Luxembourg form 1st ever Women’s ice hockey National Team, will compete in 2022 IIHF
Women’s Development Cup

Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Colombia, Andorra, Ireland and Luxembourg compete in 7-
day tournament

All games held at Kuwait Winter Games Club
Match schedule to be determined


The Fédération Luxembourgeoise de Hockey sur Glace (FLHG) is pleased to announce that from
Sunday November 6th until Saturday November 12th 2022 the newly-formed Luxembourg Women’s
National Ice Hockey Team will travel to Kuwait City to compete in the 1st ever IIHF-sanctioned
Women’s Development Cup.

Luxembourg forms 1st Women's National Ice Hockey Team

Bored during the holidays and want to watch a nice recap of last year's battle against the Knights? Here you go

11th December 2021: Tornado vs. Knights

<div>It's with a bang that Tornado announces a new head coach! And it's not just anyone, no, it's someone with a serious pedigree and a long history of success and experience.<br /><br />After a tough season for the Tornado's, where the first team ended up on the last place of the French Division 3 standings, as well as a deceiving third place in the newly formed LHL, it was time for a change on the coaching seat. Former headcoach Petr Fical had lived through many successes since joining the club in 2015. Over the last years, the Tornados had made the second round of the playoffs multiple times, was for many years a solid playoff contender, but lately the team had a hard time finding its way out of a challenging period. After all these years under headcoach Petr, it was time for a fresh start. The club wants to sincerely thank Petr Fical for all his efforts, the great experiences we have had, as well as his continiously posivite attitude that many cherished. We wish him a lot of success for his future.<br /><br />A new era starts now however. The club is hungry to get its first team back on the track of success. A new head coach was searched, and found. It's with great pleasure that the club announces its new head coach: Christer Eriksson !<br /><br />Christer is a swedish native that has spent many years in France. He has won three medals on the bench with the French national team, participated in Olympic Games and many World Championships as a coach, has lead the team of Mulhouse to a Magnus League (highest level in France) championship, as well as two Division 1 championships (the latest in 2017). Christer not only knows the french hockey scene, but also the art of successfull coaching, all too well.<br /><br />With the generous help of Christer, the club now wants to start a new, long journey of hockey development in Luxembourg.<br /><br />The club is furthermore working on strengthening the relationship between its 5 (!) senior teams and putting a place an even more enabling and supportive structure. Fostering a closer relationship with the youth organization is also a project that the club wants to continuously push forward.<br /><br />The first team will be meeting Christer soon and discuss objectives, expectations and define a clear roadmap.<br /><br />Welcome to the Tornado Family, Christer!<div> </div><div>Here's a quick interview with Christer:</div><div> </div><div><strong> What you want to achieve in the long run?</strong><br /><br /><em>"First of all, I will need some time to better know the team, the club and their members to have a clearer “picture” before I will be able to put up the long term goals.  </em><br /><br /><em>But in generally we could say that our goal are in short time to be competitive and win back collective performance by put in rigor and working hard  together,  and in more long term regularly progressing for in term every season attend play-off and why not final four in our league and of course bring back the national bucket.. </em><br /><br /><em>I often said that when you come to a new club/project you have three steps before you will be able to see the real long term results. </em><br /><br /><em>First you need to develop and sustain the structure and the functioning.  </em><br /><br /><em>Then you need to optimize the use of those possibilities to get the players the team and the club "growing".  </em><br /><br /><em>After that you will be ready to repeat and sustain the sportily results at the long term. </em><br /><br /><em>This could of course take longer or shorter time depending on our investment and determination together.... </em><br /><br /><em>La performance passe par le groupe…….. "</em><br /><br /><strong>What challenges do you see currently?</strong> <br /><br />"<em>One of the biggest challenges for me/us will be to get everyone motivated to jump on the train again after those last seasons (covid etc.) which have been tough for everyone.. </em><br /><br /><em>I think it is important to re-boost the team and the club by re-built a “competition attitude” throw the whole organization for getting in new energy and getting back the positive feeling..   </em><br /><br /><em>For sure it’s not a professional team but we are in a competition level and we are depending of each other to progress and perform therefore its determined to have everyone motivated and present.. My coach philosophy is to have a good team strategy which means that we will need to have everybody present at practice as much as possible to be able to progress and perform individually and as a team in the games.</em><br /><br /><em>We also need to create a strong “team around the team”, a good organization and logistics around the team have a real impact for the motivation and performances of the players </em><br /><br /><em>The young guys in Huskies are the future Tornados so let us take the challenge to prepare the next generation and help them to take the step from junior to senior hockey, “on the paper” there are quite a lot of prospect players which approach the senior hockey so that’s really motivating. I count also on the experience players to help those younger guys to “grow” in to the senior hockey, so now it’s up to those guys to join the road….  </em><br /><br /><em>It will also be very important to federating the hockey family in Luxembourg; there is a lot of teams and “hockey people” in Luxembourg, by “open the door” and helping each other we will be stronger together.</em></div><div><br /><em>Souvenir du passé - Vivre au présent - Préparer l’avenir - La performance passe par le groupe……..</em> "<br /> <br /><br /><strong>What should the objective be for our first year together?</strong> <br /><br /><em>"It’s a bit early for me to put up some clear short time goals but all those things mentioned will be very important because without expending the structure, put resources / possibilities and energy to the team and our players there could not be any sustain results, never forget that the results are just a consequence of what we do everyday…  </em><br /><br /><em>So Let’s say that first years objective will be; TO RICE THE EFFORTS – TO BE POSITIVE – TO SEARCH SOLUTIONS NOT PROBLEMS, I’m very excited and looking forward to join the club and start our road together…..</em> <br /><br /><strong><em>Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success...</em> </strong>"</div><div> </div><div><br /><br />Photo: Le républicain lorrain</div></div>


It's with a bang that Tornado announces a new head coach! And it's not just anyone, no, it's someone with a serious pedigree and a long history of success and experience.<br /><br />After a tough season for the Tornado's, where the first team ended up on the last place of the French Division 3 standings, as well as a deceiving third place in the newly formed LHL, it was time for a change on the coaching seat. Former headcoach Petr Fical had lived through many successes since joining the club in 2015. Over the last years, the Tornados had made the second round of the playoffs multiple times, was for many years a solid playoff contender, but lately the team had a hard time finding its way out of a challenging period. After all these years under headcoach Petr, it was time for a fresh start. The club wants to sincerely thank Petr Fical for all his efforts, the great experiences we have had, as well as his continiously posivite attitude that many cherished. We wish him a lot of success for his future.<br /><br />A new era starts now however. The club is hungry to get its first team back on the track of success. A new head coach was searched, and found. It's with great pleasure that the club announces its new head coach: Christer Eriksson !<br /><br />Christer is a swedish native that has spent many years in France. He has won three medals on the bench with the French national team, participated in Olympic Games and many World Championships as a coach, has lead the team of Mulhouse to a Magnus League (highest level in France) championship, as well as two Division 1 championships (the latest in 2017). Christer not only knows the french hockey scene, but also the art of successfull coaching, all too well.<br /><br />With the generous help of Christer, the club now wants to start a new, long journey of hockey development in Luxembourg.<br /><br />The club is furthermore working on strengthening the relationship between its 5 (!) senior teams and putting a place an even more enabling and supportive structure. Fostering a closer relationship with the youth organization is also a project that the club wants to continuously push forward.<br /><br />The first team will be meeting Christer soon and discuss objectives, expectations and define a clear roadmap.<br /><br />Welcome to the Tornado Family, Christer! Here's a quick interview with Christer:  What you want to achieve in the long run?<br /><br />"First of all, I will need some time to better know the team, the club and their members to have a clearer “picture” before I will be able to put up the long term goals.  <br /><br />But in generally we could say that our goal are in short time to be competitive and win back collective performance by put in rigor and working hard  together,  and in more long term regularly progressing for in term every season attend play-off and why not final four in our league and of course bring back the national bucket.. <br /><br />I often said that when you come to a new club/project you have three steps before you will be able to see the real long term results. <br /><br />First you need to develop and sustain the structure and the functioning.  <br /><br />Then you need to optimize the use of those possibilities to get the players the team and the club "growing".  <br /><br />After that you will be ready to repeat and sustain the sportily results at the long term. <br /><br />This could of course take longer or shorter time depending on our investment and determination together.... <br /><br />La performance passe par le groupe…….. "<br /><br />What challenges do you see currently? <br /><br />"One of the biggest challenges for me/us will be to get everyone motivated to jump on the train again after those last seasons (covid etc.) which have been tough for everyone.. <br /><br />I think it is important to re-boost the team and the club by re-built a “competition attitude” throw the whole organization for getting in new energy and getting back the positive feeling..   <br /><br />For sure it’s not a professional team but we are in a competition level and we are depending of each other to progress and perform therefore its determined to have everyone motivated and present.. My coach philosophy is to have a good team strategy which means that we will need to have everybody present at practice as much as possible to be able to progress and perform individually and as a team in the games.<br /><br />We also need to create a strong “team around the team”, a good organization and logistics around the team have a real impact for the motivation and performances of the players <br /><br />The young guys in Huskies are the future Tornados so let us take the challenge to prepare the next generation and help them to take the step from junior to senior hockey, “on the paper” there are quite a lot of prospect players which approach the senior hockey so that’s really motivating. I count also on the experience players to help those younger guys to “grow” in to the senior hockey, so now it’s up to those guys to join the road….  <br /><br />It will also be very important to federating the hockey family in Luxembourg; there is a lot of teams and “hockey people” in Luxembourg, by “open the door” and helping each other we will be stronger together.<br />Souvenir du passé - Vivre au présent - Préparer l’avenir - La performance passe par le groupe…….. "<br /> <br /><br />What should the objective be for our first year together? <br /><br />"It’s a bit early for me to put up some clear short time goals but all those things mentioned will be very important because without expending the structure, put resources / possibilities and energy to the team and our players there could not be any sustain results, never forget that the results are just a consequence of what we do everyday…  <br /><br />So Let’s say that first years objective will be; TO RICE THE EFFORTS – TO BE POSITIVE – TO SEARCH SOLUTIONS NOT PROBLEMS, I’m very excited and looking forward to join the club and start our road together….. <br /><br />Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success... " <br /><br />Photo: Le républicain lorrain<br />


Tornado welcomes new headcoach! (+Interview)

<div><span style="font-size:14pt;">At the IIHF Annual Congress taking place in Tampere, Finland from 26-28.05.2022 the groups, host nations and dates of every 2023 World Championships are being decided. We can reveal that our Luxembourg Senior Men's national team will travel to Cape Town, South Africa from <strong>17-23.04.2023 </strong>to compete against DPR Korea, Turkmenistan, Chinese Taipei, Thailand and hosts South Africa. </span>
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<div><span style="font-size:14pt;">We can announce that our Under 18 Men's team have been promoted to an expanded Division III Group A. They will compete against Iceland, Israel, Mexico, Bosnia &amp; Herzegovina and Turkey. The host nation and dates are being voted on at the congress today (27/05/2022). Stay tuned for more information in the coming days and weeks.</span></div>
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At the IIHF Annual Congress taking place in Tampere, Finland from 26-28.05.2022 the groups, host nations and dates of every 2023 World Championships are being decided. We can reveal that our Luxembourg Senior Men's national team will travel to Cape Town, South Africa from 17-23.04.2023 to compete against DPR Korea, Turkmenistan, Chinese Taipei, Thailand and hosts South Africa. <br />
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We can announce that our Under 18 Men's team have been promoted to an expanded Division III Group A. They will compete against Iceland, Israel, Mexico, Bosnia &amp; Herzegovina and Turkey. The host nation and dates are being voted on at the congress today (27/05/2022). Stay tuned for more information in the coming days and weeks.<br />
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2023 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship, Div III A groups and host revealed

<div>The Tornado Luxembourg would like to invite all its members to this year's general assembly, which will be held on July 20th at 18:30 at the Kockelscheuer ice rink.<div> </div><div>This invitation is valid for Tornado, Tornado Women, Puckers, Cool Puckers and Silverbacks. Anyone who wants to apply to become a committee member is asked to sent the club his/her candidacy at least 5 days before de GA to info@tornadoluxembourg.com</div><div> </div><div> </div><div><strong>Agenda general assembly</strong></div><div><br />1. Introduction<br />2. Activity report from the Secretary (Season 2021/2022)<br />3. Treasurer’s report<br />4. Report from the finance controllers and acceptance of financial situation<br />5. Discharge of the current Board<br />6. Proposition and approval for the budget 2022/2023<br />7. Sponsors<br />8. Election of Board members<br />9. Outlook (Saison 2022/2023)<br />10. Questions / Answers<br />11. Closing</div><div> </div><div><br />Hoping to see many of you,</div><div><br />Tornado Board</div></div>


The Tornado Luxembourg would like to invite all its members to this year's general assembly, which will be held on July 20th at 18:30 at the Kockelscheuer ice rink. This invitation is valid for Tornado, Tornado Women, Puckers, Cool Puckers and Silverbacks. Anyone who wants to apply to become a committee member is asked to sent the club his/her candidacy at least 5 days before de GA to info@tornadoluxembourg.com  Agenda general assembly<br />1. Introduction<br />2. Activity report from the Secretary (Season 2021/2022)<br />3. Treasurer’s report<br />4. Report from the finance controllers and acceptance of financial situation<br />5. Discharge of the current Board<br />6. Proposition and approval for the budget 2022/2023<br />7. Sponsors<br />8. Election of Board members<br />9. Outlook (Saison 2022/2023)<br />10. Questions / Answers<br />11. Closing <br />Hoping to see many of you,<br />Tornado Board<br />


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Luxembourg forms 1st Women's National Ice Hockey Team

11th December 2021: Tornado vs. Knights

Tornado welcomes new headcoach! (+Interview)

2023 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship, Div III A groups and host revealed

General Assembly coming up on July 20th

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