Austrian Ice Hockey League 1997/98
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The 1997/98 season of the Austrian ice hockey league was played following the Alpine league season with the six Austrian representatives of the international competition. Champion was defending champion VEU Feldkirch for the fifth time in a row and for the ninth time in the club's history , who prevailed against the EC KAC in the final .
Participant and mode
The field of participants remained unchanged compared to the previous year. The six teams had previously competed in the Alpine League, which ended on December 6th with the VEU Feldkirch championship. Furthermore, in January, immediately before the state championship, the Vorarlberg team won the European Hockey League , where they beat the Russian team HK Dynamo Moscow 5-3 in the final . The Vorarlbergers had won three titles in a single season and thus consolidated their supremacy in Austrian ice hockey.
The six clubs played against each other four times in the basic round, with the last two rounds shortened by the bankruptcy of Kapfenberger SV, which had not been able to finish the season. A play-off was then played, with all matches being played in best-of-seven mode. The four most successful Austrian clubs in the Alpine League were awarded four, three, two or one bonus points.
Basic round
Table after the regular round (18 rounds)
space | team | Games | W. | T | L. | Goal difference | Points (bonus points) |
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1 | VEU Feldkirch | 18th | 10 | 3 | 5 | 65:46 | 27 (4) |
2 | EC KAC | 18th | 10 | 3 | 5 | 74:66 | 26 (3) |
3 | EC VSV | 18th | 10 | 2 | 6th | 74:62 | 23 (1) |
4th | Viennese EV | 18th | 9 | 1 | 8th | 83:68 | 21 (2) |
5 | EC Graz | 18th | 5 | 1 | 12 | 59:87 | 11 (0) |
6th | Kapfenberger SV * | 10 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 22:48 | 2 (0) |
Note: (*) Kapfenberg went bankrupt after 10 rounds and stopped playing.
Playoffs
Semifinals
series | Final score | Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3 | Game 4 | Game 5 | Game 6 | Game 7 |
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VEU Feldkirch (1) - Vienna EV (4) | 4: 1 | 4: 3 | 2: 5 | 4-0 | 3: 1 | 2-0 | ||
EC KAC (2) - EC VSV (3) | 4: 1 | 3: 2 | 5: 6 a.d. | 4: 3 | 3: 2 | 5: 3 |
final
series | Final score | Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3 | Game 4 | Game 5 | Game 6 | Game 7 |
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VEU Feldkirch (1) - EC KAC (2) | 4: 1 | 6: 1 | 2: 3 a.d. | 5: 1 | 3: 2 | 2-0 |
With the 4: 1 in the final series, VEU Feldkirch secured the ninth championship title and the fifth title in a row.
Championship final result
Squad of the Austrian champions
Austrian champion VEU Feldkirch |
Goalkeepers: Reinhard Divis , Bruno Campese Defenders: Jesper Duus , Per Lundell , Tom Searle , Dominic Lavoie , Patrik Aronsson , Michael Lampert , Wolfgang Strauss Attackers: Mika Asikainen , Raimund Divis , Fritz Ganster , Daniel Gauthier , Christoph Gesson , Bengt-Åke Gustafsson , Rick Nasheim , Gerhard Puschnik , Thomas Rundqvist , Bernd Schmidle , Thomas Sticha , Tomaž Vnuk , Simon Wheeldon , Nik Zupančič |
statistics
- Fair play: Kapfenberger SV
- Top scorer : David Emma (EC KAC) with 35 points (17 goals, 18 assists)
- Best goalkeeper : Reinhard Divis with a catch rate of 92.4%
- Highest average attendance: EC KAC with 3,900 spectators per game
Web links
- Austrian Ice Hockey League 1997/98 at hockeyarchives.info (French)