She skated with her idols when she was 10. Now her hockey dreams have come true
CTV
As a 10-year-old girl, Maggie Connors won a chance to skate with the National Women’s Hockey Team. Now, the forward has joined the team again.
Maggie Connors’ parents couldn’t keep her away from hockey.
Her introduction to dance classes was a disaster, her father Sean Connors remembers — akin to an allergic reaction. And figure skating wasn’t any better.
She wanted to be where her older brothers were: At the stadium, out playing street hockey, or taking laps on the backyard rink.
“Like any good Canadian dad, I had a backyard rink,” Sean said. “I’d set everything up, and Maggie — we couldn’t keep her in the house.”
“We bought, kind of, the complete hockey kit in a box, Velcro skates, and we put them on her,” he said.
“We looked at this little girl, and she’s maybe three and a half at the time… and she’s going around the ice doing all the things that we’ve been teaching the boys now for a year and a half to try to do.”
