Back چينى هيريكوسكى ARZ Jenni Hiirikoski German جنی هایریکوسکی Persian Jenni Hiirikoski Finnish Jenni Hiirikoski French Jenni Hiirikoski Galician Jenni Hiirikoski Italian Jenni Hiirikoski NB Jenni Hiirikoski Romanian Хийрикоски, Йенни Russian
| Jenni Hiirikoski | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Hiirikoski (center) representing Finland at the 2011 IIHF World Championship | |||
| Born |
30 March 1987 Lempäälä, Finland | ||
| Height | 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in) | ||
| Weight | 62 kg (137 lb; 9 st 11 lb) | ||
| Position | Defense | ||
| Shoots | Left | ||
| SDHL team Former teams |
Luleå HF/MSSK | ||
| National team |
 Finland | ||
| Playing career | 2001–present | ||
Jenni Hiirikoski (born 30 March 1987) is a Finnish ice hockey player and captain of the Finnish national team and Luleå HF/MSSK in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL).[1]
She is widely considered one of the best active ice hockey defensemen in the world, having won the IIHF Directorate Best Defenceman award seven times during the 2010s.[2][3][4] She is currently the second all-time leading scorer among SDHL defenders and the third all-time leading scorer for Luleå, winning three SDHL championships with the club, has been named SDHL Defender of the Year twice, and is one of only two players to have been named top Olympic defender twice.[5]
- ^ "Athlete Profile: Jenni Hiirikoski, Ice Hockey". Vancouver2010.com. The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. 2010. Archived from the original on 9 April 2010. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
- ^ Murphy, Mike; Foster, Meredith (14 October 2018). "Jenni Hiirikoski is the Best Defender in the World". The Ice Garden. Archived from the original on 9 August 2019. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
- ^ Oliver, Nathaniel (5 September 2018). "Jenni Hiirikoski Goes One-On-One & Shares Some Fun Facts". The Hockey Writers. Archived from the original on 9 August 2019. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
- ^ Podnieks, Andrew (1 January 2020). "Top women's hockey moments of the 2010s". International Ice Hockey Federation. Archived from the original on 23 September 2020. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
- ^ ""När jag var ung ville jag också komma till NHL"". HockeySverige (in Swedish). 11 September 2019. Archived from the original on 24 August 2022. Retrieved 8 November 2020.