Austrian Ice Hockey League 1995/96
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The Austrian Ice Hockey League 1995/96 was held with a total of eight clubs. Champion was defending champion VEU Feldkirch for the third time in a row and for the seventh time in the club's history , who prevailed against the EC KAC in the final .
Participant and mode
The field of participants had shrunk by two teams to eight teams compared to the previous season : EC Ehrwald was relegated to the Tyrolean regional league for financial reasons, while EK Zell am See failed in the relegation against EV Zeltweg . Last year's Oberliga champions DSG Rotschitzen had not been promoted to the Bundesliga and had withdrawn from the national leagues.
After the Alpine League had paused the year before in favor of a European League Cup, this time it was played again before the national championships in Austria, Slovenia and Italy (see Alpine League 1995/96 ). There, VEU Feldkirch prevailed against seventeen other participants. With the following Austrian championship title, the VEU also managed to win both championships in one season for the first time and thus established a dominance in Austrian ice hockey that lasted until 1999. The CE Vienna qualified for the discharge 1996/97 of the European Hockey League .
In the regular season, the clubs played against each other four times, which resulted in a total of 28 games per team. The quarter-finals were played back and forth, with first wins and then goal difference counted. The semi-finals and finals were played in best-of-five mode.
Basic round (28 laps)
space | team | Games | W. | T | L. | Goal difference | Points |
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1 | VEU Feldkirch | 28 | 23 | 3 | 2 | 170: 63 | 49 |
2 | EC KAC | 28 | 17th | 5 | 6th | 137: 78 | 39 |
3 | EC VSV | 28 | 15th | 8th | 5 | 149: 82 | 38 |
4th | CE Vienna | 28 | 12 | 8th | 8th | 130: 97 | 32 |
5 | EHC Lustenau | 28 | 11 | 2 | 15th | 106: 116 | 24 |
6th | SV Kapfenberg | 28 | 7th | 6th | 15th | 80: 124 | 20th |
7th | EC Graz | 28 | 4th | 5 | 19th | 67: 162 | 13 |
8th | EV Zeltweg | 28 | 3 | 3 | 22nd | 75: 192 | 9 |
statistics
The best scorer of the regular season was Simon Wheeldon from VEU Feldkirch with a total of 66 points, followed by Ray Podloski (Lustenau) with 56 and Mark Pederson (VSV) with 51 points. Igor Boriskow from CE Vienna was the king of the penalty box, with 96 penalty minutes in 26 games. The best goalkeeper was Reinhard Divis (VEU Feldkirch), who had to concede only 63 goals in 28 missions and 1660 minutes of play and led the goalkeeper statistics with an average of 2.28.
Playoffs
Quarter finals
series | Game 1 | Game 2 |
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VEU Feldkirch (1) - EV Zeltweg (8) | 10: 2 | 9: 1 |
EC KAC (2) - EC Graz (7) | 12: 3 | 8-0 |
EC VSV (3) - SV Kapfenberg (6) | 7: 3 | 9: 3 |
CE Vienna (4) - EHC Lustenau (5) | 4: 2 | 7: 2 |
Semifinals
series | Final score | Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3 | Game 4 | Game 5 |
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VEU Feldkirch (1) - CE Vienna (4) | 3-0 | 9: 3 | 6: 3 | 7: 3 | ||
EC KAC (2) - EC VSV (3) | 3: 1 | 5: 4 | 0: 3 | 2: 1 | 6: 3 |
final
series | Final score | Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3 | Game 4 | Game 5 |
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VEU Feldkirch (1) - EC KAC (2) | 3: 1 | 2: 1 | 4: 7 | 3: 2 | 5-0 |
With the 3-1 victory in the final series, VEU Feldkirch successfully defended the title and achieved the seventh championship (the third in a row) in the club's history.
Championship final result
Squad of the Austrian champions
Austrian champion VEU Feldkirch |
Goalkeepers: Reinhard Divis , Arnulf Zimmermann Defenders: Konrad Dorn , Karl Heinzle , Michael Lampert , Dominic Lavoie , Tom Searle , Wolfgang Strauss Attackers: Franz Fussi , Fritz Ganster , Christoph Gesson , Bengt-Åke Gustafsson , Siegfried Haberl , Normand Krumpschmid , Rick Nasheim , Gerhard Puschnik , Thomas Rundqvist , Bernd Schmidle , Thomas Sticha , Simon Wheeldon |
statistics
Top scorer | |||||||||||||||||
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Rk | player | team | GP | G | A. | Pts | PIM | ||||||||||
1 | Simon Wheeldon | VEU | 37 | 35 | 50 | 85 | 32 | ||||||||||
2 | Jason Lafrenière | VSV | 44 | 40 | 36 | 76 | 48 | ||||||||||
3 | Bengt-Åke Gustafsson | VEU Feldkirch | 36 | 20th | 46 | 66 | 14th | ||||||||||
4th | Ken Strong | VSV | 43 | 35 | 30th | 65 | 99 | ||||||||||
5 | Ray Podloski | Lustenau | 33 | 25th | 38 | 63 | 20th | ||||||||||
6th | Dieter Kalt | KAC | 38 | 34 | 28 | 62 | 14th | ||||||||||
7th | Mark Pederson | VSV | 34 | 28 | 32 | 60 | 52 | ||||||||||
8th | Gerhard Pushnik | VEU | 37 | 28 | 29 | 57 | 48 | ||||||||||
9 | Gerald Ressmann | VSV | 34 | 18th | 37 | 55 | 38 | ||||||||||
10 | Yves Héroux | Lustenau | 33 | 23 | 31 | 54 | 62 |
Web links
- Austrian Ice Hockey League 1995/96 at hockeyarchives.info (French)