Sanni Hakala
Sanni Hakala | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born |
Jyväskylä, Finland | 31 October 1997|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.54 m (5 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 55 kg (121 lb; 8 st 9 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Position | Wing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shoots | Left | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SDHL team Former teams |
HV71 JYP Jyväskylä Oulun Kärpät | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team |
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Playing career | 2012–present | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Sanni Hakala (born 31 October 1997) is a Finnish ice hockey player and member of the Finnish national team, currently playing with HV71 Dam of the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL).[1]
Playing career[]
As a youth player, Hakala played on boys' teams until she was 15, at which point she signed with JYP Jyväskylä in the Naisten SM-sarja, the top flight of Finnish women's hockey.[2] She won the Emma Laaksonen Award for Fair Play in the 2015–16 season.
In November 2016, she left Finland to sign with HV71 in the SDHL.[3] She was named HV71's fan player of the year for the 2019–20 season.[4]
After missing the first third of the 2020-21 SDHL season, she scored a hat-trick in her first game back, a 6-1 victory over Brynäs IF in November 2020.[5]
International play[]
She made her senior national team debut at the 2016 IIHF Women's World Championship.[6] She has represented the Finnish national team at the World Championships every year since, including the team's first ever silver medal at the 2019 IIHF Women's World Championship. She scored one goal in six games as Finland won bronze at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Career statistics[]
Regular Season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
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Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
2016-17 | HV71 | SDHL | 18 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
2017-18 | HV71 | SDHL | 35 | 15 | 21 | 36 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | ||
2018-19 | HV71 | SDHL | 35 | 22 | 20 | 42 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | ||
2019-20 | HV71 | SDHL | 34 | 20 | 18 | 38 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 2 | ||
SDHL totals | 122 | 61 | 62 | 123 | 28 | 21 | 9 | 10 | 19 | 12 |
References[]
- ^ "IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championship – Team Roster: FIN - Finland" (PDF). stats.iihf.com. IIHF. 5 April 2019. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
- ^ Rönnkvist, Ronnie (2 July 2018). "Finländske talangen hyllar SDHL – kritiserar landslaget: "Bra att byta coach"". HockeySverige (in Swedish). Retrieved 23 September 2020.
- ^ Ranta, Pekka (8 December 2016). "Uusi haaste toi Sanni Hakalan Ruotsin jääkiekon naisliiga SDHL:ään". Sveriges Radio (in Finnish). Retrieved 23 September 2020.
- ^ "Damhockey är under uppbyggnad". damhockey.se (in Swedish). 26 March 2020. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
- ^ "Hakala gjorde hattrick i comebacken – när HV71 vann". 14 November 2020.
- ^ 2016 World Championship roster Archived 20 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine
External links[]
- Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com
- Sanni Hakala at Olympedia
- 1997 births
- Living people
- Finnish expatriate ice hockey people
- Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Sweden
- Finnish women's ice hockey forwards
- HV71 Dam players
- Ice hockey players at the 2018 Winter Olympics
- JYP Jyväskylä Naiset players
- Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Finland
- Olympic ice hockey players of Finland
- Olympic medalists in ice hockey
- Oulun Kärpät Naiset players
- Sportspeople from Jyväskylä
- Finnish ice hockey winger stubs
- Finnish Winter Olympic medalist stubs