Austrian ice hockey league 1999/2000

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The Austrian Ice Hockey League 1999/2000 was played between four clubs. The championship was for the 26th time in its club history the EC KAC , which prevailed in the final against local rivals and defending champions EC VSV .

Participating teams

The participants of the 1999/2000 season consisted only of those four Austrian team, previously at between October 1999 and early February 2000. first season of the successor to Alpenliga designed Inter League had participated. There the EC KAC had defeated the EC VSV in the final and won the title. This should be repeated in the state championship.

mode

Due to the Interliga, the schedule for the Bundesliga (as in previous years with the Alpine League) was again extremely tight. The four clubs played twice against each other in the regular season between February 18 and March 3, 2000 (a total of six matches per team). In the event of a tie, a 5-minute extension ( Sudden Victory Overtime ) was played with four field players each. If this ended goalless, a penalty shoot-out was decided. The winner thus determined received two points, the loser one.

A play-off was then played from March 5 to March 31, 2000 , with all matches being played in best-of-seven mode.

Basic round

Cross-table of the basic run results

Away
At home EC VSV EC KAC Viennese EV VEU Feldkirch
EC VSV 5: 1
(3: 0, 1: 1, 1: 0)
03/03/2000 		6: 2
(0: 1, 4: 0, 2: 1)
02/25/2000 		6: 1
(1: 0, 4: 1, 1: 0)
02/22/2000
EC KAC 1: 6
(0: 1, 1: 4, 0: 2)
02/18/2000 		7: 2
(2: 0, 4: 2, 1: 0)
02/22/2000 		5: 2
(2: 0, 2: 2, 1: 0)
02/25/2000
Viennese EV 0: 8
(0: 2, 0: 5, 0: 1)
02/20/2000 		4: 3
(0: 0, 4: 1, 0: 2)
02/27/2000 		4: 1
(1: 0, 1: 1, 2: 0)
02/18/2000
VEU Feldkirch 0: 4
(0: 1, 0: 1, 0: 2)
02/27/2000 		3: 7
(0: 4, 2: 1, 1: 2)
02/20/2000 		4: 3 n.V.
(1: 1, 1: 1, 1: 1, 1: 0)
03/03/2000

Closing table

space team SP S. N SNV NNV T GT TD Points
1 EC VSV 6th 6th 0 0 0 35 5 +30 12
2 EC KAC 6th 3 3 0 0 24 22nd +2 6th
3 Viennese EV 6th 2 3 0 1 15th 29 −14 5
4th VEU Feldkirch 6th 0 5 1 0 11 29 −18 2

Playoffs

Semifinals

series Final score Game 1
March 5, 2000 		Game 2
March 7, 2000 		Game 3
March 10, 2000 		Game 4
March 13, 2000 		Game 5
March 14, 2000
EC VSV (1) - VEU Feldkirch (4) 4-0 6: 5
(1: 3, 3: 2, 2: 0) 		6: 2
(1: 1, 2: 1, 3: 0) 		4: 1
(0: 0, 1: 0, 3: 1) 		4: 1
(1: 0, 2: 1, 1: 0)
EC KAC (2) - Vienna EV (3) 4: 1 5: 1
(2: 1, 3: 0, 0: 0) 		6: 2
(2: 1, 2: 0, 2: 1) 		7: 0
(3: 0, 1: 0, 3: 0) 		5: 6 n.P.
(3: 3, 2: 1, 0: 1, 0: 0, 0: 1) 		6: 4
(2: 1, 1: 2, 3: 1)

final

series Final score Game 1
March 21, 2000 		Game 2
March 23, 2000 		Game 3
March 26, 2000 		Game 4
March 28, 2000 		Game 5
March 31, 2000
EC VSV (1) - EC KAC (2) 1: 4 1: 2
(0: 0, 1: 2, 0: 0) 		3: 4 n.V.
(2: 2, 0: 1, 1: 0, 0: 1) 		3: 1
(0: 0, 1: 0, 2: 1) 		2: 5
(1: 2, 1: 3, 0: 0) 		2: 4
(1: 0, 1: 2, 0: 2)

With the 2: 4 away win in Villach, the EC KAC won its 26th championship title.

Championship final result

  1. Logo of the EC KAC EC KAC
  2. EC VSV
  3. Viennese EV
  4. Logo of the VEU Feldkirch VEU Feldkirch

Squad of the Austrian champions

Austrian champion EC KAC

Logo of the EC KAC

Goalkeepers: Michael Suttnig , Gert Prohaska

Defenders: Christer Olsson , Jan Mertzig , Darcy Martini , Roger Öhman , Thomas Pöck , Christian Sintschnig , Marc Brabant , Alexander Mellitzer , Jens Felix Kraiger , Johannes Reichel

Attackers: Stefan Nilsson , Gerald Ressmann , David Emma , Christian Perthaler , Dieter Kalt jun. , Christoph Brandner , Patrick Pilloni , Mario Schaden , Christoph König , Gregor Hager , Thomas Koch , Thomas Eichberger

Trainer: Lars Bergström

Developments after the season

The current season was not met with much approval by the spectators, as only four teams had played out the Austrian championship title. After the season, the VEU Feldkirch voluntarily relegated to the second division for economic reasons and thus put the final point under a development that had already decimated the field of participants more and more in the years before. The nineties were marked by a steady arms race, which the VEU had led thanks to a powerful main sponsor and which fewer and fewer clubs had been able to follow. Since the Viennese EV did not want to participate in the top division either, only the two Carinthian clubs remained with the EC KAC and the EC VSV.

Therefore, a radical new beginning was decided in the summer after the season. The Bundesliga was merged with the second division in order to create a sufficiently large field of participants again. At the same time, regulations were decided that should put an end to the upgrading and price increases in order to be able to secure an attractive first division in the coming years.

One consequence of this decision was that after Austria's one-time participation, the Interliga was only played with teams from Hungary and Slovenia and alternately some other countries. Only when HK Jesenice entered the Bundesliga ( 2006/07 season ) did the Austrian teams compete with foreign teams again, with the non-Austrian teams winning the league championship but not the Austrian championship title.

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