#LINA LJUNGBLOM

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BOS Fleet x MTL Victoire, preseason game, November 20th 2024

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"Laughs at Marcus’s expense aside, the opening performance was gripping from an entertainment perspective and utterly cold-sweat-inducing from an “I would like you to win pls ty” perspective."

We recap #PWHLMontreal's season opener: https://buff.ly/41h7LYQ

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‘We wanted a game-breaker’: Lina Ljungblom’s arrival can take the Victoire to new heights

Fairly early in the Montreal Victoire’s first practice, Marie-Philip Poulin came down the ice on a three-on-two drill. She skated into the zone and passed the puck to Lina Ljungblom. The 23-year-old Swede took the puck and within an instant, it was off her stick. Ping. Off the bar and in.

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Lina Ljungblom’s beautiful goal from her knees

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Lina Ljungblom´s first

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The Status of PWHL Montréal's roster after the draft

The Draftees:

Abigail Boreen - F

Jennifer Gardiner - F

Dara Greig - F

Amanda Kessel - F

Cayla Barnes - D

Anna Kjellbin - D

Anna Wilgren - D

Under Contract:

Lina Ljungblom - F

Kennedy Marchment - F

Maureen Murphy - F

Kristin O'Neil - F

Marie-Philip Poulin - F

Laura Stacey - F

Erin Ambrose - D

Dominika Lásková - D

Kati Tabin - D

Ann-Renée Desbiens - G

Currently Free Agents:

Ann-Sophie Bettez - F

Sarah Bujold - F

Claire Dalton - F

Gabrielle David - F

Jillian Dempsey - F

Mikyla Grant-Mentis - F

Sarah Lefort - F

Leah Lum - F

Alexandra Poznikoff - F

Madison Bizal - D

Amanda Boulier - D

Catherine Daoust - D

Mariah Keopple - D

Brigitte Laganière - D

Marlene Boissonnault - G

Elaine Chuli - G

Total players you can have on your roster (not counting reserves): 23

Those currently under contract + the draftees = 17

Available spots left: 6

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PWHL Montréal announced on Monday that the club has signed Swedish forward Lina Ljungblom to a three-year Standard Player Agreement.

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Walk-ins, NYC Sirens at MTL Victoire, December 4th 2024

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PWHL Victoire camp day 2, November 14th 2024

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Walk-ins, OTT Charge at MTL Victoire, November 30th 2024

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Women’s hockey news 6/1-6/16

News from around the women’s hockey world, only confirmed news and not rumors. It’s hard to cover every signing and extension so I try to filter to just the most notable but may miss something, feel free to add!

This is a long one as a heads up

PWHL (America/canada)

PWHL completed their draft! Full results are here

Corinne Schroeder signed a 2 year extension with PWHL New York

Lina Ljungblom (who was drafted in 2023 and played in the SDHL last year, winning SDHL league mvp) signs a three year deal with PWHL Montreal

Zoe Boyd and Natalie Snodgrass a one year extension with PWHL Ottawa, Aneta Tejralová signs a two year extension

Former Colgate University women’s hockey coach Greg Fargo is hired to coach PWHL New York

Natalie Darwitz is forced out of PWHL Minnesota, who will begin their GM search

Mélodie Daoust, Brittyn Fleming announced their retirement

PWHL Boston expected to stay at Tsongas next season

SDHL (Sweden)

Next years schedule has been released, with the season starting in September

Swedish national team defender Jessica Adolfsson signs with HV71. She was with Linköping last season

Forward Lisa Johansson signs with SDE HF. She was with Luleå last year

Italian defender Nadia Mattivi signs with Luleå. She spent the last several season with Boston University, where she was also captain

Finnish forward Ida Kuoppala signs with Skellefteå AIK. She spent the past few season with UMaine and was one of their top scorers

University of Minnesota Duluth and Bemidji state forward Reece Hunt signs with Luleå

SWHL/Postfinance Women League (Switzerland)

HC Ambrì-Piotta Girls sign two big names from Naisten Liiga. The first is Michaela Pejzlová, a star from Czechia who led Naisten Liiga in points, was a first team all star, and won her second championship. HIFK teammate Julia Liikala is the other player from Naisten Liiga joining, she was a second team all star for the league and played on Finland’s national team that won a gold medal

HC Ambrì-Piotta Girls also gets three players who played in the SWHL last year: the first is young Swiss goaltender Sofia Bernardasci, who’s played solid backup minutes the past two years on other teams. 23 year old Italian center Greta Niccolai, who represents her national team and also captained ladies team Lugano last year, joins the team as well. Lastly, young defender Valérie Christmann joins from HC Davos Ladies

Naisten Liiga (Finland)

Naisten Liiga schedule announced and can be viewed here. The season will star in September with a mini showcase in Turku where all teams will play their first few games

Forward Pauliina Salonen returns to HIFK. The 20 year old was one of their top producers last season and spent some time on the national team during their five nationals tournament

Kiekko-Espoo extend Minttu Tuominen, Tiia Pajarinen, Aliisa Toivonen, Siru Lehtopelto, Tea Villilä, Nea Katajamäki, Lisette Täks, and Nea Koskipalo. Tuominen, a star defender who was drafted by the PWHL but ended up playing in China and then Finland instead last year. Also notable is Pajarinen had 16 solid starts for Kiekko-Espoo last year, and got some looks on the national team. Tea Villilä has also been a mainstay producer on Kiekko-Espoo for the past several years. Täks finished with the most goals in Naisten Liiga. All this to say, Kiekko-Espoo has brought back significant core pieces

HIFK brings back goaltender Miia Vainio, who had the most shutouts last season

Tilli Keränen, who captained Finlands U18 team in 2022-2023, will play one more year at KalPa before going to the NCAA in 2025-2926

KalPa also brings back Captain Johanna Juutilainen

One of Ilves top scorers, Noora Mylläri, will return this year

EWHL (Central/eastern Europe + other assorted counties)

EV Bozen Eagles announced the signings of Justine Reyes and Kristen Guerriero to play in the EWHL and Italian women’s domestic league. Reyes was one of the SDHL’s top scorers last season, and Guerriero had a productive season in the SWHL

Veteran defender Enikő Tóth returns to the EWHL after spending last year in the SDHL, signing with MAC Budapest

IIHF

We got our locations and most of our times for all of women’s senior worlds in 2025! They are as follows:

Top division; ceske budejovice, Czechia from April 9-20

Division IA: shenzhen, China, dates TBA

Division IB: dumfries, great British, dates TBA

Division IIA: bytom, Poland from April 7-13

Division IIB: Dunedin, New Zealand from April 14-30

Division 3A: belgrade, Serbia from March 2-8

Division 3B: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina from February 20-26

We also have the U18 tournament dates!

Top division; Vantaa, Finland from January 5-12

Division IA: TBA

division IB: Katowice, Poland January 7-13

Division IIA: Riga, Latvia from January 13-19

Division IIB: Istanbul, turkey from January 18-24

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Hoping there was personal or compassion waiver related reasons for Mikyla grant mentis, Madison Packer, Jonna albers, Allie thunstrom, Lina ljungblom, and Kaleigh fratkin not being picked because otherwise that feels extremely weird

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LINA LJUNGBLOM FIRST PWHL GOAL and a hug from munroe also

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Lina Ljungblom i never doubted you

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Ljungblom was essentially a second first round pick because last years final pick wouldn’t have made the roster most likely. Truly believe she would have been pick above Gosling if she was in the draft this year

Our last 5 picks in 2023 were

Jillian Dempsey (66)

Claire Dalton (67)

Elaine Chuli (78)

Ann-Sophie Bettez (79)

Lina Ljungblom (90)

All of these players were signed last year with the exception of ljungblom who was contractually bound to the SDHL

My understanding is that there was a good amount of euro draft eligibility confusion last year (to the extent that they had to be very clear this year and many players got outs in their euro contracts if they made the pwhl rosters

And bc she didn’t have an out last year she fell until the last round

Kind of similar to the kessel pick (in that clearly some people didn’t know if she’d be playing)

Tbh kessel I think will play bc I think she wants to go to the Olympics and get back in the pool (same as Thompson )