Draft:Oona Koukkula

Oona Koukkula (born 22 August 2003) is a Finnish ice hockey player and member of the Finnish national ice hockey team. She is singed in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL) with Brynäs IF through the 2025–26 season.

Playing career
Around age nine, Koukkula began playing ice hockey at an ice hockey school in her hometown of Riihimäki. The following year, she joined the minor ice hockey department of the Riihimäki-based club Riihimäen Kiekko-Nikkarit and played with its boys teams, as there were no organized girls teams in the area at that time. During the 2016–17 season, she continued to play with Nikkarit boys teams and also played with a boys under-13 (U13) team of Hyvinkään Jää-Ahmat in Hyvinkää, a town about 16 km south of Riihimäki.

She made her senior women's league debut at age fourteen with KJT Hockey in the 2017–18 Naisten Liiga season. Across eighteen games with KJT that season, she scored one goal and accumulated four penalty minutes. Concurrent to her time playing in the Naisten Liiga during the 2017–18 season, Koukkula also played with the KJT U16 girls team and with various Jää-Ahmat boys teams at the U14 and U15 levels.

In 2018, Koukkula relocated to Kuortane, a village 265 km north of Riihimäki, to attend Kuortaneen urheilulukio and join Team Kuortane. The 2018–19 season marked her first season with Team Kuortane and her first full season played in the Naisten Liiga. She played with Team Kuortane through the 2021–22 season, steadily improving her offensive production from one point on one assist across thirty games in her first season to leading all team defensemen in scoring in her final season, with 3 goals and 14 assists for 17 points in 26 games. Her career with the team culminated in her selection to the Naisten Liiga All-Star second team in 2022.

– 2023–24 Naisten Liiga All-Star second team

International play
As a junior player with the Finnish national under-18 team, Koukkula was recognized by the team coaches as a standout defenseman and she participated in the 2020 IIHF U18 Women's World Championship in Bratislava, Slovakia.

She made her senior national team debut during pre-Olympic friendlies against in late 2021.

2023–24 EHT

– 3N in Vierumäki

– Deutschland Cup
 * – secondary assist on Yrjanen goal against Germany, primary assist by Kiti Seikkula → eighth goal in an 8–1 victory

2024 IIHF WC

– named to roster

International
Source: IIHF