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Dynamo Neva makes history Petersburg club wins its first Russian Women’s championship

Women's Hockey April 11, 2024, 16:05

Agidel wins women’s title Agidel Ufa won the Russian Women’s Hockey League for the fourth time. In Sunday’s decisive game, a 3-2 win over Dynamo Neva was enough to clinch victory in the best-of-five series and regain the title it last won in 2021.

Women's Hockey April 2, 2023, 21:35

Women’s Hockey League 2022-2023 – the story so far As the All-Star Game approaches, most teams in the WHL are about halfway through their season.

Women's Hockey November 27, 2022, 17:20

Women’s Hockey League to lower required age for UFA status From the 2023-2024 season the Women’s Hockey League is lowering the requisite to consider its players Unrestricted Free Agents from 27 to 25 years of age.

Women's Hockey August 5, 2022, 19:15

Olympic excitement and a second title for KRS The 2021-2022 Women’s Hockey League season was full of excitement – at both club and international level. While the Olympic Games dominated the global agenda, there was plenty to celebrate within the Russian championship, especially for KRS Vanke Rays.

Women's Hockey April 30, 2022, 15:40

Vanke Rays claim second title A tense goaltending duel went the way of Noora Raty and the KRS Vanke Rays as the Russian Women’s Hockey League season came to its conclusion. The Dragons’ success seals a second title in three seasons for the Chinese franchise, while SKIF can take some consolation from a greatly improved season after falling at the final hurdle.

Women's Hockey April 26, 2022, 17:05

Late show puts Vanke Rays on top A late goal from Michela Cava gave the Vanke Rays a second victory in the Women’s Hockey League final. Now, the Chinese franchise can wrap up its second Russian title in three years with victory in its temporary Moscow Region home on Tuesday.

Women's Hockey April 23, 2022, 15:35

Lady Dragons take first game of final series The Russian Women’s Hockey League began its final on Friday, with regular season champion SKIF Nizhny Novgorod hosting KRS Vanke Rays at the start of a best-of-five series. And the Vanke Rays got off to a winning start in their bid to win the title for the second time in three years.

Women's Hockey April 22, 2022, 20:00

SKIF faces Vanke Rays in Women’s final The WHL final gets underway in Nizhny Novgorod on Friday, with KRS Vanke Rays back for its third successive appearance in the decisive series. This time, SKIF provides the opposition for the Chinese franchise, with the Nizhny Novgorod team making its first appearance in a playoff final.

Women's Hockey April 21, 2022, 15:50

Women’s playoffs set to start It’s the biggest playoff in Russian Women’s Hockey League history, with eight teams ready to compete for the top prize. The action gets underway on Wednesday, and KHL.ru offers a rundown of all the key stories from the regular season.

Women's Hockey April 6, 2022, 11:00

ROC Women knocked out in QF Team ROC 2 Switzerland 4 (0-0, 1-1, 1-3)

Women's Hockey February 12, 2022, 15:00

ROC women prepare for Swiss showdown Team ROC faces a rematch with Switzerland in the knock-out phase of the Women’s Olympic tournament in Beijing. A disappointing loss against previously winless Finland saw the team finish fourth in Group A. Thus, the Red Machine will take part in the only quarter-final that doesn’t involve an outside from Group B, which was comprised of the five lower-ranked teams in the tournament.

Women's Hockey February 8, 2022, 20:00

Canada defeats ROC in delayed Olympic clash Team ROC women scored on Canada in Olympic play for the first time, but Monday’s game was overshadowed by controversy.

Women's Hockey February 7, 2022, 14:40

Team ROC battles against defending champ Saturday’s second game for our girls ended in a brave but heavy loss against powerful opposition.

Women's Hockey February 6, 2022, 14:15

ROC women make winning start The preparation was hugely disrupted. Several key players were isolating in hospital. Yet Team ROC rose above adversity to make a winning start to its Olympic campaign. Polina Bolgareva’s hat-trick led the win in a 5-2 success over Switzerland — and there are high hopes of more to come as the country bids for a first ever medal in women’s hockey.

Women's Hockey February 4, 2022, 15:05

Beijing 2022: Women’s tournament starts with a strong Russian accent When the Olympic hockey action gets underway this week, viewers could be forgiven for feeling they’ve seen a lot of this in Russian hockey in recent years. The Wukesong Arena, which will stage most of the women’s games, was the first home of Kunlun Red Star in the KHL, while Russia’s Women’s Hockey League supplies more players than ever to this year’s tournament. The entire Team ROC roster comes from the league, as does Team China. And there are plenty more with WHL connections lining up for their respective nations in this year’s competition.

Women's Hockey February 2, 2022, 14:00

Ice Diaries: Michelle Karvinen Danish-Finnish forward Michelle Karvinen had a unique, albeit brief introduction to Russia’s WHL. She was called to pinch-hit for the KRS Shenzhen Vanke Rays in the postponed championship final, after COVID-19 delayed the postseason and precluded several team members from returning to the squad. While she did not play the regular season with KRS, she had an opportunity to experience their passion and the league’s hottest rivalry first-hand—not to mention a reunion with her college coach, Brian Idalski, in the process.

Women's Hockey November 19, 2021, 12:55

Ice Diaries: Kimberly Newell As a child, Kimberly Newell could never have aspired to a professional hockey gig in China. It was an option that did not exist until after she had retired post-graduation from Princeton University, one that the KRS Vanke Rays netminder joked she thought was a “scam” when it was first proposed in 2018. But this twist of fate allowed Newell to fulfill another dream simultaneously, a goal that she had set while studying Chinese in college. After the 2018-19 season, she had the opportunity to travel to her family’s home in Hangzhou, where she had one final conversation with her grandfather.

Women's Hockey October 1, 2021, 13:00

Sosina steers Agidel to victory Olga Sosina, captain of Agidel and Team Russia, led from the front to snatch a dramatic victory for her team in the deciding game of the Women’s Hockey League season. The 2020-2021 final, delayed from March due to the pandemic, was completed at last in Mytishchi on Saturday. And, in an epic winner-takes-all battle, Agidel won the title back from the Vanke Rays in a shoot-out.

Women's Hockey September 12, 2021, 19:40

Ice Diaries: Sasha Vafina You could hardly say that “everyone and their mother” is an Olympian—but in the Vafina household, this is exactly the case. When Dynamo-Neva forward Alexandra (Sasha) Vafina represented Russia at the 2010 Vancouver Games, she bore the literal and figurative torch from her mother Lyubov, who represented Kazakhstan in their first Olympic appearance in 2002. The mother-daughter pair even played together in Chelyabinsk for a time, an opportunity whose singularity only became clear later.

Women's Hockey August 12, 2021, 18:00

Ice Diaries: Emily Costales, Leah Lum KRS Shenzhen Vanke Rays forward Emily Costales was a member of the 2020 WHL Championship roster, but her season hardly ended with a happily ever after. Assisted off the ice with a knee injury in the definitive clash against Agidel Ufa, she never got to experience the rush of the final seconds or the hurricane of confetti that fell on her teammates’ shoulders. Wheeled into the locker room after the presentation had ended, her tearful reunion left a fire burning for a retake. Up until two weeks ago, the Vanke Rays were on track to deliver that redemption — winning the regular season and sweeping the semifinals versus Biryusa.

Women's Hockey April 27, 2021, 15:00

All around the world – the WHL makes an international impact The Women’s World Championship starts next month — and the Women’s Hockey League is set to be well represented when the action gets underway in Canada. In total, 33 players from four countries have made the preliminary rosters for their national teams.

Women's Hockey April 12, 2021, 13:55

Women’s Hockey League to be played after the Women’s World Championship Update on the final series.

Women's Hockey March 22, 2021, 15:25

Women’s final series postponed The climax of the 2020/2021 Women’s Hockey League season will be played at a later date.

Women's Hockey March 11, 2021, 09:40