Devon Skeats is a retired Canadian ice hockey forward, who played for the

Markham Thunder The Markham Thunder was a professional women's ice hockey team in the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL). From 1998 through 2017, the franchise was known as the Brampton Thunder and Brampton Canadettes-Thunder before relocating from Brampton, O ...

of the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL) and the

Buffalo Beauts The Buffalo Beauts are a professional ice hockey team based in Amherst, New York, United States. The team was established in 2015 as one of the four founding franchises of the Premier Hockey Federation (PHF), originally named the National Women' ...

of the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL), winning both an Isobel Cup and a Clarkson Cup.

Career

From 2009 to 2014, she attended Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, scoring 87 points in 117 USports games and winning three OUA championships, in 2010, 2012, and 2014. After graduating, she moved to Austria to sign with the Neuberg Highlanders in the

European Women's Hockey League The European Women's Hockey League, abbreviated EWHL, is an international ice hockey league. Created as the Elite Women's Hockey League in 2004 by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), the EWHL comprises clubs from several countries in ...

. She scored 22 points in 19 games during the 2014-15 EWHL season, fourth in the league in goals, as the Highlanders finished in third place in the Austrian domestic cup. During the season, she also made an appearance for an Austrian men's Division III team. When the NWHL was founded by Dani Rylan in 2015, she returned to North America to sign with the

, the first Canadian Interuniversity Sport player to sign in the league. After missing the first few games of the season due to visa issues, on the 15th of November 2015 she scored her first NWHL goal, becoming the first Canadian player to score in Beauts' history. She named to the

1st NWHL All-Star Game The 1st NWHL All-Star Game took place on January 24, 2016 at HarborCenter in Buffalo, New York. The event featured two 20-minute periods in a 4-on-4 format and a Skills Competition. Team Pfalzer entered the game with a 4-0 lead having won all eve ...

via an online fan vote, garnering 4726 votes, and would become the first Canadian player to score in an NWHL all-star game during the match. Her production dipped during the 2016–17 season, only notching six points in fifteen games for the Beauts. In February 2017, she received a suspension, violating the league's three strikes policy after being assessed penalties for two slew foot infractions and one hit from behind. The Beauts would finish the season as Isobel Cup champions. For the 2017–18 season, she left the NWHL to join the Canadian Women's Hockey League's

. She scored 6 points in 28 games in her debut CWHL season, as Markham won the Clarkson Cup.

Personal life

In 2015, she participated in the inaugural Women's Physical Readiness Evaluation for Police Challenge put on by the Ontario Police College, easily passing the police recruitment requirements. She currently works as a police officer for the Toronto Police Service. In 2016, she became one of the first women to join the coaching staff of NHLer

Wayne Simmonds Wayne Simmonds (born August 26, 1988) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL). Simmonds has previously played for the Los Angeles Kings, Philadelphia Flyers, Nashville Predato ...

' ball hockey charity Wayne's Road Hockey Warriors. In 2017, she became the first NWHL player to play for Canada at the International Street and Ball Hockey Federation Women's World Championships.

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