#anna kjellbin

[ottawacharge]

"on the ice, she's my enemy" is really sending me

[soffecoeur]

Can you imagine being the captain of your national team, being a pro athlete in the PWHL and being traded and the news is "Marie Philip Poulin loses a teammate".

Seriously MTL journalists, do fucking better.

[grantmentis]

Anyway here is two of the PWHL’s newest members, Savolainen (Ottawa) and Anna Kjellbin (Montreal) from their Luleå days last season

[chirpingfromthebox]

Victoire acquire forward Kaitlin Willoughby from the Sceptres for defender Anna Kjellbin NEW YORK AND TORONTO (March 13, 2025) – The Montréal Victoire and Toronto Sceptres have completed a trade, with Montréal acquiring forward Kaitlin Willoughby from Toronto in exchange for defender Anna Kjellbin. The trade was the first and only deal made today before the Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL) trade deadline at 2 p.m. ET.

“First of all, we'd like to thank Anna for the trust she had placed in us and for accepting a contract with our team,” said Montréal General Manager Danièle Sauvageau. “Anna is the captain of her national team and has had a significant impact on our players, coaching staff and support staff. Her time with us has been nothing but positive. We wish her all the best with her new team. Kaitlin's arrival allows us to add even more depth to our squad. Both teams are visibly happy with these additions, which answered both of our needs.” “With the trade deadline, we felt strongly about bringing another defender onto our roster,” said Toronto General Manager Gina Kingsbury. “Anna, a right-handed D, brings international experience and is a proven leader as the captain of Team Sweden. We are excited to welcome her to our Sceptres family. At the same time, we thank Kaitlin Willoughby for her contributions to the organization and her impact on the team, fans and community as an inaugural member of Toronto’s team.” Willoughby has been a two-year member of the Sceptres, first joining the team in the inaugural season as a free agent invite, then signing a one-year contract extension prior to the 2024-25 campaign. The 29-year-old from Prince Albert, SK, has recorded one assist in 43 career regular-season games in Toronto. Prior to the PWHL, Willoughby spent four seasons with the PWHPA from 2019-23 and one season with the CWHL’s Calgary Inferno in 2018-19. She is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan where she played five U SPORTS seasons with the Huskies. Kjellbin was selected by the Victoire in the sixth round of the 2024 PWHL Draft and signed a one-year contract with the team ahead of this season. She appeared in 18 games for Montréal and recorded her only point, an assist, against Toronto as part of a 4-3 overtime win for the Victoire on Dec. 21 at Coca-Cola Coliseum. Prior to the PWHL, the 30-year-old from Göteborg, Sweden, played 15 years in the SDHL, most recently with Luleå HF, where she won three-straight championships. Kjellbin also represented her country at the 2022 Olympics and has played in five Women’s World Championships, serving as Sweden’s captain in the 2024 tournament in Utica. Montréal’s next game is Tuesday night in Boston against the Fleet, then Toronto hosts the New York Sirens on Wednesday.

[hockeyupdate]

"The Montréal Victoire and Toronto Sceptres have completed a trade, with Montréal acquiring forward Kaitlin Willoughby from Toronto in exchange for defender Anna Kjellbin. The trade was the first and only deal made today before the Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL) trade deadline at 2 p.m. ET."

[auroraliiga]

🇫🇮 Ronja Savolainen and 🇸🇪 Anna Kjellbin

[soffecoeur]

I'm going to need a day

[the-physicality]

we are so back

not really. we played a good 35 minutes

i'm thrilled for the first line. i thought they did really well

mgm also continues to stand out in good ways

a couple missed chances but overall we capitalized as needed

kori is still messing with the lines bc losing a C [labelle] is hard

we had a decent powerplay i thought

we had a perfect penalty kill, which was the key to winning the game [a few days ago i said tor mostly scores on the pp. if you stop that, you stop them]

very interesting that the fourth line [david, greig, degeorge] basically did not play + kjellbin [all under 5 min]

anna wilgren should be the player of the game from the mtl socials. i'll be on the lookout

i cannot overstate how big she was this game

i would like for the team to take a field trip to the angel reese school of rebounding because i think they need to learn some lessons

for example, if you want to fire long shots, great. but have someone netfront to put them away. please.

aside from the fourth line not playing, everyone else had fairly even splits: 15-21 minutes

no negative +/- from mtl today [a step in the right direction]

i missed erin ambrose. this team missed erin ambrose

we did a lot of hitting today. i liked it

thank you to the montreal victoire for not causing my second crashout of the day

oh and we're going to talk about how the broadcast kept saying "they're fighting for first place" and then at the end added that teeny tiny tidbit: mtl has THREE games in hand!. let's be serious

[based--ball]

There's Only One You - Women's Hockey RPF Roundup

There are 4 Women's Hockey RPF works posted for @theresonly1u, and they are revealed and ready to check out! Here they are.

notes: all prompts are 1 word only (except the general "there's only one you" prompt for works that don't fit a specific one), all fics are limited to at most 2k words and art has a 2 hour time limit, and creators will be revealed march 26th.

Until the End

Anna Kjellbin/Ronja Savolainen

prompt: pantheon

Summary: During the game, they're adversaries.

100 words, G

[podfic of] Filles Finale

Marie-Philip Poulin/Laura Stacey

prompt: podfic

Summary: At dawn, they’ll hike back down the mountain, search for help. Marie-Philip has a theory that they’ll hate the sun as much as they hate fire, and Laura nods and tells her she believes her, even as her eyes are bleak and her lip trembles in fear.

Podfic length 5m33s, T

post-game

Tessa Bonhomme/Zoe Boyd

Prompt: quick

Summary: “Don’t think this is something it isn’t,” Tessa says.

1056 words, E

like a post-game athlete

Emily Clark

Prompt: There's Only One You

Summary: Emily Clark: bright, fiery, victorious

collage, G

Happy reading/art viewing!

[dear-indies]

hey gang! hope ur having a wonderful day <3

i'm in the market for a female fc that can pass for a professional hockey player. she's also a turbo lesbian and on the masc side, super charming, super suave, but also a ray of sunshine. like a golden retriever jock moment. so like pretty beefy with a charming smile.

i'm really open to any suggestions, and i'd LOVE if they were an athlete, but i'm not picky at all. thanks so much! <3

Hey anon! I don't like labelling people as "masc" unless they specifically identify as that so here is a range of suggestions.

Lesbian hockey players:

Sarah Vaillancourt (1985)

Brianne Jenner (1991)

Jill Saulnier (1992)

Mélodie Daoust (1992)

Jamie Lee Rattray (1992)

Anna Kjellbin (1994)

Alex Carpenter (1994)

Erin Ambrose (1994)

Emily Clark (1995)

Micah Zandee-Hart (1997)

Ronja Savolainen (1997)

Ebba Berglund (1998)

Lesbian athletes:

Amanda Nunes (1988) Brazilian.

Ann-Katrin Berger (1990)

Adrianna Franch (1990) African-American.

Kiara Bowers (1991)

Ana Marcela Cunha (1992) Brazilian.

Ivana Andrés (1994)

Kadeisha Buchanan (1995) Black Canadian.

Gayle Broughton (1996) Ngāruahine and Ngāti Ruanui iwi.

Lisa Boattin (1997)

Lorena Benítez (1998) Paraguayan.

Alice Bellandi (1998)

Laurie Hernandez (2000) Puerto Rican.

Actors:

Roberta Colindrez (1986) Mexican - is queer - has spoken up for Palestine!

Katy O'Brian (1989) African-American and White - is queer - has Crohn's disease.

Jasmin Savoy Brown (1994) African-American / White - is queer - has spoken up for Palestine!

Megan Prescott (1991) - is autistic and has ADHD - has spoken up for Palestine!

Young M.A (1992) Jamaican / Puerto Rican - is a lesbian.

Devery Jacobs (1993) Mohawk - is queer - has spoken up for Palestine!

Jessica Darrow (1994) Cuban - is a lesbian (they/she).

Silvy Pavida (1995) Thai-Italian - is queer.

Sasha Calle (1995) Colombian.

Rachelle Vinberg (1998) Colombian / Unspecified American.

Reneé Rapp (2000) - is a lesbian - has spoken up for Palestine!

Also not women but:

Kali Reis (1986) Wampanoag, Nipmuc, Cherokee, Cape Verdean - is also Two-Spirit and queer, uses she/her.

Lily Gladstone (1986) Amskapi Pikuni Blackfoot, Kainai Blackfoot, Nez Perce, White - identifies as "middle-gendered" and uses she/they, has spoken on wanting to decolonizing gender.

Hope these help!

[soffecoeur]

Oh I was not ready

[grantmentis]

Annakjellbin: let’s talk about last week with this group

[yourdailyqueer]

Anna Kjellbin

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: 16 March 1994

Ethnicity: White - Swedish

Occupation: Prof ice hockey player

[chirpingfromthebox]

New article from Cee Benwell for Hockey News about Michela Cava and Emma Greco.

https://thehockeynews.com/womens/pwhl/partners-michela-cava-and-emma-greco-adjusting-to-playing-hockey-in-separate-cities

Partners Michela Cava and Emma Greco Adjusting to Playing Hockey in Separate Cities

Michela Cava and Emma Greco are no longer teammates on the ice, but the off-ice partners remain PWHL regulars and support each other's careers from afar.

As the PWHL’s second season gets underway, players are adjusting to their new surroundings, whether they are rookies, returning players, or those new to a team through free agency.

Some, like married partners Marie-Philip Poulin and Laura Stacey, have the privilege of playing and working alongside their significant others. Others, like the newly engaged and new-to-the-league draftees Ronja Savolainen and Anna Kjellbin, will be together in the league, but in separate cities.

For former Minnesota Frost teammates and partners in life, Emma Greco and Michela Cava, this season brings an unfamiliar situation: for the first time, they are on different teams. They met two years ago while on the PHF championship Toronto Six and moved on together to the championship Minnesota team in the PWHL.

However, after their first season, Emma, a rugged defensive defender, signed with the Boston Fleet, the very team that Minnesota had defeated in the Walter Cup finals. Cava, meanwhile, re-signed with the team for one year.

Greco said they’ve never faced each other since they have been together.

“No, never, first time. I mean it will definitely be weird, but you know, when you're on the ice, nothing else matters.”

Cava added that they knew this situation was ahead of them, and they were prepared.

“I feel like we had time to process it in the summer. We've known for a while that this was the way it was going to be and I obviously find it very tough, but you put the business part first and you want to be professional and that's my number one focus is to be ready every time I go on the ice.

“We've definitely looked into the schedules and have planned time to go and see each other and unfortunately the drive is pretty far so it will be a lot of extra flying time.”

Greco added, “Being apart this season is definitely difficult but there are others in the league who are in the same boat. This is our job and right now it comes first.”

The two will get some video calls in and stay in touch as much as they can.

It's nice that we have that [technology] these days to be able to FaceTime our families,” said Cava.

“Even if it's for five, 10 minutes, just to see how everything's going. So it's obviously not the same, but we're lucky that we have access to that and being able to at least see each other and make that work.”

“We've definitely looked into when our teams will play each other, but of course, it will be all business first trying to focus on our games and then obviously we'll try to arrange some time to see each other.”

She added that having their families together at the games to watch them will be one of the most difficult aspects of being apart.

“We always just had a good group of people that came to the games supporting us, and I feel like it might be hard now for us to not get as many people coming to one or the other.”

Both players are living with roommates in their cities, which Cava feels will help them to receive a little extra support when they need it.

“I was originally looking to live alone, have my dog with me, and then one of my good friends from last year had a spot open up in her place, and she asked me to live with her. I thought it would be a good idea for me just mentally to have somebody around and kind of keep me online and just feeling good.”

“I’m living with one of my teammates. I hadn’t met her before this season but it’s been great so far,” said Greco.

”I think we are both in pretty good situations that way – that we have people supporting us and making it a little easier on us,” Cava added.

Still, the separation won’t be easy, and although hockey comes first, it will take some adjustment.

“Every second I can, I'll be trying to talk to her,” said Cava.

[beijing2022woho]

iihfhockey When you’re both officially Olympians 🙌

[auroraliiga]

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