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Anni Keisala

Finnish ice hockey player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ22916810
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Anni Keisala (born 5 April 1997) is a Finnish ice hockey goaltender for HPK Hämeenlinna of the Auroraliiga and a member of the Finnish national team.

Playing career

Keisala made her senior club debut at age 13 as the third goaltender and an occasional forward on the women's representative team of Lohjan Kisa-Veikot (LoKV) in the 2010–11 season of the Naisten SM-sarja (NSMs; renamed Naisten Liiga (NSML) in 2017). In the following season, the role of starting netminder fell on fourteen-year-old Keisala after the starter and backup goalies from the previous season left LoKV for other NSMs teams. The teen struggled in net behind the worst team in the league, as LoKV lost all 16 games in the preliminaries – managing to record just seven goals in the series – and were relegated to the Naisten I-divisioona after finishing the 15-game promotion/relegation series in last place.

LoKV's fortunes did not improve in the 2012–13 Naisten I-divisioona season. They were further relegated to the third tier Naisten Suomi-sarja at the conclusion of the promotion and relegation series. Keisala continued playing as both a forward and goaltender during the season. Though player statistics for the season are largely incomplete, she served in goal for a minimum of four games of the preliminaries and one game of the promotion and relegation series. She tallied at least 1 goal in the promotion and relegation series while playing as a forward.

Ahead of the 2013–14 season, Keisala relocated 350 kilometres (220 mi) north of her hometown of Lohja to begin attending the Kuortaneen urheilulukio ('Kuortane Sports Academy').

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“Anni Keisala” enters the record as finnish ice hockey player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Anni, Keisala and Finnish can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997, 2010, 2017, 2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Anni, Keisala and Finnish.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q22916810. The first chronological checks are 1997, 2010, 2017 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from Anni Keisala” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.