| Current: | 2023–24 SDHL season |
| Bg Color: | background:white; border-top:#003690 5px solid; border-bottom:#FF151F 5px solid; |
| Team: | Linköping HC |
| Logosize: | 220 px |
| City: | Linköping, Sweden |
| League: | SDHL |
| Arena: | Stångebro Ishall |
| Colours: | Blue, white, red |
| Gm: | Sabina Eriksson |
| Coach: | Jan Bylesjö |
| Captain: | Sara Hjalmarsson |
| Affiliates: | Linköping HC 2 (Damettan) Linköping HC 3 (Damtvåan) |
| Championships: | 2 (2013–14, 2014–15) |
Linköping HC or LHC is an ice hockey team in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL). They are the representative women's ice hockey team of Linköping HC, a sports club based in Linköping, Östergötland, Sweden, and play at the Stångebro Ishall. LHC Dam won the Swedish Championship in 2014 and 2015.
In 2006, the Linköping HC organization committed to becoming the best club for women's ice hockey in Sweden, stating that the women's team would be one of the club’s elite teams, on equal footing with the men's team and the men's junior teams.[1] The team made its debut in the group stage of the 2007–08 season of Division 1 (since renamed Damettan) and swept the eight-game series. Their early success earned the LHC Dam a spot in the top-tier, newly-restructured and renamed Riksserien (since renamed the Svenska damhockeyligan), where they finished the 2008 season in fourth place after losing the bronze medal game to Modo HK. The 2007–08 roster featured home-grown Swedish players, including veteran Sophie Westlund and rising stars 19 year old Jenni Asserholt and 16 year old Fanny Rask, alongside an impressive collection of young international talent, including Austrian national team phenom Denise Altmann and Slovak national team teammates, forward Iveta Karafiátová Frühauf and goaltender Zuzana Tomčíková.
In the 2008–09 Riksserien season, LHC Dam lost in the quarterfinals after finishing the regular season in fifth place. The team gradually increased their standing over the subsequent seasons, ranking fourth in 2010 and winning bronze in 2011.
The team won the Swedish Championship in 2014. Not content to rest on their laurels, Linköping went on to win all 28 regular season games in the 2014–15 season and successfully defended the Swedish Championship in the 2015 SDHL playoffs, defeating AIK in the second consecutive playoff finals.
This is a partial list of the most recent seasons completed by Linköping HC Dam.
Note: Rank = 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, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, Pts = Points, Top scorer: Points (Goals+Assists)
| Season | League | Regular season | Post season results | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | GP | W | OTW | OTL | L | Pts | GF | GA | Top scorer | |||||
| 2015-16 | Riksserien | 2nd | 36 | 25 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 87 | 154 | 60 | align=left | P. Winberg 56 (19+37) | align=left style="background:#D3D3D3" | Lost final, 1–2 (Luleå HF) |
| 2016–17 | SDHL | 3rd | 36 | 24 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 78 | 138 | 75 | J. Wakefield 53 (34+19) | align=left | Lost semi-final, 1–2 (Djurgårdens IF) | |
| 2017–18 | SDHL | 2nd | 36 | 26 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 87 | 135 | 59 | align=left | L. Stalder 61 (39+22) | align=left style="background:#D3D3D3" | Lost final, 1–2 (Luleå HF) |
| 2018–19 | SDHL | 3rd | 36 | 24 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 75 | 137 | 77 | K. Marchment 52 (25+27) | align=left style="background:#D3D3D3" | Lost final, 2–3 (Luleå HF) | |
| 2019–20 | SDHL | 7th | 36 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 40 | 73 | 107 | Z. Hickel 26 (12+14) | Lost quarterfinal, 0–2 (Luleå HF) | ||
| 2020–21 | SDHL | 5th | 36 | 17 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 59 | 89 | 76 | C. Bullock 35 (18+17) | Lost quarterfinal, 0–2 (Djurgårdens IF) | ||
| 2021–22 | SDHL | 2nd | 36 | 23 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 118 | 79 | 77 | S. Brodt 56 (29+27) | Lost semifinals, 1–3 (Luleå HF) | ||
| 2022–23 | SDHL | 7th | 32 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 17 | 69 | 97 | 34 | N. Elia 30 (17+13) | Lost quarterfinals, 0–2 (Brynäs IF) | ||
For statistics measured by percentage or average, skaters playing in less than 80% of games and goaltenders playing in 10 or fewer games in a season not included.
The top ten point-scorers in Linköping HC Dam history, from the 2007–08 season through the 2020–21 season.
Note: Nat = Nationality; Pos = Position; GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; P/G = Points per game; = current Linköping HC player
| Player | Pos | GP | G | A | Pts | P/G | ||
| RW | 337 | 277 | 286 | 563 | 1.671 | |||
| F | 155 | 74 | 139 | 213 | 1.374 | |||
| W | 281 | 82 | 130 | 212 | 0.754 | |||
| C | 94 | 107 | 55 | 162 | 1.723 | |||
| F | 143 | 64 | 87 | 151 | 1.056 | |||
| D | 253 | 31 | 98 | 129 | 0.510 | |||
| D | 229 | 23 | 91 | 114 | 0.498 | |||
| C | 245 | 41 | 63 | 104 | 0.424 | |||
| D/C | 54 | 55 | 44 | 99 | 1.833 | |||
| D | 254 | 16 | 73 | 89 | 0.350 |
Years active with Linköping listed alongside player name.
International players
Flag indicates nation of primary IIHF eligibility.
Content in this article is translated from the existing Swedish Wikipedia article at ; see its history for attribution.