Ice Hockey National League (Austria) 2007/08

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The 2007/08 season of the Austrian national ice hockey league was played with nine teams. Defending champion was the VEU Feldkirch , which however could not repeat the success. EC-TREND Dornbirn became the new champion .

The basic round of the second highest Austrian league started on September 15, 2007 and ended on February 13, 2008, the points were halved after 16 rounds. Of the nine teams, the best eight qualified for the quarter-finals, the EHC Bregenzerwald was eliminated. All play-off matches were played in the best of five mode. Won the title of the EC-TREND Dornbirn , which in the final against the farm team of the Red Bulls Salzburg won out.

Basic round

The basic season began on September 15, 2007 and lasted a total of 32 match days until February 13, 2008. Compared to the previous and following seasons, the season was relatively even, with seven teams fighting for the top places in the table. Only the league newcomer EHC Team Vienna fell slightly in comparison and could only win seven games. It was even worse for the EHC Bregenzerwald, which only won its first win (after a penalty shoot-out) in the tenth round and only achieved three successes in total.

There were also some transfers to the book: Before the season, VEU Feldkirch had planned with the two young goalkeepers Michael Gruber and Lorenz Hirn , but neither of them could meet the expectations placed in them. As a result, Ville Veikko Hostikka was taken on loan from the Finnish first division club Saimaan Pallo , who had to be replaced by Mikko Rämö in the middle of the season . After the mixed start of the season, VEU was able to work its way up to fourth place in the table.

In the end, EC-TREND Dornbirn took first place, closely followed by EHC Lustenau, where the two Finns Toni Saarinen and Tommy Kiviaho were the undisputed top scorers with 100 and 90 points respectively. It was followed by three teams, Salzburg, Feldkirch and Zell am See, which were only separated by one point. Zeltweg, the KSV ice hockey club and the EHC Team Vienna closed the field of playoff participants. The EHC Bregenzerwald was beaten in last place and was the only team not in the playoff ranks, which had once again shown that the level of the national league was too high for the team.

Table after the basic round

space team Games Victories Defeats (after losing) Goal difference Points
1. EC-TREND Dornbirn 32 24 8 (2) 165: 109 36
2. EHC Lustenau 32 23 9 (1) 175: 110 35
3. EC Red Bull Salzburg 2nd 32 20th 12 (2) 152: 107 32
4th VEU Feldkirch 32 18th 14 (3) 106: 101 31
5. EK Zell am See 32 18th 14 (3) 138: 119 31
6th EV Zeltweg 32 16 16 (0) 133: 124 25th
7th KSV ice hockey club 32 15th 17 (4) 111: 116 25th
8th. EHC Team Vienna 32 7th 25 (4) 79: 132 13
9. EHC Bregenzerwald 32 3 29 (2) 63: 204 6th

statistics

Top scorer
Rk player team GP G A. Pts PIM
1 Toni Saarinen Lustenau 32 27 73 100 16
2 Tommy Kiviaho Lustenau 32 39 51 90 41
3 Matt Zultek Dornbirn 31 36 26th 62 120
4th Daniel Smith Dornbirn 30th 16 39 55 64
5 Juha-Matti Vanhanen Dornbirn 31 13 41 54 12
6th Jozef Daňo Zeltweg 31 18th 35 53 94
7th Leonīds Tambijevs Zeltweg 32 24 28 52 30th
Diethard Winzig Zeltweg 32 24 28 52 52
9 Ryan Foster Cell 31 23 28 51 38
10 Joakim Wiklander KSV 31 14th 36 50 52
11 Raphael Herburger Dornbirn 31 16 31 47 67
12 Trevor Burgess Lustenau 32 12 31 43 56
13 Jouko Myrra Feldkirch 32 15th 26th 41 24
14th Philipp Tiny Zeltweg 32 16 23 39 101
15th Timo Nussbaumer Lustenau 32 15th 23 38 28
goalkeeper
Rk player team GP MIP SO-CALLED SVS GA SVS% ATM SO W. L. OTL
1 Ville Veikko Hostikka Feldkirch 10 603: 16 303 284 19th 93.73 1.89 1 7th 2 1
2 Mikko Rämö Feldkirch 15th 918: 06 439 406 33 92.48 2.16 1 11 4th 1
3 Walter Bartholomew Team Vienna 26th 1481: 47 897 809 88 90.19 3.56 0 7th 14th 4th
4th René Swette Lustenau 30th 1773: 49 964 864 100 89.63 3.38 3 22nd 7th 1
5 Thomas Höneckl Salzburg 12 626: 42 301 269 32 89.37 3.06 1 6th 3 1
6th Markus Seidl Cell 30th 1784: 33 1015 904 111 89.06 3.73 0 17th 12 1
7th Michael Mayer KSV 27 1628: 51 807 715 92 88.60 3.39 1 13 12 2
8th Robert Slavik Zeltweg 26th 1461: 01 800 708 92 88.50 3.78 1 12 12 0
9 Thomas Innerwinkler Salzburg 19th 1064: 41 465 407 58 87.53 3.27 0 11 6th 1
10 Christian Fend Dornbirn 30th 1737: 20 789 688 101 87.20 3.49 2 23 6th 1
11 Manuel Pernutsch Bregenzerwald 27 1528: 56 844 707 137 83.77 5.38 0 3 21st 2

Play-offs

As expected, the quarter-finals of the playoffs did not bring any surprises. The table leaders Lustenau and Dornbirn clearly defeated their respective competitors with 3-0 wins. The VEU Feldkirch had a little more trouble, which lost the second game against EK Zell am See 2: 4. In game number three, the Zeller Eisbären were defeated 13-0, from which they no longer recovered and were finally eliminated in the fourth game. Salzburg could only defeat EV Zeltweg in the fifth and decisive game of the series and thus provided the last semi-final participant.

The semi-finals were also close, but there was a somewhat surprising outcome. The Salzburg team prevailed with 3: 1 wins against EHC Lustenau and thus secured their place in the finals.

Dornbirn was only just able to prevail in overtime in the first game and even had to give up the second game on foreign ice. The third game was also decided in overtime. Dornbirn ultimately used the match puck 5: 4 and thus secured the championship title of the 2007/08 season.

Play-off tree

  Quarter finals Semifinals final
                           
  1 EC Dornbirn 3        
8th EHC Team Vienna 0  
1 EC Dornbirn 3
  4th VEU Feldkirch 2  
4th VEU Feldkirch 3
5 EK Zell am See 1  
1 EC Dornbirn 3
  3 Red Bull Salzburg 2nd 1
2 EHC Lustenau 3    
7th KSV ice hockey club 0  
2 EHC Lustenau 1
  3 Red Bull Salzburg 2nd 3  
3 Red Bull Salzburg 2nd 3
  6th EV Zeltweg 2  

Quarter-finals individual results

  • EC Dornbirn (1) against EHC Team Vienna (8): 7: 2, 5: 4 n.V., 9: 1 - total: 3: 0
  • EHC Lustenau (2) against Kapfenberger SV (7): 5: 2, 4: 2 n.V., 7: 3 - total: 3: 0
  • Red Bull Salzburg (3) against EV Zeltweg (6): 9: 2, 1: 2, 2: 1, 1: 4, 5: 2 - total: 3: 2
  • VEU Feldkirch (4) against EK Zell am See (5): 3: 2, 2: 4, 13: 0, 6: 2 - total: 3: 1

Individual results semi-finals

  • EC Dornbirn (1) against VEU Feldkirch (4): 5: 4, 3: 2, 2: 8, 1: 4, 6: 2 - total: 3: 2
  • EHC Lustenau (2) against Red Bull Salzburg (3): 7: 2, 5: 6, 2: 7, 2: 3 n.V. - total: 1: 3

Individual results final

  • EC Dornbirn (1) against Red Bull Salzburg (3): 3: 2 a.d., 1: 4, 3: 2 a.s., 5: 4 - total: 3: 1

statistics

Top scorer
Rk player team GP G A. Pts PIM
1 Matt Zultek Dornbirn 12 10 10 20th 6th
2 Daniel Smith Dornbirn 12 7th 13 20th 38
3 Juha-Matti Vanhanen Dornbirn 12 9 10 19th 14th
4th Jouko Myrra Feldkirch 9 10 7th 17th 2
5 Martin Mairitsch Salzburg 10 8th 9 17th 6th
6th Olof Daniel Olsson Feldkirch 9 7th 10 17th 20th
7th Martin Grabher-Meier Salzburg 11 3 13 16 10
8th Tommy Kiviaho Lustenau 7th 5 10 15th 8th
9 Jason Beckett Salzburg 12 6th 8th 14th 49
10 Toni Saarinen Lustenau 7th 5 8th 13 10
goalkeeper
Rk player team GP MIP SO-CALLED SVS GA SVS% ATM SO W. L. OTL
1 Robert Slavik Zeltweg 4th 236: 02 146 137 9 93.84 2.28 0 2 2 0
2 Thomas Höneckl Salzburg 10 610: 35 307 284 23 92.51 2.26 0 7th 1 2
3 Mikko Rämö Feldkirch 9 528: 23 310 286 24 92.26 2.72 0 5 4th 0
4th Christian Fend Dornbirn 11 670: 16 332 297 35 89.46 3.13 0 8th 3 0
5 René Swette Lustenau 7th 429: 49 233 207 26th 88.84 3.63 0 4th 2 1
6th Markus Seidl Cell 4th 207: 03 125 108 17th 86.40 4.93 0 1 3 0
7th Christian Hanschirik Team Vienna 3 144: 58 86 71 15th 82.56 6.21 0 0 1 1
8th Michael Mayer KSV 3 151: 29 70 55 15th 78.57 5.94 0 0 2 1

Championship final result

  1. EC-TREND Dornbirn
  2. EC Red Bull Salzburg
  3. EHC Lustenau
  4. VEU Feldkirch
  5. EK Zell am See
  6. EV Zeltweg
  7. KSV ice hockey club
  8. EHC Team Vienna
  9. EHC Bregenzerwald

Squad of the national league champions

National league champions

EC-TREND Dornbirn

Goalkeepers: Christian Fend, Christof Schwendinger

Defenders: Jürgen Fussenegger, Michael Kutzer, Dominik Lumetzberger, Alexander Mellitzer, Patric Scheffknecht, Stefan Spannring, Markus Stengele, Florian Stern, Thomas Urban

Attackers: Thomas Auer , Manuel Ganahl , Julian Grafschafter, Raphael Herburger , Fabio Hofer, Pascal Kainz, Markus Kosnjak, Michael Lissek, Christian Messner, Alexander Paul, Sascha Rauter, Lukas Schwitzer, Daniel Smith , Adrian Ströhle, Juha-Matti Vanhanen , Marcel Wolf, Matt ZultekUnited StatesUnited States FinlandFinland CanadaCanada

Head coach:

spectator

At home Away total
rank team Games average Games average Games spectator average
1 EC-TREND Dornbirn 23 2.140 21st 1.314 44 76,824 1,746
2 VEU Feldkirch 20th 1,609 21st 1,847 41 70,966 1,731
3 EK Zell am See 18th 1,851 18th 823 36 48.126 1,337
4th EHC Lustenau 20th 1,301 19th 1,136 39 47,605 1,221
5 EV Zeltweg 18th 1,019 19th 785 37 33,269 899
6th KSV ice hockey club 17th 834 18th 932 35 30,947 884
7th EC Red Bull Salzburg 23 302 22nd 1,235 45 34,129 758
8th EHC Team Vienna 17th 291 18th 908 35 21,288 608
9 EHC Bregenzerwald 16 295 16 743 32 16,600 519