Mestis 2010/11

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Master:	Vaasan Sport
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Relegated:	none
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The 2010/11 season was the eleventh season of the Mestis , the second highest Finnish ice hockey league . Vaasan Sport defeated Jukurit 3-2 in the playoff final and was thus champions of the league.

Attendees

team	place	Hall	capacity
D team	Jyväskylä	Synergia areena	4,618
HeKi	Heinola	Versowood Areena	2.975
Hokki Kajaani	Kajaani	Kajaanin jäähalli	2,372
Jokipojat	Joensuu	Mehtimae jäähalli	4,800
Jukurit	Mikkeli	Kalevankankaan jäähalli	4,500
Kiekko laser	Oulu	Oulun Energia Areena	6.614
Kiekko-Vantaa	Vantaa	Valtti-areena	3,700
KooKoo	Kouvola	Kouvolan jäähalli	6,000
Leki	Lempäälä	Masku-areena
SaPKo	Savonlinna	Talvisalon Gigantti-areena	2.833
Vaasan Sport	Vaasa	Vaasa Areena	4,300
TuTo hockey	Turku	Kupittaan jäähalli	3,000

Main round

mode

Each team has to play four times against every other team in the league and once against the Finnish U20 national team . A team wins three points in regular time, two points for a win after extra time and one point for a loss after extra time. There are no points for a loss in regular time.

table

Abbreviations: Sp = games, S = victories, SnV = victory after overtime, U = draw, NnV = defeat after overtime, N = defeats, ET = goals scored, GT = goals conceded, TD = goal difference, pts = points

rank	team	Sp	S.	SnV	NnV	N	ET	GT	TD	Pt
1.	Jukurit	49	29	8th	3	9	187	108	+79	106
2.	KooKoo	49	31	3	4th	11	169	102	+67	103
3.	Sports	49	22nd	5	3	19th	139	133	+6	79
4th	SaPKo	49	20th	7th	5	17th	156	152	+4	79
5.	D team	49	20th	7th	3	19th	147	142	+5	77
6th	LeKi	49	24	1	2	22nd	158	163	−5	76
7th	K laser	49	20th	2	6th	21st	145	152	−7	70
8th.	K-Vantaa	49	18th	6th	3	22nd	143	150	−7	69
9.	HeKi	49	18th	5	5	21st	143	168	−25	69
10.	Jokipojat	49	16	3	8th	22nd	146	173	−27	62
11.	Hokki	49	15th	5	5	24	136	155	−19	60
12.	TuTo	49	13	0	5	31	137	185	−48	44
	U20 Finland	12	1	1	1	9	31	54	−23	6th

statistics

Best scorer

player	team	Games	Gates	Assists	Points
Jan-Mikael Järvinen	SaPKo	48	20th	34	54
Iivo Hokkanen	KooKoo	47	18th	33	51
Markku Flinck	Jukurit	49	16	31	47
Sami Lähteenmäki	Jukurit	46	26th	17th	43
Roberts Jekimovs	Jokipojat	47	24	19th	43
Kory Baker	KooKoo	46	12	30th	42
Oskar Essen	SaPKo	49	20th	21st	41
Leave Lintula	TuTo	49	12	28	40
Jesper Piitulainen	SaPKo	50	9	30th	39
Tommi Laine	TuTo	43	14th	24	38

Best goalkeeper

Abbreviations: Sp = games, Sv = saved shots, GT = goals conceded, SO = shutout , GAA = goal conceded , Sv% = catch rate

Surname	team	Sp	Min	GT	Sv	SO	ATM	Sv%
Mikko Rämö	KooKoo	41	2443: 40	79	1106	5	1.94	93.33
Jarno Laitinen	D team	20th	1221: 11	44	616	1	2.16	93.33
Kai Tillanen	Jukurit	20th	1219: 22	39	473	1	1.92	92.38
Mikko Pätsi	LeKi	26th	1412: 19	69	825	2	2.93	92.28
Mika Norja	K-Vantaa	38	2206: 50	95	1125	5	2.58	92.21
Juha Toivonen	Hokki	30th	1720: 27	78	889	3	2.72	91.93
Juuso Oinonen	SaPKo	26th	1503: 43	65	694	2	2.59	91.44
Jaakko Simola	LeKi	21st	1138: 54	60	592	0	3.16	90.80
Antti Rautiola	K laser	38	2260: 56	103	1009	3	2.73	90.74
Teemu Seppänen	Jukurit	30th	1763: 53	66	587	3	2.25	89.89

Play-offs

mode

Places 1-8 in the main round are qualified for the play-offs, which are consistently played out in the Best of Five mode. Only one game is played in the round for 3rd place.

The respective opponents were put together so that the top ranked team plays against the worst, the second best, against the second worst, and so on. As in the main round, a game lasts a total of 60 minutes. After the regular time, extensions ( Sudden Victory Overtime ) of 20 minutes each are played.

Tournament tree

	Quarter finals				Semifinals				final
	February 19-23
	Jukurit (1.)	3
					28.2. – 4.3.
	K-Vantaa (8.)	0
					Jukurit	3
	19.2. – 25.2.
					D team	0
	SaPKo (4.)	1
									9.3. – 16.3.
	D team (5.)	3
									Jukurit	2
	February 19-23
									Sports	3
	KooKoo (2.)	3
					28.2. – 5.3.
	K laser (7.)	0
					KooKoo	1			Game for third place
	February 19-23
					Sports	3
	Sports (3.)	3							KooKoo	0
	LeKi (6.)	0							D team	1
									9.3.

Promotion Games

The 14th of the SM-lliga played in a best-of-7 series against the master of the Mestis to stay or promotion to the SM-liiga.

Pelicans - sport 19th March Pelicans Sports 4-0 March 22 Sports Pelicans 3-4 March 24th Pelicans Sports 8-3 26th of March Sports Pelicans 0-2 Pelicans wins 4-0 and remains in the SM-liiga.

Mestis qualification

mode

The two last-placed teams of the Mestis play in a Best of Five series of the participants for the following qualifying round with the three best teams of the Suomi-sarja . In this, the four teams compete against each other in a two-way leg to remain in the Mestis or to be promoted.

Play-outs

• Hokki - TuTo 2: 3

table

Abbreviations: Sp = games, S = victories, SnV = victory after overtime, U = draw, NnV = defeat after overtime, N = defeats, ET = goals scored, GT = goals conceded, TD = goal difference, pts = points

rank	team	Sp	S.	SnV	NnV	N	ET	GT	TD	Pt
1.	Hokki	6th	4th	1	0	1	22nd	13	+9	14th
2.	RoKi	6th	4th	0	0	2	38	20th	+18	12
3.	Koo-Vee	6th	2	0	0	4th	20th	33	−13	6th
4th	HCK	6th	1	0	1	4th	24	38	−14	4th

With this, Kajaanin Hokki secured relegation, while the three other participants remain in the Suomi-sarja.

Web links

• Official website (Finnish)