Emma Maltais is a Canadian professional

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forward for

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of the

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(PWHL) and member of Canada women's national ice hockey team.

Career

Growing up in southern Ontario, Maltais began skating at the age of 2 and began playing hockey at the age of 4. During high school, she played for the Oakville Hornets in the

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, where she served as team captain in the 2016–17 season and set a team record for career points with 147. In 2017, she began attending

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, playing for the university's women's ice hockey programme. She scored 40 points in 37 games during her rookie

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season, leading the WCHA in points-per-game and breaking the record for most WCHA Rookie of the Month awards, winning three times. Her production increased to 43 points in 35 games the following season, again leading Ohio State in scoring and being named to the All-WCHA First Team. In the 2019–20 season, she set an Ohio State record for points, with 59 points in 38 games, and picking up her 100th collegiate point against

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on November 2, 2019. That year, she was a top-10 finalist for the

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and was named to the All-WCHA First Team for the third consecutive season. Following her college career, Maltais was drafted in the second round of the

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International career

Maltais represented Canada at the

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, scoring a total of nine points in ten games and winning silver twice. She was named to the senior national team roster for the first time in 2019, suiting up for the 2019-20 Rivalry Series against the United States. In May 2021, she was one of 28 players invited to

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's Centralization Camp, which represents the selection process for the Canadian women's team that shall compete in Ice hockey at the 2022 Winter Olympics. On January 11, 2022, Maltais was named to Canada's 2022 Olympic team.

Personal life

Maltais studies health sciences at Ohio State University and has interned at the Ohio State Neurological Institute.

Awards and honours

*2019-20 CCM Hockey Women's Division I All-American: Second Team

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Maltais, Emma 1999 births Living people Franco-Ontarian people Canadian women's ice hockey forwards Ohio State Buckeyes women's ice hockey players Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States Ice hockey people from Burlington, Ontario Ice hockey players at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic ice hockey players for Canada Medalists at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Canada Olympic medalists in ice hockey PWHL Toronto players