Phillips, a former Fall River product, was part of the Canadian women\u2019s hockey team that won Under-18 women\u2019s hockey gold at the COVID-19-delayed championship, held in Madison, Wis. They beat the USA 3-2 in the final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She was the teams third goalie, although only two got to see any game play during the tournament for Canada, led by starter Mari Pietersen, who stopped 27 of 29 pucks in the final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While she may not have saw any game action\u2014IIHF rules state only the two rostered goalies got to play unless there was an injury. Knowing this going in to the tournament, Phillips didn\u2019t let that deter her as she said she knew she had a role to play and did just that cheering her teammates on and getting them pumped up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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As she and two other Nova Scotians\u2014a therapist and assistant coach Troy Ryan awaited their luggage to come out the carousel at Halifax Stanfield Airport\u2014Phillips spoke of the experience she had donning the Maple Leaf of Canada for the tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt was incredible. It was long, but it was so much fun,\u201d said Phillips, standing next to dad Gary. \u201cThe girls were awesome, the staff were awesome, the hockey was just so good. It\u2019s sad that it’s over, but I’m also like happy to be home now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The delay in returning home was caused by a change in plane departure time from Chicago, and then a mechanical issue forcing them to miss the connecting flight from Montreal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It also meant the planned surprise welcome home by some of her Bay View High School friends wouldn\u2019t happen as they were in school when she got home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Phillips went home for a couple hours nap before going in to school showing off her gold medal. She had an idea of the type of reaction she would get\u2014and it was pretty accurate looking at her Facebook posts of her return to school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think my friends will just be happy to see me,\u201d she said. \u201cI think my teachers will be the ones that are like, \u201coh, let’s see the medal,\u201d and my friends will just be giving me hugs and stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n She described the final seconds as the clock ticked down to Canada winning its sixth gold medal at the U-18 women\u2019s championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI was standing behind our goal waiting for them to open the door. And it got to like eight seconds. I was, \u201cHey, open the door.\u201d And then it was five seconds. I was, \u201cHey, open the door.\u201d Then they opened the door,\u201d said Phillips. \u201cI was one of the first one to get to the pile. So that was kind of cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI just kind of jumped on them and we were all just screaming, I felt bad for Mari, who was on the bottom and some other people. I don’t think they could breathe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”34″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”6″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Canada had lost 7-0 to the US a few nights earlier, so Phillips felt they were a bit nervous facing their rivals in the gold medal final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI think after the third goal that we scored, we got a bit too excited and lost the edge, but we held on and got the assignment done,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Phillips spoke about playing with NHL Legend Jarome Iginla\u2019s daughter Jade during the tournament. Jade was injured early on and ruled out but came back in the last couple of playoff round games to help lead Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt was pretty cool,\u201d said Phillips. \u201cShe’s just another girl on the team; she’s probably just as talented at everyone. I felt bad for her when she blocked the shot and kind of got hurt in the exhibition game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe went on the ice a couple of times, just me and her for my goalie session and she lit me up a bit. So I told her that her hand wasn’t broken and then she played the next game.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”105″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”148″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”127″] [adrotate banner=”93″] HALIFAX STANFIELD AIRPORT: Lucy Phillips was still on Cloud Nine as she returned home on Tuesday morning June 14\u2014about 15 hours later then planned. Phillips, a former Fall River product, was part of the Canadian women\u2019s hockey team that won Under-18 women\u2019s hockey gold at the COVID-19-delayed championship, held in Madison, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21],"tags":[2,813,545,3840,3841],"class_list":["post-29420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-sports","tag-fall-river","tag-lucy-phillips","tag-team-canada","tag-upper-tantallon","tag-world-womens-under-18-hockey-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/C168E598-6359-44B7-9404-7E728024BE92-1024x996.jpeg\")