Petra Nieminen
Petra Nieminen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born |
Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland | 4 May 1999||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 64 kg (141 lb; 10 st 1 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Position | Forward | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shoots | Left | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SDHL team Former teams |
Luleå HF/MSSK Team Kuortane | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | Finland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing career | 2013–present | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Petra Nieminen (born 4 May 1999) is a Finnish
Playing career
Nieminen's minor ice hockey career was played with the junior teams of Tappara in her hometown of Tampere. She played on boys' teams during her childhood and into her teen years, playing on the same youth team as future NHLer Patrik Laine.[3][4] Beginning when she was 13, she intermittently played with the Tappara representative women's team in the Naisten Mestis and Naisten Suomi-sarja, the second-and third-tier women’s senior leagues in Finland.
At age 16, she moved to
In 2018, she left Finland to sign with Luleå HF/MSSK in Luleå, Sweden, joining fellow Finnish national team players Jenni Hiirikoski, Michelle Karvinen, Ronja Savolainen, and Noora Tulus on the SDHL team.[5] She scored 24 points (13+11) in 34 games of her rookie SDHL season and contributed 11 points (6+5) in eleven playoff games as Luleå won the SDHL championship.
She more than doubled her point total in the
During the 2020 off-season, she underwent a knee operation that caused her to miss the first few games of the 2020–21 SDHL season.[7]
International career
Nieminen has represented Finland in international ice hockey competition since 2015, first appearing with the Finnish national under-18 team at the 2015 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship in Buffalo, New York, where she recorded two goals and three assists in five games.[8][9] She scored seven goals and tallied seven assists for the Finland Selects at the 2015 World Selects Invitational in Bolzano.[10][11]
At the 2016 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship, she was the team leader in points and goals, scoring four goals and two assists in five games, and was selected by the coaches as one of the top-3 players on the team.[12][13]
She made her debut with the Finnish national team at the 2016 IIHF Women's World Championship, notching three points in six games as Finland finished in fourth.[14][15][16] She has played for Finland in every World Championship since, scoring three goals in six games the 2017 IIHF Women's World Championship, as Finland won bronze.
She scored five points in six games for Finland at the 2018 Winter Olympics, the country winning bronze.
At the
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
Regular season
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Playoffs | |||||||||||||
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Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
2013–14 | Tappara | N. Mestis | 16 | 22 | 8 | 30 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
2014–15 | Tappara | N. Mestis | 3 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
2015–16 | Team Kuortane | NSMs
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25 | 15 | 8 | 23 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
2016–17 | Team Kuortane | NSML | 23 | 15 | 13 | 28 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | ||
2017–18 | Team Kuortane | NSML | 21 | 12 | 16 | 28 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 4 | ||
2018–19 | Luleå/MSSK | SDHL | 34 | 13 | 11 | 24 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 6 | ||
2019–20 | Luleå/MSSK | SDHL | 36 | 25 | 30 | 55 | 43 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 2 | ||
2020–21 | Luleå/MSSK | SDHL | 32 | 24 | 23 | 47 | 16 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 8 | ||
2021–22 | Luleå/MSSK | SDHL | 34 | 26 | 29 | 55 | 53 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 10 | ||
2022–23 | Luleå/MSSK | SDHL | 32 | 30 | 23 | 53 | 20 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 2 | ||
Naisten Liiga totals | 69 | 42 | 37 | 79 | 40 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 19 | 4 | ||||
SDHL totals | 102 | 62 | 64 | 126 | 65 | 26 | 19 | 10 | 29 | 16 |
International
Year | Team | Event | Result | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | |
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2015 | Finland | U18 | 5th | 5 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | |
2016 | Finland | U18 | 6th | 5 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 2 | |
2016 | Finland | WWC | 4th | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | |
2017 | Finland | U18 | 5th | 5 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | |
2017 | Finland | WWC | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | ||
2018 | Finland | OG | 6 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0 | ||
2019 | Finland | WWC | 7 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | ||
2021 | Finland | WWC | 7 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 0 | ||
2022 | Finland | OG | 7 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 6 | ||
2022 | Finland | WWC | 6th | 6 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 25 | |
2023 | Finland | WWC | 5th | 7 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 2 | |
Junior totals | 15 | 8 | 8 | 16 | 6 | ||||
Senior totals | 62 | 25 | 21 | 46 | 37 |
Awards and honors
Award | Year |
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International | |
World U18 Top-3 Player on Team
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2016 |
Olympic Bronze Medal | 2018, 2022 |
World Championship Bronze Medal | 2017, 2021 |
World Championship Silver Medal | 2019 |
World Championship All-Star Team | 2021, 2023[21] |
Swedish Women's Hockey League | |
SDHL Champion | 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 |
Top Goal Scorer, regular season | 2022–23 |
Naisten Liiga | |
Noora Räty Award (Rookie of the Year) | 2015–16 |
Player of the Month | December 2017 |
All-Star First Team | 2017–18 |
Finnish Championship Bronze Medal | 2017–19 |
Katja Riipi Award (Forward of the Year) | 2017–18 |
References
- ^ Kennedy, Ian (8 September 2022). "Top 35 U-23 Players in Women's Hockey". The Hockey News. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
- ^ Jay, Michelle (7 August 2020). "2020 Top 25 Under 25 | No. 21-23: Emily Clark & Petra Nieminen, Jincy Dunne". The Ice Garden. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
- ^ Arkimies, Tuomas (6 April 2019). "Naisleijonien tähti pelasi juniorina Patrik Laineen kanssa: "Se oli lähes aina maali"". Ilta-Sanomat (in Finnish). Retrieved 7 January 2021.
- ^ Päiväniemi, Jarkko (6 April 2019). "VM-succéns förflutna – med NHL-stjärnan". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 4 February 2023. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
- ^ Skoglund, Henrik (5 June 2018). "OS-spelare till Luleå: "Hjälpa en sådan här stortalang vidare i karriären känns jättebra"". HockeySverige (in Swedish). Retrieved 7 January 2021.
- ^ Norrbotten, P4 (27 May 2020). "Nieminen utsedd till SDHL:s mest värdefulla spelare". Sveriges Radio (Radio segment) (in Swedish). Retrieved 7 January 2021.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Berander, Moa (8 September 2020). "Mest värdefulla spelaren missar premiären". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 4 February 2023. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
- ^ "2015 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women's World Championship, Statistics – Tournament Info". IIHF. 30 March 2014. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
- ^ "2015 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women's World Championship, Player Statistics by Team – FIN - Finland" (PDF). IIHF. 29 March 2014. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 June 2022. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
- ^ "Finland Selects". www.lgstours.com. Archived from the original on 13 December 2019. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
- ^ "2015 World Selects Invitational – U15 Bolzano, Italy". LEGACY Global Sports. 30 April 2015. p. 19. Archived from the original on 14 September 2022. Retrieved 7 January 2021 – via Issuu.
- IIHF. 14 January 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
- IIHF. 15 January 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
- ^ "2016 IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championship – Team Roster: FIN - Finland" (PDF). IIHF. 4 April 2016. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 February 2018. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
- ^ "2016 IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championship – Player Statistics by Team: FIN - Finland" (PDF). IIHF. 4 April 2016. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 April 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
- ^ "2016 Ice Hockey U18 Women's World Championship / 2016 Championnat mondial de hockey sur glace féminin M18". IIHF. 2016. Archived from the original on 26 January 2021. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
- ^ "IIHF explains why the goal that cost Finland gold was disallowed". CTV News. 15 April 2019. Archived from the original on 13 November 2020. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
- ^ "U.S. wins world title after Finland goal nixed". ESPN. 14 April 2019. Archived from the original on 4 April 2020. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
- ISBN 9780986796470.
- ^ "2023 IIHF Women's World Championship – Player Statistics by Team: FIN - Finland". IIHF. 16 April 2023. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
- ^ Podnieks, Andrew (17 April 2023). "Fillier named MVP". IIHF. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
External links
- Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com, or Eurohockey.com
- Petra Nieminen at Olympedia
- Petra Nieminen on Instagram