Lara Stalder (born 15 May 1994) is a Swiss

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and member of the

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, currently playing with

Brynäs IF Dam Brynäs IF Dam are an ice hockey team in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL). They play in Gävle, on the eastern-central coast of Sweden, at the Monitor ERP Arena. A constituent part of the Swedish sports club Brynäs IF, they are the sis ...

of the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL). She played with the

Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs women's ice hockey The Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs women's ice hockey team plays for the University of Minnesota Duluth at the AMSOIL Arena in Duluth, Minnesota. The team is a member of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) and competes in the National Col ...

team from 2013 to 2017, and with Linköping HC from 2017 to 2019.

Playing career

Across four seasons with Minnesota-Duluth, Stalder put up 148 points in 134 games, leading the team in points in her final season, as well as being named WCHA Player of the Year and Student-Athlete of the Year, and being a top-three finalist for the

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. In 2016, she was drafted 20th overall by the

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of the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL). After missing most of the 2018–19 season due to a shoulder injury, Stalder left Linköping to sign with Brynäs. In 2020, she was named SDHL Player of the Year after putting up 71 points in 36 games, being the first woman to win

Guldhjälmen Guldhjälmen (''The Gold Helmet'') is a Swedish ice hockey award, which is awarded annually to the's most valuable player of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL) and of the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL) as decided by a vote of each league’s pla ...

. The 42 goals she would score that year is the second highest single-season total in SDHL history, and her 71 points the third highest single-season total in SDHL history.

International

Stalder made her senior national team debut at the

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. She has represented Switzerland at the Winter Olympics in

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and won the bronze medal after defeating Sweden in the bronze medal playoff. She would score 6 points in 6 games at the

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, as Switzerland finished in 5th place.

Career statistics

Awards and honors

NCAA

*WCHA Offensive Player of the Week (Week of 17 January 2017) *WCHA Offensive Player of the Week (Week of 24 January 2017) *WCHA Offensive Player of the Week (Week of 31 January 2017) *WCHA Offensive Player of the Month, January 2017 *Women's Hockey Commissioners' Association National Division I Player of the Month, January 2017 *

Top-3 Finalist, 2016–17 season *2016-17 AHCA-CCM Women's University Division I First-Team All-American

SDHL

* Guldhjälmen (Golden Helmet), MVP of the SDHL as selected by players, 2019–20 season * SDHL Forward of the Year, 2019–20 season

References

External links

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Minnesota Duluth bio
1994 births Living people Sportspeople from Lucerne Swiss women's ice hockey forwards Ice hockey players at the 2014 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 2018 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Switzerland Olympic ice hockey players of Switzerland Olympic medalists in ice hockey Medalists at the 2014 Winter Olympics Brynäs IF Dam players Linköping HC Dam players Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs women's ice hockey players Swiss expatriate ice hockey people Swiss expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Swiss expatriate sportspeople in the United States {{Switzerland-icehockey-bio-stub