Hockey
Nordstrom's family of goalies and Denmark's first PWHL draft pick
Emma-Sofie Nordstrom, a fifth-round pick of Hamilton in the PWHL, comes from a family that includes her Stanley Cup-winning cousin Frederik Andersen and a mother who played a game while pregnant with her.
Emma-Sofie Nordstrom has faced 91 shots in two games at the Women's World Championship, most of them hitting her Lego-themed pads, after becoming the first Danish player drafted into the PWHL when Hamilton picked her in the fifth round in June.1
The International Ice Hockey Federation said Nordstrom's family includes several goaltenders: her parents, her uncle Ernst, her cousins Frederik, Valdemar and Melker Thelin, and her cousin Amalie Andersen, a former Team Denmark defender.1
Everyone in my family plays hockey. I'm serious1Emma-Sofie Nordstrom
Nordstrom said she played her first game before she was born, when her mother Birgitte Mohrsen Nordström played while pregnant and told her teammates after the win that they had two people in the net.1
She said her goalie parents did not want her to become a goalie because they knew how hard it can be mentally, so she asked her coach instead and played her first game in northern Sweden.1
Her cousin Frederik Andersen won the Stanley Cup last season with the Carolina Hurricanes, and Nordstrom said Amalie Andersen has been a role model she followed onto the under-18 national team and the women's team.1
When she went to Sweden to play, I wanted to go to Sweden. When she left for college, I wanted to go to a US college. But if I could play like another goalie in the world, I'd be my cousin Melker Thelin. He's quick, so poised, his technique is super1Emma-Sofie Nordstrom
Denmark beat Japan for the first time at the Women's World Championship on Saturday, rallying from 0-2 to win in a shootout, and Nordstrom said the family group chat went hot afterward.1
Our goal is to be the toughest team to meet here. We'll give everything we've got, that's who we are. You can always try your hardest, regardless of your skills or whatever1Emma-Sofie Nordstrom
Nordstrom said the team's motto is "five more," whether that means five more strides or five more seconds, and that the past is the past while the future depends on decisions in the here and now.1
She said it is great that girls see a Danish player in the PWHL and that it is possible, and that it just happened to be her.1
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Sources
- Born a goalie · International Ice Hockey Federation
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