Emma-Sofie Nordstrøm

Emma-Sofie Mohrsen Nordstrøm (also Nordström; born 5 November 2002) is a Swedish-Danish ice hockey goaltender and member of the Danish national team, currently playing with the St. Lawrence Saints women's ice hockey program in the ECAC Hockey conference of the NCAA Division I.

Playing career
Nordstrøm made her elite women's league debut as a pre-teen during the 2013–14 season with Herning IK in the DM i ishockey for kvinder, the premier national league in Denmark. She continued playing with Herning IK in the DM for kvinder over the following several seasons and also played with various Herning IK boys' minor ice hockey teams. During the 2017–18 season, she was a member of the Herning IK boys' under-17 junior team in the top-tier U17 league in Denmark.

In 2018, she was admitted to the NIU hockeygymnasium of Modo Hockey and relocated to Örnsköldsvik, Sweden. With the secondary team of Modo Hockey Dam, she played in the DamEttan during the 2018–19 and 2019–20 seasons, recording a subpar save percentage (SV%) of .894 and goals against average (GAA) of 3.37 across four games in her first season before improving to an excellent .934 SV% and 2.00 GAA across five games in the next season.

Ahead of the 2020–21 season, Nordstrøm signed with Linköping HC Dam in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL) as backup netminder to Canadian goaltender Stephanie Neatby. She was exemplary across her nine games in net during her rookie campaign, posting a league-leading .943 SV% and an elite 1.65 GAA.

Nordstrøm continued to generate excellent statistics in her second season with Linköping, achieving a .942 SV% and 1.56 GAA across nine games.

In 2022, she moved to North America to play college ice hockey with the St. Lawrence Saints women's ice hockey program of St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York.

International play
As a junior player with the Danish national under-18 team, she participated in the IIHF Women's U18 World Championship Division I Group B tournaments in 2017 and 2018, and in the Division I Group A tournaments in 2019 and 2020.

Nordstrøm represented Denmark at the IIHF Women's World Championship Division I Group A tournament in 2018 and at the Top Division tournament in 2021. She was selected to the Danish team for the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, serving as third netminder behind Cassandra Repstock-Romme and Lisa Jensen; she did not dress for any games of the tournament.

Personal life
Nordstrøm is a dual citizen of Denmark and Sweden – her father, Peter Nordström, is Swedish and her mother, Birgitte Mohrsen Nordström (Andersen), is Danish.

Her mother's side of the family, the Andersens, have earned the moniker "Denmark’s hockey factory" due to the number of elite players it has produced. No exception is Nordstrøm's mother, who was a goaltender with the Danish national ice hockey team during the late 1990s and 2000s and participated in five IIHF World Championships across the Pool B, Division I, and Division II levels. Her uncles Ernst Andersen and Kim Mohrs Andersen both represented at several Ice Hockey World Championship Pool B tournaments in the 1990s. In Nordstrøm's generation, her elder cousin Frederik Andersen, an active NHL er, and younger cousin Valdemar Andersen are also goaltenders. Bucking the goaltending trend are her younger brother Lukas and elder cousins Amalie Andersen and Sebastian Andersen, all of whom are defensemen, and cousin Karl Andersen, a left winger, who slots in as the only forward of the bunch.

Ice hockey genes aren't limited to the Andersen side of her family, as her father was a goaltender in high-level Swedish and Danish leagues during the 1990s and 2000s. Melker Thelin, her younger cousin, is active as a goaltender in Swedish junior leagues.

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