Linnéa Johansson (born 5 April 2002) is a Swedish

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and member of the Swedish national team, currently playing in the

Swedish Women's Hockey League The Swedish Women's Hockey League (), abbreviated SDHL, is the elite league for women's ice hockey in Sweden. It was established in 2007 as the by the Swedish Ice Hockey Association and was renamed prior to the 2016–17 season. The league has ...

(SDHL) with

Luleå HF/MSSK Luleå Hockey/MSSK are a semi-professional ice hockey team in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL). They play in Luleå, a port city in northeastern Sweden, at Coop Norrbotten Arena. The team is the most successful in SDHL history, having b ...

. She represented Sweden at the

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and the

2022 IIHF Women's World Championship The 2022 IIHF Women's World Championship was an international ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) which was contested in Herning and Frederikshavn, Denmark, from 25 August to 4 September 2022, at th ...

Playing career

Johansson grew up playing ice hockey with boys, including

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Helge Grans, at the Tre Kronors Hockeyskola in her hometown of

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, in south-central Sweden. At the age of 14, she joined Karlskrona HK, playing with their women's team in the

Damettan Nationella Damhockeyligan () or NDHL is the second-highest women's ice hockey league in Sweden. It was previously known as the Damettan or Damettan i ishockey during 2015 to 2021, and Division 1 during 2007 to 2015. The league engages in active ...

and in the club's youth system. She made her SDHL debut in the 2016–17 season, after being called up by HV71, getting two assists in seven games as well as playing in four playoff games. During the 2016–17 season, she also played fifteen games with the women's team of

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in the Damettan and was active with

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teams of IF Troja-Ljungby. After putting up 7 points in 25 games with HV71 in the

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, and growing increasingly dissatisfied with the way girls were treated in the co-ed Troja-Ljungby youth teams, she left the city to sign with

Linköping HC Linköping Hockey Club, often known by its Acronym, initials LHC, or Colloquialism, colloquially among its fans as Cluben, is a Swedish professional ice hockey club from Linköping, founded in 1976. The home arena of the team is Saab Arena (for ...

. She scored 7 points in 19 games in her first year with Linköping before being sidelined due to a concussion sustained while playing with the national U18 team. She missed the first nine games of the

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as well before returning to the ice.

International

As a

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player, Johansson was a member of the Swedish national under-18 team during 2016 to 2020, and participated in the

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and

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Johansson, Linnea 2002 births Living people HV71 (women) players Ice hockey players at the 2022 Winter Olympics IF Troja-Ljungby players Karlskrona HK players 21st-century Swedish sportsmen Linköping HC (women) players Luleå HF/MSSK players Olympic ice hockey players for Sweden People from Ljungby Ice hockey people from Kronoberg County Swedish women's ice hockey left wingers 21st-century Swedish sportswomen