Series A1 2008/09

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The 2008-09 season of the Italian Ice Hockey Championship of Series A1 was held with a total of eight teams. The defending champion was HC Bozen , who defended the championship title in the final against Ritten Sport . The HC Fassa successfully avoid relegation in the play Downs.

Participating teams

Participants in the series A1 2008/09

After the previous season, the HC Milano Vipers unexpectedly dropped out of the A1 series, which caused great consternation in circles of the league, as the Milanese came from a city with an extensive hockey tradition as a great crowd puller. President Alvise di Canossa announced this step on June 12, 2009, explaining that Italian ice hockey had not developed as desired and he saw no future for the club. Financial reasons were not officially given.

This ultimately left the following eight teams:

mode

In the basic round, a three-way round was played. The best four teams qualified for the playoffs, which were held in the form of semi-finals and finals as the best of seven series. The teams in places five to eight played a playdown series. The inferior teams had to go to the next round. The loser of the last series competed against the winner of the A2 series for relegation.

Basic round

Table after the basic round

space team Points Games S. SNV N NNV Gates TD
1 Ritten sport 48 42 24 2 7th 9 166: 119 +47
2 HC Bolzano 46 42 23 6th 8th 5 170: 118 +52
3 SG Cortina 44 42 24 7th 7th 4th 162: 114 +48
4th HC Pustertal 39 42 18th 2 16 6th 151: 138 +13
5 AS Asiago Hockey 30th 42 13 6th 20th 3 113: 145 −32
6th HC Alleghe 30th 42 12 7th 21st 2 132: 144 −12
7th HC Fassa 22nd 42 10 1 25th 6th 104: 161 −57
8th SG Pontebba 18th 42 8th 5 28 1 107: 166 −59

Playoffs

The semi-final series was very one-sided in favor of the two best-placed teams. Ritten Sport was the only team to suffer a defeat and was defeated by HC Pustertal in the second game of the series with 2: 3. HC Bozen won all four games, but had to go into extra time in the last two games. This ended both series prematurely, and the two finalists had a week off before the final series.

Bolzano finally prevailed against the challenger with 4-0 wins in the final and gave the Knights no chance thanks to an excellent Pasi Häkkinen in goal. Legionnaire Kenny Corupe , who had been prematurely released the year before from HDD Olimpija Ljubljana and has since stormed for Bolzano, was able to play his class several times. The HC Bozen won the eighteenth championship title in the club's history and had not lost a game in the entire playoffs.

Semifinals

series Final score Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Game 4 Game 5
Ritten Sport (1) - HC Pustertal (4) 4: 1 7: 3
(5: 0, 2: 1, 0: 2) 		2: 3
(0: 1, 1: 1, 1: 1) 		6: 2
(3: 0, 1: 1, 2: 1) 		3: 1
(1: 0, 1: 1, 1: 0) 		6: 2
(2: 2, 4: 0, 0: 0)
HC Bozen (2) - SG Cortina (3) 4-0 3: 1
(2: 1, 0: 0, 1: 0) 		5: 2
(2: 1, 1: 0, 2: 1) 		4: 3 n.V.
(1: 2, 0: 1, 2: 0, 1: 0) 		4: 3 n.V.
(1: 0, 2: 3, 0: 0, 1: 0)

final

series Final score Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Game 4
Ritten Sport (1) - HC Bozen (2) 0: 4 2: 4
(1: 1, 0: 2, 1: 1) 		0: 1 n.V.
(0: 0, 0: 0, 0: 0, 0: 1) 		2: 3 n.V.
(0: 1, 1: 0, 1: 1, 0: 1) 		3: 7
(2: 3, 1: 1, 0: 3)

Playdowns

In the playdowns, the fifth-placed AS Asiago Hockey secured early relegation with a 3-0 in the series and sent SG Pontebba into the next round. HC Alleghe had a lot more trouble with their opponent HC Fassa. After two wins in a row, HC Fassa was able to equalize again, so that the fifth game had to decide. There, however, HC Alleghe finally prevailed.

The two losing teams carried out another Best of Five series. SG Pontebba, who had finished the main round as the last and had just not won against Asiago, defeated HC Fassa with 3-1 wins and thus also secured themselves relegation. In the final of the playdowns the defeated HC Fassa faced the winner of the A2 series, the WSV Sterzing Broncos . The team from the A1 series was able to assert itself with clear victories and thus secure participation in the A1 series for the next season.

Quarter finals

series Final score Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Game 4 Game 5
AS Asiago Hockey (5) - SG Pontebba (8) 3-0 6: 3
(2: 2, 1: 1, 3: 0) 		4: 3
(2: 1, 1: 1, 1: 1) 		5: 3
(1: 1, 2: 1, 2: 1)
HC Alleghe (6) - HC Fassa (7) 3: 2 4: 3
(1: 1, 2: 1, 1: 1) 		3: 1
(1: 0, 2: 1, 0: 0) 		3: 5
(1: 2, 2: 2, 0: 1) 		3: 6
(2: 2, 1: 3, 0: 1) 		6: 3
(2: 1, 2: 0, 2: 2)

Semifinals

series Final score Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Game 4
HC Fassa (7) - SG Pontebba (8) 1: 3 4: 2
(1: 1, 2: 1, 1: 0) 		2: 4
(0: 2, 2: 2, 0: 0) 		3: 4
(0: 2, 2: 0, 1: 2) 		1: 4
(0: 2, 1: 1, 0: 1)

final

series Game 1 Game 2
HC Fassa (7) - WSV Sterzing Broncos (Winner Serie A2) 4: 2
(0: 0, 0: 2, 4: 0) 		8: 4
(3: 1, 3: 2, 2: 1)

statistics

The statistics cover the entire season with regular season and playoffs.

Top scorer
Rk player team GP G A. Pts PIM PPG PPA SHG SHA GWG
1 Kenny Corupe Bolzano 50 35 49 84 58 7th 18th 2 3 8th
2 Dan Tudin Rides 50 31 49 80 54 14th 13 3 6th 3
3 Nicolas Corbeil Rides 50 25th 50 75 111 7th 18th 1 5 7th
4th Greg Barber Val Pusteria 46 27 41 68 54 8th 12 1 2 5
5 Giulio Scandella Rides 42 33 34 67 30th 8th 10 8th 2 5
6th Greg Watson Val Pusteria 47 24 41 65 84 5 10 1 3 3
7th Shawn Mather Rides 50 24 36 60 38 7th 14th 3 1 2
8th Brendan Bernakevitch Val Pusteria 45 21st 38 59 10 6th 14th 1 4th 3
9 Josh Olson Bolzano 47 27 31 58 46 9 11 0 0 3
10 Jonathan Pittis Bolzano 50 19th 36 55 70 5 15th 0 0 1
11 Jordan Krestanovich Cortina 46 18th 35 53 8th 5 18th 2 1 2
12 Ryan Watson Cortina 45 17th 36 53 22nd 5 15th 2 1 2
13 Kiel McLeod Cortina 41 29 22nd 51 139 13 5 0 3 3
14th Johan Wiklander Alleghe 46 19th 32 51 28 8th 6th 2 0 1
15th Patrick Iannone Val Pusteria 42 25th 25th 50 32 7th 4th 3 2 2
goalkeeper
Rk player team GP MIP W. L. T GA ATM SO-CALLED SVS% SO
1 Andrea Alberti Cortina 3 68 2 1 0 4th 3.53 48 91.67 1
2 Daniel Bellissimo Asiago 43 2519 21st 21st 1 131 3.12 1452 90.98 2
3 Frédéric Cloutier Rides 49 2924 28 21st 0 124 2.54 1323 90.63 5
4th Jeff Maund Cortina 44 2674 29 15th 0 118 2.65 1201 90.17 2
5 Pasi Hakkinen Bolzano 47 2855 36 10 1 113 2.37 1114 89.86 4th
6th Kelly Guard Val Pusteria 10 565 3 7th 0 31 3.29 285 89.12 1
7th Thomas Tragust Fassa 48 2774 14th 34 0 160 3.46 1382 88.42 1
8th Miroslav Bielik Pontebba 4th 204 1 3 0 13 3.82 112 88.39 0
9 Dominique Ploner Val Pusteria 6th 297 4th 2 0 10 2.02 80 87.50 3
10 Andrea Carpano Pontebba 40 2392 14th 26th 0 140 3.51 1087 87.12 2
11 Phil Groeneveld Alleghe 45 2690 21st 24 0 148 3.30 1055 85.97 2
12 Tuomas Nissinen Val Pusteria 34 1949 16 18th 0 110 3.39 737 85.07 3
13 Michel Favre Fassa 5 278 0 5 0 19th 4.10 116 83.62 1
14th Daniele Moretti Alleghe 1 60 0 1 0 7th 7:00 37 81.08 0
15th Josef Niederstatter Rides 1 18th 0 1 0 1 3.33 5 80.00 0

Squad of the Italian champions

Italian champion

HC Bozen

Goalkeepers: Pasi Häkkinen , Andreas Bernard

Defenders: Christian Borgatello , David Ceresa , Sergejs Durdins , Alexander Egger , Viktors Ignatjevs , Carl Johan Johansson , Florian Ramoser

Attackers: Luca Ansoldi , Anton Bernard , Fraser Clair , Kenny Corupe , Enrico Dorigatti , Ryan Jardine , Josh Olson , Jonathan Pittis , Roland Ramoser , Jamie Schaafsma , Stefan Unterkofler , Christian Walcher , Stefan Zisser

Coaching team:

Developments after the season

In the summer of 2009, HC Bolzano could enter the Austrian ice hockey league for a short time , as HC Innsbruck had been relegated there voluntarily and so only nine teams were left. HC Bozen had indicated cautious interest, but the club management wanted to secure a sufficiently large budget in any case. The discussions quickly fizzled out, however, as the Italian ice hockey association had announced that it would not approve of HC Bozen's exit for the time being with the development of the Italian league in mind. The future development should be foreseeable at the earliest after the 2009/10 season.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ No more Milano Vipers , report on www.hockeyfans.at

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