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2022–23 Liiga season

The 2022–23 SM-liiga season was the 48th season of the SM-liiga, the top level of ice hockey in Finland, since the league's formation in 1975.

2022–23 SM-liiga
LeagueSM-liiga
SportIce hockey
Defending championsTappara (2021–22)
DurationSeptember 2022 – April 2023
Number of games60
Number of teams15
TV partner(s)Telia
C More
Regular season
Best recordTappara
  Runners-upIlves
Season MVPMichael Joly (HPK)
Top scorerMichael Joly (HPK)
Playoffs
Playoffs MVPVeli-Matti Savinainen (Tappara)
Finals championsTappara
  Runners-upPelicans
SM-liiga seasons

Teams edit

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Location of teams in 2022–23 SM-liiga
Team City Head coach Arena Capacity Captain
HIFK Helsinki Ville Peltonen Helsingin jäähalli 8,200 Teemu Tallberg
HPK Hämeenlinna Jarno Pikkarainen Pohjantähti Areena 5,360 Juuso Hietanen
Ilves Tampere Jouko Myrrä 5 Oct 2022[1]
Antti Pennanen
Nokia Arena 13,000 Eemeli Suomi
Jukurit Mikkeli Olli Jokinen Ikioma Areena 4,200 Juhamatti Aaltonen
JYP Jyväskylä Jukka Rautakorpi LähiTapiola Areena 4,437 Robert Rooba
KalPa Kuopio Tommi Miettinen Olvi Areena 5,300 Tuomas Kiiskinen
KooKoo Kouvola Olli Salo Lumon Areena 5,950 Heikki Liedes
Kärpät Oulu Lauri Marjamäki Oulun Energia Areena 6,400 Atte Ohtamaa
Lukko Rauma Marko Virtanen Kivikylän Areena 4,700 Anrei Hakulinen
Pelicans Lahti Tommi Niemelä Isku Areena 5,371 Miika Roine
SaiPa Lappeenranta Pekka Virta 14 Oct 2022[2]
Ville Hämäläinen
Lappeenrannan jäähalli 4,820 Jarno Koskiranta
Sport Vaasa Risto Dufva Vaasan Sähkö Areena 5,185 Sebastian Stålberg
Tappara Tampere Jussi Tapola Nokia Arena 13,000 Otto Rauhala
TPS Turku Jussi Ahokas Gatorade Center 11,820 Juhani Jasu
Ässät Pori Karri Kivi West Areena 6,150 Jesse Joensuu

Regular season edit

 
Ässät celebrating a regular season victory against Jukurit on 15 October 2022

Top six advanced straight to the quarter-finals, while teams between 7th and 10th positions played a 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 Tappara 60 33 6 5 16 187 140 +47 116 Advance to Quarterfinals
2 Ilves 60 32 7 4 17 185 126 +59 114
3 Lukko 60 28 8 5 19 155 122 +33 105
4 Pelicans 60 30 4 5 21 166 136 +30 103
5 KalPa 60 28 5 8 19 169 145 +24 102
6 HIFK 60 24 8 9 19 155 150 +5 97
7 Kärpät 60 24 7 10 19 158 143 +15 96 Advance to Wild-card round
8 Ässät 60 25 5 6 24 129 150 −21 91
9 TPS 60 21 10 8 21 141 140 +1 91
10 KooKoo 60 19 11 5 25 155 167 −12 84
11 Jukurit 60 24 5 1 30 155 165 −10 83
12 HPK 60 17 9 14 20 153 162 −9 83
13 JYP 60 17 9 5 29 159 172 −13 74
14 Sport 60 16 3 9 32 126 177 −51 63
15 SaiPa 60 8 7 10 35 124 222 −98 48
Source: Liiga

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Scoring leaders edit

The following players led the league in regular season points.

Player Team GP G A Pts +/– PIM
Michael Joly HPK 60 25 39 64 +9 18
Jori Lehterä Tappara 57 11 46 57 +5 45
Jerry Turkulainen JYP 60 12 42 54 –3 20
Petri Kontiola Ilves 58 12 39 51 0 40
Jaakko Rissanen KalPa 57 16 34 50 +17 26
Henrik Haapala Ilves 47 15 32 47 +9 20
Les Lancaster Ilves 60 13 34 47 +20 22
Joona Ikonen Ilves 54 23 22 45 +9 16
Veli-Matti Savinainen Tappara 54 17 27 44 +6 30
Thomas Gregoire Lukko 57 13 31 44 +23 41

Playoffs edit

Bracket edit

Wild-card round (best-of-3) Quarter-finals (best-of-7) Semi-finals (best-of-7) Finals (best-of-7)
1 Tappara 4
7 Kärpät 1 10 KooKoo 0
10 KooKoo 2 1 Tappara 4
6 HIFK 1
2 Ilves 4 (Pairings are re-seeded after the first and second round)
8 Ässät 1
1 Tappara 4
4 Pelicans 1
3 Lukko 2
8 Ässät 2 6 HIFK 4
9 TPS 1 2 Ilves 2 Bronze medal game
4 Pelicans 4
4 Pelicans 4 2 Ilves 1
5 KalPa 3 6 HIFK 0


Wild-card round edit

Quarter-finals edit

Semi-finals edit

Bronze medal game edit

20 April 2023
18:30
Ilves3–2
(1–1, 1–0, 1–1)
HIFKNokia Arena, Tampere
Attendance: 8,044
Game reference
Marek LanghamerGoaliesRoope TaponenReferees:
Jukka-Pekka Koistinen
Mikko Kaukokari
Linesmen:
Jussi Thomann
Juho-Pekka Inkinen
0–106:05 – Pakarinen (Jääskä, Luhanka)
Mäntykivi (Tikka) – 12:071–1
Tikka (Mäntykivi, Nyman) – 26:392–1
2–241:26 – Teissala (Melart, Rantakari)
Virtanen (Koskiranta) – 48:233–2
14 minPenalties10 min
24Shots25

Finals edit

19 April 2023
18:30
Tappara5–1
(1–0, 3–1, 1–0)
PelicansNokia Arena, Tampere
Attendance: 11,904
Game reference
Christian HeljankoGoaliesPatrik Bartošák
Jasper Patrikainen
Referees:
Mikko Kaukokari
Lassi Heikkinen
Linesmen:
Hannu Sormunen
Onni Hautamäki
Tanus (Savinainen, Seppälä) – 07:291–0
1–121:46 – Vilén (Killinen, Kangasniemi)
Savinainen (Kemiläinen) (PP) – 36:552–1
Vittasmäki (Levtchi, Tuulola) – 39:143–1
M. Davidsson (Jürgens, Ojamäki) – 39:454–1
Rauhala (Puhakka, Merelä) – 40:555–1
4 minPenalties6 min
24Shots19
21 April 2023
18:30
Pelicans0–2
(0–1, 0–0, 0–1)
TapparaIsku Areena, Lahti
Attendance: 4,403
Game reference
Patrik BartošákGoaliesChristian HeljankoReferees:
Antti Boman
Joonas Kova
Linesmen:
Tommi Niittylä
Joni Pekkala
0–101:04 – Rauhala (Matushkin, Seppälä)
0–259:04 – Merelä (Lehterä, Savinainen) (EN)
2 minPenalties31 min
47Shots48
22 April 2023
17:00
Tappara1–4
(0–1, 0–1, 1–2)
PelicansNokia Arena, Tampere
Attendance: 12,354
Game reference
Christian HeljankoGoaliesPatrik BartošákReferees:
Joonas Kova
Mikko Kaukokari
Linesmen:
Hannu Sormunen
Onni Hautamäki
0–119:36 – Utunen (Kangasniemi, Ikonen)
0–233:08 – Hirvonen (Jämsen, Utunen)
Savinainen (Tanus) – 47:221–2
1–358:24 – Kangasniemi (Killinen)
1–459:27 – Jasek (Bryggman) (EN)
10 minPenalties6 min
51Shots37
25 April 2023
18:30
Pelicans1–3
(0–1, 0–1, 1–1)
TapparaIsku Areena, Lahti
Attendance: 4,403
Game reference
Patrik BartošákGoaliesChristian HeljankoReferees:
Antti Boman
Jukka-Pekka Koistinen
Linesmen:
Tommi Niittylä
Joni Pekkala
0–105:04 – Thomas (Tuulola, Granath)
Kelleher (Vilén, Mylläri) – 58:431–1
1–229:29 – Savinainen (Lehterä, Ojamäki) (PP)
1–344:29 – Merelä (Puhakka, Matushkin)
4 minPenalties6 min
39Shots43
27 April 2023
18:30
Tappara5–4 OT1
(3–2, 0–1, 1–1, 1–0)
PelicansNokia Arena, Tampere
Attendance: 12,700
Game reference
Christian HeljankoGoaliesPatrik Bartošák
Jasper Patrikainen
Referees:
Mikko Kaukokari
Lassi Heikkinen
Linesmen:
Hannu Sormunen
Onni Hautamäki
Levtchi (Merelä, Matushkin) – 01:111–0
Tanus (Lehterä, Matushkin) – 07:032–0
Jurgens (Merelä, Levtchi) – 07:293–0
3–112:04 – Vilen (Ikonen, Vilen) (PP1)
3–214:41 – Blood (Vilen)
3–339:01 – Kangasniemi (Roine, Jašek) (PP1)
3–444:14 – Jämsen (Hirvonen, Vilen)
Savinainen (Kemiläinen, Merelä) – 59:594–4
Davidsson (Jurgens, Puhakka) – 68:575–4
8 minPenalties10 min
43Shots21

Tappara wins the finals 4-1.

Final rankings edit

  Tappara
  Pelicans
  Ilves
4 HIFK
5 Lukko
6 KalPa
7 Ässät
8 KooKoo
9 Kärpät
10 TPS
11 Jukurit
12 HPK
13 JYP
14 Sport
15 SaiPa

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Ilves vaihtaa päävalmentajaa – Antti Pennanen vetovastuuseen välittömästi" (in Finnish). Liiga.fi. 2022-10-05. Retrieved 2022-10-14.
  2. ^ "SaiPa vaihtaa päävalmentajaa – Ville Hämäläinen korvaa Pekka Virran" (in Finnish). Liiga.fi. 2022-10-14. Retrieved 2022-10-14.
  3. ^ "Joukkuetilastot | Runkosarja 2022-2023 | Tilastot | Liiga". Liiga.fi. Retrieved 2022-09-10.

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The 2022 23 SM liiga season was the 48th season of the SM liiga the top level of ice hockey in Finland since the league s formation in 1975 2022 23 SM liigaLeagueSM liigaSportIce hockeyDefending championsTappara 2021 22 DurationSeptember 2022 April 2023Number of games60Number of teams15TV partner s TeliaC MoreRegular seasonBest recordTappara Runners upIlvesSeason MVPMichael Joly HPK Top scorerMichael Joly HPK PlayoffsPlayoffs MVPVeli Matti Savinainen Tappara Finals championsTappara Runners upPelicansSM liiga seasons 2021 222023 24 Contents 1 Teams 2 Regular season 2 1 Scoring leaders 3 Playoffs 3 1 Bracket 3 2 Wild card round 3 3 Quarter finals 3 4 Semi finals 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 2022 23 SM liiga Team City Head coach Arena Capacity Captain HIFK Helsinki Ville Peltonen Helsingin jaahalli 8 200 Teemu Tallberg HPK Hameenlinna Jarno Pikkarainen Pohjantahti Areena 5 360 Juuso Hietanen Ilves Tampere Jouko Myrra 5 Oct 2022 1 Antti Pennanen Nokia Arena 13 000 Eemeli Suomi Jukurit Mikkeli Olli Jokinen Ikioma Areena 4 200 Juhamatti Aaltonen JYP Jyvaskyla Jukka Rautakorpi LahiTapiola Areena 4 437 Robert Rooba KalPa Kuopio Tommi Miettinen Olvi Areena 5 300 Tuomas Kiiskinen KooKoo Kouvola Olli Salo Lumon Areena 5 950 Heikki Liedes Karpat Oulu Lauri Marjamaki Oulun Energia Areena 6 400 Atte Ohtamaa Lukko Rauma Marko Virtanen Kivikylan Areena 4 700 Anrei Hakulinen Pelicans Lahti Tommi Niemela Isku Areena 5 371 Miika Roine SaiPa Lappeenranta Pekka Virta 14 Oct 2022 2 Ville Hamalainen Lappeenrannan jaahalli 4 820 Jarno Koskiranta Sport Vaasa Risto Dufva Vaasan Sahko Areena 5 185 Sebastian Stalberg Tappara Tampere Jussi Tapola Nokia Arena 13 000 Otto Rauhala TPS Turku Jussi Ahokas Gatorade Center 11 820 Juhani Jasu Assat Pori Karri Kivi West Areena 6 150 Jesse JoensuuRegular season edit nbsp Assat celebrating a regular season victory against Jukurit on 15 October 2022 Top six advanced straight to the quarter finals while teams between 7th and 10th positions played a 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 Tappara 60 33 6 5 16 187 140 47 116 Advance to Quarterfinals 2 Ilves 60 32 7 4 17 185 126 59 114 3 Lukko 60 28 8 5 19 155 122 33 105 4 Pelicans 60 30 4 5 21 166 136 30 103 5 KalPa 60 28 5 8 19 169 145 24 102 6 HIFK 60 24 8 9 19 155 150 5 97 7 Karpat 60 24 7 10 19 158 143 15 96 Advance to Wild card round 8 Assat 60 25 5 6 24 129 150 21 91 9 TPS 60 21 10 8 21 141 140 1 91 10 KooKoo 60 19 11 5 25 155 167 12 84 11 Jukurit 60 24 5 1 30 155 165 10 83 12 HPK 60 17 9 14 20 153 162 9 83 13 JYP 60 17 9 5 29 159 172 13 74 14 Sport 60 16 3 9 32 126 177 51 63 15 SaiPa 60 8 7 10 35 124 222 98 48Source Liiga 3 Scoring leaders edit The following players led the league in regular season points Player Team GP G A Pts PIM Michael Joly HPK 60 25 39 64 9 18 Jori Lehtera Tappara 57 11 46 57 5 45 Jerry Turkulainen JYP 60 12 42 54 3 20 Petri Kontiola Ilves 58 12 39 51 0 40 Jaakko Rissanen KalPa 57 16 34 50 17 26 Henrik Haapala Ilves 47 15 32 47 9 20 Les Lancaster Ilves 60 13 34 47 20 22 Joona Ikonen Ilves 54 23 22 45 9 16 Veli Matti Savinainen Tappara 54 17 27 44 6 30 Thomas Gregoire Lukko 57 13 31 44 23 41Playoffs editBracket edit Wild card round best of 3 Quarter finals best of 7 Semi finals best of 7 Finals best of 7 1Tappara47Karpat110KooKoo010KooKoo21Tappara46HIFK12Ilves4 Pairings are re seeded after the first and second round 8Assat11Tappara44Pelicans13Lukko28Assat26HIFK49TPS12Ilves2Bronze medal game4Pelicans44Pelicans42Ilves15KalPa36HIFK0 Wild card round edit Karpat KooKoo 1 213 3 2023KarpatKooKoo4 2 ref 14 3 2023KooKooKarpat4 1 ref 16 3 2023KarpatKooKoo0 5 ref KooKoo wins the series 2 1 Assat TPS 2 113 3 2023AssatTPS2 1 ref 14 3 2023TPSAssat2 1 ref 16 3 2023AssatTPS2 1 ref Assat wins the series 2 1 Quarter finals edit Tappara KooKoo 4 017 3 2023TapparaKooKoo4 0 ref 20 3 2023KooKooTappara1 6 ref 21 3 2023TapparaKooKoo2 1 OT1 ref 24 3 2023KooKooTappara0 3 ref Tappara wins the series 4 0 Lukko HIFK 2 418 3 2023LukkoHIFK1 4 ref 20 3 2023HIFKLukko1 0 OT1 ref 22 3 2023LukkoHIFK3 5 ref 24 3 2023HIFKLukko1 2 OT1 ref 25 3 2023LukkoHIFK2 1 ref 27 3 2023HIFKLukko3 2 OT1 ref HIFK wins the series 4 2 Ilves Assat 4 118 3 2023IlvesAssat5 1 ref 20 3 2023AssatIlves5 2 ref 22 3 2023IlvesAssat4 1 ref 24 3 2023AssatIlves1 4 ref 26 3 2023IlvesAssat3 2 ref Ilves wins the series 4 1 Pelicans KalPa 4 317 3 2023PelicansKalPa2 1 ref 18 3 2023KalPaPelicans3 0 ref 20 3 2023PelicansKalPa2 1 ref 22 3 2023KalPaPelicans3 2 ref 24 3 2023PelicansKalPa3 1 ref 25 3 2023KalPaPelicans5 1 ref 28 3 2023PelicansKalPa4 2 ref Pelicans wins the series 4 3 Semi finals edit Tappara HIFK 4 131 3 2023HIFKTappara2 3 OT2 ref 1 4 2023HIFKTappara4 2 ref 5 4 2023TapparaHIFK5 2 ref 7 4 2023TapparaHIFK5 2 ref 10 4 2023TapparaHIFK2 1 ref Tappara wins the series 4 1 Ilves Pelicans 2 431 3 2023PelicansIlves2 3 OT1 ref 1 4 2023PelicansIlves3 2 ref 6 4 2023IlvesPelicans2 3 ref 8 4 2023IlvesPelicans3 2 ref 11 4 2023IlvesPelicans0 2 ref 13 4 2023PelicansIlves3 1 ref Pelicans wins the series 4 2 Bronze medal game edit 20 April 2023 18 30Ilves3 2 1 1 1 0 1 1 HIFKNokia Arena Tampere Attendance 8 044Game referenceMarek LanghamerGoaliesRoope TaponenReferees Jukka Pekka KoistinenMikko KaukokariLinesmen Jussi ThomannJuho Pekka Inkinen0 106 05 Pakarinen Jaaska Luhanka Mantykivi Tikka 12 071 1Tikka Mantykivi Nyman 26 392 12 241 26 Teissala Melart Rantakari Virtanen Koskiranta 48 233 214 minPenalties10 min24Shots25 Finals edit 19 April 2023 18 30Tappara5 1 1 0 3 1 1 0 PelicansNokia Arena Tampere Attendance 11 904Game referenceChristian HeljankoGoaliesPatrik BartosakJasper PatrikainenReferees Mikko KaukokariLassi HeikkinenLinesmen Hannu SormunenOnni HautamakiTanus Savinainen Seppala 07 291 01 121 46 Vilen Killinen Kangasniemi Savinainen Kemilainen PP 36 552 1Vittasmaki Levtchi Tuulola 39 143 1M Davidsson Jurgens Ojamaki 39 454 1Rauhala Puhakka Merela 40 555 14 minPenalties6 min24Shots19 21 April 2023 18 30Pelicans0 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 TapparaIsku Areena Lahti Attendance 4 403Game referencePatrik BartosakGoaliesChristian HeljankoReferees Antti BomanJoonas KovaLinesmen Tommi NiittylaJoni Pekkala0 101 04 Rauhala Matushkin Seppala 0 259 04 Merela Lehtera Savinainen EN 2 minPenalties31 min47Shots48 22 April 2023 17 00Tappara1 4 0 1 0 1 1 2 PelicansNokia Arena Tampere Attendance 12 354Game referenceChristian HeljankoGoaliesPatrik BartosakReferees Joonas KovaMikko KaukokariLinesmen Hannu SormunenOnni Hautamaki0 119 36 Utunen Kangasniemi Ikonen 0 233 08 Hirvonen Jamsen Utunen Savinainen Tanus 47 221 21 358 24 Kangasniemi Killinen 1 459 27 Jasek Bryggman EN 10 minPenalties6 min51Shots37 25 April 2023 18 30Pelicans1 3 0 1 0 1 1 1 TapparaIsku Areena Lahti Attendance 4 403Game referencePatrik BartosakGoaliesChristian HeljankoReferees Antti BomanJukka Pekka KoistinenLinesmen Tommi NiittylaJoni Pekkala0 105 04 Thomas Tuulola Granath Kelleher Vilen Myllari 58 431 11 229 29 Savinainen Lehtera Ojamaki PP 1 344 29 Merela Puhakka Matushkin 4 minPenalties6 min39Shots43 27 April 2023 18 30Tappara5 4 OT1 3 2 0 1 1 1 1 0 PelicansNokia Arena Tampere Attendance 12 700Game referenceChristian HeljankoGoaliesPatrik BartosakJasper PatrikainenReferees Mikko KaukokariLassi HeikkinenLinesmen Hannu SormunenOnni HautamakiLevtchi Merela Matushkin 01 111 0Tanus Lehtera Matushkin 07 032 0Jurgens Merela Levtchi 07 293 03 112 04 Vilen Ikonen Vilen PP1 3 214 41 Blood Vilen 3 339 01 Kangasniemi Roine Jasek PP1 3 444 14 Jamsen Hirvonen Vilen Savinainen Kemilainen Merela 59 594 4Davidsson Jurgens Puhakka 68 575 48 minPenalties10 min43Shots21 Tappara wins the finals 4 1 Final rankings edit nbsp Tappara nbsp Pelicans nbsp Ilves 4 HIFK 5 Lukko 6 KalPa 7 Assat 8 KooKoo 9 Karpat 10 TPS 11 Jukurit 12 HPK 13 JYP 14 Sport 15 SaiPaSee also edit2022 23 Naisten Liiga seasonReferences edit Ilves vaihtaa paavalmentajaa Antti Pennanen vetovastuuseen valittomasti in Finnish Liiga fi 2022 10 05 Retrieved 2022 10 14 SaiPa vaihtaa paavalmentajaa Ville Hamalainen korvaa Pekka Virran in Finnish Liiga fi 2022 10 14 Retrieved 2022 10 14 Joukkuetilastot Runkosarja 2022 2023 Tilastot Liiga Liiga fi Retrieved 2022 09 10 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 2022 23 Liiga season amp oldid 1195044884, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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