Johanna Fällman

Johanna Fällman (born 21 June 1990) is a Swedish ice hockey defender, currently playing for Luleå HF/MSSK in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (Swedish: Svenska damhockeyligan; SDHL) and the Swedish national team.[1] She has won four SDHL championships and has appeared in seven IIHF World Championships and one Olympic tournament for Sweden.

Johanna Fällman
Born (1990-06-21) 21 June 1990
Luleå, Sweden
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight 72 kg (159 lb; 11 st 5 lb)
Position Defence
Shoots Left
SDHL team
Former teams		 Luleå HF/MSSK
North Dakota Fighting Hawks
Modo Hockey
Skellefteå AIK
National team  Sweden
Playing career 2007–present

Career

Growing up in Luleå, in northern Sweden, Fällman often played on boys' teams in her youth. She has spoken out openly about having faced misogynistic abuse from boys she played with in the league.[2][3]

She began her Riksserien career with Skellefteå AIK, scoring 2 points in 12 games in the league's debut season. From 2008 to 2012, she played for Modo Hockey, winning the Riksserien championship in the 2011–12 season.

Ahead of the 2012–13 season, she turned down an offer from Munksund-Skuthamns SK to move to North America, joining the University of North Dakota.[4] Across three years in the NCAA, she scored 8 points in 66 games.

In 2015, she returned to Sweden to sign with Luleå HF/MSSK in her hometown, being named an assistant captain for the club ahead of the 2015–16 season.[5] She scored 16 points in 33 games that year, as Luleå won the SDHL championship for the first time.

In January 2019, she picked up a Gordie Howe hat-trick in a 14–0 victory over Göteborg HC, a rare event in women's hockey, after getting into a fight with Anna Borgfeldt.[6]

International career

Fällman made her senior Swedish national team debut in 2008, at the age of 18.[7]

She made her IIHF World Championship debut at the 2011 IIHF Women's World Championship, not scoring a point in the five games she played. She has since participated at every World Championship for Sweden, including the 2017 IIHF Women's World Championship, where she scored four goals, and the 2019 IIHF Women's World Championship, when Sweden was relegated for the first time in the country's history.[8]

She played for Sweden at the 2018 Winter Olympics, scoring one goal in six games as the country finished in seventh.

She welcomed the unionisation of the Swedish national team in 2018, stating that "we will be able to create better conditions both on and off the ice."[9] She was among the players who participated in the 2019 Sweden women's national ice hockey team strike.[10]

Style of play

Fällman is known for playing a rougher, more physical style of play and for her defensive positioning.[11]

References
  1. "IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championship – Team Roster: SWE - Sweden" (PDF). stats.iihf.com. International Ice Hockey Federation. 4 April 2019. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
  2. Rönnkvist, Ronnie (29 December 2017). "Ishockeyns #MeToo: "Hockey känns flera steg efter resten av samhället och idrottssverige"". HockeySverige (in Swedish). Retrieved 13 November 2020.
  3. Tolén, Martin (30 November 2016). ""Då brann det till – det blev slagsmål"". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 13 November 2020.
  4. Lindvall, Peter (16 August 2012). "Fällman klar för spel på college i USA". Norrländska Socialdemokraten. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  5. Rönnkvist, Ronnie (14 May 2016). "En Luleå-hemkomst med guldsmak: "Var helt fantastiskt"". HockeySverige (in Swedish). Retrieved 13 November 2020.
  6. Jervis, Adrian (21 January 2019). "Hotting up in the SDHL - Goals and a Gordie Howe hattrick!". SportBloggare. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
  7. Rönnkvist, Ronnie (22 August 2018). "Luleåstjärnan om tillvaron i Damkronorna: "Inte så fräsch att leva på pappa och mammas Coop-kort"". HockeySverige (in Swedish). Retrieved 13 November 2020.
  8. 2015 IIHF World Championship roster
  9. Foster, Meredith (20 April 2018). "Better Together: Swedish Players Unionize". The Ice Garden. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
  10. Nyberg, Micke (21 January 2020). "Hockeybacken Johanna Fällman: "Det är extrema löneskillnader"". SVT Nyheter (in Swedish). Retrieved 13 November 2020.
  11. Jervis, Adrian (12 March 2019). "#3 of the 4 battles that will decide SDHL final". SportBloggare. Retrieved 13 November 2020.


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