Paul Rosen

Paul Rosen

Paul Rosen in 2015
Born (1960-04-26) April 26, 1960
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Height 6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
Weight 189 lb (86 kg; 13 st 7 lb)
Position Goalie
National team  Canada
Playing career 20012010

Paul Rosen (born April 26, 1960) is a Canadian sledge hockey goalie and motivational speaker from Thornhill, Ontario.[1] Rosen suffered a leg injury during a hockey game as a youth, and the resulting damage, infections and pain to his leg plagued him for years until his lower leg was amputated at age 39. During rehabilitation, Paul turned his sights towards sledge hockey, made the Canadian National Sledge hockey team, and participated in the 2002 and 2006 Winter Paralympics. Rosen was the oldest rookie in the history of the Paralympic Winter Games when he made his debut at 41.[2] At the 2006 Games in Torino, Rosen and the Canadian team won the sledge hockey gold medal.[3]

In January 2007, Rosen made headlines across Canada when his Paralympic gold medal was stolen during an autographing session with fans in Toronto. After commentator Don Cherry told the thief to drop the gold medal in a mailbox during his Hockey Night in Canada broadcast, the medal turned up at a postal sorting station in Toronto and was returned to Rosen.[4] He announced his retirement from the Canadian ice sledge hockey team on September 7, 2010 (along with captain Jean Labonte, Todd Nicholson and Herve Lord).[5]

Of note, Rosen also competed in sitting volleyball, another disabled sport. He became a member of Canada's sitting volleyball team at the 2007 Parapanamerican Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Rosen was part of the first ever official international match for Canada's sitting volleyball team when they played the United States on Wednesday, August 15, 2007.[6]

After retiring from competitive sports, Paul became an official ambassador and spokesperson for National Benefit Authority.[7][8] When Rosen turned 50, he admitted to the world that he had struggled with literacy his whole life and was going back to school. He is now the ambassador for ABC Life Literacy and helps other people conquer the shame and stigma of illiteracy.[9]

Career stats

Rosen at the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver

The goaltender spent nine seasons with the Canadian national ice sledge hockey team. By the end of his career, he would accumulate a won loss record of 55-15-1. In addition, he registered a 1.04 goals-against average and 25 shutouts in 72 career games.

Hockey Canada

Year Event GP MIN GA SO GAA W L T
2007 World sledge hockey challenge 4153 411.57400
2008 World sledge hockey championships 290 020.00200
2009 World sledge hockey championships 3141 321.28210

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