Columbus' Shannon Szabados Named Easton Player of the Week

December 29, 2015 - SPHL (SPHL)
Columbus Cottonmouths News Release


HUNTERSVILLE, NC - The Southern Professional Hockey League (SPHL) on Tuesday announced goaltender Shannon Szabados of the Columbus Cottonmouths is the Easton Player of the Week for December 21-27.

Szabados stopped all 33 shots in a 3-0 win over Huntsville on Saturday, becoming the first female goaltender to record a shutout in a men's professional hockey game.  After her record achievement, Szabados received a congratulatory tweet from Hall of Fame goaltender Grant Fuhr among others.

Signed to the Cottonmouths during the last month of the 2013-14 season, Szabados has appeared in 39 games, starting in 38 of them. She currently has an 18-16-4 career record with Columbus with a 3.29 goals-against average and a .907 save percentage. She collected her first professional win on November 21, 2014, and went on to finish 15-9-1 in the 2014-15 season

Besides her much-documented success as the starting goaltender for the Canadian women's ice hockey team, where she backstopped Team Canada to Olympic gold medals in Vancouver in 2010 and Sochi in 2014, Szabados also had a stellar collegiate career in Canada with MacEwan and the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology from 2007 to 2013. She helped the latter to the Alberta Colleges Athletic Association championship in 2013 as she went a perfect 6-0 in the playoffs with a 1.87 GAA and .930 save percentage after a regular season that saw her go 15-2-0 with a 1.58 GAA, .916 save percentage, and five shutouts.

Also Nominated: Tayler Thompson, Fayetteville (3 gp, 1-2-3), Jordan Ruby, Huntsville (1-0-0, 1 ga, 35 saves), Dennis Sicard, Knoxville (2 gp, 1-0-1), John Daniels, Louisiana (2 gp, 1-0-1, 1 shg), Jake Trask, Macon (2 gp, 2-4-6) and Adam Pawlick, Pensacola (2 gp, 3-0-3)



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