Sini Karjalainen
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| Sini Karjalainen | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Born |
30 January 1999 Posio, Finland | ||
| Height | 173 cm (5 ft 8 in) | ||
| Weight | 63 kg (139 lb; 9 st 13 lb) | ||
| Position | Defense | ||
| Shoots | Left | ||
| SDHL team Former teams |
Skellefteå AIK | ||
| National team |
 Finland | ||
| Playing career | 2013–present | ||
Sini Karjalainen (born 30 January 1999) is a Finnish ice hockey player for Skellefteå AIK of the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL) and a member of the Finnish national team. She played college ice hockey at Vermont.[1]
Karjalainen played with the Finnish women's national U18 team at the IIHF World Women's U18 Championships in 2015, 2016, and 2017.[2]
She was officially named to the Finnish roster for the 2020 IIHF Women's World Championship on 4 March 2020, before the tournament was cancelled on 7 March 2020 due to public health concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic.[3][4] The 2020 World Championship would have been Karjalainen's debut with the Finnish national team at an IIHF-organized international tournament; she appeared on the national roster for various Euro Hockey Tour tournaments, first in 2016.[5][6][7]
She ultimately debuted with the senior national at the 2021 IIHF Women's World Championship as an alternate defenseman on the 25-player roster and skated in five games.[8]
On 2 January 2026, she was named to Finland's roster to compete at the 2026 Winter Olympics.[9]
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
| Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
| 2013–14 | RoKi | N. Mestis | 21 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 2014–15 | RoKi | N. Mestis | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2015–16 | Team Kuortane | NSMs | 28 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2016–17 | Team Kuortane | NSMs | 28 | 1 | 10 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2017–18 | Team Kuortane | NSML | 30 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 6 | ||
| 2018–19 | Vermont Catamounts | NCAA | 36 | 1 | 11 | 12 | 12 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2019–20 | Vermont Catamounts | NCAA | 35 | 5 | 19 | 24 | 20 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2020–21 | Vermont Catamounts | NCAA | 11 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2021–22 | Vermont Catamounts | NCAA | 21 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2022–23 | Vermont Catamounts | NCAA | 36 | 3 | 24 | 27 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Naisten Liiga totals | 86 | 9 | 27 | 36 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| NCAA totals | 138 | 11 | 65 | 76 | 48 | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
International
| Year | Team | Event | Result | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Finland U18 | WW18 | 5th | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
| 2016 | Finland U18 | WW18 | 6th | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | |
| 2017 | Finland U18 | WW18 | 5th | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| 2021 | Finland | WW |  |
5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
| 2022 | Finland | OG | |
7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| 2022 | Finland | WW | 6th | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2023 | Finland | WW | 5th | 7 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
| Junior totals | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 10 | ||||
| Senior totals | 23 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | ||||
