Mattias Ekholm's wife Ida and Zach Human's wife Alannah celebrate joint birthday party with two-tiered cake

Modified Apr 16, 2025 11:30 GMT

On Tuesday, Oilers stars Mattias Ekholm’s wife, Ida Björnstad, and Zach Hyman’s wife, Alannah Hyman, celebrated their birthdays together. Their close friends held a joint party for the two birthday girls and Ida shared a series of stories on her Instagram account from the special evening.

In one of the stories she reposted, Ida and Alannah were seen seated together while holding glasses of champagne.

“The most beautiful birthday girls,” read the caption of the original story.

Ida then reposted a clip from Oilers forward Kasperi Kapanen’s fiancée Matleena Laakso’s account featuring a short clip from the birthday celebration. The two birthday celebrants were seated with their friends across the restaurant counter when a chef served a two-tiered cake with lit candles on top of it.

“Celebrated by the best girls,” Ida wrote in the caption followed by a red heart emoji.

The third story was a close-up of the birthday cake—a two-tiered, white creation topped with a decorative candelabra and finished with a large, elegant bow. The click was originally posted by Alannah, who called Ida her “Aries sister” in the caption.

Mattias Ekholm's wife sports custom jacket from Lauren Kyle’s fashion label

Earlier last month, Mattias Ekholm’s wife, Ida, shared a photo on her Instagram stories wearing a jacket from Connor McDavid’s wife, Lauren Kyle’s sportswear brand, Sports Club Atelier. The jacket was originally part of the brand’s special Team Sweden collection.

It had a dark blue color and an embroidered Swedish logo on the back. The logo featured a shield with the Swedish flag and the word “Sweden” in gold cursive. Three yellow crowns representing Sweden’s national symbol were also stitched on the upper back.

Ida posted the photo during an Oilers vs. Jets game at Rogers Place. In the caption, she wrote:

“Also obsessed with this jacket,” and tagged Lauren Kyle and Sports Club Atelier.

Lauren Kyle had launched her custom sportswear brand in December. In an interview in February, she explained that the Sweden jackets were part of a collection designed for the 4 Nations Faceoff tournament. Despite being Canadian, Lauren mentioned that she stayed neutral with her designs even though a friend joked that Canada’s jackets should be better.

"No, no, no,” Lauren said. “I thought that my friend Mel was on the other team too. She was like, ‘You’re for sure gonna make Canada's much better. I'm like, I'm actually not. I'm going to be so neutral,” she added.

Besides her growing fashion brand, Lauren is also preparing to open Bar Trove and Trove Living, a bar, restaurant and furniture store in downtown Edmonton.

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Anjum is an NHL reporter at Sportskeeda with over five years of professional experience in the industry. Having an educational background in Media Studies, she strives to present information in a clear and unbiased manner, so that all perspectives are considered and represented fairly.

Anjum prioritizes thorough research, fact-checking and verification of sources when reporting, and has worked for the Nation of Blaugrana, Barca International Cules, FromTheBend, Last Word On Sports and NASA.

She got interested in ice hockey after watching the “MVP” trilogy as a second grader and has not gotten over the sport yet. Her favorite player is Alex Ovechkin, whose legendary one-timers live rent free in her heart. The iconic moment when Ovechkin reached 800 career goals with a hat trick in Chicago as the away crowd chanted “Ovi, Ovi” is probably her happiest memory from an ice-rink.

She is a self-taught musician, loves silversmithing and can be found at her workbench if she’s not watching or writing about sports.

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