Pernilla Margareta Stephanie Winberg (born 24 February 1989) is a Swedish

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retired

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, who currently serves as a commentator for

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. She scored 282 points across her 9 year

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career, winning two SDHL championships. She made over 300 appearances for the Swedish national team, winning a silver medal at the

2006 Winter Olympics The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially the XX Olympic Winter Games ( it, XX Giochi olimpici invernali) and also known as Torino 2006, were a winter multi-sport event held from 10 to 26 February 2006 in Turin, Italy. This marked the second t ...

Career

She graduated from the

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in 2013 and played for the

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, five-time NCAA Division I national champions. She missed three and a half weeks of the 2018-19 season due to a concussion, returning just in time for the playoffs. In October 2019, just 7 games into the season, she suffered a severe concussion, the third in three years, forcing her to miss the rest of the 2019-20 season. A year later, in October 2020, it was announced that she would be starting a position as an expert commentator for

's coverage of the SDHL.

International

She won a silver medal at the

. She scored the game-winning goal in the shootout against the

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in the semi-final game, where she was Sweden's youngest national player. She would later become the last remaining player from the silver-medal winning 2006 Swedish Olympic team to retire. At the

2010 Winter Olympics )'' , nations = 82 , athletes = 2,626 , events = 86 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , opening = February 12, 2010 , closing = February 28, 2010 , opened_by = Governor General Michaëlle Jean , cauldron = Catriona Le May DoanNancy GreeneWayne Gretz ...

, Winberg recorded an impressive five goals in the tournament including four against Slovakia and one against the powerhouse USA.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Winberg, Pernilla 1989 births Living people Ice hockey players at the 2006 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 2010 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 2014 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 2018 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics Olympic ice hockey players for Sweden Olympic medalists in ice hockey Olympic silver medalists for Sweden Ice hockey people from Malmö Swedish women's ice hockey forwards Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs women's ice hockey players Swedish expatriate ice hockey players in the United States AIK Hockey Dam players Linköping HC (women) players Women sports commentators