Linköping HC (women)

Linköping HC or LHC is an ice hockey team in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL). They are the representative women's ice hockey team of Linköping HC, a sports club based in Linköping, Östergötland, Sweden, and play at the Stångebro Ishall. LHC Dam won the Swedish Championship in 2014 and 2015.
== History ==
In 2006, the Linköping HC organization committed to becoming the best club for women's ice hockey in Sweden, stating that the women's team would be one of the club’s elite teams, on equal footing with the men's team and the men's junior teams. The team made its debut in the group stage of the 2007–08 season of Division 1 (since renamed Damettan) and swept the eight-game series. Their early success earned the LHC Dam a spot in the top-tier, newly-restructured and renamed Riksserien (since renamed the Svenska damhockeyligan), where they finished the 2008 season in fourth place after losing the bronze medal game to Modo HK. The 2007–08 roster featured home-grown Swedish players, including veteran Sophie Westlund and rising stars 19 year old Jenni Asserholt and 16 year old Fanny Rask, alongside an impressive collection of young international talent, including Austrian national team phenom Denise Altmann and Slovak national team teammates, forward Iveta Karafiátová Frühauf and goaltender Zuzana Tomčíková.
In the 2008–09 Riksserien season, LHC Dam lost in the quarterfinals after finishing the regular season in fifth place. The team gradually increased their standing over the subsequent seasons, ranking fourth in 2010 and winning bronze in 2011.
The team won the Swedish Championship in 2014. Not content to rest on their laurels, Linköping went on to win all 28 regular season games in the 2014–15 season and successfully defended the Swedish Championship in the 2015 SDHL playoffs, defeating AIK in the second consecutive playoff finals.
== Season-by-season results ==
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 	Rank 	GP 	W 	OTW 	OTL 	L 	Pts 	GF 	GA 	Top scorer 	Post season results
2015-16	Riksserien	2nd 	36 	25 	5 	2 	4 	87 	154 	60 	P. Winberg 56 (19+37) 	Lost final, 1–2 (Luleå HF)
2016–17	SDHL 	3rd 	36 	24 	2 	2 	8 	78 	138 	75 	J. Wakefield 53 (34+19)	Lost semi-final, 1–2 (Djurgårdens IF)
2017–18	SDHL 	2nd 	36 	26 	3 	3 	4 	87 	135 	59 	L. Stalder 61 (39+22) 	Lost final, 1–2 (Luleå HF)
2018–19	SDHL 	3rd 	36 	24 	1 	1 	10 	75 	137 	77 	K. Marchment 52 (25+27)	Lost final, 2–3 (Luleå HF)
2019–20	SDHL 	7th 	36 	10 	3 	4 	19 	40 	73 	107 	Z. Hickel 26 (12+14) 	Lost quarterfinal, 0–2 (Luleå HF)
2020–21	SDHL 	5th 	36 	17 	3 	2 	14 	59 	89 	76 	C. Bullock 35 (18+17) 	Lost quarterfinal, 0–2 (Djurgårdens IF)
2021–22	SDHL 	2nd 	36 	23 	3 	2 	8 	118 	79 	77 	S. Brodt 56 (29+27) 	Lost semifinals, 1–3 (Luleå HF)
2022–23	SDHL 	7th 	32 	6 	7 	2 	17 	69 	97 	34 	N. Elia 30 (17+13) 	Lost quarterfinals, 0–2 (Brynäs IF)
== Team honors ==
=== Swedish Women's Hockey League ===
* Swedish Champions (2): 2014, 2015
* Runners-up (3): 2016, 2018, 2019
* Third Place (1): 2011
===IIHF European Women's Champions Cup===
* Runners-up (1): 2014–15
== References ==
== External links ==
* Official website 
* Team information and statistics from Eliteprospects.com and Eurohockey.com and Hockeyarchives.info (in French)
Category:Ice hockey teams in Sweden