Luleå HF/MSSK
| Luleå Hockey/MSSK | |
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| City: | Luleå, Sweden |
| League: | SDHL |
| Founded: | 2015 |
| Home Arena: | Coop Norrbotten Arena |
Luleå Hockey/MSSK are a professional ice hockey team in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL). They play in Luleå, a port city in northeastern Sweden, at Coop Norrbotten Arena. The team is the most successful club in SDHL history, having been regular season champions for four consecutive years, 2015–2019, and winning the Swedish Championship seven times within eight years, from 2016 to 2024.
History
The team was formed in 2015, after a merger between Luleå HF and Munksund Skuthamn SK (MSSK). In October 2016, the club set an SDHL attendance record with 3,150 spectators for a match against Norrland rivals Modo Hockey.[1]
After winning the Swedish Championship in 2018, they played against that year's Isobel Cup winners, the Metropolitan Riveters of the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL), in the first-ever Champions Cup of women's ice hockey.[2] Luleå won the match 4-2.[3] In November that year, the club again set a new record for SDHL attendance, with 6,220 spectators for a match against AIK IF.[4]
In 2019, the club hired Mikael Forsberg to replace Fredrik Glader, who had served as head coach for the first four seasons of the club's existence.[5]
Season-by-season results
This is a list of all seasons completed by Luleå Hockey/MSSK, since the team was founded in 2015.
Code explanation: GP—Games played, W—Wins, OTW—Overtime wins, T—Overtime losses, L—Losses, GF—Goals for, GA—Goals against, Pts—Points. Top Scorer: Points (Goals+Assists)
| Season | League | Regular season | Post season results | |||||||||
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| Finish | GP | W | OTW | OTL | L | GF | GA | Pts | Top scorer | |||
| 2015-16 | SDHL | 1st | 36 | 27 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 161 | 60 | 87 |  M. Karvinen 79 (37+42)
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Won Championship, 2-1 (Linköping HC) |
| 2016-17 | SDHL | 1st | 36 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 168 | 52 | 96 | M. Karvinen 70 (30+40)
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Lost semi-finals, 0-2 (HV71) |
| 2017-18 | SDHL | 1st | 36 | 29 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 160 | 58 | 95 | M. Karvinen 68 (30+38)
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Won Championship, 2-1 (Linköping HC) |
| 2018-19 | SDHL | 1st | 36 | 30 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 166 | 52 | 93 | J. Hiirikoski 63 (19+44)
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Won Championship, 3-2 (Linköping HC) |
| 2019-20 | SDHL | 2nd | 36 | 24 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 141 | 61 | 81 | P. Nieminen 55 (25+30)
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Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic |
| 2020-21 | SDHL | 1st | 36 | 32 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 159 | 52 | 99 |  M. Cava 66 (29+37)
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Won Championship, 3-0 (Brynäs IF) |
| 2021–22 | SDHL | 3rd | 36 | 21 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 131 | 79 | 75 | P. Nieminen 55 (26+29)
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Won Championship, 3-2 (Brynäs IF) |
| 2022–23 | SDHL | 1st | 32 | 27 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 140 | 39 | 87 | N. Tulus 56 (22+34)
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Won Championship, 3-0 (Brynäs IF) |
References
- ↑ Rönnkvist, Ronnie (2016-10-14). "Landslagsstjärnan imponerad av publikrekordet: "Som en SHL-match"" (in sv). https://hockeysverige.se/2016/10/14/landslagsstjarnan-imponerad-av-publikrekordet-som-en-shl-match.
- ↑ Foster, Meredith (2018-04-02). "Luleå HF Win SDHL Championship" (in en). https://www.theicegarden.com/2018/4/2/17184554/lulea-hf-win-sdhl-championship-sweden-linkoping-womens-hockey.
- ↑ Oliver, Nathaniel (2018-10-01). "5 Champions Cup Takeaways: Metropolitan Riveters vs Luleå HF/MSSK" (in en-US). https://thehockeywriters.com/5-champions-cup-takeaways-rivs-vs-lulea/.
- ↑ Funqvis, Sixten (2018-11-16). "Nytt publikrekord i SDHL" (in sv). https://hockeysverige.se/2018/11/16/nytt-publikrekord-sdhl.
- ↑ Nilsson, Jonathan (2019-09-29). ""Man slår upp telefonboken och vill ringa pappa – men det går inte att nå honom"" (in sv). https://www.aftonbladet.se/a/lAXBpy.
External links
- Team information and statistics from Eliteprospects.com and Eurohockey.com and Hockeyarchives.info
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