Alpine League 1997/98

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Master: VEU Feldkirch

The 1997-98 season was the sixth regular hosting of the Alpenliga in hockey , with a total of nine professional teams from Austria and Slovenia was held. Defending champion was VEU Feldkirch , which was able to secure the championship for the third time in a row this season.

Participant field and mode

After only two Italian teams had already participated in the league last year, the field of participants this season consisted only of Slovenian and Austrian teams, although these had remained the same.

In the basic round, a simple round-trip round was first played, which meant sixteen games for each team. Then the finalists were determined in two tournaments. The teams in ranks 1, 4, 5 and 8 were assigned to group A, those in ranks 2, 3, 6 and 7 to group B. The two group leaders finally competed against each other in the final.

Basic round

table

space team Sp S. U N Gates Diff. Pt
1 AustriaAustria VEU Feldkirch 16 10 3 3 68:33 +35 23
2 AustriaAustria EC KAC 16 9 3 4th 69:41 +28 21st
3 AustriaAustria Viennese EV 16 9 2 5 61:33 +28 20th
4th AustriaAustria EC VSV 16 9 2 5 67:48 +19 20th
5 AustriaAustria Kapfenberger SV 16 7th 2 7th 40:47 −7 16
6th AustriaAustria EC Graz 16 6th 2 8th 62:77 −15 14th
7th SloveniaSlovenia HK Jesenice 16 5 3 8th 54:65 −11 13
8th SloveniaSlovenia HK Bled 16 2 6th 8th 45:76 −31 10
9 SloveniaSlovenia HK Olimpija Ljubljana 16 3 1 12 38:84 −46 7th

Playoffs

Group stage

Group A
space team Sp S. U N Gates Diff. Pt
1 AustriaAustria VEU Feldkirch 3 3 0 0 12: 06 +6 6th
2 AustriaAustria EC VSV 3 2 0 1 11: 05 +6 4th
3 AustriaAustria Kapfenberger SV 3 0 1 2 06:11 −5 1
4th SloveniaSlovenia HK Bled 3 0 1 2 07:14 −7 1
Group B
space team Sp S. U N Gates Diff. Pt
1 AustriaAustria EC KAC 3 2 1 0 15: 09 +6 5
2 AustriaAustria Viennese EV 3 2 0 1 22:11 +11 4th
3 AustriaAustria EC Graz 3 1 1 1 10:15 −5 3
4th SloveniaSlovenia HK Jesenice 3 0 0 3 06:18 −12 0

final

4th December 1997 AustriaAustria EC KAC
 3: 5
(1: 3, 2: 0, 0: 2) 		AustriaAustria VEU Feldkirch
December 6, 1997 AustriaAustria VEU Feldkirch
 4: 4
(3: 2, 0: 2, 1: 0) 		AustriaAustria EC KAC

With the draw in the second game, the VEU Feldkirch captured the third Alpine League championship title in a row.

Squad of the Alpine League champions

Alpine league champion VEU Feldkirch

Logo of the VEU Feldkirch

Goalkeepers: Bruno Campese , Reinhard Divis

Defenders: Patrik Aronsson , Jesper Duus , Michael Lampert , Dominic Lavoie , Per Lundell , Tom Searle , 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

Trainer: Ralph Krueger

statistics

Team statistics

Power play
rank team Sp PP sec ADV PPG + SHG- Sec / PPG PP%
1 VEU Feldkirch 21st 6868 67 18th 3 381.60 26.87
2 EC Graz 19th 6489 62 16 2 405.60 25.81
3 EC KAC 21st 5652 52 12 2 471.00 23.08
4th EC VSV 19th 6705 63 13 2 515.80 20.63
5 HK Bled 19th 8169 76 15th 5 544.60 19.74
6th Viennese EV 19th 6201 57 11 4th 563.70 19.30
7th Kapfenberger SV 19th 7978 71 8th 4th 997.30 11.27
8th HK Jesenice 19th 7814 68 7th 3 1116.30 10.29
9 HK Olimpija Ljubljana 16 6357 54 3 9 2119.00 5.56
Penalty killing
rank team Sp PK sec DVG PPG SHG + Sec / PPG PK%
1 Viennese EV 19th 6635 61 7th 5 947.90 88.52
2 Kapfenberger SV 19th 3996 36 5 2 799.20 86.11
3 VEU Feldkirch 21st 8006 70 10 4th 800.60 85.71
4th EC KAC 21st 9171 82 12 8th 764.30 85.37
5 EC VSV 19th 8114 74 12 5 676.20 83.78
6th HK Bled 19th 6216 56 10 2 621.60 82.14
7th HK Jesenice 19th 6915 64 14th 3 493.90 78.13
8th HK Olimpija Ljubljana 16 7056 68 17th 2 415.10 75.00
9 EC Graz 19th 6124 61 16 3 382.70 73.77

Legend: Sp = games, PP-Sec / PK-Sec = time in over / under number, ADV = power plays , DVG = under number games, PPG = power play goals, SHG = under number goals

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