Frida Nevalainen is an ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 player. Nevalainen play Defenceman position for the Sweden women's national ice hockey team. She won a silver medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics

2006 Winter Olympics

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Her twin brother Patrik plays with Swedish second league

Allsvenskan (hockey)

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 team IF Björklöven

IF Björklöven

IF Björklöven is a Swedish professional ice hockey club in Umeå, Västerbotten, in northern Sweden...

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Nevalainen was the second woman of all time to participate in the TV-pucken

TV-pucken

TV-pucken is a Swedish national ice hockey tournament for district teams of boys under 15 years of age. It was created by hockey legend Sven "Tumba" Johansson....

 tournament, and the first to do so representing the province of Västerbotten

Västerbotten

', English exonym: West Bothnia, is a province or landskap in the north of Sweden. It borders Ångermanland, Lapland, Norrbotten and the Gulf of Bothnia. It is famous for the cheese with the same name as the province.- Administration :...

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She play also for Tornado Moscow Region, a Russian team. Originally representing IF Björklöven

IF Björklöven

IF Björklöven is a Swedish professional ice hockey club in Umeå, Västerbotten, in northern Sweden...

 she later transferred to Modo Hockey

MODO Hockey

Modo Hockey is a professional ice hockey club in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden. The club plays in Sweden's premier ice hockey league, the Elitserien. They were founded in 1921 and have won two Elitserien championships; in 1979 and 2007. The team's home arena is the Fjällräven Center since 2006...

 in the Riksserien

Women's ice hockey in Sweden

Women's Ice Hockey in Sweden has 3 425 players in 2011. The Riksserien is the league elite of Women's ice Hockey. This league is organized by the Swedish Ice Hockey Association...

 (Sweden league elite). She played for the University of Windsor

University of Windsor

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in 2007-08 season.