| Sara Grahn | |||||||||||||||||
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 Sara Grahn | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1988-09-25)25 September 1988 (age 37) | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 67 kg (148 lb; 10 st 8 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Goaltender | ||||||||||||||||
| Catches | Left | ||||||||||||||||
| SDHL team Former teams | Luleå HF/MSSK Brynäs IF Oppala IK Linköpings HC Örebro HK | ||||||||||||||||
| National team |  Sweden | ||||||||||||||||
| Playing career | 2004–present | ||||||||||||||||
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Sara Karin Maria Grahn (born 25 September 1988) is a Swedishice hockeygoaltender forLuleå HF/MSSK in theSwedish Women's Hockey League (Swedish:Svenska damhockeyligan, SDHL) and the Swedish national team. She is the longest tenured goaltender in SDHL history, the only one to have ever played more than 300 games, and has won the SDHL championship five times.
Growing up inHallsberg, Grahn began skating at the age of four and began playing as a goaltender at the age of ten.[1] When Riksserien was founded as the top flight of women's hockey in Sweden in 2007, she signed professionally withLinköping HC.
After three years in Linköping, she left the club to sign withBrynäs IF, attracted in part by the more professional environment and the presence of goaltending coachPecka Alcén.
In February 2015, she posted a 55-save shutout in a 1–0 victory overLeksands IF in the playoff quarterfinals.[2] She was named the Riksserien Goaltender of the Year for the 2014–15 season.[3]
In the 2015–16 season, she played two matches for Brynäs' U20 boys' team, posting a .971 save percentage.[4] That year, she was also loaned out toHockeytvåan clubOppala IK, in the third division of Swedish men's hockey, for a game in late November 2015, where she posted a shutout.[5]
After eight seasons with Brynäs, she left the club to sign with reigning championsLuleå HF/MSSK ahead of the2018–19 SDHL season, citing the greater investment into women's hockey in Luleå and the delays in addressing problems in Brynäs.[6][7]
Grahn has represented the Swedish national team at three consecutive Olympics, making her Olympic debut at the2010 Winter Olympics, and representing the country again in2014 and2018. She, however, didn't play a game at the 2010 Olympics, serving as the team's third goaltender.[8][9]
She made her IIHF World Championship debut for Sweden at the2007 IIHF Women's World Championship, and has appeared in an additional nine World Championships since then.
She took part in the2019 Sweden women's national ice hockey team strike.[10]
Grahn has studied at theLuleå University of Technology.[11]
In August 2018, she launched the Sara Grahn Goalie Development Camp for young girls inSandviken.[12]
