Kazakh ice hockey championship 1999/2000

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Master:	Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk
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The 1999/2000 season was the eighth season of the Kazakh ice hockey professional league . Nine clubs took part in the competition. Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk secured the title of Kazakh Champion for the seventh time .

The serial champion of the years 1993 to 1998 returned after a year of absence in the Kazakh championship, which was able to record a new participant record with a total of nine teams.

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In the preliminary round, the participants should play a triple round, so that each team would have played 21 games. Since Awtomobilist Karaganda , Amid Rudny and Junost Karaganda could not maintain the game, the teams that ended the preliminary round made 17 games. The three teams with the most points qualified for the final round.

The final round was played with four teams, as Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk was set automatically. A single round was played there, so that each team had three games. The team with the most points secured the championship in the end.

For a win in the regular playing time of 60 minutes, a team received two points, the losing opponent received nothing. In the event of a tie, each team received one point.

Championship course

Once again, the championship was divided into a preliminary and final round. In previous years, the championship had always been decided in a group stage. After the final round last year was played in the form of finals, this happened again in a group stage this year.

Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk played in the course of the season - with both the first and second team - in parallel in the third-class Russian Pervaya League . In addition, Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk took part in the IIHF Continental Cup in 1999 .

Preliminary round

At the end of the 21 rounds, the defending champions HK ZSKA-ISPAT Temirtau , Barys Astana and Jenbek Almaty made it to the final round. While Temirtau easily qualified, Astana had three points ahead of fourth-placed Avangard Petropavlovsk . Jenbek Almaty prevailed against Petropavlovsk only because of the better goal difference.

Of the other four, non-qualified teams, only Magnitka Temirtau brought the season to an end. Awtomobilist Karaganda and Amid Rudny came to twelve played rounds. The last-placed and winless Junost Karaganda on their seven.

Abbreviations: Sp = games, S = wins, U = draws, N = defeats, pts = points
Explanations:     = qualification for the final round

	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt
HK ZSKA-ISPAT Temirtau	17th	16	0	1	191: 071	32: 02
Barys Astana	17th	11	0	6th	160: 107	22:12
Jenbek Almaty	17th	9	1	7th	136: 110	19:15
Avangard Petropavlovsk	17th	9	1	7th	113: 113	19:15
Awtomobilist Karaganda	12	5	0	7th	069: 080	10:14
Amid Rudny	12	5	0	7th	074: 087	10:14
Magnitka Temirtau	17th	2	0	15th	071: 191	04:30
Junost Karaganda	7th	0	0	7th	014: 069	00:14

Final round

In the final round, Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk was able to impressively underpin its supremacy in Kazakh ice hockey. Without losing points, the team won the seventh championship title in eight years. The newly founded Barys Astana surprisingly secured the title of runner-up ahead of the defending champion HK ZSKA-ISPAT Temirtau .

Abbreviations: Sp = games, S = wins, U = draws, N = defeats, pts = points

	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt
Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk	3	3	0	0	23: 07	6-0
Barys Astana	3	2	0	1	13:18	4: 2
HK ZSKA-ISPAT Temirtau	3	1	0	2	07:10	2: 4
Jenbek Almaty	3	0	0	3	08:16	0: 6

Awards

Award	player	team
Most Valuable Player (Journalist Choice)	Fyodor Polishchuk	Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk
Best goalkeeper	Sergei Tambulov	HK ZSKA-ISPAT Temirtau
Best defender	Oleg Boljakin	Barys Astana
Best striker	Jerlan Sagymbayev	Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk
Top scorer	Maxim Komissarov	Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk

Web links

• Official website (russian)
• Kazakh ice hockey championship 1999/2000 at hockeyarchives.info (French)