Jillian Dempsey
Jillian T. Dempsey (born January 19, 1991) is an American ice hockey player who currently captains the Boston Pride in the National Women's Hockey League. She currently holds the all-time NWHL records for games played, goals, assists, and points, and has won both the Clarkson Cup and the Isobel Cup.[1]
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| Born |
January 19, 1991 Winthrop, Massachusetts, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 4 in (163 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 135 lb (61 kg; 9 st 9 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Forward | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Shoots | Left | |||||||||||||||||||||
| NWHL team Former teams |
Boston Pride | |||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |
 United States | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing career | 2011–present | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Career
She played for the Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey team from 2009 to 2013, serving as team captain in her final season. Across 129 NCAA games, she would score 148 points, finishing in the top-10 all-time scorers for Harvard and being named a top-10 finalist for the 2013 Patty Kazmaier Award.[2][3]
In August 2013, she was selected as the 10th overall pick by the Boston Blades in the 2013 CWHL Draft. In October 2013, Dempsey joined the Bisons de Neuilly-sur-Marne on loan for the first round of the 2013–14 IIHF European Women's Champions Cup, where she would score 13 points in 3 games.[4]
She would be awarded the CWHL's Rookie of the Year Award in 2014 after leading all American-born players in league scoring. The following season, she scored 19 points in 22 games as the Blades won the 2015 Clarkson Cup.
When the NWHL was formed in 2015, Dempsey left the Blades to join the Boston Pride.[5] In 2018, she would be named Pride captain.
Dempsey participated in the 3rd NWHL All-Star Game.[6] She would play for Team Stecklein in the 2019 NWHL All-Star Game, and would serve as captain for Team Dempsey at the 2020 NWHL All-Star Game.[7] On Sunday, January 26, 2020, Jillian Dempsey became the first player in league history to reach 100 career points, including playoffs. She reached the century mark with an assist in a win versus the Minnesota Whitecaps.[8]
In February 2020, Sportsnet named her one of the 25 most powerful women in hockey.[9] She would share the 2020 NWHL MVP award with Allie Thunstrom, as the Pride finished as regular season champions. The team would make it to the finals of the 2020 Isobel cup before the playoffs were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
International
Dempsey has represented the United States women's national ice hockey team at the 2009 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship and the 2011 4 Nations Cup.[10] She would again play for the US at the 2012 IIHF Women's World Championship, winning a silver medal.
Personal life
She is a graduate of the Rivers School and Harvard College, where she majored in Classics.[11] During her time at Harvard, she lived in Canaday Hall in her freshman year, and later in Pforzheimer House. After completing a master's in education, she joined the Teach For America programme. In 2016, she became a fifth grade teacher in her home town of Winthrop, Massachusetts.[12][13]
When she was nine, she won a contest to name the Boston Bruins mascot, Blades the Bruin.[14] Her father, Jack Dempsey, currently serves as the Boston Fire Department commissioner.[15]
Career stats
| Regular Season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
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| Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
| 2013–14 | Boston Blades | CWHL | 24 | 14 | 14 | 28 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 2014–15 | Boston Blades | CWHL | 22 | 9 | 10 | 19 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2015–16 | Boston Pride | NWHL | 18 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | ||
| 2016-17 | Boston Pride | NWHL | 17 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 2017-18 | Boston Pride | NWHL | 16 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 2018-19 | Boston Pride | NWHL | 16 | 10 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
| 2019-20 | Boston Pride | NWHL | 24 | 17 | 23 | 40 | 28 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||
| NWHL totals | 91 | 46 | 52 | 98 | 18 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 8 | ||||
| CWHL totals | 46 | 23 | 24 | 47 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||||
- Source[16]
Honours
- Boston Bruins John Carlton Award (2009)[17]
- Harvard Athlete of the Week (Week of February 6, 2012)[18]
- 4x ECAC Player of the Week (Weeks of December 12, 2011, February 6 and 28, 2012, January 7, 2013)[19]
- ECAC Rookie of the Week (Week of November 16, 2010)
- 2010 ECAC All-Rookie Team[20]
- 2010-11 All-ECAC
- 2010 Second Team All-Ivy[21]
- 2013-14 CWHL Rookie of the Year
- 2013-14 CWHL All-Rookie Team
- 2013-14 Leading scorer among CWHL rookies
- 2018, 2019, and 2020 NWHL All-Star Teams
- 2017-18 and 2018-19 NWHL Denna Laing Award
- 2019-20 NWHL Most Valuable Player Award
- 2019-20 NWHL Leading Scorer
References
- https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/02/01/womens-hockey-notebook-jillian-dempsey-hits-historic-milestone/
- https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/5/30/harvard-womens-hockey-female-career-achievement-jillian-dempsey/
- https://gocrimson.com/sports/womens-ice-hockey/roster/jillian-dempsey/10588
- https://www.hockeyfrance.com/championnats/actualit%C3%A9s/actualites-competitions/item/8470-ewcc-neuilly-demarre-fort?highlight=WyJkZW1wc2V5Il0=
- https://womenshockeylife.com/womens-winter-classic-adds-to-jillian-dempseys-proud-boston-hockey-legacy/
- "Media Guide for the 2018 NWHL All-Star Game". NWHL.zone. Archived from the original on 15 February 2018. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
- https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/12/20/nwhl-all-star-game-comes-to-boston-jillian-dempsey-will-captain/
- Nathan Vaughan (28 January 2020). "Record Broken: Dempsey hits 100 The longest tenured member of the Pride is a historic first". SB Nation. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
- https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/25-powerful-women-hockey/
- https://www.thecrimson.com/column/hockey-11-12/article/2011/10/28/whockey-supp-dempseypucci-102811/
- https://www.pattykaz.com/news_article/show/222623-kaz-watch-jillian-dempsey-is-living-the-dream-at-harvard
- https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/05/23/sports/jillian-dempsey-teachers-everywhere-have-given-an-a-plus-performance/
- https://theathletic.com/652379/2018/11/20/jillian-dempsey-is-the-captain-of-the-boston-pride-but-in-this-fifth-grade-class-shes-ms-dempsey/
- https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nhl/news/boston-prides-jillian-dempsey-ready-for-2019-nwhl-all-star-game-paul-mara/1vhgn4fx899ds13424ce01a52k
- https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2020/04/26/mayor-walsh-names-new-boston-fire-commissioner
- "Eliteprospects.com - Jillian Dempsey". EliteProspects.
- http://bruins.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=449590
- http://www.gocrimson.com/aotw/2011-12/20120206_dempsey_j
- http://ecachockey.com/women/2011-12/Weekly_Awards/W_Weekly_Awards_121311.pdf
- http://www.ecachockey.com/women/2009-10/Weekly_Awards/20102402_W_All_League_All_Rookie
- "Freshman Katie Jamieson Receives All-Ivy Accolades". February 25, 2010. Archived from the original on 23 January 2011. Retrieved 6 April 2010.
External links
- Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com, or The Internet Hockey Database
- Jillian Dempsey (Boston Pride 2017-2018) at NWHL
- Boston Blades profile
- Harvard Crimson profile
- Jillian Dempsey on Twitter