Current: | 2023–24 SDHL season |
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Team: | Luleå Hockey/MSSK |
Logosize: | 210px |
City: | Luleå, Sweden |
League: | SDHL |
Arena: | Coop Norrbotten Arena |
Colors: | Red, black, white, yellow |
Gm: | Klas Gustafsson |
Coach: | Jens Själin |
Captain: | Jenni Hiirikoski |
Reg Season Titles: | 7 (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2024) |
Championships: | 7 (2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024) |
Luleå Hockey/MSSK are a professional ice hockey team in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL). They play in Luleå, a port city in northeastern Sweden, at Coop Norrbotten Arena. The team is the most successful club in SDHL history, having been regular season champions for four consecutive years, 2015–2019, and winning the Swedish Championship seven times within eight years, from 2016 to 2024.
The team was formed in 2015, after a merger between Luleå HF and Munksund Skuthamn SK (MSSK). In October 2016, the club set an SDHL attendance record with 3,150 spectators for a match against Norrland rivals Modo Hockey.[1]
After winning the Swedish Championship in 2018, they played against that year's Isobel Cup winners, the Metropolitan Riveters of the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL), in the first-ever Champions Cup of women's ice hockey.[2] Luleå won the match 4-2.[3] In November that year, the club again set a new record for SDHL attendance, with 6,220 spectators for a match against AIK IF.[4]
In 2019, the club hired Mikael Forsberg to replace Fredrik Glader, who had served as head coach for the first four seasons of the club's existence.[5]
This is a list of all seasons completed by Luleå Hockey/MSSK, since the team was founded in 2015.
Code explanation: GP - Games played, W - Wins, OTW - Overtime wins, T - Overtime losses, 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 | OTL | L | GF | GA | Pts | Top scorer | ||||
2015-16 | SDHL | 1st | 36 | 27 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 161 | 60 | 87 | M. Karvinen 79 (37+42) | align=left style="background:#FFD420;" | Won Championship, 2-1 (Linköping HC) |
2016-17 | SDHL | 1st | 36 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 168 | 52 | 96 | M. Karvinen 70 (30+40) | align=left | Lost semi-finals, 0-2 (HV71) |
2017-18 | SDHL | 1st | 36 | 29 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 160 | 58 | 95 | M. Karvinen 68 (30+38) | align=left style="background:#FFD420;" | Won Championship, 2-1 (Linköping HC) |
2018-19 | SDHL | 1st | 36 | 30 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 166 | 52 | 93 | J. Hiirikoski 63 (19+44) | align=left style="background:#FFD420;" | Won Championship, 3-2 (Linköping HC) |
2019-20 | SDHL | 2nd | 36 | 24 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 141 | 61 | 81 | align=left | P. Nieminen 55 (25+30) | Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic |
2020-21 | SDHL | 1st | 36 | 32 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 159 | 52 | 99 | M. Cava 66 (29+37) | Won Championship, 3-0 (Brynäs IF) | |
2021–22 | SDHL | 3rd | 36 | 21 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 131 | 79 | 75 | P. Nieminen 55 (26+29) | Won Championship, 3-2 (Brynäs IF) | |
2022–23 | SDHL | 1st | 32 | 27 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 140 | 39 | 87 | N. Tulus 56 (22+34) | Won Championship, 3-0 (Brynäs IF) |
Coaching staff and team personnel
The top-ten point-scorers (goals + assists) of Luleå Hockey/MSSK from the 2015–16 season through the 2022–23 season.[9]
Note: Pos = Position; GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; P/G = Points per game; = 2023–24 Luleå HF/MSSK player
Nat | Player | Pos | GP | G | A | Pts | P/G | |
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C/RW | 230 | 164 | 198 | 362 | 1.57 | |||
D | 239 | 90 | 242 | 332 | 1.39 | |||
W | 152 | 141 | 173 | 314 | 2.07 | |||
RW/C | 218 | 89 | 175 | 264 | 1.21 | |||
C | 168 | 118 | 116 | 234 | 1.39 | |||
D | 223 | 70 | 128 | 198 | 0.89 | |||
W | 230 | 62 | 87 | 149 | 0.65 | |||
RW/C | 100 | 53 | 54 | 107 | 1.07 | |||
RW/C | 173 | 40 | 66 | 106 | 0.61 | |||
D | 234 | 26 | 62 | 88 | 0.38 |