Female Goalie Goal!

It's not even October yet, and we already have a goalie goal on the board for the 2021-22 season! As you know, goalie goals are rare, and this blog will make every effort to find video of those goals. Regardless of what's happening in the hockey world, a goalie goal takes precedence over any other story. I will say that I don't recall a goalie goal ever being recorded in a regular-season game in September nor do I recall any goalie goals scored in the first weekend of the NCAA season, but we can officially strike both of those from the record thanks to Quinnipiac's Manitoba-born netminder Corinne Schroeder!

Schroeder played for the Pembina Valley Hawks and the Balmoral Hall Blazers in Manitoba as she honed her skills before being recruited to join Boston University where she played for three seasons plus the shortened COVID-19 season last year. She transferred to Quinnipiac to pursue her MBA after graduating from BU, and she decided to play out her final NCAA season with the Bobcats as a graduate student.

Quinnipiac, who also has Winnipegger and former St. Mary's Academy Flames netminder Logan Angers on their roster, seems to be getting the most out of Manitoba-born goalies in the NCAA. Angers picked up the 3-2 victory against Maine to open the season on the Friday before the Bobcats sent Schroeder to the net for tonight's game in the back-half of the two-game set against the Maine Black Bears.

We'll pick this game up in the third period with Quinnipiac leading 4-1, but trying to gain possession on a delayed penalty call. As the announcers mulled over who last touched the puck for Quinnipiac before Maine sent the puck the length of the ice into their own net, this is what the fans in the arena heard as a goal scorer:

With that goal, Schroeder wrote her name into the school's record books. She becomes the first Quinnipiac women's goalie to score a goal in school history. She is the first female goalie in NCAA history to be credited with a goal of any kind. Her goal also made Quinnipiac the only school in NCAA history with two goalies who scored goals as she join men's hockey alumnus Michael Garteig who scored for the Bobcats in 2013. She's the 13th goalie to score a goal in NCAA history. How cool are those records? And she's from Elm Creek, Manitoba!

Congratulations to Corinne Schroeder on her first career NCAA goal! HBIC loves goalie goals, so let's hope there's a chance at a second goal as this season wears on! Who would have thought we'd have a goalie goal on September 25?

Until next time, keep your sticks on the ice!