BREAKING INTO THE BOYS’ CLUB

Ex-Swiss star Schelling is the first female GM of a major men’s pro team. The odds are she won’t be the last

BY MATT LARKIN

FLORENCE SCHELLING already had quite the resume. She’s one of the top goaltenders in women’s hockey history, having won the Olympic tournament MVP representing Switzerland in 2014. She was a Patty Kazmaier finalist when she played Div. I college hockey at Northeastern. In the last three seasons of her career, playing for Linkoping in the SDHL, her worst goals-against average and save percentage were 1.65 and .938. She’s the only woman to compete in the Swiss Men’s National B League, too. She retired in 2018 with a list of accolades that could earn her Hall of Fame juice someday. And yet, with all due respect to her accomplishments to this point, what she accomplished in early April may eventually define her hockey career more than anything else. SC Bern of the Swiss…

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