Sini Karjalainen (born 30 January 1999) is a Finnish ice hockey player and member of the Finnish national ice hockey team, currently playing with the Vermont Catamounts of Hockey East in the NCAA Division I.
Sini Karjalainen | ||||||||||||||||
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Born |
(1999-01-30) 30 January 1999 (age 23) Posio, Lapland, Finland | |||||||||||||||
Height | 173 cm (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||
Weight | 63 kg (139 lb; 9 st 13 lb) | |||||||||||||||
Position | Defense | |||||||||||||||
Shoots | Left | |||||||||||||||
NCAA team Former teams |
Vermont Catamounts Team Kuortane Rovaniemen Kiekko | |||||||||||||||
National team |
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Playing career | 2013–present | |||||||||||||||
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Karjalainen played with the Finnish women's national U18 team at the IIHF World Women's U18 Championships in 2015, 2016, and 2017.[1]
She was officially named to the Finnish roster for the 2020 IIHF Women's World Championship on 4 March 2020, before the tournament was cancelled on 7 March 2020 due to public health concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2][3] The 2020 World Championship would have been Karjalainen's debut with the Finnish national team at an IIHF-organized international tournament; she appeared on the national roster for various Euro Hockey Tour tournaments, first in 2016.[4][5][6]
She ultimately debuted with the senior national at the 2021 IIHF Women's World Championship as an alternate defenseman on the 25-player roster and skated in five games.[7]
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