HC Tornado

Hockey Club Tornado Moscow Region (), often shortened to HC Tornado, Tornado Moscow Region or Tornado Dmitrov, is a professional ice hockey club in the Zhenskaya Hockey League (ZhHL). The team is based in Dmitrov, Moscow Oblast, Russia, and they play at the ice palace of the Dmitrov Sport Complex (), abbreviated as SC Dmitrov (). Tornado is a nine-time Russian Champion and won the European Women's Champions Cup four times.
== History ==
HC Tornado has been a top competitor in the women's ice hockey Russian Championship since the club's inaugural season in 2003–04. During its first fifteen seasons, Tornado was the dominant force in the Russian Women's Hockey League, winning seven national titles and never finishing below second place. They medaled at five IIHF European Women's Champions Cup (EWCC) tournaments, winning the cup in 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2014, and claiming silver in 2006; Tornado is tied with AIK Hockey Dam for most EWCC titles held by a single team. During the same period, Tornado also won three Challenge Cups and four Czech Women's Cups.
In the 2018–19 season Tornado ranked fifth in the regular season, failing to qualify for the playoffs for the first time in team history. The poor performance was attributed to the absence of several key players, such as Lyudmila Belyakova and Angelina Goncharenko, who were on maternity leave, and the departure of Maria Batalova to Agidel Ufa.
The team returned to the top half of the ZhHL in the 2019–20 season, bolstered by the return of both Belyakova and Goncharenko. Tornado finished the regular season as the second ranked Russian team but the newcomers to the league, China-based Shenzhen KRS Vanke Rays, upset the ZhHL's traditional order, blazing to the top of the ranks and pushing each of the Russian teams down a peg. As a result, Tornado finished the regular season as the third-ranked team overall and faced the first-ranked Vanke Rays in the playoff semifinals, where they were swept by the eventual champions.
== Season-by-season results ==
This is a partial list of recent seasons completed by HC Tornado.
Season 	League	Regular season	Regular season	Regular season	Regular season	Regular season	Regular season	Regular season	Regular season	Regular season	Regular season 	Post season results
Season 	League	Finish 	GP 	W 	OTW 	OTL 	L 	GF 	GA 	Pts 	Top scorer 	Post season results
2015–16	ZhHL 	 	24 	18 	0 	2 	4 	108 	51 	56 	A. Shokhina, 51 (20+31)	–
2016–17	ZhHL 	 	36 	28 	4 	1 	3 	181 	67 	93 	A. Shokhina, 81 (39+42)	–
2017–18	ZhHL 	2nd 	24 	17 	0 	1 	6 	115 	52 	52 	A. Shokhina, 58 (22+36)	Lost final, 0–3 (Agidel Ufa)
2018–19	ZhHL 	5th 	36 	15 	5 	1 	15 	146 	99 	56 	A. Shokhina, 76 (36+40)	Did not qualify
2019–20	ZhHL 	3rd 	28 	14 	1 	5 	8 	63 	63 	49 	A. Shokhina, 38 (17+21)	Lost semifinal, 0–2 (KRS Vanke Rays)
2020–21	ZhHL 	6th 	28 	10 	1 	2 	15 	90 	88 	31 	A. Shokhina, 53 (26+27)	Did not qualify
Source: 
== Team honors ==
=== Russian Championship ===
* Russian Champion (9):
:* Russian Women's Hockey League: 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015
:* Zhenskaya Hockey League: 2016, 2017
* Runners-up (6):
:* Russian Women's Hockey League: 2004, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2014
:* Zhenskaya Hockey League: 2018
* Third Place (1):
:* Zhenskaya Hockey League: 2020
===IIHF European Women's Champions Cup===
* European Women's Champions Cup (4): 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014
* Runners-up (1): 2006
=== Other ===
* Challenge Cup (3): 2004, 2005, 2006 
* Czech Women's Cup (4): 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
Sources: 
== References ==
== External links ==
* Team information and statistics from Elite Prospects and EuroHockey.com and HockeyArchives.info (in French)
Category:Ice hockey teams in Russia