Lifelong hockey lover who was raised on the uppermost northeast point of NY State on the big St. Lawrence River. The Montreal Canadiens were my team when I was a little girl sitting on my dad's lap watching Hockey Night in Canada on one of four TV stations we could get!! (Picture 1 out of Plattsburgh-Burlington, 2 English-speaking Canadian channels, and 1 French-Canadian). Go Guy LaFleur! Three-sport h.s. school athlete. Two-sport college athlete (St. Lawrence University '89, Lady Saint basketball and soccer-GOALIE!!). First personal hockey memory: I was about 5 years old, wearing my red CCM helmet, in figure skates, holding a tiny wooden hockey stick in the corner of my neighbors' big, homemade backyard ice rink (like the Staals'), and the big kids told me to stay there and when the puck came my way, I was to shoot it toward the net, which looked VERY far away. They didn't want to run me over!!