Viivi Vainikka (born 23 December 2001) is a Finnish ice hockey player and member of the Finnish national team, currently playing in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (Swedish: Svenska damhockeyligan; SDHL) with Luleå HF/MSSK.[1]
| Viivi Vainikka | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Born |
23 December 2001 Espoo, Uusimaa, Finland | ||
| Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||
| Weight | 67 kg (148 lb; 10 st 8 lb) | ||
| Position | Left wing | ||
| Shoots | Left | ||
| SDHL team Former teams |
Luleå HF/MSSK Team Kuortane | ||
| National team |
 Finland | ||
| Playing career | 2016–present | ||
Playing career
editVainikka began playing hockey at the age of five.[2] She made her debut in the Naisten Liiga, the top flight of Finnish women's hockey at the age of 15 with Team Kuortane. Across four years with the team, she scored 129 points in 112 games. After scoring a career-best 52 points in 30 games in the 2018–19 season, including 28 goals, she won the Emma Laaksonen Award for fair play.
She left Finland to sign a two-year contract with Luleå HF/MSSK in Sweden ahead of the 2020–21 SDHL season, joining the roster with the highest concentration of Finnish national team players in the world, Finland included.[3] She scored twice in her first two SDHL games.[4] In November 2020, along with four other Finnish national team and Luleå teammates, she was forced to miss several SDHL games while being quarantined under Finnish law after a national team camp where a player tested positive for COVID-19.[5]
International
editVainikka won silver with the Finnish national team at the 2019 Women's World Championship.[6][7] She was officially named to the Finnish roster for the 2020 Women's World Championship on 4 March 2020, prior to the cancellation of the tournament International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) on 7 March 2020 due to public health concerns surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.[8][9]
Career statistics
editRegular season and playoffs
edit| Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
| 2016–17 | Team Kuortane | Naisten SM-sarja | 28 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2017–18 | Team Kuortane | Naisten Liiga | 24 | 9 | 15 | 24 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 0 | ||
| 2018–19 | Team Kuortane | Naisten Liiga | 30 | 26 | 15 | 41 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | ||
| 2019–20 | Team Kuortane | Naisten Liiga | 30 | 28 | 24 | 52 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 6 | 18 | 8 | ||
| 2020–21 | Luleå/MSSK | SDHL | 32 | 13 | 14 | 27 | 22 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 4 | ||
| 2021–22 | Luleå/MSSK | SDHL | 36 | 17 | 22 | 39 | 4 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 0 | ||
| 2022–23 | Luleå/MSSK | SDHL | 32 | 23 | 18 | 41 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 0 | ||
| Naisten Liiga totals | 84 | 63 | 54 | 117 | 14 | 20 | 18 | 15 | 33 | 8 | ||||
| SDHL totals | 100 | 53 | 54 | 107 | 32 | 29 | 14 | 14 | 28 | 4 | ||||
International
edit| Year | Team | Event | Result | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Finland U18 | WW18 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2018 | Finland U18 | WW18 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | |
| 2019 | Finland U18 | WW18 | 
|
6 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 2 | |
| 2019 | Finland | WW | 
|
7 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | |
| 2021 | Finland | WW |
|
7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2022 | Finland | OG |
|
6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | |
| 2022 | Finland | WW | 6th | 7 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | |
| 2023 | Finland | WW | 5th | 7 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 0 | |
| Junior totals | 14 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 2 | ||||
| Senior totals | 34 | 11 | 11 | 22 | 2 | ||||
Awards and honors
edit| Award | Year |
|---|---|
| Naisten Liiga | |
| Finnish Championship Bronze Medal | 2018 |
| Emma Laaksonen Award | 2020 |
| All-Star – Second Team | 2020 |
| Player of the Month | January 2020 |
| SDHL | |
| Swedish Championship Gold Medal | 2021, 2022 |
| International | |
| World U18 Championship Bronze Medal | 2019 |
| World Championship Silver Medal | 2019 |
| World Championship Bronze Medal | 2021 |
| Olympic Bronze Medal | 2022 |
References
edit- ^ Nilsson, Jonathan (12 September 2020). ""Hon är som en storasyster för mig"". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 7 February 2023. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
- ^ Foster, Meredith (17 January 2020). "Q&A with Team Kuortane's Viivi Vainikka". The Ice Garden. Archived from the original on 11 November 2020. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
- ^ Nilsson, Jonathan (12 September 2020). ""Hon är som en storasyster för mig"". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 7 February 2023. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
- ^ Murphy, Mike (16 September 2020). "Dam Good: Lulea's Jenni Hiirikoski starts off scoring". The Ice Garden. Archived from the original on 17 November 2020. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
- ^ Kågström, Rasmus (9 November 2020). "Luleåstjärnorna fast i Finland – satta i karantän". HockeySverige (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 9 November 2020. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
- ^ "Naisleijonien MM-joukkue yhtä vaille valmis – Kisojen alkuun kymmenen päivää". leijonat.fi. 25 March 2019. Archived from the original on 18 May 2019. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
- ^ "2019 IIHF Women's World Championship roster" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 April 2019. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
- ^ Malmberg, Henna (4 March 2020). "Naisleijonien MM-joukkue valittu – Sukupolven vaihdos tuo MM-joukkueeseen seitsemän ensikertalaista". leijonat.fi (in Finnish). Finnish Ice Hockey Association. Archived from the original on 12 December 2020. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
- ^ Steiss, Adam (7 March 2020). "Women's Worlds cancelled". IIHF. Archived from the original on 7 March 2020. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
- ^ Podnieks, Andrew; Nordmark, Birger, eds. (2019). "Active Skaters, Women". IIHF Guide & Record Book 2020. Toronto: Moydart. p. 664. ISBN 9780986796470.
- ^ "2023 IIHF Women's World Championship – Player Statistics by Team: FIN - Finland". International Ice Hockey Federation. 16 April 2023. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
External links
edit- Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com, or Eurohockey.com
- Viivi Vainikka at Olympedia
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