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. 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 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.
Note: Finish = Rank at end of regular season; GP = Games played; W = Wins ; OTW = Overtime wins ; OTL = Overtime losses ; L = Losses ; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; Pts = Points
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Players and personnel

2021–22 roster

Coaching staff and team personnel

Russian Championship

  • Russian Champion :
  • Runners-up :
  • Third Place :

    IIHF European Women's Champions Cup

  • European Women's Champions Cup : 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014
  • Runners-up : 2006

    Other

  • Challenge Cup : 2004, 2005, 2006
  • Czech Women's Cup : 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
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Franchise records and leaders

Records valid through the conclusion of the 2020–21 ZhHL season.

Single-season records

For statistics measured by percentage or average, skaters playing in less than 80% of games and goaltenders playing in fewer than 10 games in a season not included.
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Career records

  • Most career goals: Anna Shokhina, 273 goals
  • Most career assists: Anna Shokhina, 304 assists
  • Most career points: Anna Shokhina, 577 points
  • Most career points, defenceman: Nina Pirogova, 210
  • Most career points per game : Yekaterina Smolentseva, 3.20 P/G
  • Most career penalty minutes: Tatiana Burina, 302 PIM
  • Most games played, skater: Anna Shokhina, 297 games
  • Most games played, goaltender: Anna Prugova, 116 games
All-time scoring leaders
The top ten point-scorers of HC Tornado.
Note: Nat = Nationality; Pos = Position; GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; P/G = Points per game; = 2021–22 HC Tornado player; Bold indicates team record
NatPlayerPosGPGAPtsP/G
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Notable alumni

National team participation

Tornado players have historically represented a significant contingent of the Russian national ice hockey team rosters at the IIHF World Women's Championship and Winter Olympic Games.
The 21-woman roster selected to represent Russia in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2014 Winter Olympics included nine HC Tornado players. In December 2017, eight Russian team players were disqualified from the tournament and banned for life from Olympic participation for doping violations. Four of the implicated players were with HC Tornado at the time of the games, forwards Ekaterina Smolentseva, Galina Skiba, and Tatiana Burina, and defenceman Anna Shukina. Sanctions were later annulled for Smolentseva, Burina, and Shukina. The disqualification of Skiba and two other Russian players was upheld, as was the suspension of the Russian Olympic Committee by the International Olympic Committee. The Ice Hockey Federation of Russia did not sanction any of the eight players involved and their totals from the 2013–14 RWHL season remain on record.
Russia was banned from competing in the 2018 Winter Olympics by the IOC as part of the Oswald Commission rulings regarding state-sponsored doping. However, Russian athletes were permitted to compete under the designation Olympic Athletes from Russia. In practical terms, this was largely performative as the Olympic Athletes from Russia women's ice hockey team roster was nearly identical to the Russian national team roster that competed at the 2017 IIHF Women's World Championship. The team was coached by long-time HC Tornado head coach Alexei Vladimirovich Chistyakov and included ten Tornado players. Tornado players Maria Batalova and Yelena Dergachyova served as the team's two alternate captains and HC Tornado captain Anna Shokhina was the team's top scorer in the tournament. OAR lost the bronze medal game against Finland and finished in fourth place.

Russian alumni

Season active with HC Tornado listed alongside player name.
  • Nadezhda Alexandrova, 2015–2019
  • Maria Batalova, 2014–2018
  • Lyudmila Belyakova, 2014–15, 2016–2018 & 2019–20
  • Tatiana Burina, 2009–2017
  • Yelena Dergachyova, 2014–2019
  • Yekaterina Dil, 2003–04
  • Inna Dyubanok, 2009–2013
  • Iya Gavrilova, 2013–14
  • Angelina Goncharenko, 2014–2018
  • Olga Permyakova, 2009–2015
  • Kristina Petrovskaia, 2009–2013
  • Alevtina Polunina, 2013–2020
  • Zoya Polunina, 2009–2014
  • Anna Prugova, 2009–2015
  • Marina Sergina, 2009–2014
  • Anna Shukina, 2011–2015
  • Yekaterina Smolentseva, 2009–2014
  • Yekaterina Smolina, 2009–2015
  • Alyona Starovoitova, 2016–2020
  • Svetlana Tkacheva, 2011–2015 & 2017–18
  • Svetlana Trefilova, 2003–04

    International players

The number of expatriates who have played with HC Tornado is fairly small compared to its Russian alumni. However, most of the team's international players have been members of their countries’ national teams, including players from the IIHF Top Division national teams of Canada, Slovakia, Sweden, and the United States.
Note: Flag indicates nation of primary IIHF eligibility.
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