Serie A (ice hockey) 2016/17

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The season 2016/17 the Italian Ice Hockey Championship of Serie A was in a tournament on 21 and 22 January 2017 Asiago discharged and was the 83rd regular hosting of the Italian Championship. The participants were all Italian teams of the newly founded Alps Hockey League , with HC Neumarkt taking the place of HC Valpellice in the summer . Ritten Sport defended the Italian championship title in the final against Asiago Hockey .

Participating teams

While HC Valpellice did not participate anymore, HC Neumarkt was there again.

team	city	Venue	capacity
Asiago Hockey	Asiago , Veneto	Pala Hodegart	2200
SG Cortina	Cortina d'Ampezzo , Veneto	Cortina Olympic Ice Stadium	2700
SHC Fassa	Canazei , Trentino	Gianmario Scola	3500
Ritten sport	Renon , South Tyrol	Arena Ritten	1200
HC Pustertal	Bruneck , South Tyrol	Rienz Stadium	2150
HC Neumarkt	Neumarkt , South Tyrol	Wüth Arena	1200
WSV Sterzing Broncos	Sterzing , South Tyrol	Weihenstephan Arena	1700
HC Gherdëina	Selva , South Tyrol	Pranives ice rink	2000

Table regular season Alps Hockey League

rank	team	SP	S.	SNV	NNV	N	T	GT	TVH	PKT
1	Ritten sport	30th	24	2	1	3	117	63	+54	77
2	HC Pustertal	30th	23	3	1	3	103	55	+48	76
3	HDD Jesenice	30th	20th	1	1	8th	120	66	+54	63
4th	EHC Lustenau	30th	17th	1	3	10	106	77	+29	56
5	Asiago Hockey	30th	16	4th	0	10	102	64	+38	56
6th	VEU Feldkirch	30th	18th	0	1	11	112	89	+23	55
7th	SG Cortina	30th	14th	2	5	9	100	76	+24	51
8th	EK Zell am See	30th	11	1	3	15th	85	96	−11	38
9	HC Neumarkt	30th	10	3	2	15th	87	97	−10	38
10	Red Bull Hockey Juniors	30th	10	3	2	15th	85	87	−2	38
11	HC Gherdëina	30th	9	3	3	15th	84	104	−20	36
12	WSV Sterzing Broncos	30th	10	3	0	17th	78	90	−12	36
13	EC Kitzbühel	30th	9	2	1	18th	72	115	−43	32
14th	SHC Fassa	30th	6th	2	4th	18th	79	126	−47	26th
15th	EC Bregenzerwald	30th	7th	0	4th	19th	76	118	−42	25th
16	EC KAC II	30th	3	3	2	22nd	60	143	−83	17th

Italian teams ; Austrian or Slovenian teams

mode

The four best-placed Italian teams in the Alps Hockey League qualified for the Final Four tournament on January 21 and 22, 2017 in Asiago . Ritten finished the AHL regular season as leader of the table and met the fourth Italian team, SG Cortina, in the first semi-final . The second semifinal encounter was played by HC Pustertal and host Asiago Hockey .

Final Four

Ritten Sport defeated SG Cortina 5-2 in the afternoon game. In the evening Asiago Hockey prevailed 3-1 against HC Pustertal. The final on Sunday decided Ritten against Asiago 3-2 in his favor and thus won the third Italian championship title in four years.

	Semifinals					final
	1	Rittner Buam	5
	4th	SG Cortina	2
						1	Rittner Buam	3
						3	Asiago Hockey	2
	2	HC Pustertal	1
	3	Asiago Hockey	3

Squad of the Italian champions

Italian champion Ritten Sport

Goalkeepers: Roland Fink , Patrick Killeen Defenders: Ivan Tauferer , Maximilian Ploner , Fabian Ebner , Andreas Alber , Christoph Vigl , Christian Borgatello (C), Roland Hofer Attackers: Matthias Fauster , Jānis Sprukts , Julian Kostner , Alexander Eisath , Daniel Tudin (A), Alex Frei , Markus Spinell , Simon Kostner , Hanno Tauferer , Victor Ahlström , Philipp Pechlaner , Oscar Ahlström , Tommaso Traversa , Thomas Spinell (A) Coaching staff: Riku-Petteri Lehtonen , Erwin Kostner

Web links

• Homepage of the Federazione Italiana Sport del Ghiaccio
• Official statistics from PowerHockey.info

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.powerhockey.info/standings.php?level=184&p=250 table basic round
2. ↑ http://www.powerhockey.info/schedule.php?level=184&p=250 Results Final Four
3. ↑ http://www.powerhockey.info/team.php?id=138&level=184&p=250 Kader Rittner Buam