Anna Kjellbin

Anna Kjellbin (born 16 March 1994) is a Swedish ice hockey player for HV71 Dam of the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL). The 13th longest tenured player in SDHL history, she has won the SDHL championship twice and has appeared in two IIHF Women's World Championships with the Swedish national team.

Anna Kjellbin
Born (1994-03-16) 16 March 1994
Gothenburg, Sweden
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight 63 kg (139 lb; 9 st 13 lb)
Position Defense
Shoots Right
SDHL team HV71
Played for Linköping HC
Hanhals IF
National team  Sweden
Playing career 2008–present

Career

Kjellbin grew up in Mölndal, in Göteborg, playing a variety of sports such as golf and football. At the age of four, she began to learn to skate. From 2008 to 2010, she split her time between Hanhals IF women's team and the U16 boys' team.[1] In her rookie Riksserien season, 2009-10, she picked up five assists in 28 games as the team finished second from last.

In 2010, she signed with Linköping HC, choosing the club over an offer from HV71. She won the Riksserien championship twice with the club, in 2014 and 2015. In the 2015-16 season, she scored a career-high 21 points in 36 games. She scored 6 points in 36 points in the 2018-19 season, but announced before the beginning of the playoffs that she would be taking a break from hockey for personal reasons.[2]

She joined HV71 in 2019, after nine seasons with Linköping, seeking a change in environemnt and because her job outside of hockey was based in Jönköping.[3] She scored 11 points in 36 games in her first season with HV71, as the club finished in first place during the regular season and made it to the playoff finals against Luleå HF/MSSK before the season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden. She criticised the league's decision not to award the championship to any team, despite HV71 having won the first and only completed match of the finals, stating that: "Considering the season we had, it feels very empty."[4]

International career

Kjellbin represented Sweden at the 2011 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship, getting two assists in five games. She represented Sweden again at the 2012 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship, getting four points in six games as Sweden won bronze and scoring her first international hat-trick in their group stage match against Russia after being selected to take a penalty shot. She won a gold medal with Sweden at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics.

She was a member of the Swedish national team at the 2016 and 2017 IIHF Women's World Championships.[5]

Personal life

Kjellbin plays chess, winning her first trophy at the age of 9. She currently works as Director of Customer Project Management for Senion AB, an indoor GPS technology company.[6] Her father, Magnus Kjellbin, had played ice hockey professionally in the Swedish second division in the 1970s.

References
  1. https://hockeysverige.se/2020/01/20/det-ar-dar-vi-har-tankt-att-begrava-vara-hockeykarriarer
  2. https://hockeysverige.se/2019/02/08/anna-kjellbin-tar-paus-fran-hockeyn
  3. Kågström, Rasmus (20 May 2019). "HV71 plockar in landslagsmeriterad back från konkurrenten". hockeysverige.se. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  4. https://hockeysverige.se/2020/05/20/anna-kjellbin-javligt-orattvist-man-kanner-sig-valdigt-tom
  5. "2017 World Championship roster" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 February 2018. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
  6. https://hockeysverige.se/2020/06/24/sommarprat-sdhl-anna-kjellbin
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