Alpine League 1996/97

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Master: VEU Feldkirch

The 1996/97 season was the fifth regular staging of the transnational ice hockey competition of the Alpine League . It was held with a total of eleven professional teams from Austria , Italy and Slovenia . The defending champion was VEU Feldkirch , which won the title for the first time last year and was able to defend it this season as well.

Participant field and mode

After the previous year had taken eighteen teams in the championship, the number of participants for the current season shrank to eleven teams. Only the field of participants from Slovenia remained unchanged. With the Austrian teams, the EHC Lustenau was voluntarily relegated to the National League after the last season and therefore no longer took part in the Alpine League. EC Graz and EC Kapfenberg were newly added . However, the field of the Italian teams had decimated considerably. Last year there were nine clubs, this year only two competed in the Alpine League. The main reason for this was the relatively poor results that some of the smaller teams had achieved. But also financial reasons played a role for some, which could not compete with the arms race led mainly by the VEU Feldkirch .

In the basic season, a double round trip was played first, which meant forty games for each team. Then the finalists were determined in two tournaments. The two group winners finally competed against each other in the final and met there twice. The number of wins or, in the case of a tie, the goal difference determined the champions, who were finally called VEU Feldkirch again.

Basic round

table

space team Sp S. U N Gates Diff. Pt
1 AustriaAustria VEU Feldkirch 40 31 3 6th 177: 095 +82 65
2 AustriaAustria EC VSV 40 25th 5 10 194: 125 +69 55
3 SloveniaSlovenia HK Olimpija Ljubljana 40 21st 6th 13 200: 157 +43 48
4th AustriaAustria EC KAC 40 21st 6th 13 162: 126 +36 48
5 ItalyItaly HC Bolzano 40 19th 5 16 171: 155 +16 43
6th AustriaAustria EC Kapfenberg 40 16 9 15th 134: 124 +10 41
7th ItalyItaly HC Milano 24 40 18th 4th 18th 190: 174 +16 40
8th SloveniaSlovenia HK Jesenice 40 15th 4th 21st 131: 163 −32 34
9 AustriaAustria CE Vienna 40 15th 2 23 135-148 −13 32
10 SloveniaSlovenia HK Bled 40 11 5 24 118: 194 −76 27
11 AustriaAustria EC Graz 40 2 3 35 124: 275 −151 7th

Playoffs

Group stage

Group A
space team Sp S. U N Gates Diff. Pt
1 SloveniaSlovenia HK Olimpija Ljubljana 3 2 0 1 14:11 +3 4th
2 AustriaAustria EC VSV 3 1 1 1 18:11 +7 3
3 SloveniaSlovenia HK Jesenice 3 1 1 1 07:17 −10 3
4th ItalyItaly HC Milano 24 3 1 0 2 10:10 ± 0 2
Group B
space team Sp S. U N Gates Diff. Pt
1 AustriaAustria VEU Feldkirch 3 3 0 0 19: 08 +11 6th
2 AustriaAustria EC KAC 3 2 0 1 11: 05 +6 4th
3 ItalyItaly HC Bolzano 3 0 1 2 13:16 −3 1
4th SloveniaSlovenia HK Bled 3 0 1 2 13:27 −14 1

final

SloveniaSlovenia HK Olimpija Ljubljana
 4: 4
(2: 2, 1: 2, 1: 0) 		AustriaAustria VEU Feldkirch
AustriaAustria VEU Feldkirch
 6: 1
(1: 0, 2: 0, 3: 1) 		SloveniaSlovenia HK Olimpija Ljubljana

After the draw in the first game, VEU Feldkirch secured the second Alpine League championship title in a row by winning the second game.

Squad of the Alpine League champions

Alpine league champion VEU Feldkirch

Logo of the VEU Feldkirch

Goalkeepers: André Dietzsch , Reinhard Divis , Markus Seidl

Defenders: Greg Brown , Konrad Dorn , Karl Heinzle , Michael Lampert , Dominic Lavoie , Robert Robinson , Tom Searle , Wolfgang Strauss

Attackers: Raimund Divis , Fritz Ganster , Daniel Gauthier , Christoph Gesson , Bengt-Åke Gustafsson , Normand Krumpschmid , Rick Nasheim , Gerhard Puschnik , Thomas Rundqvist , Bernd Schmidle , Thomas Sticha , Simon Wheeldon

Trainer: Ralph Krueger

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