MOL League 2008/09

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Master:	HC Miercurea Ciuc
Relegated:	none
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The 2008/09 season of the MOL League was the first regular staging of the highest joint ice hockey division in Romania and Hungary . The first champions of the league was HC Miercurea Ciuc , who was also the best team in the main round.

Participant and mode

Székesfehérvár Dunaújváros Miskolc Budapest (3 clubs) Gheorgheni Bucharest Miercurea Ciuc (2 clubs)

Map of MOL locations for the 2008/09 season

Each team played against each opponent four times, making the total number of games per team in the main round 36. The first four teams qualified for the playoffs, in which the semi-finals were played in best-of-three mode and the final in best-of-five mode.

The following teams took part in the league's first edition in the 2008/09 season:

• Dunaújvárosi Acélbikák from Dunaújváros
• Ferencvárosi TC from Budapest
• Budapest Stars from Budapest
• Miskolci Jegesmedvék JSE from Miskolc
• Újpesti TE from Budapest
• Alba Volán Székesfehérvár II
• SC Miercurea Ciuc from Miercurea Ciuc ( ung.Csíkszereda )
• HC Csíkszereda from Miercurea Ciuc (ung. Csikszereda )
• Steaua Bucharest from Bucharest
• CS Progym Gheorgheni from Gheorgheni

Table of the basic round

Pl.		Sp	S.	OTW	OTL	N	Gates	Points
1.	HC Csíkszereda	36	27	3	4th	2	200: 92	91
2.	SC Miercurea Ciuc	36	25th	3	1	7th	174: 90	82
3.	Újpesti TE	36	24	2	3	7th	181: 114	79
4th	Budapest stars	36	19th	2	2	13	114: 82	63
5.	Dunaújvárosi Acélbikák	36	18th	3	2	13	149: 123	62
6th	Steaua Bucharest	36	18th	1	1	16	159: 127	57
7th	Ferencvárosi TC	36	13	0	1	22nd	102: 153	40
8th.	CS Progym Gheorgheni	36	11	1	1	23	114: 176	36
9.	Miskolci Jegesmedvék JSE	36	3	1	2	30th	71: 193	13
10.	Alba Volán II	36	3	1	0	32	80: 194	11

Play-offs

	Semifinals					final
	1.	HC Csíkszereda	2
	4th	Budapest stars	0
						1.	HC Csíkszereda	3
						2.	SC Miercurea Ciuc	0
	2.	SC Miercurea Ciuc	2
	3.	Újpesti TE	0

Awards

The following awards were given by the MOL League:

• Top scorer: Patrik Sigvard Wallenberg ( SC Miercurea Ciuc ) with 81 points (50 goals and 31 assists in 37 games)
• Most Valuable Player : Patrik Sigvard Wallenberg (SC Miercurea Ciuc)
• Best goalkeeper: Björn Wallberg (Budapest Stars)
• Best Defender: Igor Rufus (Újpesti TE)
• Best striker: Árpád Mihály (HC Miercurea Ciuc)

statistics

Top scorer

rank	player	team	GP	G	A.	Pts	PIM	SO-CALLED	SG%	+	-	+/-
1.	Patrik Wallenberg	HC Miercurea Ciuc	37	50	31	81	46	264	18.9	73	24	+49
2.	Árpád Mihály	HC Miercurea Ciuc	39	40	39	79	24	178	22.4	65	23	+42
3.	Johan Ramstedt	SC Miercurea Ciuc	37	23	53	76	48	137	16.7	73	18th	+55
4th	Ladislav Sikorcin	Újpesti TE	33	31	44	75	95	143	21.6	69	14th	+55
5.	Ján Zlocha	Újpesti TE	37	29	42	71	63	147	19.7	70	16	+54
6th	Vladimir Dubek	Újpesti TE	38	28	38	66	36	141	19.8	77	19th	+58
7th	Cătălin Geru	Steaua Bucharest	36	29	26th	55	56	97	29.8	48	34	+14
8th.	Csaba Jánosi	Ferencvárosi TC	35	29	21st	50	36	165	17.5	46	41	+5
9.	Szabolcs Szőcs	SC Miercurea Ciuc	37	20th	27	47	42	120	16.6	60	22nd	+38
10.	Robert Franc	CS Progym Gheorgheni	36	25th	20th	45	94	178	14.0	41	55	−14

goalkeeper

rank	player	team	GP	MIP	GA	ATM	SO-CALLED	SVS	SVS%
1.	Patrik Polc	HC Miercurea Ciuc	25th	1405: 54	54	2.30	770	716	92.98
2.	Bjorn Wallberg	Budapest stars	32	1882: 52	75	2.38	1010	935	92.57
3.	Ivan Fedor	HC Miercurea Ciuc	14th	796: 27	37	2.78	413	376	91.04
4th	Stanislav Kozuch	SC Miercurea Ciuc	38	2124: 15	97	2.73	1018	921	90.47
5.	Juraj Nemcak	Újpesti TE	23	1343: 55	69	3.08	724	655	90.46
6th	Matus Palko	Újpesti TE	5	883: 52	50	3.39	522	472	90.42
7th	Jozef Racko	Dunaújvárosi Acélbikák	17th	960: 33	54	3.37	509	455	89.39
8th.	András Sájevics	Ferencvárosi TC	18th	1013: 09	69	4.08	638	569	89.18
9.	Evgeny Brul	Steaua Bucharest	31	1651: 19	96	3.48	838	742	88.54
10.	Attila Norbert Szőke	Ferencvárosi TC	19th	1090: 18	83	4.56	723	640	88.52
11.	Szabolcs Molnár	CS Progym Gheorgheni	25th	1485: 00	117	4.72	980	863	88.06
12.	Bence Bálizs	Alba Volán	22nd	1050: 58	95	5.42	718	623	86.76
13.	Zoltan Becze	Alba Volán	22nd	1079: 35	94	5.22	709	615	86.74
14th	Dávid showerk	Miskolci JJSE	34	1706: 19	144	5.06	1073	929	86.57

Squad of the MOL league winner

MOL league winner HC Miercurea Ciuc

Goalkeepers: Patrik Polc , Róbert Fülöp , Rajmond Fülöp Defenders: József Adorján , Botond Flinta , Attila Góga , István Nagy , Daniel Socha , Ladislav Harabin , Dimitri Suur , Tamás Solti , Zoltán Szögyör Attackers: Zsombor Antal , Ottó Biró , Levente Lőrincz , Árpád Mihály , Ede Mihály , Zsolt Molnár , Zoltán Páll , Levente Péter , Miroslav Pupak , Martin Saluga , Miroslav Stefanka , István Szabó , Csanád Virág , Denis Zabludovsky Trainer: Timo Lahtinen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ MOL title in Romanian hands. In: iihf.com. February 17, 2009, accessed December 22, 2017 . 

Web links

• Season overview on the website of the Hungarian Ice Hockey Federation
• Official website of the Hungarian Ice Hockey Federation (engl./ung.)