PLYMOUTH, Mich. — Even now, after 25 years of sharing the same dressing room, Shannon Szabados still gets asked the same old questions.
A reporter will come to a game in the Southern Professional Hockey League and ask the goalie with the dark curly hair spilling out of the back of her mask what it’s like to play with the boys? Is it strange? Does she get treated differently?
Szabados always laughs. On the surface, they might seem like valid questions. But for the Edmonton native, playing with men was never the strange part. Rather, it was always the other way around.