Marie-Philip Poulin named IIHF female player of the year, beating out 5 Americans

John Wawrow · The Associated Press

· Posted: Jun 18, 2025 1:16 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago

Canada's "Captain Clutch" Marie-Philip Poulin has different honour adhd to her already celebrated hockey vocation successful being voted International Ice Hockey Federation pistillate subordinate of the year.

Poulin earned 33.1 per cent of the votes successful finishing up of 5 Americans, with Ottawa Charge rookie goalie Gwyneth Philips 2nd with 22.3 of the votes, the IIHF announced Wednesday. Hilary Knight, U.S. nationalist squad skipper and the inaugural victor of grant 3 years ago, was 3rd astatine 20.2.

The IIHF did not uncover the circumstantial totals submitted by much than 100 voters made up of media and federation officials.

The 34-year-old Poulin is coming disconnected a twelvemonth successful which she earned MVP honours astatine the satellite women's title successful April with a tournament-leading 12 points (four goals, 8 assists) for Canada's metallic medal-winning team.

The Montreal Victoire skipper is besides a Professional Women's Hockey League MVP finalist aft starring the league with 19 goals and finishing 4th with 26 points successful 30 games.

Poulin is simply a four-time Olympian and earned her "Clutch" nickname for scoring cardinal goals, including the game-winners successful Canada's past 3 gold-medal title wins astatine the Winter Games.

She's the 2nd Canadian to gain the honour, pursuing Natalie Spooner's triumph past year.

Philips, meantime, made a splash some professionally and internationally this play by capably stepping successful arsenic a backup.

From Athens, Ohio, she went 3-0 astatine worlds, including a 17-save show implicit the last 32 minutes of the Americans' 4-3 overtime triumph implicit Canada successful the rubric game. Philips entered the crippled aft starter Aerin Frankel was wounded successful the 3rd period.

In the PWHL, Philips won the Ilana Kloss Trophy arsenic playoff MVP contempt Ottawa losing the Walter Cup finals to defending champion Minnesota. Philips went 4-4 successful the post-season successful allowing conscionable 13 goals connected 270 shots for a .952 prevention percent and 1.23 goals-against average.

Drafted by the Charge retired of Northeastern, Philips took implicit the starting duties and helped the Charge clinch their archetypal playoff berth aft Emerance Maschmeyer was sidelined by a little assemblage wounded successful mid-March.

Also receiving votes were Wisconsin's Caroline Harvey and Laila Edwards, and Finland nationalist squad and Charge defenceman Ronja Savolainen.