Stadin Gimmat
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]
| HIFK Naiset | |
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 2020–21 Naisten Liiga season | |
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| City | Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland |
| League | Naisten Liiga |
| Founded | 1982 Refounded 2018 |
| Home arena | Malmin jäähalli |
| Colours | Red, white, dark blue |
| General manager | Saara Niemi |
| Head coach | Saara Niemi |
| Captain | Johanna Kemppainen Karoliina Rantamäki |
| Affiliates | HIFK Akatemia |
| Website | stadingimmat |
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| 1982–1989 | HIFK Naiset |
| 2018– | Stadin Gimmat (HIFK Naiset) |
| Current uniform | |
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| Active departments of HIFK | ||
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| Bandy | Floorball | Football |
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| Handball | Ice hockey (men's) | Ice hockey (women's) |
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| Athletics | Bowling | Golf |
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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
Individual awards
- Noora Räty Award (Rookie of the Year) – Krista Parkkonen, 2019–20
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 | ||||||||||
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| 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 |  Mi. Klemola 50 (23+27) |
Promoted to Naisten Liiga |
| 2019–20 | Naisten Liiga | 7th | 30 | 15 | 2 | – | 3 | 10 | 124 | 74 | 52 |  E. Passard 47 (28+19) |
Lost quarter-final, 0–3 (Kärpät) |
Players and personnel
2020–21 roster
Current team staff
- Head Coach: Saara Niemi
- Assistant Coach: Tuomas Ahola
- Assistant Coach: Christian Buchert
- Goaltending Coach: Tuukka Hämäläinen
- Conditioning Coach:
Simon Dannapfel - Conditioning Coach: Margot Vander Ghinst
- Mental Coach: Kim Forsblom
- Team Managers: Jukka Ahola & Johanna Sundqvist
- Equipment Managers: Riikka Ahola & Timo Nikunen
Team captaincy history
- Saara Suomikallio, 2018–19 (Mestis)
- Karoliina Rantamäki, 2019–20
- Johanna Kemppainen & Karoliina Rantamäki, 2020–present
Head coaches
- Saara Niemi, 2018–present[7]
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
- Most goals in a season: Emmanuelle Passard, 28 goals (30 games; 2019–20)
- Most assists in a season: Karoliina Rantamäki, 22 assists (27 games; 2019–20)
- Most points in a season: Emmanuelle Passard, 47 points (30 games; 2000–00)
- Most points in a season, defenceman: Caroline Shaunessy, 27 points (30 games; 2019–20)
- Most points in a season, rookie: Krista Parkkonen, 21 points (28 games; 2019–20)
- Most penalty minutes in a season: Krista Parkkonen, 63 PIM (28 games; 2019–20)
- Best save percentage in a season, over ten games played: Sanni Ahola, .914 SV% (18 games; 2019–20)
- Best goals against average in a season, over ten games played: Sanni Ahola, 2.68 GAA (18 games; 2019–20)
- Most shutouts in a season: Sanni Ahola, 2 shutouts (18 games; 2019–20)
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
| Nat | Player | Pos | GP | G | A | Pts | P/G |
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Emmanuelle Passard | F | 30 | 28 | 19 | 47 | 1.57 |
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Karoliina Rantamäki | F | 27 | 14 | 22 | 36 | 1.33 |
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Johanna Kemppainen | F | 29 | 15 | 12 | 27 | 0.93 |
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Caroline Shaunessy | D | 30 | 7 | 20 | 27 | 0.9 |
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Fanny Jalonen | F | 28 | 11 | 15 | 26 | 0.93 |
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Krista Parkkonen | D | 28 | 5 | 16 | 21 | 0.75 |
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Miressa Mäkelä | F | 20 | 12 | 8 | 20 | 1.00 |
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Emmi Juusela | F | 21 | 9 | 7 | 16 | 0.76 |
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Mia Heikuri | F | 21 | 2 | 12 | 14 | 0.67 |
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Nenna Mehtonen | D | 30 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 0.33 |
Source(s): Finnish Ice Hockey Association, Elite Prospects
References
- Foster, Meredith (24 July 2018). "Q & A with Saara Niemi of HIFK". The Ice Garden. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
- Kauhala, Hannu (26 April 2018). "HIFK julkisti naisten joukkueen, aloittaa ensi kaudella Mestiksessä". Länsi-Suomi (in Finnish). Retrieved 29 August 2020.
- Suomen Jääkiekkoliitto; Liiga. Aaltonen, Juha (ed.). Jääkiekkokirja 2019–2020 (PDF) (in Finnish). Helsinki: Uusi Suomi/Kiekkolehti. ISSN 0784-3321. OCLC 476321083.
- "SM-sarja (W) - HIFK, Team History and Standings". EliteProspects.com. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
- "Kokoonpano HIFK - Naisten Liiga, alkusarja". leijonat.fi. Finnish Ice Hockey Association. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
- "Liiga (W) - HIFK". eliteprospects.com. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
- Salomäki, Anne (7 December 2018). "HIFK's Saara Niemi is ice hockey from head to toe". Wärtsilä. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
External links
- Official homepage (in Finnish)
- Stadin Gimmat on Facebook
- Stadin Gimmat on Instagram
- Stadin Gimmat on Twitter