Born in Saint-Nazaire, Quebec, Goyette was one of eight children.[1] She started playing hockey at age 15.[2]
Playing career
Goyette played for the Sherbrooke Jofa-Titan squad in the League Régionale du Hockey au Féminin under head coach David Downer, in the province of Québec.[3]
Goyette won her first Abby Hoffman Cup at Hockey Canada's 1989 National Championships with Sherbrooke Christin Automobile.[4] She was named Top Forward of the tournament.
At Hockey Canada's 1996 National Championships, Goyette scored a hat trick in the Canadian Final as the Hockey Québec all-stars lifted the Abby Hoffman Cup.[5] Goyette was named the tournament's best forward.[6]
At Hockey Canada's 2007 National Championships, she scored the last goal in the Canadian Final as the Oval X-Treme won their fourth Abby Hoffman Cup with a 3-0 win over the Etobicoke Dolphins.[8] It was her record eighth and final Abby Hoffman Cup win.
In 1992, Goyette and Nancy Drolet led the Canadian team to victory at the world women's hockey championship.[9] Goyette was named to the national team that same year.[10]
In the gold medal game at the 1998 Winter Olympics, Goyette scored the only goal for Canada.[11] It would be the first Canadian goal ever scored in an Olympic women’s ice hockey gold medal game. She ranked first at the 2002 Winter Olympics with 7 assists and tied for first with 10 points. Four years earlier, Goyette had 8 goals in the 1998 Olympics. She finished her international career with 113 goals and 105 assists while appearing in 171 games.
Less than a month before her 42nd birthday, she announced her retirement.[14] She was the oldest current member of Team Canada at the time of her retirement in 2008.[15]
Goyette has won three Olympic medals, gold in both Turin (2006) and Salt Lake City (2002) and a silver medal in Nagano (1998). She also had success with Team Canada at the world championships, capturing seven Gold medals as well as one silver.[16]
For the IIHF World Championships, Goyette is Canada's all-time leading scorer (29 goals and 53 points in eight tournaments).[17]
Coaching
In 2007, Goyette was named head coach of the University of Calgary Dinos women's hockey program.[18] The Calgary Dinos won the women's 2011–12 Canadian Interuniversity Sport National Championships in Edmonton, Alberta. Goyette was named Canada West Conference Coach of the Year in 2019–20.[19]
In the summer of 2010, Goyette participated in the evaluation camp for the 2010–11 Canadian national women's team.[20] She was a coach for Canada Red (the camp was divided into four teams: Red, White, Yellow, Blue).
In 2019, she was named the director of player development for the Toronto Maple Leafs. In February 2022, the Newfoundland Growlers, the ECHL affiliate of the Maple Leafs, hired Goyette as a temporary assistant coach when head coach Eric Wellwood was unavailable to coach due to COVID-19 protocols, making Goyette the first woman to coach for an ECHL team.[21]
↑On the Edge: Women Making Hockey History, p.132, by Elizabeth Etue and Megan K. Williams, Second Story Press, Toronto, Ontario, 1996, ISBN0-929005-79-1
↑"Quebec takes title" The Province, March 20, 1989, p. 23.
↑"Quebec wins third straight women's title" The Times-Transcript, March 25, 1996, p. 13.
↑IIHF Top 100 Hockey Stories of All Time, p.52, Szymon Szenberg and Andrew Podnieks, 2008, Fenn Publishing Company Ltd, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, ISBN978-1-55168-358-4
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