Linköpings Hockey Club, often known by its acronym

Acronym and initialism

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 LHC or, colloquially among its fans, Cluben, is an ice hockey

Ice hockey

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 team from Linköping

Linköping

Linköping is a city in southern middle Sweden, with 104 232 inhabitants in 2010. It is the seat of Linköping Municipality with 146 736 inhabitants and the capital of Östergötland County...

, Sweden

Sweden

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.

Linköping's women's football

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 team, Linköpings FC

Linköpings FC

Linköpings FC is an association football club from Linköping, Sweden. The club was established in 2003 when Kenty DFF women's football club decided to merge with the premier division ice hockey club Linköpings HC under the new name Linköpings FC...

, is affiliated with and financially backed by Linköpings HC. October 3, 2008 the club announced that the elite men's and women's teams of local volleyball

Volleyball

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 club Team Valla will become affiliated with Linköpings HC, under the name Linköpings Volleyboll Club.

History

Linköpings HC first played in the Elitserien

Elitserien

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 in the 1999–2000 season, and has been in the top division since the 2001–02 season. They have reached the playoffs eight times. LHC reached the final for the first time in 2006–07, where they lost to Modo Hockey

MODO Hockey

Modo Hockey is a professional ice hockey club in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden. The club plays in Sweden's premier ice hockey league, the Elitserien. They were founded in 1921 and have won two Elitserien championships; in 1979 and 2007. The team's home arena is the Fjällräven Center since 2006...

. In the 2007–08 season, Linköpings HC advanced to the final once again, this time against HV71

HV71

HV71, often referred to as just HV, is a Swedish professional ice hockey club based in Jönköping, playing in the Swedish elite league Elitserien...

, to which they lost, thus once again winning the silver medal.

External links

• Official site (in Swedish)
• Meltzer, Bill. "Linköping Looking at Date with Destiny" at NHL.com. Retrieved 03-28-07.