Manon Rhéaume did).

Respect these guys; they got talent, devoted themselves for the sport, and they entertained us…

(Sorry for my English mistakes)

[Legend33Larry]

@brock9, 100% agree

@queeirdeaux, Hayley Wickenheiser is the best female hockey player of the last decade. She ''only'' played a few games with HC Salamat in the Suomi-sarja (the third highest hockey league in Finland). We're not talking AHL or NHL. Actually, some AHL teams beat hands down the best Finland teams in the first division.

The best women of the last decade also turned down an offer from Phil Esposito to play for the Cincinnati Cyclones of the ECHL.

[blazefire333]

get back in the kitchen...dumb broad..women are not on our level



[iLuvBarRefaeli]

Im sure some of the guys on that tampa team had a fling with her.

[codysmith42]

she played two games for the lightning

[329woody]

@queeirdeaux Umm yea sorry, she's very talented and all but she would get destroyed at the NHL level. She would probably do ok in major junior cause the guys still havn't filled out yet.

[brock9]

@queeirdeaux No actually you're completely wrong, there are absolutely no female hockey players in Canada that could "hold their own" in the NHL. Wickenheiser does not even come close to having the talent, skill, size, speed, shot, agility to play in the NHL, let alone the AHL, ECHL or any other semi-pro leagues. By the way her playing in Europe was a publicity stunt just as Rheaume's was.

[queeirdeaux]

There's plenty of female hockey players in Canada who could easily hold their own in the NHL. Hayley Wickenheiser would make plenty of NHL'ers look stupid.

[darthrevan6]

@BlackDynomight

Neither does she with these guys.