Eve Savander Explained

Birth Date:1998 9, df=yes
Birth Place:Joensuu, Finland
Height M:1.66
Weight Kg:67
Shoots:Right
League:SDHL
Team:Linköping HC
Sex:f
Ntl Team:Finland
Career Start:2013

Eve Savander (born 2 September 1998) is a Finnish ice hockey player and member of the Finnish national team. She plays in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL) with Linköping HC.

With the Finnish national team, she has won two IIHF Women's World Championship bronze medals.

Playing career

Savander played college ice hockey with the Ohio State Buckeyes women's ice hockey program in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) conference of the NCAA Division I during 2018 to 2022.

International play

As a junior player with the Finnish national under-18 team, Savander participated in the IIHF U18 Women's World Championships in 2014, 2015, and 2016.[1]

At age sixteen, she made her senior national team debut as the youngest player on the Finnish roster at the IIHF Women's World Championship in 2015 and won a bronze medal.[2]

Savander next represented Finland at the IIHF Women's World Championship in 2024 and won her second bronze medal. She averaged just one minute and 46 seconds of ice time per game and had the fewest total minutes played (12:26) of any skater on the team.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Book: IIHF Guide & Record Book 2020 . Moydart . 2019 . 9780986796470 . Podnieks . Andrew . Toronto . 660 . Active Skaters, Women . Nordmark . Birger.
  2. Web site: 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championship – Team Roster: FIN - Finland . 30 December 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180213080038/https://reports.iihf.hockey/Hydra/486/IHW486000_33_17_0_FIN.pdf . 13 February 2018 . . live .
  3. Web site: 2024 IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championship – Player Statistics by Team: FIN - Finland . 2024-04-14 . 2024-04-16 . International Ice Hockey Federation.