Leksands Idrottsförening Dam or Leksands IF Dam are a professional

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team in the

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(SDHL). They play in

Leksand Leksand () is a locality and the seat of Leksand Municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden, with 5,934 inhabitants in 2010. Sport Leksand is famous for the Leksands IF ice hockey team, who have won 4 Swedish Championships, although the team is curre ...

, a town in the western-central

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, at the

Tegera Arena Tegera Arena is an arena in Leksand, Sweden primarily used for ice hockey. It was opened in October 2005, and is the home arena of Leksands IF. It holds 7,650 people. History Construction of a new arena, replacing the former Leksands ishall fro ...

. Until 2021, the organisation ran a second women's side, called Leksands IF Dam 2, which competed in the Damettan Västra.

History

The women's section of Leksands IF was founded in 1998. The 2008 season saw a leap in success for the club, as it earned promotion to the

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and

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become the first two Leksands players to represent the Swedish national women's team. In 2012, the club finished in 7th place, and was forced to compete in the relegation playoffs, but managed to keep its place in the SDHL. In 2016, the club hired former Leksands men's youth player Alexander Bröms as head coach for the women's side, despite him having no previous coaching experience. He would hold the role until his departure in 2018 to coach the women's national under-18 team. In 2017, multiple Leksands players publicly voiced dissatisfaction at the way the organisation was treating the women's side, including the fact that women's players received no salary and were being forced to clean up the arena's stands after men's games. Despite club chairperson Åke Nordström promising to improve conditions, after six months the players had only been provided with some exercise gear and a team-branded training bag. In April 2018, Leksands goaltender Leon Reuterström publicly came out as transgender, and retired from the SDHL to pursue his medical transition. Later that summer, long-time club forward and third-leading scorer in club history, Iveta Koka, left the club to sign with

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. Despite losing Koka, the club made several big signings ahead of the 2018–19 season, including Swedish international Anna Borgqvist and Canadian Danielle Stone. After beginning the season with a 9–0 victory over

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, Leksands finished in 4th place in the SDHL, the second best result in club history. The club still failed to make it past the playoff quarterfinals, however, and both Borgqvist and Stone left the club after just one year. Long time defender and second-highest all-time in games played for the club Sofia Engström left the Leksands that summer as well, after the club had gone months without offering any players (nor the head coach) a contract extension following the team's elimination in the playoffs. The club dropped to 8th place in the

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Players and personnel

2022–23 roster

Coaching staff and team personnel * Head coach: Jordan Colliton * Assistant coach: Hans Lodin * Goaltending coach: Filip Myrskog * Conditioning coach: Christin Hero * Equipment managers: Kent Arvidsson & Ida Munter Venell * Physical therapist: Christin Hero

Team captaincy history

* Sofia Engström, 2008–2014 * Elin Lundberg, 2014–2019 * Hanna Sköld, 2019–2022 * Abby Thiessen, 2022–

Head coaches

* Daniel Ljung, 2007–08 * Ulf Hedberg, 2008–2011 * Magnus Svensson, 2011–12 * Christer Siik, 2012–2014 * Jens Nielsen, 2014–15 * Christer Sjöberg, 2015–16 * Alexander Bröms, 2016–2018 * Ulf Hedberg, 2018–19 * Lars Stanmark, 2019–2021 *

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, 2021–22 * Jordan Colliton, 2022–

Season-by-season results

''This is a partial list of the most recent seasons completed by Leksands. Code explanation; GP—Games played, W—Wins, L—Losses, T—Tied games, GF—Goals for, GA—Goals against, Pts—Points. Top Scorer: Points (Goals+Assists)

Franchise records and leaders

All-time scoring leaders

The top-ten point-scorers (goals + assists) of Leksands IF through the 2020–21 season. Note: Nat = Nationality; Pos =

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; GP = Games played; G =

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; A = Assists; Pts = Points; P/G = Points per game; = 2021–22 Leksands player

References

External links

* * Team information and statistics fro
Eliteprospects.com
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