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style study ... lots of lines <3

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While the top ten national teams battled it out in Czechia, the IIHF held tournaments for 24 other teams to try to climb up the rankings and compete for gold within their division. Some of these tournaments include top players ranging from Anna Meixner to Nadia Mattivi to Karolina Późniewska, and all include players who will play next season in various elite club and collegiate leagues. Here is everything that happened at the Division IA, IB, IIA, IIB Women’s World Championships, and insight into each team that participated.

A bit of a more self indulgent one on my end, but hope it’s of interest to some!

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At age 34, Swedish forward Emma Nordin has announced her retirement. She played in the SDHL for 18 seasons, a season in Russia’s women’s league, made 4 Olympic game appearances and 6 world championships for team Sweden.

Nordin was a key piece to Luleå’s dynasty, joining them in 2015 and winning 6 SDHL championships with the team. She holds the record for most points in SDHL history, with 580 points in 475 regular season games and a total of 679 points including playoff games.

Her accolades also include a SDHL forward of the year in 2016 and 2019, Swedish player of the year in 2018 and 2019, a championship in the Russian league, another SDHL championship with MoDo in 2012, and captaining Sweden at the 2019 world championships.

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also hot (but shouldn't be) take but some fans simply don't care about the game and over sexualize players who never consented to being talked about in the way some fans talk about them.

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A couple thoughts on the draft declarations mostly from an international hockey perspective but not exclusively:

-this is a very North American draft, def not many Sdhl players few pfwl players

-Mathea Fischer, Sara Hjalmarsson, gabby jones, Darcie lappen, Michelle Karvinen, marah Wagner, Lillian Perrault, Josephine asperup, Maddie posick, Alexandra Weiss, ena Nystrøm, emma Bergesen, Kate Stuart, and Erica fryer are all last season Sdhl players

-of those I think Fischer, Hjalmarsson, Karvinen, Bergesen, Nystrøm I think have a realistic chance of being selected or being camp invites. I could see Perrault and lappen being training camp invites.

-surprised at no Emma seitz but I’ve heard it’s maybe bc they changed the rules around the draft eligibility if you were a reserve in the 2025 season? But who knows they never give the eligibility rules straight up

-a couple players who signed in the sdhl as well like Sarah Marchand, ena nystrøm, Emma Bergesen, and aly mcleod, so they have opt out clauses and it’s cool to see sdhl teams work with them on that.

-really cool to see Rachel llanes back in here. She hasn’t played in a hot second but she played with Hannah miller and Susanna tapani and Alex carpenter on KRS and of course had cwhl / nwhl experience. Shes 34 which will scare teams away but I think she could be a good depth presence in an expansion team especially since she’s done that before

-ALLIE THUNSTROM MY QUEEN NO NEUTRAL THOUGHTS IM GOJNG HARD CAMPAIGNING FOR HER

-Fanuza Kadirova, Anna shokhina as two players from Russia’s league. Poniatovskaia also Russian but played at Yale last year. Shokhina was one of russia’s best players on the international stage when they were still in competitions, and I think it’s a good chance she gets selected. I am curious how political situations around visas effects where she might get taken. If a team is confident with her and gives her a SPA before training camp instead of being a try out like Markova (and i Think as a player she has a better chance of getting that advanced contract talent wise) may help her case

-Halušková is a player I would have never considered for the draft as much as I like her this time last year, but she took a major step forward this year and was Slovakia’s best forward at the Olympic qualifiers and women’s worlds on a roster that had hlinkova, tothova, and lopusanova. Still don’t know if she’d make my draft cut but she raised her stock significantly

-Elizabeth lang is an interesting one, she dominated the SWHL scoring wise but idk if she would translate as a depth player in the PWHL and I don’t think she’d crack top six on a roster but I’d love to be proven wrong bc I Like her

-Maddie leidt declared and while I enjoy watching her I just don’t think she did enough at the world championships to be a consideration

- interesting to me that Kayla tutino declared during the lead up to the Olympics but I can’t see her being drafted. Same with Kristen Guerrero tho she has a better chance

-Millie rose sirum is another player who raised her draft stock a lot for me during worlds. Maybe this will be the year of the Norwegian draft picks

-first Chinese born player to declare I believe in rui zhu unless I’m forgetting someone, she’s been a depth player for team China and plays for KRS

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Team Finland from yesterday

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interestingly, st. cloud has a russian that played the last two years in the owhl u22 league coming to play for them.

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jamie nelson scores her first of the season

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Paige Bueckers. Olivia Miles. Rori Harmon. Azzi Fudd. Liz Kitley. Cameron Brink. And now Juju Watkins. So many superstars in women’s basketball ALONE within the past 2-3 years missing out on large chunks of their careers with ACL injuries. This is a systemic issue that results from 1. Women being more physiologically likely to get ACL tears than men 2. VERY little sports research done on female athlete injuries, so we don’t have specific solutions catered to female bodies. Sure it’s gotten so much better over the years, but it’s still persistent enough of a problem to the point where we have at least one or two major superstars going down with it every season and that’s just for ONE sport.

Also: Juju’s ACL tear may have happened in one moment but it was absolutely building up. We yelled constantly about how she shouldn’t be playing garbage time minutes all season now, and she was still doing so WHEN SHE GOT HURT in the first round. You really need to be doing EVERYTHING you can to prevent an injury like that and the minutes management with her was just unacceptable this year.

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How Claire Thompson Balances Pro Hockey & Med School

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women's hockey has too many wannabe insiders and not enough people who put care into writing about and breaking down the sport...just imo but why do we have more people trying to 'break' the expansion news than people explaining what is happening in the games that occur on my screen

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Frölunda celebrates their championship

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minneapolis bound!

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Switzerland announces their 2025 women’s world championship roster (text version)

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Brooke McQuigge scores after falling down · March 7, 2025

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Congrats to Sacred Heart on their first NCAA tournament appearance! The last time they won their conference title, NEWHA didn’t come with an auto-bid, so this will be their first time going dancing!