Linnea Johanna Hedin (born 24 January 1995) is a Swedish ice hockey player, playing in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL) with SDE Hockey. As a member of the

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, she participated in the

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and

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Playing career

Hedin began playing ice hockey in the youth department

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in her hometown of Huddinge, the second most populous municipality in the

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. She made her senior league debut with the women's ice hockey team of

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in the Riksserien (renamed SDHL in 2016) during the 2009–10 season. Segeltorps IF claimed the Riksserien championship title in both 2010 and 2011, capping Hedin’s rookie and second seasons with Swedish Championship gold. After three seasons with Segeltorps IF, she transferred to

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ahead of the

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. With AIK IF, she won a silver medal in the

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. Hedin’s college ice hockey career began when she joined the

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program in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA)

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of the NCAA Division I ahead of the 2014–15 season. She played four seasons with the team and served as an

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during the 2017–18 season. Returning to Sweden after her collegiate career, Hedin re-joined AIK IF in the

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. She was one of AIK’s alternate captains during the 2020–21 season, part of the leadership group headed by captain

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and filled out by fellow alternates Emmy Alasalmi, Erica Udén Johansson, and

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. In the 2022–23 season, she joined Färjestad BK in the

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(NDHL) as the team made a push to qualify for the SDHL. After the team ultimately fell short of their SDHL aspirations in 2023, Hedin returned to the SDHL for the 2023–24 season, signing with SDE HF and taking on the alternate captaincy.

International play

As a junior player with the Swedish national under-18 ice hockey team, Hedin participated in four IIHF U18 Women's World Championships and won bronze medals at the tournaments in

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, and

. She was selected as a top-three player for Sweden by the coaches in 2012. Hedin served as an alternate captain at the 2013 tournament, where she was Sweden’s highest scoring defenseman and was named one of the team’s top-three players for the second time. Her senior national team debut was the

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and she also competed in the

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; she did not record any points at either event. Hedin intermittently played with the national team over subsequent seasons but was not selected for another major tournament until being named to the roster participating in the Olympic qualification tournament for the

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. She contributed a goal and two assists across three games in an effort that culminated in Sweden securing an Olympic berth. She was officially named to the Swedish Olympic roster on 19 January 2022 and was set to participate in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2022 Winter Olympics. However, she and teammate Emmy Alasalmi tested positive for COVID-19 shortly before they were scheduled to depart for Beijing and were not permitted to travel with the team; their roster slots were filled by Linnéa Andersson and Paula Bergström.

Personal life

Hedin was born on 24 January 1995 to Johanna Antiainen and Lars Hedin. She is the youngest of three children and her older brother, Viktor, played ice hockey until his late teens. She graduated from the University of Minnesota Duluth in 2018 with a bachelor’s degree in finance.

References

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* Living people 1995 births Swedish women's ice hockey defencemen AIK Hockey Dam players Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs women's ice hockey players University of Minnesota Duluth alumni Swedish expatriate ice hockey players in the United States Ice hockey people from Stockholm {{Sweden-icehockey-player-stub