This article describes the fourth season of the Erste Bank Juniors League (EBJL for short), the U18 youth league in Austrian ice hockey. If necessary, the Austrian U18 champions will also be played in addition to the EBJL master.
This season of the EBJL 15 teams take part in the league. The two Czech representatives HC LVI Breclav and HC Orli Znojmo do not provide any teams this year. The Slovenian club HK Triglav Olimpija is no longer there this year. In contrast, the following 3 clubs have raised their U18 teams to the U20 competition ( EBYSL ): HK Mladi Jesenice and HK Slavija Ljubljana (both SLO) and the LLZ Steiermark Süd / Graz99ers. New is the western Austrian syndicate of the AHL team EK Zell am See / UEC-Lienz and Győri NEMAK ETO HC (HUN) and for the second time after the EBYSL season 2013/14 UTE Budapest.
EC KAC
EC VSV
EC Red Bull Salzburg
SG Zell a. See / UEC-Lienz
Vienna Capitals
Okanagan HC Europe
EHC Linz
HDK Maribor
HK Budapest
MAC Budapest
Debrecen-Miskolci Select
ÚTE Budapest
Fehérvár AV19
Vasas SC
Győri NEMAK ETO HC
Map of all club locations for the 2016/17 season: group A1 ( ), group A2 ( ) as well as group B1 ( ) and group B2 ( )
The field of participants was divided into two groups (A and B) each with 2 subgroups (1 and 2) Basic round: Each team plays 33 games in a round-trip round within its group and the other group + one round in its sub-round. The exact procedure in subgroup a2 is currently (beginning of Sep. 2016) not yet described in EBJL rule book 16/17.
Play-offs
The top 4 in each group are qualified for the play-offs. The group winners have the right to pick and can choose between the 3rd and 4th placed in their group. Quarter- and semi-finals are played in a best-of-three series, the final for the first time in a best-of-five series.
Austrian U18 champion
Austrian U18 champions cannot become an international (= non-Austrian) club or an association with the official academy status of the ÖEHV. Should no Austrian club win the EBJL final, the championship title will be played separately in a best-of-three series between the two Austrian clubs with the highest points in the basic round . Eligible to play for the Austrian U18 title are: EV VSV, EC KAC, EHC Linz, Vienna Capitals, SG EK Zell am See / UHC-Lienz
table
Group A
rank
team
SP
S.
N
SNV
NNV
T
GT
TVH
PKT
1
Fehervar AV19
24
22nd
1
1
0
169
36
+133
68
2
EC VSV
25th
15th
6th
3
1
102
49
+53
52
3
EC KAC
22nd
12
4th
1
5
99
70
+29
43
4th
EC Red Bull Salzburg
21st
13
6th
1
1
95
52
+43
42
5
HC Györi ETO
24
6th
12
3
3
69
97
−28
27
6th
VASAS Continental Budapest
23
5
18th
0
0
47
140
−93
15th
7th
SPG Zell am See
21st
1
18th
0
2
34
149
−115
5
Group B
rank
team
SP
S.
N
SNV
NNV
T
GT
TVH
PKT
1
UTE Budapest
23
19th
2
2
0
120
56
+64
61
2
MAC Budapest
23
15th
4th
1
3
107
57
+50
50
3
UPC Vienna Capitals
24
12
5
5
2
84
71
+13
48
4th
Debrecen-Miskolce Select
24
10
12
2
0
74
59
+15
34
5
Okanagan Hockey Club Europe
25th
8th
16
1
0
60
84
−24
26th
6th
HDK Maribor
24
6th
13
1
4th
78
104
−26
24
7th
EHC Linz
22nd
4th
15th
2
1
54
102
−48
17th
8th
Hokiklub Budapest
23
2
18th
1
2
40
106
−66
10
Bold: Playoff place fixed / italic: Get out of the fight for the placement round
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