The 2017–18 SM-liiga season was the 43rd season of the SM-liiga (branded simply as "Liiga"), the top level of ice hockey in Finland, since the league's formation in 1975. Tappara was the season as a defending champion. This season included a record number of matches played on Fridays and Saturdays. In autumn, there was a national team break from 5 November until 13 November.
The specialties of the season included, for the first time in SM-liiga history, double games between KooKoo and Vaasan Sport. Teams met twice in October in consecutive evenings in Kouvola and in February twice in succession in Vaasa. In December, HIFK and Kärpät met in the hockey outdoor show at Kaisaniemi, Helsinki.
Top six advance straight to quarter-finals, while teams between 7th and 10th positions play wild card round for the final two spots. The SM-liiga is a closed series and thus there is no relegation.
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The 2017 18 SM liiga season was the 43rd season of the SM liiga branded simply as Liiga the top level of ice hockey in Finland since the league s formation in 1975 Tappara was the season as a defending champion This season included a record number of matches played on Fridays and Saturdays In autumn there was a national team break from 5 November until 13 November 2017 18 SM liigaLeagueSM LiigaSportIce hockeyDurationSeptember 2017 April 2018Number of teams15TV partner s NelonenRegular seasonBest recordOulun Karpat Runners upTPSSeason MVPJulius Junttila Karpat Top scorerAntti Suomela JYP PlayoffsPlayoffs MVPJulius Junttila Karpat Finals championsOulun Karpat Runners upTapparaSM liiga seasons 2016 172018 19 The specialties of the season included for the first time in SM liiga history double games between KooKoo and Vaasan Sport Teams met twice in October in consecutive evenings in Kouvola and in February twice in succession in Vaasa In December HIFK and Karpat met in the hockey outdoor show at Kaisaniemi Helsinki In 2018 the SM liiga continued on Wednesday 3 January Ice hockey at the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea s Pyeongchang start with the Finland men s national ice hockey team on February 14 2018 In SM liiga a full round was played on Saturday 17 February after which the Olympic Games started Liiga games resumed on Tuesday February 27 Karpat won the championship by winning Tappara in the final series 4 2 Contents 1 Teams 2 Regular season 3 Playoffs 3 1 Bracket 3 2 Wild card round 3 3 Quarterfinals 3 4 Semifinals 3 5 Bronze medal game 3 6 Finals 4 Final rankings 5 See also 6 ReferencesTeams edit nbsp nbsp Jukurit nbsp HIFK nbsp HPK nbsp IlvesTappara nbsp JYP nbsp KalPa nbsp KooKoo nbsp Karpat nbsp Lukko nbsp Pelicans nbsp SaiPa nbsp Assat nbsp Sport nbsp TPSclass notpageimage Location of teams in 2017 2018 Liiga Team City Head coach Arena Capacity Captain HIFK Helsinki Ari Pekka Selin Helsingin jaahalli 8 200 Lennart Petrell HPK Hameenlinna Antti Pennanen Patria areena 5 360 Otto Paajanen Ilves Tampere Karri Kivi Tampereen jaahalli 7 300 Tapio Laakso Jukurit Mikkeli Risto Dufva Kalevankankaan jaahalli 4 200 Miika Roine JYP Jyvaskyla Marko Virtanen Synergia areena 4 437 Juha Pekka Hytonen KalPa Kuopio Sami Kapanen Niiralan monttu 5 064 Tommi Jokinen KooKoo Kouvola Tuomas Tuokkola Lumon arena 6 000 Toni Kahkonen Karpat Oulu Mikko Manner Oulun Energia Areena 6 614 Lasse Kukkonen Lukko Rauma Pekka Virta Aijansuo Arena 5 400 Janne Niskala Pelicans Lahti Petri Matikainen Isku Areena 5 530 Stefan Lassen SaiPa Lappeenranta Tero Lehtera Kisapuisto 4 820 Ville Koho Sport Vaasa Tomek Valtonen Vaasa Arena 4 512 Markus Kankaanpera Tappara Tampere Jukka Rautakorpi Tampereen jaahalli 7 300 Jukka Peltola TPS Turku Kalle Kaskinen HK Arena 11 820 Tomi Kallio Assat Pori Jyrki Aho14 Jan 2018Mikael Kotkaniemi Porin jaahalli 6 280 Matti KuparinenRegular season editTop six advance straight to quarter finals while teams between 7th and 10th positions play wild card round for the final two spots The SM liiga is a closed series and thus there is no relegation Pos Team Pld W OTW OTL L GF GA GD Pts Final Result 1 Karpat C 60 33 8 8 11 195 134 61 123 Advance to Quarterfinals 2 TPS 60 30 7 8 15 187 147 40 112 3 Tappara 60 25 14 7 14 165 130 35 110 4 JYP 60 32 4 4 20 187 145 42 108 5 HIFK 60 26 8 9 17 163 128 35 103 6 KalPa 60 26 7 7 20 144 136 8 99 7 SaiPa 60 21 11 8 20 153 163 10 93 Advance to Wild card round 8 Assat 60 23 7 5 25 163 177 14 88 9 Lukko 60 21 8 6 25 141 142 1 85 10 Pelicans 60 20 7 9 24 165 175 10 83 11 Ilves 60 21 5 8 26 162 190 28 81 12 HPK 60 20 7 4 29 145 157 12 78 13 Jukurit 60 16 5 9 30 133 170 37 67 14 KooKoo 60 14 5 10 31 142 198 56 62 15 Sport 60 12 7 8 33 153 206 53 58Source Liiga C Champion Rules for classification 1 Points 2 3 point wins 3 Goal difference 4 Goals scored 5 Head to head points 1 Playoffs editBracket edit Wild card round best of 3 Quarter finals best of 7 Semi finals best of 7 Finals best of 7 1Karpat47SaiPa28Assat110Pelicans11Karpat45HIFK32TPS4 Pairings are re seeded after the first and second round 7SaiPa21Karpat43Tappara23Tappara48Assat26KalPa29Lukko02TPS0Bronze medal game3Tappara44JYP22TPS05HIFK45HIFK1 Wild card round edit SaiPa Pelicans 2 113 3 2018SaiPaPelicans4 2 ref 15 3 2018PelicansSaiPa3 0 ref 17 3 2018SaiPaPelicans3 2 OT1 ref SaiPa wins the series 2 1 Assat Lukko 2 013 3 2018AssatLukko2 1 ref 15 3 2018LukkoAssat2 3 OT1 ref Assat wins the series 2 0 Quarterfinals edit Karpat Assat 4 120 3 2018KarpatAssat4 1 ref 22 3 2018AssatKarpat3 2 ref 24 3 2018KarpatAssat3 1 ref 26 3 2018AssatKarpat1 3 ref 28 3 2018KarpatAssat5 1 ref Karpat wins the series 4 1 Tappara KalPa 4 221 3 2018TapparaKalPa3 2 ref 23 3 2018KalPaTappara4 3 ref 24 3 2018TapparaKalPa4 3 OT1 ref 26 3 2018KalPaTappara0 3 ref 28 3 2018TapparaKalPa1 3 ref 29 3 2018KalPaTappara3 4 ref Tappara wins the series 4 2 TPS SaiPa 4 220 3 2018TPSSaiPa4 3 OT1 ref 22 3 2018SaiPaTPS5 6 ref 24 3 2018TPSSaiPa7 0 ref 26 3 2018SaiPaTPS3 1 ref 28 3 2018TPSSaiPa0 2 ref 29 3 2018SaiPaTPS1 2 OT1ref TPS wins the series 4 2 JYP HIFK 2 421 3 2018JYPHIFK1 2 ref 23 3 2018HIFKJYP1 2 OT1 ref 24 3 2018JYPHIFK4 3 OT1 ref 26 3 2018HIFKJYP4 1 ref 28 3 2018JYPHIFK6 7 OT1 ref 29 3 2018HIFKJYP2 1 ref HIFK wins the series 4 2 Semifinals edit Karpat HIFK 4 33 4 2018KarpatHIFK1 4 ref 5 4 2018HIFKKarpat3 4 OT1 ref 7 4 2018KarpatHIFK3 0 ref 9 4 2018HIFKKarpat4 1 ref 11 4 2018KarpatHIFK2 1 OT1 ref 12 4 2018HIFKKarpat4 3 OT1 ref 14 4 2018KarpatHIFK2 1 ref Karpat wins the series 4 3 TPS Tappara 0 44 4 2018TPSTappara2 3 OT1 ref 6 4 2018TapparaTPS3 0 ref 7 4 2018TPSTappara1 2 ref 9 4 2018TapparaTPS6 5 OT1 ref Tappara wins the series 4 0 Bronze medal game edit 20 April 2018 18 30TPS2 3 OT1 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 1 HIFKGatorade Center Turku Attendance 7 021Game reference6 minPenalties6 min23Shots36 Finals edit 17 April 2018 18 30Karpat3 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 TapparaOulun Energia Areena Oulu Attendance 5 021Game reference2 minPenalties16 min27Shots19 19 April 2018 18 30Tappara2 4 2 1 0 2 0 1 KarpatTampere Ice Stadium Tampere Attendance 6 701Game reference2 minPenalties8 min22Shots17 21 April 2018 17 00Karpat2 1 OT1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 TapparaOulun Energia Areena Oulu Attendance 6 485Game reference6 minPenalties6 min28Shots24 23 April 2018 18 30Tappara2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 KarpatTampere Ice Stadium Tampere Attendance 7 300Game reference18 minPenalties18 min36Shots21 24 April 2018 18 30Karpat4 5 0 3 1 1 3 1 TapparaOulun Energia Areena Oulu Attendance 6 550Game reference14 minPenalties6 min29Shots19 26 April 2018 18 30Tappara0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 KarpatTampere Ice Stadium Tampere Attendance 7 279Game reference4 minPenalties4 min28Shots24 Karpat wins the series 4 2 and wins the championship Final rankings edit nbsp Karpat nbsp Tappara nbsp HIFK 4 TPS 5 JYP 6 KalPa 7 SaiPa 8 Assat 9 Lukko 10 Pelicans 11 Ilves 12 HPK 13 Jukurit 14 KooKoo 15 SportSee also edit2017 18 Mestis seasonReferences edit Joukkuetilastot Runkosarja 2017 2018 Tilastot Liiga Liiga 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