Published 2024-11-02 09.08
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- Ebba Hesselvall’s success in TV puck is attributed to intense training with ten to twelve sessions a week and many hours on the shooting ramp. Her high-scoring game has attracted interest from SDHL, but she is taking decisions about the future in stride.
- Although Ebba is young and relatively new to hockey, she shows an exceptional understanding of the game and technique. She has made great efforts both in the women’s junior series and against seniors in the NDHL, which impresses experts such as Maria Rooth.
- Ebba faces important future decisions about her hockey career and potential high school choices. With the support of her sports family, she is ready to invest fully in order to achieve her goals in hockey.
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“Ten to twelve sessions a week”, is behind Ebba Hesselvall’s success in TV puck.
She is both praised and urged to “take it easy” by SVT’s Maria Rooth, while SDHL’s interest is guaranteed.
– These are difficult decisions that must be made soon, the 15-year-old himself tells Sportbladet.
Already in the qualifiers for the TV puck, Ebba Hesselvall had struck with 21 points in four games.
Once the tournament started in earnest with the playoffs, she continued to build on her fine form.
This by increasing the points harvest to a total of 24 points in five matches directly in the quarter-finals.
– It’s been a lot of training, a lot of wear and tear on the shooting ramp… I still have some skills and the teammates are with me, she says herself.
She doesn’t want to run away mentally, that’s for sure. Most of all, she wants to let the game do the talking.
– We are simply showing what we want with this tournament as a team.
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full screenEbba Hesselvall under the TV puck. Photo: Svante Störlinge
Ebba Hesselvall’s hard training
What is behind your fine game?
– Lots of training, ten to twelve sessions a week. Then there will be a lot of time on the shooting ramp.
She is doing her third tournament and last year there were 24 points in eight games. Even in the first year, she averaged over a point per game.
Her progress does not go unnoticed.
– She has most of the food circle if you think of an ice hockey player. She sees the ice very well, nice skating, great puck technique and good release, good shot. She has the whole package, but will probably have to work a little against her height, precisely because she is a smaller player. But she has the ingredients so she should be able to do it too and now she’s not fully grown either. It is an exceptional player to some extent who has scored an incredible amount of points. She has most of it, says SVT expert Maria Rooth.
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full screen SVT expert Maria Rooth. Photo: Mathilda Ahlberg / Bildbyrån
Last year, the 15-year-old scored 88 points in 19 games in the women’s junior series and during the autumn scored 20 points in six games against seniors in the second highest series, the NDHL.
– She is smart, sees the game very well. She didn’t start super early either, she started when she was eight, in 2018. So she hasn’t played that long either, but she comes from a sports family. So she must have a lot in her blood, because it has gone so fast for her. She loves hockey and lives in the ice rink, says Rooth.
Nice words from SVT’s Maria Rooth
How far can she reach?
– She can go far, absolutely. After all, we have seen other players who are at the top of the TV puck, many have been with them for three years and are high in points. Many of them succeed because they are talents. Talent you can be, but you can’t always be a talent. How much do they bet, how much do they put down? It’s really hard to say, but she can be good if she just wants to put in the energy.
Hesselvall, who represents Södertälje on a daily basis, has the goal clear:
– I want to go as far as I can and be the best.
There is also a long way to go when you are 15 years young. That’s what Rooth, who for many years was the country’s top player on the women’s side, wants to point out.
– It is still very early. She stands out at this age and, as I said, it has nothing to do with the future really. But it’s how much she wants this, how much she’s passionate about it, how much time and energy she puts into it. She can go far, no doubt. I would think this is what they’re banking on as she’s probably set goals like college or possibly going pro in the future, she says.
“Difficult decisions that must be made”
The SVT expert foresees that most SDHL clubs and national sports high schools stand with open arms to receive Hesselvall next year. But then it is important to take one thing at a time.
– It is a stressful period for many of the players around TV puck age, it is for everyone. Once she finds the right place, only she herself can answer what is right for her. Move far from home or live close to home, says Rooth.
But coming from a sporting family as a multi-sport talent is an advantage in the long run.
A similar example is Mira Markström, previously dominant in the TV puck together with Mira Jungåker, who finally chose floorball after a couple of SDHL seasons.
– Ebba has chosen sports and put her football boots on the shelf this summer. She has chosen hockey and then she will just have to take it easy in her choice somewhere. Because she’ll probably fit in anywhere, I think. And find security in that.
But the young forward himself does not want to run too far ahead in thinking about a high school choice or reveal any thoughts.
– There is a lot… there are difficult decisions that must be made soon, she says with a smile.
