if anyone wants some intermission reading !! <3
What do you get when a Kiwi kid goes to a top Canadian prep school and then an elite American collegiate program? An unflappable goalie in N
Harrison’s rise was the culmination of her own ability, work ethic and one thing incredibly difficult to come by in New Zealand: reps, and a lot of them. The result was a goaltender who, as a 21-year-old in 2018, had left an indelible impression on Crickard – and also gave him a flashback. Before his assistant coaching gigs at the OHL, WHL, U-17 and U-18 levels, Crickard himself was a goaltender who, at one off-season camp, was paired with Genevieve Lacasse, then a college netminder but one who would go on to win World Championship and Olympic gold with Canada. Lacasse stood out among, and head and shoulders above, her male counterparts. “I’m watching (Harrison) and thinking about where she fits in the spectrum of other goaltenders in New Zealand, and I kind of had the same feeling,” Crickard said. “She looks just as good or better than anyone else here. She moves better, she’s technically better and, for one thing, she’s significantly younger than some of the goalies in the league.”
