Lyudmila Belyakova was not re-signed by the Riveters or approached by any other NWHL team after last year, so she packed her bags and went back to Russia, where she’s playing in the Russian Women’s Hockey League for Tornado Dmitrov, one of the league’s top teams. ..

Former New York forward speaks about her most recent IIHF bronze medal, playing against her former team, and her thoughts on who will raise the Isobel Cup...

In the NWHL’s inaugural season, the New York Riveters finished last among the Founding Four teams with a record of 4-12-0-2. The team grinded out two early wins against the Boston Pride, but the Isobel Cup champions would eventually separate themselves from the rest of the league. By the time the two teams met in the opening round of the playoffs, Boston was on a seven-game winning streak. They disposed of the Riveters in two straight games before also sweeping Buffalo for the inaugural season title...

How Olga Sosina, Luda Belyakova, Katia Smolentseva, and other forwards from the RWHL played while representing Team Russia against the NWHL...

After one season in the NWHL, Russian winger Lyudmila Belyakova decided to get back to Russia to skate for Tornado Dmitrov...

Ludmila Belyakova, the Russian forward formerly of the New York Riveters, announced via Twitter Friday afternoon that she would re-join HK Tornado Moscow in lieu of finding a place in the revamped NWHL...

Former Riveters’ star forward Lyudmila Belyakova will play her old team twice this preseason. Team Russia will have a five-game series against the NWHL this September. They will play the Boston Pride once at Warrior Ice Arena and the Connecticut Whale twice at the Northford Ice Pavilion...

There’s yet another exclamation point to the New York Riveters’ offseason. Lyudmila Belyakova, the team’s star Russian forward from the 2015-16 season, will not be returning to the team or the NWHL next season...

The New York Riveters had the worst record in the NWHL last season. Impactful injuries, a deficit of talent, and the questionable deployment of some key players resulted in New York being a poor possession team that struggled both to score goals and keep them out of their own net...

It’s unknown just how much player movement we will see during the NWHL’s free agency period this offseason, but special attention will be paid to international players after the visa issues that delayed so many seasons back in the fall of 2015.
 

The New York Riveters are a team with an abundance of question marks about what their roster should look like next season, and one of the biggest involves an international star-in-the-making...

During a trip to Junior’s restaurant in early February, Nana Fujimoto sat against a wall decorated with Brooklyn Dodgers memorabilia, savoring a slice of cheesecake while discussing her journey from Sapporo, Japan, to the National Women’s Hockey League...

There are few players who are as dynamic and exciting to watch as Lyudmila Belyakova of the New York Riveters is. The first Russian-born player to sign on with the NWHL is also the league's youngest player. Her youth can show at times when her passion for the game boils over in scrums in front of the net, but it also brings with it the promise of a nearly unlimited potential. Belyakova's combination of speed, skill, and inner fire could make her one of the best skaters in women's hockey one day soon...

What's this item about? What makes it interesting? Write a catchy description to grab your audience's attention...or much of the NWHL’s inaugural season the promise of free agency has been an enormous question mark, dangling at the end of the first year of play.Thursday, the league announced an answer to some questions surrounding free agency. Each player had signed a one-year contract that would dissolve at the end of the 2015-16 season, leaving those who wish to re-sign with the league in the free agency limbo...

At just 21-years of age, Liudmila Belyakova is the youngest player in the National Women’s Hockey League, and is just one of two Russian born players in the newly established American women’s professional hockey league. Liudmila is also my favorite player...

The Riveters’ resident Russian star forward Lyudmila Belyakova has barely scratched the surface of her potential this season for New York thanks to an injury that kept her in street clothes for three games and a lack of ice time...

At the onset of the NWHL season, New York Riveters head coach Chad Wiseman paired Brooke Ammerman and Madison Packer with Lyudmila Belyakova. On paper the trio seemed like a great line that New York could turn to for the bulk of its offensive production. Packer’s strength in the corners and around the net paired with the skill and hands of Ammerman and Belyakova made all kinds of sense...

With the first NWHL season underway, the great characters that make up this league have a lot to be told about. Lyudmila Belyakova was the first Russian player to get signed in the NWHL and is now a member of the New York Riveters. The Hockey Writers talked with Lyudmila in her native language, Russian, right after she played a tournament in Europe with her national team. In this exclusive interview, Lyudmila talked about her adaptation to a new country, the differences between playing in North America and Russia, and living in NY...

A member of the Russian national women’s ice hockey team, Lyudmila Belyakova is one of the game’s rising stars. One of the most cherished moments in her career occurred on October 11, 2015, a historic day in American women’s ice hockey. Skating in the NWHL’s inaugural contest, it was one that saw Belyakova make her mark, assisting on the first goal in New York Riveters history, scored by Brooke Ammerman...

It appears that Nana Fujimoto didn't appear in net for Smile Japan in their four game international exhibition series against Lyudmila Belyakova's team Russia so we don't have to feel too bad about Russia sweeping them in the series. Belyakova, who started playing for her nation's international team at just 15 years of age, led the charge for Russia against Japan's national team with 3 goals and 5 assists in the four game sweep according to NWHL.co...

The New York Riveters made NWHL history when they inked Janine Weber to the league’s first free agent contract, but the club has made history of another kind, signing the league’s first Russian player...