Sanni Hakala

Sanni Hakala (born 31 October 1997) is a Finnish ice hockey player with HV71 Dam of the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL) and the Finnish national team.[1]

Sanni Hakala
Born (1997-10-31) 31 October 1997
Jyväskylä, Finland
Height 1.54 m (5 ft 1 in)
Weight 55 kg (121 lb; 8 st 9 lb)
Position Forward
Shoots Left
SDHL team
Former teams		 HV71
JYP Jyväskylä
Oulun Kärpät
National team  Finland
Playing career 2012–present
Medal record
Olympic Games
2018 PyeongchangTeam
World Championships
2019 Finland
2017 United States

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
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
2016-17HV71SDHL 184370 61124
2017-18HV71SDHL 3515213612 20220
2018-19HV71SDHL 3522204210 72136
2019-20HV71SDHL 342018386 666122
SDHL totals 122616212328 219101912

References
  1. "IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championship – Team Roster: FIN - Finland" (PDF). stats.iihf.com. IIHF. 5 April 2019. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  2. Rönnkvist, Ronnie (2 July 2018). "Finländske talangen hyllar SDHL – kritiserar landslaget: "Bra att byta coach"". HockeySverige (in Swedish). Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  3. Ranta, Pekka (8 December 2016). "Uusi haaste toi Sanni Hakalan Ruotsin jääkiekon naisliiga SDHL:ään". Sveriges Radio (in Finnish). Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  4. "Damhockey är under uppbyggnad". damhockey.se (in Swedish). 26 March 2020. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  5. https://www.svt.se/sport/ishockey/hakala-gjorde-hattrick-i-comebacken-nar-hv71-vann
  6. 2016 World Championship roster Archived 20 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine
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