HC Tornado

Hockey Club Tornado Moscow Region (Russian: Хоккейный клуб «Торнадо» Московская область, romanized: Khokkeynyy klub «Tornado» Moskovskaya oblast'), often shortened to HC Tornado, Tornado Moscow Region or Tornado Dmitrov,[lower-roman 1] is a women's ice hockey club in the Zhenskaya 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, romanized: Sportivnyy kompleks Dmitrov). Tornado has claimed the Russian Championship title nine times and won the European Women's Champions Cup four times.

This article is about the Russian professional women's ice hockey team. For the smartphone model, see HTC Tornado.

Hockey Club Tornado
Хоккейный Клуб «Торнадо»
CityDmitrov, Moscow Oblast, Russia
LeagueZhenskaya Hockey League
FoundedSeptember 18, 2003 (2003-09-18)
Home arenaSportkompleks Dmitrov
ColoursYellow, black
   
General managerSergei Konovalov
Head coachAlexei Chistyakov
CaptainAnna Shokhina
Championships2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017
Websitetornadoclub.ru

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 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

2020–21 roster
As of 8 November 2020
# Nat Player Pos S/G Age Acquired Birthplace
16 Karina Akhmetova D L 17 2020 Moscow, Russia
15 Maria Alexandrova F L 20 2016
69 Anna Alpatova G L 18 2017 Dmitrov, Moscow Oblast, Russia
9 Lyudmila Belyakova F L 26 2019 Moscow, Russia
89 Varvara Boriskova F L 18 2020 Odintsovo, Moscow Oblast, Russia
47 Yekaterina Davletshina F R 16 2019 Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia
59 Yelena Dergachyova F L 25 2020 Moscow, Russia
12 Kristina Glukharyova F L 17 2020 St. Petersburg, Russia
21 Anastasia Golovkina D L 19 2018
30 Yeva Gubareva G L 18 2020 Samara, Samara Oblast, Russia
20 Yelizaveta Kondakova G L 24 2015 Moscow, Russia
18 Irina Kulagina D L 20 2017 Voskresensk, Moscow Oblast, Russia
79 Anna Lopukhova F L 19 2018
24 Anastasia Petina D L 18 2019 Gelendzhik, Krasnodar Krai, Russia
13 Nina Pirogova (A) D L 22 2013 Stupino, Moscow Oblast, Russia
68 Alevtina Polunina F L 23 2013 Moscow, Russia
72 Anna Savonina D L 19 2018 Elektrostal, Moscow Oblast, Russia
25 Yelizaveta Shkalyova F L 18 2017 Sergiyev Posad, Moscow Oblast, Russia
97 Anna Shokhina (C) F L 23 2012 Novosinkovo, Moscow Oblast, Russia
55 Galina Skiba (A) F L 36 2009 Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
23 Polina Tarasova F L 18 2019 Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia
85 Irina Tsatsyna D L 18 2020 St. Petersburg, Russia
17 Alexandra Yegorova F L 16 2020 Moscow, Russia
99 Darya Zubok D L 21 2015 Megion, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia

Current coaching and support staff
  • Head Coach: Alexei Vladimirovich Chistyakov
  • Assistant Coach: Alexei Ivanovich Zherebtsov
  • Goaltending Coach: Sergei Borisovich Kostyukhin
  • Team Manager: Pavel Vyacheslavovich Pevchev
  • Doctor: Yuri Alekseevich Smirnov
  • Masseur: Vera Nikolaevna Andreeva

Team captains

Team honors

Russian Championship
  • Russian Champion (9):
  • Russian Women's Hockey League: 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015
  • Zhenskaya Hockey League: 2016, 2017
  • Runners-up (6):
  • Russian Women's Hockey League: 2004, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2014
  • Zhenskaya Hockey League: 2018
  • Third Place (1):
  • Zhenskaya Hockey League: 2020

IIHF European Women's Champions Cup

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 24 18 0 2 4 108 51 56 – A. Shokhina, 51 (20+31)
2016–17 ZhHL 36 28 4 1 3 181 67 93 – A. Shokhina, 81 (39+42)
2017–18 ZhHL 2nd 24 17 0 1 6 115 52 52 Lost final, 0–3 (Agidel Ufa) A. Shokhina, 58 (22+36)
2018–19 ZhHL 5th 36 15 5 1 15 146 99 56 Did not qualify A. Shokhina, 76 (36+40)
2019–20 ZhHL 3rd 28 14 1 5 8 63 63 49 Lost semifinal, 0–2 (KRS Vanke Rays) 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 the Russian Women's Hockey League, statistics available only for the Zhenskaya Hockey league, 2015–present.

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
NatPlayerPosGPGAPtsP/G
Anna ShokhinaRW2622422745161.969
Tatyana BurinaF2171492483971.829
Alevtina ShtaryovaLW2051531262791.361
Jana KapustováLW1281151542692.102
Yelena DergachyovaC145891692581.779
Yekaterina SmolentsevaC801331232563.200
Galina SkibaRW2161251162411.116
Inna DyubanokD108581341921.778
Nina PirogovaD187511231740.930
Lyudmila BelyakovaF9079481271.411

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. Conway, Patrick (3 October 2019). "Tornado Moscow Oblast Look for Redemption in 2019-20". Conway’s Russian Hockey. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  3. "HK Tornado Dmitrov". sofascore.com. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  4. "ЖХК "Торнадо"". vk.com/whctornado. VKontakte. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  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.
  8. "Клуб". tornadoclub.ru (in Russian). HC Tornado. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  9. "HC Tornado details". eurohockey.com. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  10. "Team Information and Facts: Tornado Dmitrov". eliteprospects.com. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  11. "All Time Overall Player Stats Totals for Tornado Dmitrov". eliteprospects.com. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  12. "Игроки команды". tornadoclub.ru (in Russian). HC Tornado. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
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