Halli Krzyzaniak (born February 4, 1995) is a Canadian women's

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player, currently playing for the Calgary section of the PWHPA. She made her debut with the Canada women's national ice hockey team at the

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Playing career

Krzyzaniak moved to

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, at age 13 to attend the Pursuit of Excellence Hockey Academy. She represented Team Manitoba at the

2011 Canada Winter Games The 2011 Canada Winter Games were held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from Friday, 11 February 2011, to Sunday, 27 February 2011. Bids Four bids (all from Nova Scotia, as it was that province's turn) were made for the games, and eventually Halifax was ...

women's ice hockey tournament. She travelled to Bratislava, Slovakia to participate in the 2011 IIHF High Performance Women's Camp from July 4–12. During the

2011–12 Canada women's national ice hockey team The 2011–12 women's national hockey team represented Canada in various tournaments during the 2011-12 hockey season. The head coach of the National team was York Lions women's ice hockey coach Dan Church. News and notes *June 23, 2011: Sixteen ...

season, she was a member of the Canadian National Under 18 team that participated in a three-game series vs. the US in August 2011.

NCAA

In autumn 2013, she joined the

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program. She would earn one of the assists on the game-winning goal scored by Susanna Tapani which snapped the Minnesota Golden Gophers 62-game win streak on November 17, 2013.

Professional

Following her participation at Hockey Canada's Centralization Camp in the autumn of 2017, Krzyzaniak played with Djurgårdens IF of the Swedish Women's Hockey League, recording one assist in five regular season games and two assists in four playoff games. In 2018, Krzyzaniak was drafted fourth overall by the Calgary Inferno in the

2018 CWHL Draft The 2018 CWHL Draft, the ninth and final in league history, took place on August 26. It marked the first and only draft Jayna Hefford served as CWHL commissioner. The CWHL indicated that general managers were authorized to "pre-sign" their first an ...

Career statistics

Personal

Her uncle,

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played for the Vancouver Canucks.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Krzyzaniak, Halli 1995 births Canadian women's ice hockey defencemen Clarkson Cup champions Ice hockey people from Manitoba Living people North Dakota Fighting Hawks women's ice hockey players Sportspeople from Brandon, Manitoba Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States Professional Women's Hockey Players Association players Djurgårdens IF Hockey players Calgary Inferno players