Finnish Sunshine

About Me

Black and white photo of Laurel resting her chin on her folded hands.

Welcome to my blog! I’m Laurel. On this page I hope to share my musings about hockey and life with you. 

I’m passionate about hockey, especially the Carolina Hurricanes. I also love languages and speak several. One of my hopes is to enable English speaking hockey fans to learn more about the European players you enjoy watching so much. I plan to cover European NHL and AHL players, and bring you content from the KHL, Sm Liiga and other European leagues as well. Though I love hockey, I am also passionate about a wide variety of other topics, hence the life part. 

I also have a nonprofit providing technology and resources to the blind internationally. If you want to learn more about it, and check out our work, visit this link.

I live in Helsinki, Finland and am a graduate student at the University of Helsinki. I have a Finnish guide dog named Routa, and we share a lot of interesting adventures together, many of which I want to share with you! 

So, welcome to my blog! I hope you enjoy my content. I would love to hear your feedback and suggestions, so feel free to get in touch via my Twitter or via my Instagram.

Read my blog posts here.