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This article is about the HIFK women's ice hockey team. For other sports teams of the parent club, see HIFK.

HIFK Naiset
CityHelsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
LeagueNaisten Liiga
Founded1982 (1982)
Refounded 2018
Home arenaMalmin jäähalli
ColoursRed, white, dark blue
     
General managerSaara Niemi
Head coachSaara Niemi
CaptainJohanna Kemppainen
Karoliina Rantamäki
AffiliateHIFK Akatemia
Websitestadingimmat.fi
Franchise history
1982–1989HIFK Naiset
2018–Stadin Gimmat
(HIFK Naiset)
Current uniform
Current season
Active departments of HIFK
Bandy Floorball Football
Handball Ice hockey
(men's)		 Ice hockey
(women's)
Athletics Bowling Golf
eSports

Stadin Gimmat or HIFK Naiset are an ice hockey team in the Naisten Liiga. They play in the Malmi district of Helsinki, at the Malmi Ice Hall (Finnish: Malmin jäähalli). The representative women's ice hockey team of the Helsinki-based multi sport club, HIFK, the team is closely affiliated with the HIFK men's ice hockey team of the Liiga.[1]

One of the ten founding teams from the 1982–82 inaugural Naisten SM-sarja (renamed Naisten Liiga in 2017) season, the original HIFK Naiset was financially relegated in 1989 and the club chose not to pursue women’s ice hockey for the following several decades. The current team was established in 2018 and gained promotion from the second-tier Naisten Mestis at the end of their first season, 2018–19.[2] The team is interchangeably referred to as HIFK, the name of its parent club, and as Stadin Gimmat, meaning the “Girls of Stadi” (Stadi is a nickname for Helsinki).

History

Original team, 1982–1989

HIFK Naiset was one of the original ten teams to play in the inaugural season, 1982–83, of the Naisten SM-sarja, 'Women's Finnish Championship Series' (renamed Naisten Liiga in 2017). The team struggled early on, forced to compete with fellow Helsinki-based team Helsingin Jääkiekkoklubi (HJK) for top talent. HIFK finished in the bottom half of the league in their first five seasons, ranking 7th of 10 in 1982–83, 9th of 12 in 1983–84, 8th of 13 in 1984–85, 5th of 8 in 1985–86, and 6th of 8 in 1986–87.

The team’s fortunes turned in the 1987–88 season and they earned a 7-2-5 (win-tie-loss) record with a +3 goal differential and claimed third place in the Naisten SM-sarja playoffs, earning Finnish Championship bronze. With a 1988–89 roster that included three members of the newly-created Finnish women's national ice hockey team – defencemen Johanna Ikonen and Ulla Saarikko, and forward Maria Turki (Novitsky) – HIFK continued their upward trajectory, posting a 8-2-4 record with a +20 goal differential and claiming Finnish Championship bronze for the second consecutive season.

Despite the marked improvement of the team, HIFK was financially relegated after the 1988–89 season and no senior women’s representative team or any programs for women and girls existed in the club for the following twenty-five years.

Awards and honors

Finnish Championship

  • 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Third Place (2): 1988, 1989

Source: [3]

Individual awards

Season-by-season results

This is a list of all seasons completed by HIFK Naiset, including the original HIFK Naiset (1982–89) and Stadin Gimmat-HIFK Naiset (2018–present).[4]

Note: Finish = Rank at end of regular season; GP = Games played, W = Wins (3 points), OTW = Overtime/shootout wins (2 points), T = Ties (1 point), OTL = Overtime/shootout losses (1 point), L = Losses, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, Pts = Points, Top scorer: Points (Goals+Assists)

Season League Regular season Post season results
Finish GP W OTW T OTL L GF GA Pts Top scorer
1982–83 Naisten SM-sarja 7th 8 3 – 0 – 5 43 26 6 Did not qualify
1983–84 Naisten SM-sarja 9th 8 2 – 0 – 6 27 42 4 Did not qualify
1984–85 Naisten SM-sarja 8th 9 3 – 0 – 6 26 29 6 Did not qualify
1985–86 Naisten SM-sarja 5th 14 3 – 4 – 7 36 40 10 Did not qualify
1986–87 Naisten SM-sarja 6th 14 6 – 0 – 8 33 39 12 Did not qualify
1987–88 Naisten SM-sarja 3rd 14 7 – 2 – 5 35 32 16 Won bronze medal
1988–89 Naisten SM-sarja 3rd 14 8 – 2 – 4 53 33 18 Won bronze medal
2018–19 Naisten Mestis 1st 26 24 1 – 0 1 159 26 74 Finland Mi. Klemola 50 (23+27) Promoted to Naisten Liiga
2019–20 Naisten Liiga 7th 30 15 2 – 3 10 124 74 52 France E. Passard 47 (28+19) Lost quarter-final, 0–3 (Kärpät)

Players and personnel

2020–21 roster

As of 31 October 2020[5][6]
No. Nat Player Pos S/G Age Acquired Birthplace
3 Finland Anni Hietaharju D R 26 2020 Mustasaari, Ostrobothnia, Finland
13 Finland Veera Huotari F L 25 2020
40 Finland Fanny Jalonen F L 35 2018 Oulu, North Ostrobothnia, Finland
17 Finland Emmi Juusela F L 21 2018
19 Finland Lumi Jääskeläinen G L 25 2019 Lohja, Uusimaa, Finland
23 Finland Johanna Kemppainen (C) F L 26 2019 Mäntsälä, Uusimaa, Finland
44 Finland Nina Koskela F L 32 2018 Leppävirta, North Savo, Finland
21 Finland Iina Kuusela G L 27 2020 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
12 Finland Olivia Kylliäinen D R 20 2020 Lappeenranta, South Karelia, Finland
33 Finland Kiia Lahtinen G L 20 2019 Porvoo, Uusimaa, Finland
66 Finland Petra Lamminaho D L 24 2019 Kuopio, North Savo, Finland
88 France Athéna Locatelli D L 32 2020 Bourg-de-Péage, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
10 Czech Republic Veronika Lorencová F L 24 2019 Klatovy, Plzeňský kraj, Czech Republic
9 Finland Nenna Mehtonen (A) D L 22 2018 Klaukkala, Uusimaa, Finland
20 Finland Miressa Mäkelä F L 24 2019 Porvoo, Uusimaa, Finland
14 Finland Krista Parkkonen D L 22 2019 Lappeenranta, South Karelia, Finland
24 Finland Ida Pasanen F L 22 2019 Vantaa, Uusimaa, Finland
27 France Emmanuelle Passard F L 32 2019 Saint-Jeoire-Prieuré, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
18 Czech Republic Michaela Pejzlová F L 27 2020 Pardubice, Pardubický kraj, Czech Republic
29 Finland Anni Pere F L 20 2018 Loviia, Uusimaa, Finland
11 Finland Karoliina Rantamäki (C) F L 46 2019 Vantaa, Uusimaa, Finland
72 France Clara Rozier F R 26 2020 Évian, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
15 Finland Mikaela Saukkonen (A) F L 24 2018 Hyvinkää, Uusimaa, Finland
26 Finland Satu-Maaria Vihervuori D L 20 2019 Vantaa, Uusimaa, Finland
22 Finland Henni Virtanen F L 21 2018
4 Finland Siiri Yrjöla D L 19 2020 Vantaa, Uusimaa, Finland

Current team staff

  • Head Coach: Saara Niemi
  • Assistant Coach: Tuomas Ahola
  • Assistant Coach: Christian Buchert
  • Goaltending Coach: Tuukka Hämäläinen
  • Conditioning Coach: New Zealand Simon Dannapfel
  • Conditioning Coach: France Margot Vander Ghinst
  • Mental Coach: Kim Forsblom
  • Team Managers: Jukka Ahola & Johanna Sundqvist
  • Equipment Managers: Riikka Ahola & Timo Nikunen

Team captaincy history

Head coaches

Team records

Complete player statistics for HIFK Naiset during the 1982–1989 Naisten SM-sarja seasons are not available; the individual records detailed here include statistics since the team joined the Naisten Liiga in 2019 only.

Single-season records

All-time scoring leaders

The top-ten point-scorers since HIFK joined the Naisten Liiga in 2019.

Note: Nat = Nationality; Pos = Position; GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; P/G = Points per game;   = current HIFK player

Points
Nat Player Pos GP G A Pts P/G
France Emmanuelle Passard F 30 28 19 47 1.57
Finland Karoliina Rantamäki F 27 14 22 36 1.33
Finland Johanna Kemppainen F 29 15 12 27 0.93
United States Caroline Shaunessy D 30 7 20 27 0.90
Finland Fanny Jalonen F 28 11 15 26 0.93
Finland Krista Parkkonen D 28 5 16 21 0.75
Finland Miressa Mäkelä F 20 12 8 20 1.00
Finland Emmi Juusela F 21 9 7 16 0.76
Finland Mia Heikuri F 21 2 12 14 0.67
Finland Nenna Mehtonen D 30 1 9 10 0.33

Source(s): Finnish Ice Hockey Association, Elite Prospects

References

  1. ^ Foster, Meredith (24 July 2018). "Q & A with Saara Niemi of HIFK". The Ice Garden. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  2. ^ Kauhala, Hannu (26 April 2018). "HIFK julkisti naisten joukkueen, aloittaa ensi kaudella Mestiksessä". Länsi-Suomi (in Finnish). Retrieved 29 August 2020.
  3. ^ Suomen Jääkiekkoliitto; Liiga. Aaltonen, Juha (ed.). Jääkiekkokirja 2019–2020 (PDF) (in Finnish). Helsinki: Uusi Suomi/Kiekkolehti. ISSN 0784-3321. OCLC 476321083.
  4. ^ "SM-sarja (W) - HIFK, Team History and Standings". EliteProspects.com. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  5. ^ "Kokoonpano HIFK - Naisten Liiga, alkusarja". leijonat.fi. Finnish Ice Hockey Association. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  6. ^ "Liiga (W) - HIFK". eliteprospects.com. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
  7. ^ Salomäki, Anne (7 December 2018). "HIFK's Saara Niemi is ice hockey from head to toe". Wärtsilä. Retrieved 29 August 2020.

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