Jenniina Nylund

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Jenniina Nylund
Born (1999-06-18) 18 June 1999 (age 22)
Jacobstad (Pietarsaari), Finland
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight 58 kg (128 lb; 9 st 2 lb)
Position Centre
Shoots Left
NCAA team
Former teams		 St. Cloud State Huskies
Team Kuortane
National team  Finland
Playing career 2015–present
Medal record
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Canada

Jenniina Nylund (born 18 June 1999) is a Finnish ice hockey centre and member of the Finnish national ice hockey team, currently playing with the St. Cloud State Huskies women's ice hockey program in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) conference of the NCAA Division I.

Playing career[]

At four years of age, Nylund followed in the footsteps of her three older brothers and began playing ice hockey with the minor department of Jeppis Hockey, an ice hockey club in her home town of Jakobstad (Finnish: Pietarsaari) on the coast of Ostrobothnia. She joined the women's under-16 (U16) team of Kokkolan Hermes, a club in Kokkola (approx. 40 km (25 mi) northeast of Jakobstad), in her early teens and played on both the Hermes women's U16 team and the Jeppis men's U16 team during the 2014–15 season.[1]

Ahead of the 2015–16 season, Nylund moved 130 km (80 mi) from home to Kuortane in order to attend the Kuortaneen urheilulukio ('Kuortane Sports Lukio') and join the school's team in the Naisten SM-sarja, the top-tier women's ice hockey league in Finland (renamed Naisten Liiga in 2017). On Team Kuortane, she played alongside a number of future national team teammates, including Petra Nieminen, Viivi Vainikka, Sini Karjalainen, and Anni Keisala. Nylund ranked among the top four point earners on the team during each of her three seasons in Kuortane. In the 2017–18 Naisten Liiga season, she led the team in points and goals during the regular season and topped the league's points table in the Aurora Borealis Cup playoffs. Buoyed by the sublime scoring production of Nylund, Nieminen, and Vainikka, Team Kuortane won the 2018 Finnish Championship bronze medal – the best postseason finish in team history.[2]

She has played a total of 83 regular season games in the Naisten SM-sarja/Naisten Liiga, scoring 43 goals and notching 36 assists. In the Aurora Borealis Cup playoffs, she has netted nine goals and seven assists in ten games played.

Upon graduating from the Kuortaneen urheilulukio, Nylund opted to play college ice hockey in the United States and joined the St. Cloud State Huskies women's ice hockey program as a freshman for the 2018−2019 season. As of the conclusion of the 2020–21 season, she has scored 19 goals and 27 assists for 46 points in 84 games.

International play[]

Nylund was a member of the Finnish national under-18 ice hockey team during 2013 to 2017. She played in the 2016 IIHF World Women's U18 Championships in St. Catharines, Ontario, at which Finland placed sixth. Despite the team's lower than desired finish, Nylund had a great tournament, notching two goals and four assists for six points in five games. Her point total ranked second on the Finnish team, behind Petra Nieminen (4+2), and tenth of all players participating in the tournament.

At the 2017 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship, Nylund again ranked second on the Finnish team in scoring, netting a total of three goals in five games. The team roster featured many future senior national team players, including fellow 2021 World Championship debutants Sini Karjalainen, Julia Liikala, and Emilia Vesa. The team was talented and had quality depth but an overtime loss to the Czech Republic in the group stage and a loss to Sweden in the quarterfinals limited them to a fifth place finish.

Nylund first played with the senior Finnish national team in three matches during the 2016–17 international season, not recording a point. She continued to pursue the goal of being named to a World Championship roster while pursuing her college career in the United States, participating in the 2018 Four Nations Cup, at which Finland won bronze, and at two of the four tournaments in the 2019–20 Women's Euro Hockey Tour. Her goal was finally realized in April 2021, when she was named to the Finnish roster for the 2021 IIHF Women's World Championship.[3]

Personal life[]

Nylund is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in marketing at St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minnesota.[4]

Career statistics[]

Regular season and playoffs[]

    Regular season   Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
2014–15 Jeppis U16 U16 Suomi-sarja 15 5 6 11 6 – – – – –
2014–15 Kronan/Hermes U16 U16 Tyttöjen Aluesarja 9 23 15 38 12 – – – – –
2015–16 Team Kuortane Naisten SM-sarja 28 7 10 17 16 1 0 0 0 0
2016–17 Team Kuortane Naisten SM-sarja 25 13 10 23 26 2 1 0 1 0
2017–18 Team Kuortane Naisten Liiga 30 23 16 39 14 7 8 7 15 6
2018–19 St. Cloud State Huskies NCAA 35 8 13 21 10 – – – – –
2019–20 St. Cloud State Huskies NCAA 30 4 9 13 12 – – – – –
2020–21 St. Cloud State Huskies NCAA 19 7 5 12 14 – – – – –
Naisten Liiga totals 83 43 36 79 56 10 9 7 16 6
NCAA totals 84 19 27 46 36 – – – – –

Sources: Elite Prospects,[5] USCHO[6]

International[]

Year Team Event Result   GP G A Pts PIM
2016 Finland WW18 6th 5 2 4 6 4
2017 Finland WW18 5th 5 3 0 3 4
Junior totals 10 5 4 9 8

References[]

  1. ^ Koivukangas, Antti (26 December 2018). "Drömmen om hemma-VM driver 19-åriga Jenniina Nylund framåt i USA: "Man får verkligen kriga för att ta sig fram"". Yle Svenska (in Swedish). Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  2. ^ Teiskonlahti, Kirsi (31 March 2018). "Team Kuortane saavutti ensimmäisen mitalinsa Naisten Liigassa – Pajarinen torjui nollapelin". Yle (in Finnish). Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  3. ^ Huttunen, Sasha (7 April 2021). "Tässä on Naisleijonien MM-joukkue – mukana 15-vuotias teinilupaus!". Iltalehti (in Finnish). Retrieved 11 April 2021.
  4. ^ "2020-21 Women's Ice Hockey Roster: 81 Jenniina Nylund". St. Cloud State University Athletics. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  5. ^ "Player Profile: Jenniina Nylund". Elite Prospects. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
  6. ^ "Jenniina Nylund: Career Statistics". US College Hockey Online. Retrieved 8 April 2021.

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