Danielle Stone

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| birth_place = Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada

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| position = Forward

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Danielle Stone (born August 20, 1990) is a Canadian ice hockey forward. She most recently played in the 2022–23 season of the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL) with HV71.

Playing career

=University=

Across 120 games with the Saskatchewan Huskies of the University of Saskatchewan, Stone scored 71 points.{{Cite web |last=Staffieri |first=Mark |date=2013-05-17 |title=Danielle Stone Becomes the First CIS Player to Register for 2013 CWHL Draft |url=https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1642112-danielle-stone-becomes-the-first-cis-player-to-register-for-2013-cwhl-draft |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200721122045/https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1642112-danielle-stone-becomes-the-first-cis-player-to-register-for-2013-cwhl-draft |archive-date=July 21, 2020 |access-date=2020-09-25|website=Bleacher Report}} She was a Canada West All-Rookie selection in 2008–09.

=Professional=

She was drafted 16th overall by the Calgary Inferno in the 2013 Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL) Draft, who she would sign her first professional contract with. In her rookie CWHL season, she scored 25 points in 24 games, as the Inferno made the Clarkson Cup finals for the first time.{{Cite web |last=Burse |first=Mike |date=2014-06-17 |title=Power Ranking the Top Five CWHL Players |url=https://thehockeywriters.com/power-ranking-the-top-five-cwhl-players/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140701012439/http://thehockeywriters.com/power-ranking-the-top-five-cwhl-players/ |archive-date=July 1, 2014 |access-date=2020-09-25 |website=The Hockey Writers}}{{cite web |last= |first= |date=2014-03-21 |title=Clarkson Cup: Montreal hangs on to edge Calgary |url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/clarkson-cup-montreal-hangs-on-to-edge-calgary-1.2581171 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140321234600/http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/clarkson-cup-montreal-hangs-on-to-edge-calgary-1.2581171 |archive-date=March 21, 2014 |access-date=2020-09-06 |website=CBC Sports}}{{Cite web |last=Hawkins |first=Jaclyn |date=2014-07-22 |title=Dazzling Danielle Stone Shatters Scoring Records for Calgary Inferno|url=https://womenshockeylife.com/dazzling-danielle-stone-shatters-scoring-records-for-calgary-inferno/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200721122104/https://womenshockeylife.com/dazzling-danielle-stone-shatters-scoring-records-for-calgary-inferno/ |archive-date=July 21, 2020 |access-date= |website=Women’s Hockey Life}} She would only put up 9 points in 22 games in her second CWHL season, her last in the league.

In 2015, she moved to Sweden to play with IF Sundsvall/Timrå IK in the SDHL. After stepping away from hockey for the 2016–17 season, she signed with Brynäs IF.{{Cite web|last=Karlsson|first=Måns|date=2018-01-07|title=Kanadensiska återvänder till SDHL – gjorde succé senast|url=https://hockeysverige.se/2018/01/07/danielle-stone-brynas|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200721151918/https://hockeysverige.se/2018/01/07/danielle-stone-brynas |archive-date=July 21, 2020 |access-date=2020-09-25|website=HockeySverige|language=sv}} In the 2017–18 season, she scored 4 points in 12 games with Brynäs. Stone signed with Leksands IF for the 2018–19 season, where she scored 30 points in 36 games, leading the team in goals and setting personal career records in both goals and assists in a season.{{Cite web|last=Murphy|first=Mike|date=2020-09-23|title=Dam Good: Veteran Danielle Stone has 5-point outburst for HV71|url=https://www.theicegarden.com/2020/9/23/21448642/dam-good-veteran-stone-has-5-point-outburst-for-hv71-sdhl|access-date=2020-12-27|website=The Ice Garden|language=en}} In May 2019, she left Leksands along with teammate Anna Borgqvist to sign with HV71.{{Cite web|last=Persson|first=Max|date=2019-05-03|title=HV71 prestigevärvar inför nya säsongen|url=https://www.aftonbladet.se/a/wPRPv1|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200721122109/https://www.aftonbladet.se/a/wPRPv1 |archive-date=July 21, 2020 |access-date=2020-09-25|website=Aftonbladet|language=sv}}{{Cite web|last=Olausson|first=Robin|date=2020-06-02|title=Vändningen: Lämnade HV – nu förlänger stjärnan|url=https://hockeysverige.se/2020/07/02/vandningen-lamnade-hv-nu-forlanger-stjarnan|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200721154239/https://hockeysverige.se/2020/07/02/vandningen-lamnade-hv-nu-forlanger-stjarnan |archive-date=July 21, 2020 |access-date=2020-09-25|website=HockeySverige|language=sv}}

Personal life

Stone is Métis. Growing up, she received a grant allocation through Métis Nation—Saskatchewan toward her pursuits in sport.{{cite news |last1=Betker |first1=Nicole |title=From Prince Albert to Sweden: Danny Stone's journey to professional hockey |url=https://www.sasksport.ca/news/from-prince-albert-to-sweden-danny-stones-journey-to-professional-hockey/ |access-date=18 December 2023 |work=Sask Sport |date=14 June 2021}}

As a youth athlete, Stone was active in multiple sports, including basketball, ice hockey, track and field, soccer, and volleyball. She was a standout sprint and middle-distance runner during high school, earning ten provincial track medals and setting multiple records at the city or district level. Representing Team Saskatchewan at the 2008 North American Indigenous Games in Cowichan, British Columbia, she won silver medals in the 100 metres, 200 metres, 400 metres, and long jump events.

Stone represented Team Saskatchewan at the National Aboriginal Hockey Championships (NAHC) in 2009 and 2010. Team Sask won bronze in 2009, due in part to Stone's offensive production – she led all tournament players in points and was named to the All-Star team.{{cite news |last1=Pelletier |first1=Blue |title=Bronze medal for Sask girls |url=https://www.eaglefeathernews.com/quadrant/media//pastIssues/June_2009.pdf |access-date=18 December 2023 |work=Eagle Feather News |date=June 2009 |pages=24}} She has served as a coach to Team Saskatchewan at the NAHC since 2011.{{cite news |title=Proud Prince Albertan hopes to stay in hockey after playing days at of U of S end |url=https://www.eaglefeathernews.com/quadrant/media//pastIssues/Nov_2011.pdf |access-date=18 December 2023 |work=Eagle Feather News |date=November 2011}}

She is married to a Finnish retired ice hockey player and former HV71 teammate Sanni Hakala.{{Cite Instagram |last=Hakala |first=Sanni |author-link=Sanni Hakala |user=sanniihakala |postid=CWTiEc1Merr |date=2021-11-15 |title=My cheerleaders! 🥰 |language=en |location=Turku, Finland |access-date=2023-12-18 |link=https://www.instagram.com/p/CWTiEc1Merr/ |url-status= |archive-url= |archive-date= |ref=}}{{Cite Instagram |last=Hakala |first=Sanni |author-link=Sanni Hakala |user=sanniihakala |postid=CxBQ-VPsmK5 |date=2023-09-10 |title=Hakalat 2023 🤍 |language= |location= |access-date=2023-12-18 |link=https://www.instagram.com/p/CxBQ-VPsmK5/?img_index=3 |url-status= |archive-url= |archive-date= |ref=}}{{Cite Instagram |last=Stone |first=Danielle |author-link= |user=dannystone17 |postid=CxIjsaJKHst |date=2023-09-13 |title=3 years sober. Fun story. 1.5 years ago Sanni had just won an Olympic medal and I asked her why she wasn’t going to have some drinks with her teammates to celebrate... |language=en |access-date=2023-12-18 |link=https://www.instagram.com/p/CxIjsaJKHst/ |url-status= |archive-url= |archive-date= |ref=}}