Family of Manitoba woman killed in crash invited to Edmonton university for ceremony retiring her hockey jersey

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A young woman killed in Transcona last spring in an alleged drunk-driving collision has been honoured by her Edmonton university’s hockey team.

Jordyn Reimer, 24, was acting as a designated driver when a pickup truck crashed into her vehicle at the intersection of Bond Street and Kildare Avenue West at about 2:20 a.m. May 1. Paramedics pulled her from her vehicle and raced her to hospital but she died of her injuries.

Reimer’s family flew to Edmonton last Friday to attend an on-ice ceremony at MacEwan University, where she played on the school’s hockey team for five years, her father Doug Reimer said.

During the ceremony, the MacEwan Griffins memorialized Reimer’s time on the team and retired her No. 9 jersey.

“We were honoured that they did that for her,” Doug Reimer said, though the trip to Alberta was a difficult one.

“It brings back everything; her senseless murder. It just brings back everything to the surface.”

A banner emblazoned with Reimer’s number will now hang among those commemorating the university’s hockey teams’ championship banners. She helped the women’s team to three consecutive Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference championships from 2017-19.

She and her sister, Nikki, were teammates for three seasons before Reimer graduated with a bachelor of arts in 2021.

At the start of games, she would lead her team onto the ice and yell, “Let’s start a riot!” to get everyone amped up. In the wake of her death, it’s become the family’s catchphrase, her parents said.

Reimer was named to the school’s three-star list in the 2019 season, in which she scored five goals and netted seven assists.

She loved hockey, and the team was like a second family to her, Doug Reimer said, so the family was grateful when the team reached out, offering to hang the banner and retire her jersey ahead of this season’s home-opener.

“There was a nice reception for alumni, friends and family before the game,” he said. “It was all the university — they were absolutely fantastic about it.”

He said his daughter loved her time in Edmonton, and on the team, where she made many great friends.

She moved back to her home province following university, working at Manitoba Public Insurance in Brandon, regularly making the trip to Winnipeg on weekends.

Winnipeg police allege the truck’s driver and occupants fled the scene of the collision that killed Reimer.

Tyler Scott Goodman, 28, was charged with dangerous driving causing death, driving causing death while impaired and failing to remain at the scene.

His mother, Laurie Lynn Goodman, 57, was later charged with obstructing justice and two counts of accessory after the fact.

None of the charges have been proven in court.

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