Charline
| Charline Labonté | |||
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Labonté during a Montreal Stars game in November 2014
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| Born |
October 15, 1982 Greenfield Park, Quebec, Canada |
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| Height | 5 ft 9 in (175 cm) | ||
| Weight | 157 lb (71 kg; 11 st 3 lb) | ||
| Position | Goaltender | ||
| Catches | Left | ||
| CWHL team | Les Canadiennes | ||
| National team |
 Canada
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| Playing career | 2000–present | ||
Charline Labonté (born October 15, 1982) is a Canadian women's ice hockey player. Labonté now lives in Montreal, and graduated from McGill University with a degree in Physical Education. She is a former goaltender for the McGill Martlets ice hockey team and was named to the 2014 Olympic roster for Canada. She would be the winning goaltender for Les Canadiennes de Montreal in the final of the 2017 Clarkson Cup. In September 2017 she retired from the Canadian national hockey team, as the goalie ranking second most all-time in games won (45), shutouts (16), and games played for Canada, with three Olympic gold medals, 2 world championship wins and 6 world silver medals.
At the 1999 Canada Winter Games in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Labonte was part of the silver medal winning team.
Labonté was one of two goaltenders playing for the Canadian women's hockey team in the 2006 Turin olympics. At the Torino Games, Labonte and Kim St. Pierre allowed a combined two goals in five games played. Labonte logged 180 minutes of ice time and led all goaltenders with a goals against average of 0.33 and a save percentage of .976, respectively. In 2010, she served as the third goaltender for the gold medal winning Canadian women's team. Prior to this she played for the Montreal Axion and Laval Le Mistral, Teams of the National Women's Hockey League. She was awarded Top Goaltender honours at the 2009 world championships.
She was one of the few women to play Major Junior hockey, appearing in 28 games with the Acadie-Bathurst Titan of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League between 1999 and 2000. Her play for the QMJHL club was featured on a hockey card issued by Upper Deck in their 1999–2000 UD Prospects set (card #54). She competed for Team Quebec at the 1999 Canada Winter Games. She was a member of the Montreal Axion in 2004–05, and one of her teammates was fellow Olympian Gina Kingsbury.
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