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ASSOCIATES Trading goalie pads for legal pads G oalies tend to do things a bit differently. Montreal Cana- diens and Colorado Avalanche great Patrick Roy used to talk to his goal posts, while 1970s netminder Gilles Grat- ton would tell people he was the reincarnation of a soldier from the Spanish Inquisition and refused to play if the moon was in the wrong place in the sky. Osgoode Hall Law School graduate Keely Brown finished articling and her quest for hockey and ringette teams in need of a goalie ended up in the perfect job. Brown, called to the bar in Ontario in 2003 and Alberta in 16 JANU AR Y 2009 www. C ANADIAN Law ye rmag.com Keely Brown in action with Canada's national ringette team. Edmonton Oilers general counsel Keely Brown is also one of the world's best ringette goalies. BY KELLY HARRIS 2004, heard there was an opening with the Edmonton Chimos Women's Hockey Club and made the move west. "The Chimos needed a goalie for hockey, I finished articling in Toronto, and I knew Edmonton had a good ringette club too, so I just came out here to check it out. . . . It worked out pretty well." It was ringette that brought Brown to Edmonton for the first time in 2002, as a member of Canada's team at the World Ringette Championship. She recalls it was standing-room only for the games and a feeling that the whole city was behind the PHOTO: RINGETTE CANADA