Jade Downie-Landry

Jade Downie-Landry
Downie-Landry with the Montreal Force in 2022
Born (1995-10-03) October 3, 1995 (age 29)
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, Canada
Height 5 ft 9 in (175 cm)
Weight 148 lb (67 kg; 10 st 8 lb)
Position Forward
Shoots Left
PWHL team
Former teams
New York Sirens
Montreal Force
Playing career 2022–present

Jade Downie-Landry (born October 3, 1995) is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward for the New York Sirens of the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL).

Playing career

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Amateur and post-secondary career

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Captaining LHFDQ North at the 2013 Esso Cup, the Canadian women's under-18 club championships, Downie-Landry helped to secure the first Esso Cup victory by a Quebecois team.[1]

Downie-Landry played three seasons with the Dawson College Blues, from 2013 to 2016. In the 2015–16 season, she recorded 63 points in 24 games and was named league MVP.[2]

Although she considered playing college ice hockey in the United States, she ultimately chose to attend and play for McGill University, swayed in part by her father being diagnosed with leukemia.[2] Her freshman season, 2016–17, saw her record 13 goals and 28 points in 36 games. She was named to the conference and U Sports all-rookie teams, and was selected to play with the Hockey Canada national development team.[3]

Downie-Landry would win the McGill most outstanding scorer award in both 2017–18 and 2018–19. The latter season also saw her lead the conference in both regular season and playoff scoring, as well as named alternate captain and team MVP.[3][4] Qualifying for the national championship with a second place finish in the conference tournament, she and the Martlets finished in second at the 2019 U Sports Women's Ice Hockey Championship, where she was named championship MVP.[5]

In her senior year, Downie-Landry again led the Martlets in scoring, recording 24 goals and 45 points in 30 games, good for fourth in the league. For the third consecutive season, she was named the Martlets' most outstanding scorer.[3] Entering the conference championship ranked fifth in U Sports, the Martlets swept the best-of-three finals against the Université de Montréal to claim the 2020 conference title. Downie-Landry recorded six goals in four playoff games, including one in the tournament-clinching victory.[6]

The 2020–21 season would have been Downie-Landry's final year of U Sports eligibility, but the COVID-19 pandemic caused the season to be cancelled before it began on September 14, 2021.[7]

Returning as captain in 2021–22, her final season with the Martlets, Downie-Landry led the conference in goals and points, with 14 and 27, respectively, in 15 games. Her 1.80 points per game led all of U Sports, and she recorded a point on over half of McGill's goals. McGill finished first in the regular season and second in the conference championship, and Downie-Landry was named U Sports women's hockey player of the year and McGill University female athlete of the year.[8][9]

Professional career

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Downie-Landry turned professional in the 2022–23 season, signing with Premier Hockey Federation (PHF) expansion franchise Montreal Force on July 25, 2022.[10] She scored her first PHF goal in the team's inaugural outing, a 5–3 victory over the Metropolitan Riveters on November 26, 2022, in which she recorded a hat-trick and an assist for four points.[11] She would go on to lead the Force in scoring, with 10 goals and 23 points in 24 games,[12] and was named to the All-Star Game.[13]

In the inaugural draft of the newly-created Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL), Downie-Landry was selected in the ninth round, 52nd overall by New York.[14] She signed with the club on November 1, 2023, becoming the first former PHF player to sign a PWHL contract.[15] As she did in the PHF, she recorded her first PWHL goals with a hat-trick, in a 4–1 victory over Boston on January 20, 2024.[16] Playing in all 24 games for last-place New York, Downie-Landry finished the year with 13 points.[17]

Personal life

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Downie-Landry graduated from McGill University in 2020 with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. She returned to pursue a Bachelor of Education in physical education.[7]

Career statistics

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Regular season Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
2013–14 Dawson College RSEQ C 20 10 8 18
2014–15 Dawson College RSEQ C 31 36 26 62
2015–16 Dawson College RSEQ C 24 28 35 63
2016–17 McGill University RSEQ 16 8 7 15 26
2017–18 McGill University RSEQ 18 6 10 16 18 3 4 3 7 8
2018–19 McGill University RSEQ 20 5 18 23 26 4 3 5 8 8
2019–20 McGill University RSEQ 15 8 10 18 27 4 6 2 8 8
2021–22 McGill University RSEQ 15 14 13 27 20 5 2 1 3 6
2022–23 Montreal Force PHF 24 10 13 23 20
2023–24 New York PWHL 24 8 5 13 18
PWHL totals 24 8 5 13 18

Awards and honours

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Award Year Ref
Esso Cup
Top Forward 2013 [18]
RSEQ Collégial
All-Rookie Team 2014 [19]
First Team All-Star 2015, 2016
Most Valuable Player 2016
U Sports
All-Rookie Team 2017 [20]
Championship MVP 2019
All-Championship Team 2019
Second Team All-Canadian 2019, 2020
Player of the year (Brodrick Trophy) 2022
First Team All-Canadian 2022
RSEQ
All-Rookie Team 2017 [20]
First Team All-Star 2019, 2020, 2022
Most Valuable Player 2022
McGill University
Most Outstanding Scorer (women's ice hockey) 2018, 2019, 2020 [3]
Most Valuable Player (women's ice hockey) 2019, 2020
Athlete of the Year 2022 [9]
PHF
All-Star Game 2023 [15]

References

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  1. ^ Scott, Lucas. "North Bay Ice Boltz (ONT) 2 – LHFDQ Nord (QUE) 5". hockeycanada.ca. Hockey Canada. Archived from the original on March 2, 2024. Retrieved March 2, 2024.
  2. ^ a b Harvey-Pinard, Katherine (December 22, 2022). "Entre confiance et humilité". La Presse (in Canadian French). Archived from the original on February 18, 2024. Retrieved March 2, 2024.
  3. ^ a b c d "Jade Downie-Landry". mcgillathletics.ca. McGill University. Archived from the original on March 2, 2024. Retrieved March 2, 2024.
  4. ^ McCarthey, Matthew (March 2, 2019). "HOCKEY PLAYOFFS: Carabins edge McGill for RSEQ title, both teams off to Nationals". mcgillathletics.ca. McGill University. Archived from the original on March 2, 2024. Retrieved March 2, 2024.
  5. ^ "Gryphons capture first-ever U SPORTS championship". usports.ca. U Sports. March 17, 2019. Archived from the original on March 2, 2024. Retrieved March 2, 2024.
  6. ^ Zukerman, Earl; McCarthey, Matthew (March 1, 2020). "McGill sweeps Carabins to capture 15th Quebec women's hockey championship". McGill Reporter. Archived from the original on March 2, 2024. Retrieved March 2, 2024.
  7. ^ a b Menikefs, Adam (March 30, 2021). "Know Your Athlete: Jade Downie-Landry". McGill Tribune. Tribune Publication Society. Archived from the original on February 18, 2024. Retrieved March 2, 2024.
  8. ^ Mulligan, Tyler; Zukerman, Earl (March 23, 2022). "McGill's Downie-Landry named player of the year in U SPORTS women's hockey". mcgillathletics.ca. McGill University. Archived from the original on March 2, 2024. Retrieved March 2, 2024.
  9. ^ a b Zukerman, Earl (April 6, 2022). "Swimmer Secchi and hockey's Downie-Landry named McGill athletes of the year". mcgillathletics.ca. McGill University. Archived from the original on March 2, 2024. Retrieved March 2, 2024.
  10. ^ "PHF expansion Montreal signs first seven players for upcoming season". globalnews.ca. The Canadian Press. July 25, 2022. Archived from the original on September 26, 2022. Retrieved March 2, 2024.
  11. ^ Hickey, Pat (November 27, 2022). "Montreal Force pounds Riveters 5–3 in home opener". montrealgazette.com. Montreal Gazette. Archived from the original on November 27, 2022. Retrieved March 2, 2024.
  12. ^ Burgess, Melissa (April 25, 2023). "PHF Season 8: Montreal Force Season Review". victorypress.org. The Victory Press. Archived from the original on March 2, 2024. Retrieved March 2, 2024.
  13. ^ Kennedy, Ian (August 3, 2023). "Game Tape: Jade Downie-Landry plays a complete game". thehockeynews.com. The Hockey News. Archived from the original on March 2, 2024. Retrieved March 2, 2024.
  14. ^ Kennedy, Ian (September 22, 2023). "Five Potential Steals From The PWHL Draft". thehockeynews.com. The Hockey News. Archived from the original on December 18, 2023. Retrieved March 2, 2024.
  15. ^ a b Kennedy, Ian (November 1, 2023). "Jade Downie-Landry Becomes First PHF Alumni To Sign In New League". thehockeynews.com. The Hockey News. Archived from the original on February 18, 2024. Retrieved March 2, 2024.
  16. ^ "Downie-Landry gets hat trick as New York beats Boston, 4–1". collinsvillepress.com. January 20, 2024. Archived from the original on March 2, 2024. Retrieved March 2, 2024.
  17. ^ Lorange, Simon-Olivier (May 16, 2024). "LPHF: Jade Downie-Landry a trouvé ses aises". La Presse (in Canadian French). Retrieved May 18, 2024.
  18. ^ "Esso Cup: Meet the award winners". hockeycanada.ca. Hockey Canada. April 27, 2013. Archived from the original on March 2, 2024. Retrieved March 2, 2024.
  19. ^ "Honneurs individuels & équipe d'étoiles du RSEQ – Division 1 (depuis 2008–2009)" (in Canadian French). Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec. Archived from the original on March 2, 2024. Retrieved March 2, 2024.
  20. ^ a b "Honneurs individuels & équipe d'étoiles du RSEQ et de U SPORTS depuis 1997–1998". rseq-stats.ca (in Canadian French). Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec. Archived from the original on March 2, 2024. Retrieved March 2, 2024.
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