Sarah-Ève Coutu-Godbout (born June 16, 1997) is a Canadian ice hockey player, currently playing in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL) with

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. She won a silver medal with the Canadian under-18 national team at the 2016 IIHF U18 Women's World Championship.

Playing career

Coutu-Godbout attended Cégep Limoilou in Québec City for

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, where she studied administration and economics. While studying, she played for the cégep's ice hockey team, Les Titans, putting up 51 points in 43 games. In 2015, she was the recipient of a $1500 bursary from the NHL's Canadiens de Montréal, along with teammate Élizabeth Giguère, for excellence in women's youth hockey in Québec. In 2016, she moved to Connecticut in the United States to study entrepreneurship and play for Quinnipiac University, a member institution of the ECAC Hockey conference. Across the next four years with the Quinnipiac Bobcats, she would score 62 points in 122 NCAA games. After a bureaucratic delay concerning her language qualifications for eligibility - she was the first native

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to play for Quinnipiac - she scored 6 points in 22 games in her rookie season and was named ECAC Rookie of the Month in February 2017. She finished fourth and fifth on the team in goals scored in her second and third years, respectively, before breaking out to score 16 goals in her

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season to lead the team in goals. During her time in university, she had openly expressed her desire to play in the PHF. After graduating, she had originally explored opportunities from teams in

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, before deciding against it due to uncertainty from the COVID-19 pandemic. In May 2020, she signed her first professional contract with the expansion

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of the PHF, the seventh player to sign with the team, and turned down an offer from the Connecticut Whale.

International play

Coutu-Godbout played for Team Canada at the

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, scoring one goal in five games as the country won silver.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

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International

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Coutu-Godbout, Sarah-Ève 1997 births Living people AIK Hockey Dam players Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in Sweden Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States Canadian women's ice hockey forwards Frölunda HC (women) players Quinnipiac Bobcats women's ice hockey players Ice hockey people from Rouyn-Noranda Toronto Six players