Polish ice hockey league 1997/98

Polish ice hockey league
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Master:	Unia Oświęcim
Relegated:	SMS Sosnowiec II
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The 1997/98 season was the 63rd season of the Polish Ice Hockey League , the highest Polish ice hockey division . Master was for the second time in the club's history Unia Oświęcim .

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First, the 13 teams spent a common main round. The six best-placed teams qualified for the final round, whose participants all qualified for the playoffs in which the champions were played off. The remaining seven teams played a qualifying round, the top two of which also qualified for the playoffs. Each team received two points for a win, one point for a draw and zero points for a defeat.

Teams

Krynica Oświęcim Tychy Sanok Katowice Gdańsk Cracovia Nowy Targ Bytom Toruń Sosnowiec (2x) Janów Ekstraliga clubs 1997/98

Polonia Bytom KS Cracovia Stoczniowiec Gdańsk Naprzód Janów KKH Katowice KTH Krynica Podhale Nowy Targ TTH Toruń Unia Oświęcim STS Sanok SMS Sosnowiec I. SMS Sosnowiec II TTS Tychy

Final round

	club	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Points
1.	Podhale Nowy Targ	30th	22nd	3	5	106: 70	47
2.	Unia Oświęcim	30th	17th	3	10	106: 78	37
3.	STS Sanok	30th	16	2	12	118: 92	34
4th	KKH Katowice	30th	15th	1	14th	103: 83	31
5.	KTH Krynica	30th	10	0	20th	91: 122	20th
6th	Stoczniowiec Gdańsk	30th	5	1	24	83: 162	11

Sp = games, S = wins, U = draws, N = losses, OTS = overtime wins, OTN = overtime losses, SOS = penalty wins, SON = penalty losses

Qualifying round

	club	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Points
7th	KS Cracovia	24	21st	0	3	129: 72	42
8th.	TTH Toruń	24	18th	0	6th	118: 75	36
9.	TTS Tychy	24	16	1	7th	137: 90	33
10.	SMS Sosnowiec	24	12	0	12	137: 95	24
11.	Naprzód Janów	24	9	2	13	93:83	20th
12.	Polonia Bytom	24	6th	1	17th	83: 134	13
13.	SMS Sosnowiec II	24	0	0	24	43: 191	0

Sp = games, S = wins, U = draws, N = losses, OTS = overtime wins, OTN = overtime losses, SOS = penalty wins, SON = penalty losses

Playoffs

	Quarter finals				Semifinals				final
	STS Sanok	1
	Stoczniowiec Gdańsk	3
					Stoczniowiec Gdańsk	1
					Unia Oświęcim	3
	Unia Oświęcim	3
	KS Cracovia	0
									Unia Oświęcim	4th
									Podhale Nowy Targ	2
	Podhale Nowy Targ	3
	TTH Toruń	0
					Podhale Nowy Targ	3			Game for third place
					KKH Katowice	2
	KKH Katowice	3							KKH Katowice	3
	KTH Krynica	0							Stoczniowiec Gdańsk	2

Web links

• Playing time at hockeyarchives.info (French)