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Hockey Club Tornado
Хоккейный Клуб «Торнадо»
CityDmitrov, Moscow Oblast, Russia
LeagueWomen's Hockey League
FoundedSeptember 18, 2003 (2003-09-18)
Home arenaSportkompleks Dmitrov
ColoursYellow, black
   
General managerRussia Sergei Konovalov
Head coachRussia Alexei Chistyakov
CaptainRussia Anna Shokhina
Websitetornadoclub.ru
Championships
Playoff championships2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017

Hockey Club Tornado Moscow Region (Russian: Хоккейный клуб «Торнадо» Московская область, romanizedKhokkeynyy klub «Tornado» Moskovskaya oblast'), often shortened to HC Tornado, Tornado Moscow Region or Tornado Dmitrov,[i] is a women's ice hockey club in the Women's Hockey League (ZhHL). The team is based in Dmitrov, Moscow Oblast, Russia, and they play at the ice rink of the Sportkompleks Dmitrov (Russian: Спортивный комплекс Дмитров, romanizedSportivnyy kompleks Dmitrov). Tornado has claimed the Russian Championship title nine times 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 inagural season in 2003–04. During its first through fifteenth season, Tornado was the dominant force in the Russian Women's Hockey League, winning seven Russian Championship titles in 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. During the period, Tornado also won three Challenge Cups and four Czech Women's Cups.

In the 2018–19 regular season Tornado ranked fifth, failing to qualify for the playoffs for the first time in team history.[5] The poor performance was attributed to the absence of several key players, Lyudmila Belyakova and Angelina Goncharenko on maternity leave and the departure of Maria Batalova to Agidel Ufa.[2]

The team returned to the top half of the ZhHL in the 2019–20 season, bolstered by the return of both Belyakova and Goncharenko.[6] 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 semi-finals, where they were swept by the eventual champions.[7]

National team participation

The club‘s 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 IOC. The ZhHL did not sanction any of the eight players involved and their totals from the 2013–14 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 (OAR) 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.

Foreign 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 foreign player have been members of their countries’ national teams, including players from the top-tier Canadian, Slovak, Swedish, and United States' national teams.

Players and personnel

2019–20 roster

Updated 12 August 2020

No. Nat Player Pos S/G Age Acquired Birthplace
98 Russia Sanur Abdullayeva G L 26 2019 Tver, Tver Oblast
69 Russia Anna Alpatova G L 22 2017 Dmitrov, Moscow Oblast
20 Russia Yelizaveta Kondakova G L 27 2015 Moscow, Moscow Oblast
21 Russia Anastasia Golovkina D L 23 2018
18 Russia Irina Kulagina D L 24 2017 Voskresensk, Moscow Oblast
90 Russia Ksenia Lebedeva D R 21 2018
14 Russia Mariya Lobur D L 24 2015 Moscow, Moscow Oblast
24 Russia Anastasia Petina D L 22 2019 Gelendzhik, Krasnodar Krai
13 Russia Nina Pirogova (A) D L 25 2013 Stupino, Moscow Oblast
72 Russia Anna Savonina D L 22 2018 Elektrostal, Moscow Oblast
99 Russia Darya Zubok D L 25 2015 Megion, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
15 Russia Maria Alexandrova F L 24 2016
9 Russia Lyudmila Belyakova F L 30 2019 Moscow, Moscow Oblast
47 Russia Yekaterina Davletshina F R 20 2019 Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast
10 Russia Valeria Dryndina F R 22 2019 Yegoryevsk, Moscow Oblast
79 Russia Anna Lopukhova F L 23 2018
8 Russia Maria Pushkar F L 23 2018 Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan
77 Russia Olga Shirokova F L 24 2019 Dedovsk, Moscow Oblast
25 Russia Yelizaveta Shkalyova F L 22 2017 Sergiyev Posad, Moscow Oblast
97 Russia Anna Shokhina (C) F L 27 2012 Novosinkovo, Moscow Oblast
68 Russia Alevtina Shtaryova F L 27 2013 Moscow, Moscow Oblast
71 Russia Oxana Shupenko F L 26 2018
55 Russia Galina Skiba (A) F L 40 2009 Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
22 Russia Alonya Starovoitova F L 25 2016 Korolyov, Moscow Oblast
23 Russia Polina Tarasova F L 21 2019 Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin Oblast

2019–20 coaching and support staff

Team captains

Team honors

Women's Hockey League

  • Gold Russian Champion (9): 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017
  • Silver Runners-up (6): 2004, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2014, 2018
  • Bronze Third Place (1): 2020

Other

  • Challenge Cup (3): 2004, 2005, 2006
  • Czech Women's Cup (4): 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013

Sources: [8][9]

Season-by-season results

This is a partial list of the last five seasons completed by HC Tornado.

Note: Finish = Rank at end of regular season; GP = Games played; W = Wins (3 points); OTW = Overtime wins (2 points); OTL = Overtime losses (1 point); L = Losses (0 points); GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; Pts = Points

Season League Regular season Post season results Top scorer (regular season)
Finish GP W OTW OTL L GF GA Pts
2015–16 ZhHL 1st place, gold medalist(s) 24 18 0 2 4 108 51 56 Russia A. Shokhina, 51 (20+31)
2016–17 ZhHL 1st place, gold medalist(s) 36 28 4 1 3 181 67 93 Russia A. Shokhina, 81 (39+42)
2017–18 ZhHL 2nd 24 17 0 1 6 115 52 52 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Lost final, 0–3 (Agidel Ufa) Russia A. Shokhina, 58 (22+36)
2018–19 ZhHL 5th 36 15 5 1 15 146 99 56 Did not qualify Russia A. Shokhina, 76 (36+40)
2019–20 ZhHL 3rd 28 14 1 5 8 63 63 49 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Lost semifinal, 0–2 (KRS Vanke Rays) Russia A. Shokhina, 38 (17+21)

Source: [10]

Franchise records and leaders

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.

  1. ^ Save percentage statistic not recorded by league prior to the 2015–16 season

Career records

  • Most career goals: Anna Shokhina, 242 goals (262 games; 2012–present)
  • Most career assists: Anna Shokhina, 274 assists (262 games; 2012–present)
  • Most career points: Anna Shokhina, 516 points (262 games; 2012–present)
  • Most career points, defenceman: Inna Dyubanok, 192 (108 games; 2009–2013)
  • Most career points per game (P/G): Yekaterina Smolentseva, 3.20 P/G (80 games; 2009–2014)
  • Most career penalty minutes: Tatiana Burina, 302 PIM (2009–2017)
  • Most games played, skater: Anna Shokhina, 262 games (2012–present)
  • Most games played, goaltender: Anna Prugova, 116 games (2009–2015)

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;   = current HC Tornado player; Bold indicates team record

Points
Nat Player Pos GP G A Pts P/G
Russia Anna Shokhina RW 262 242 274 516 1.969
Russia Tatyana Burina F 217 149 248 397 1.829
Russia Alevtina Shtaryova LW 205 153 126 279 1.361
Slovakia Jana Kapustová LW 128 115 154 269 2.102
Russia Yelena Dergachyova C 145 89 169 258 1.779
Russia Yekaterina Smolentseva C 80 133 123 256 3.200
Russia Galina Skiba RW 216 125 116 241 1.116
Russia Inna Dyubanok D 108 58 134 192 1.778
Russia Nina Pirogova D 187 51 123 174 0.930
Russia Lyudmila Belyakova F 90 79 48 127 1.411

Sources: [9][11]

Notable alumni

Flag indicates nation of primary IIHF eligibility. Season(s) active with HC Tornado listed alongside player name.

Sources: [11][12]

References

This article includes content from the existing Russian Wikipedia article at :ru:Торнадо (хоккейный клуб); see its history for attribution.

Notes:

  1. ^ In English, the team is also referred to as “Moscow Region Tornado,”[1] “Tornado Moscow Oblast,”[2] or “HK Tornado” (transliteration of ХК «Торнадо»).[3] The name “Women's Hockey Club Tornado” or “WHC Tornado” (Russian: Женская хоккейная команда «Торнадо» (ЖХК «Торнадо»)) is often used by Russian-language sources, most notably by the club on its social media accounts, but is rarely encountered in other languages.[4]
  1. ^ Crouse, Karen; Roth, Andrew (4 February 2014). "Warming to Women on the Ice". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  2. ^ a b Conway, Patrick (3 October 2019). "Tornado Moscow Oblast Look for Redemption in 2019-20". Conway’s Russian Hockey. Retrieved 9 July 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ "HK Tornado Dmitrov". sofascore.com. Retrieved 9 July 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ "ЖХК «Торнадо»". vk.com/whctornado. VKontakte. Retrieved 9 July 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ Murphy, Mike (14 May 2019). "This year Tornado HK fell from ZhHL superpower to a team that missed the playoffs". The Ice Garden. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  6. ^ Murphy, Mike (15 November 2019). "ZhHL: Lyudmila Belyakova returns from maternity leave". The Ice Garden. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  7. ^ Whelan, Kirsten (2 March 2020). "In Russia's Women's Hockey League, KRS Remains a Standard-Bearer". The Victory Press. Retrieved 12 August 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ^ "Клуб". tornadoclub.ru (in Russian). HC Tornado. Retrieved 12 August 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ^ a b "HC Tornado details". eurohockey.com. Retrieved 12 August 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. ^ "Team Information and Facts: Tornado Dmitrov". eliteprospects.com. Retrieved 10 August 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. ^ a b "All Time Overall Player Stats Totals for Tornado Dmitrov". eliteprospects.com. Retrieved 10 August 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  12. ^ "Игроки команды". tornadoclub.ru (in Russian). HC Tornado. Retrieved 12 August 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)