Linköping HC (women)


Linköping HC or LHC is a semi-professional ice hockey team in the Swedish Women's Hockey League. It is the representative women's team of Linköping HC, an ice hockey club based in Linköping, Sweden, and is sometimes distinguished from the men's team as Linköping HC Dam or Linköping HC SDHL. The team plays in Linköping at the Stångebro Ishall. LHC won the Swedish Championship in 2014 and 2015.
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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 professional team and junior teams. The team made its debut in the group stage of the 2007–08 season of Division 1 and swept the eight-game series. Their early success earned the LHC Dam a spot in the top-tier, newly-restructured and renamed Riksserien, 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 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

''This is a partial list of the most recent seasons completed by Linköping HC Dam.
Note: Rank = 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, Top scorer: Points ''

Players and personnel

2024–25 roster

;Coaching staff and team personnel

Team captains

Head coaches

  • Peter Jonsson, 2007–08
  • Johanna Olsson, 2008–09
  • Roy Bergström & Peter Jonsson, 2009–10
  • Jens Brändström, 2010–2012
  • Johan Bunnstedt, 2012–13
  • Daniel Elander, 2013–14
  • Peter Frantz, 2014–2016
  • Martin Andler, 2016–17
  • Madeleine Östling, 2017–2020
  • Thomas Pettersen, 2020–2022
  • Simon Hedefalk, 2022–23
  • Jan Bylesjö, 2023–

General managers

Team honors

Swedish Women's Hockey League

Swedish Champions : 2014, 2015Runners-up : 2016, 2018, 2019Third Place : 2011

[IIHF European Women's Champions Cup]

Runners-up : 2014–15

Team records and leaders

Single-season records

Note: Skaters playing less than 20 games and goaltenders playing in 10 or fewer games during a season are not included.

Career records

Note: Skaters playing less than 30 games and goaltenders playing in 15 or fewer games during their career with Linköping HC are not included.
  • Most goals: Denise Altmann, 277 goals
  • Most assists: Denise Altmann, 286 assists
  • Most points: Denise Altmann, 563 points
  • Most points, defenseman: Emma Holmbom, 129 points
  • Most points per game: Lara Stalder, 1.83 P/G
  • Most penalty minutes: Jenn Wakefield, 215 PIM
  • Most games played, skater: Madelen Haug Hansen, 367 games
  • Most games played, goaltender: Florence Schelling, 62 games
  • Best save percentage: Florence Schelling,.948 SVS%
  • Best goals against average: Vendela Jonsson, 1.33 GAA
  • Most shutouts: Florence Schelling, 16 shutouts

All-time scoring leaders

The top ten point-scorers in Linköping HC history, from the 2007–08 season through the 2023–24 season.
NatPlayerPosGPGAPtsP/G
sortname|Denise|Altmann

Notable alumnae

Years active with Linköping HC listed alongside player name.