Rosa Lindstedt

Rosa Lindstedt (born 24 January 1988) is a Finnish ice hockey coach and retired ice hockey defenseman, currently serving as assistant coach to Brynäs IF Dam in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL). As a player with the Finnish national ice hockey team, she was a three-time Olympian, two-time Olympic bronze medalist, and four-time IIHF Women's World Championship medalist.

Playing career Her senior club career began at age fourteen with the women's representative team of the Ylöjärven Ilves (Y-Ilves) in the 2002–03 season of the Naisten SM-sarja (renamed Naisten Liiga in 2017), the premier women's ice hockey league in her native Finland. In the Naisten SM-sarja, she went on to play with Tappara Naiset (2003–2007), Tampereen Ilves Naiset (2007–2012), and JYP Jyväskylä Naiset (2012–2016), twice winning the Finnish Championship, with Ilves in 2010 and JYP in 2016.

Lindstedt relocated to the SDHL in the 2016–17 season, signing with HV71 Dam. She played with HV71 for four seasons, serving as an alternate captain in the 2017–18 and 2019–20 seasons. She joined Brynäs IF ahead of the 2020–21 SDHL season and was named captain the following season.

International play Lindstedt won bronze medals at the 2010 Winter Olympics and 2018 Winter Olympics, a silver medal at the 2019 IIHF Women's World Championship and bronze medals at the IIHF Women's World Championships in 2015, 2017, and 2021, and a bronze medal at the 2010 Four Nations Cup in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Personal life Lindstedt was born on 24 January 1988 in Ylöjärvi, a town in the Tampere sub-region of southwestern Finland.

She is the grandniece of Marko Asell, an Olympic medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling and member of Finnish Parliament.

Career statistics International Year Team Event Result GP G A Pts PIM 2010 OG 5 0 1 1 10 2011 Finland WW 4th 6 0 1 1 22 2012 Finland WW 4th 6 1 0 1 6 2013 Finland WW 4th 6 1 0 1 8 2014 Finland OG 5th 5 0 1 1 6 2015 Finland WW 6 3 0 3 8 2016 Finland WW 4th 6 0 1 1 4 2017 Finland WW 6 0 2 2 8 2018 Finland OG 6 0 0 0 2 2019 Finland WW 7 1 1 2 2 2021 Finland WW 7 0 1 1 2 2023 Finland WW 5th 7 2 1 3 4 73 8 9 17 82