Swiss League 2019/20

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The 2019/20 season was the 73rd regular staging of the second division in Swiss ice hockey .

Championship cancellation

Due to the coronavirus epidemic , the federal government decided on February 28, 2020 to ban events with more than 1000 participants until March 15, 2020. The National League therefore decided to play the fourth round of the playoff quarter-finals and the placement games on February 28, 2020 and March 1, 2020 without a spectator. After that, the league suspended the game for the time being. On March 11, 2020, the canton of Ticino declared a state of emergency. As a consequence, all ice rinks in the canton of Ticino were closed. As a result, regular championship operation was no longer possible, so that the association ended the championship in all leagues and levels after consulting the clubs. In addition, there were no Swiss champions, neither promoted nor relegated.

mode

The twelve teams played two double rounds of 22 games each. In total, each team played 44 qualifying games. Then the best eight teams should determine the Swiss League champions in the knockout system. All playoff series were scheduled according to the best-of-seven mode. If the SL champion has received a license for the National League , he should then be able to qualify for a league with the bottom of the National League . For the first time since 2015/16 it should be possible for a relegated team this season. The teams in positions nine to twelve therefore contest a placement round. The last one threatened a league qualification with the champions of the MySports League .

Attendees

The SL clubs 2019/20

New is HC Sierre , which was promoted from the MySports League in the 2018/19 season .

team	Location	Ice rink	capacity
HC Ajoie	Porrentruy	Patinoire du Voyeboeuf	4,200
HC La Chaux-de-Fonds	La Chaux-de-Fonds	Patinoire des Mélèzes	7'200
GCK Lions	Küsnacht	KEK Küsnacht	2,800
EHC Kloten	Balls	Swiss Arena	7,624
SC Langenthal	Langenthal	Schoren ice rink	4,320
EHC Olten	Olten	Kleinholz ice rink	6'500
HC Sierre	Sierre	dig	4,500
HC Thurgau	Weinfelden	Güttingersreuti	3,100
EHC Visp	Visp	Lonza Arena	5'150
EHC Winterthur	Winterthur	Target building arena	2,496
HCB Ticino Rockets	Biasca	Raiffeisen BiascArena	3'800
EVZ Academy	train	Academy Arena	1,500

Main round

Crosstab

Home team	Visiting team
Home team	LOO	OLT	VIS	WIN	EVZ	GCK	HCA	HCB	HCC	HCS	HCT	SCL
LOO	-	2: 7 3: 2 ^V.	1: 3 2: 3	8: 2 7: 0	3: 2 ^V 3: 1	1: 0 5: 0	4: 6 2: 3 ^V.	3: 2 ^P 9: 1	3: 2 ^V 6: 4	7-0 4-1	4: 3 5: 1	5: 1 2: 3
OLT	0: 2 2: 3 ^V.	-	3: 1 4: 1	6: 3 5: 4	1: 0 10: 5	7: 1 4: 5 ^V.	4: 7 5: 1	2: 1 ^P 7: 2	3: 1 6: 2	4: 1 7: 1	6: 2 5: 3	6: 3 1: 4
VIS	0: 4 0: 5	5: 2 1: 5	-	9: 2 6: 2	5: 0 5: 1	4: 1 5: 1	2: 3 3: 2	6: 2 3: 2 ^P.	4: 2 1: 5	1: 3 4: 1	3: 1 1: 2	7: 2 0: 2
WIN	1: 7 1: 7	2: 1 1: 4	2: 3 1: 6	-	3: 6 2: 3	3: 1 1: 7	1: 7 1: 9	6: 3 4: 2	3: 5 1: 5	5: 1 3: 4	3-0 0-4	2: 5 1: 4
EVZ	2: 4 4: 6	1: 4 1: 4	1: 3 0: 3	3: 2 6: 4	-	1: 5 3: 4	1: 4 1: 5	0: 2 6: 1	4: 5 ^V 1: 5	3: 2 3: 2	2: 3 ^P 0: 4	3: 2 1: 4
GCK	0: 1 1: 2	2: 3 ^V 5: 4	3: 2 2: 4	7-4 4-0	2: 4 7: 5	-	5: 4 ^V 3: 5	9: 3 2: 1	2: 5 4: 5 ^P	4: 3 4: 2	3: 4 1: 2	3: 4 1: 4
HCA	3: 4 ^P 1: 3	4: 3 3: 4 ^V.	4: 3 ^V 0: 2	7: 1 7: 1	8: 3 5: 1	4: 2 5: 1	-	3: 2 ^V 4: 2	8: 5 5: 1	6: 2 5: 2	1: 0 2: 3	0: 3 7: 4
HCB	0: 3 2: 3 ^p	2: 3 1: 4	3: 7 6: 2	3: 4 1: 7	4: ^5V 3: ^2V	4: 5 3: 4 ^V.	3: 2 2: 7	-	7: 3 1: 8	4: 7 3: 6	2: 4 6: 3	1: 5 1: 9
HCC	5: 4 3: 2	7: 2 1: 7	2: 4 3: 2	3: 1 5: 2	6: 1 2: 3	5: 2 5: 4	4: 6 1: 2	7: 3 2: 5	-	3: 4 ^V 4: 2	0: 1 1: 2 ^p	0-4 2-0
HCS	2: 1 1: 8	1: 3 0: 6	6: 2 0: 4	2: 5 7: 2	8: 2 -: -	0: 3 2: 1 ^p	1: 3 0: 4	3: 1 4: 1	2: 5 3: 1	-	3: 4 ^P 3: 2 ^V	4: 2 4: 7
HCT	2: 3 ^V 2: 1	3: 2	0: 7 -: -	8: 0 3: 2 ^V.	2: 1 5: 1	4: 3 ^V 3: 1	3: 2 2: 3	1: 0 2: 0	1-0 3: 6	3: 1 3: 2	-	4: 2 3: 0
SCL	1: 3 1: 8	3: 5 2: 5	6: 2 2: 3	4: 3 2: 3	5-0 4-1	4: 3 ^V 1: 4	4: 3 1: 5	3: 1 3: 1	4-0 3-2	4: 1 5: 2	3: 2 ^V 6: 3	-
^V - win after extra time ; ^P - victory after penalty shootout

table

Abbreviations: S = victories, N = defeats, SNV = victories after overtime NNV = defeats after overtime, SNP = victories after penalty shoot-outs, NNP = penalty shoot-out defeats, TVH = goal difference
Explanations: Playoffs placement round

rank	team	GP	S.	SNV	SNP	NNP	NNV	N	Gates	TVH	Points
01.	EHC Kloten	44	26th	5	3	0	1	9	173: 81	+92	95
02.	HC Ajoie	44	28	4th	0	1	2	9	185: 105	+80	95
03.	EHC Olten	44	28	2	1	0	3	10	179: 106	+73	93
04th	EHC Visp	44	26th	0	2	0	2	14th	144: 102	+42	84
05.	HC Thurgau	44	22nd	2	3	1	3	13	112: 104	+8	80
06th	SC Langenthal	44	24	2	0	0	0	18th	144: 122	+22	76
07th	HC La Chaux-de-Fonds	44	19th	1	1	1	2	20th	146: 141	+5	64
08th.	GCK Lions	44	16	3	0	2	3	20th	136: 144	−8	59
09.	HC Sierre	44	12	2	2	1	0	27	109: 158	−49	45
10.	EVZ Academy	44	12	1	0	2	3	26th	103: 170	−67	43
11.	EHC Winterthur	44	10	0	0	0	1	33	101: 207	−106	31
12.	HCB Ticino Rockets	44	6th	1	0	4th	3	30th	100: 192	−92	27

Top scorer

player	team	Sp	T	V	P	SM	+/-
Philip-Michaël Devos	HC Ajoie	44	30th	68	98	2	+56
Jonathan Hazen	HC Ajoie	38	39	44	83	32	+52
Eric Faille	EHC Kloten	41	19th	50	69	8th	+35
Dion Knelsen	EHC Olten	42	27	33	60	51	+35
Troy Josephs	EHC Visp	41	21st	36	57	101	+23
Timothy Coffman	HC La-Chaux-de-Fonds	43	18th	38	56	37	+8
Guillaume Asselin	HC Sierre	43	24	29	53	43	−11
Gary Nunn	EHC Olten	40	30th	22nd	52	12	+40
Ryan Hayes	GCK Lions	44	27	25th	52	30th	+2
Mark van Guilder	EHC Visp	41	31	20th	51	22nd	+25

goalkeeper

player	team	Games	ATM	Catch quota
Silas Matthys	EHC Olten	20th	1.98	92.26%
Reto Lory	EHC Visp	36	2.14	92.13%
Dominic Nyffeler	EHC Kloten	40	1.87	91.91%
Janick Schwendener	HC Thurgau	26th	1.98	91.68%
Philip Wüthrich	SC Langenthal	33	2.63	91.49%

Playoffs

The playoffs were canceled after the quarterfinals.

Playoff tree

For each round, the pairings are determined again using the table in the qualification. The game is played according to the best-of-seven mode.

Quarter finals			Semi-final			Final

1	EHC Kloten	4th
8th	GCK Lions	1
			1	EHC Kloten	0
			6th	SC Langenthal	0
2	HC Ajoie	4th
7th	HC La Chaux-de-Fonds	1
(The teams are reset after the first round.)							0
							0
3	EHC Olten	1
6th	SC Langenthal	4th
			2	HC Ajoie	0
			4th	EHC Visp	0
4th	EHC Visp	4th
5	HC Thurgau	1

Quarter finals

	series	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	[MR]
EHC Kloten - GCK Lions	4: 1	1: 4	7: 2	4: 3 a.d.	6: 1	3: 2	-	-	[4: 0]
HC Ajoie - HC La Chaux-de-Fonds	4: 1	6: 2	1: 2	4: 2	9: 3	7: 3	-	-	[4: 0]
EHC Olten - SC Langenthal	1: 4	4: 5 a.d.	3: 4 a.d.	7-0	1: 4	1: 4	-	-	[3: 1]
EHC Visp - HC Thurgau	4: 1	4: 1	1: 2	2: 1 a.d.	4: 1	3: 2 a.d.	-	-	[3: 1]

Playouts

The playouts were canceled during the placement round.

mode

After the end of the regular season, the teams in places nine to twelve should play a placement round, with the teams taking the points (and goal difference) from the main round. Each team should play a return game against the rest of the opponents. After that, a league qualification between the fourth of the placement round and the master of the MySports League was planned.

Placement round

Games

				result
02/21/20	HC Sierre	-	EVZ Academy	6: 3 (0: 2, 4: 1, 2: 0)
02/21/20	EHC Winterthur	-	HCB Ticino Rockets	2: 6 (1: 2, 0: 1, 1: 3)
02/23/20	HCB Ticino Rockets	-	HC Sierre	0: 2 (0: 1, 0: 0, 0: 1)
02/23/20	EVZ Academy	-	EHC Winterthur	1: 2 (0: 1, 1: 1, 0: 0)
02/28/20	EVZ Academy	-	HCB Ticino Rockets	6: 3 (4: 0, 1: 1, 1: 2)
02/28/20	HC Sierre	-	EHC Winterthur	5: 1 (0: 0, 3: 0, 2: 1)
03/01/20	EHC Winterthur	-	HC Sierre	6: 3 (1: 1, 3: 2, 2: 0)
03/01/20	HCB Ticino Rockets	-	EVZ Academy	by v. 7: 6 (1: 1, 4: 1, 1: 4, 1: 1)

table

Abbreviations: S = victories, N = defeats, SNV = victories after extra time NNV = defeats after extra time, SNP = victories after penalty shoot-outs, NNP = defeats penalty shoot-outs, TVH = goal difference
Explanations: Season ends league qualification

rank	team	GP	S.	N	SNP	NNP	Gates	TVH	Points
01.	HC Sierre	4th	3	0	0	1	125: 168	−43	54
02.	EVZ Academy	4th	1	0	1	2	119: 188	−69	47
03.	EHC Winterthur	4th	2	0	0	2	112: 2222	−110	37
04th	HCB Ticino Rockets	4th	1	1	0	2	116: 208	−92	32

Web links

National League

Individual evidence

↑ Federal Office of Public Health: Coronavirus: Federal Council prohibits large events. Retrieved March 2, 2020 .
↑ National League: Game operations in the National League and Swiss League interrupted. Retrieved March 2, 2020 .
↑ Swiss Ice Hockey Federation: All Swiss ice hockey championships have been canceled. sihf.ch, March 12, 2020, accessed on March 12, 2020 .
^ Swiss Ice Hockey Federation: Swiss League mode. Swiss Ice Hockey Federation, August 2, 2019, accessed on January 31, 2020 .

[1] Federal Office of Public Health: Coronavirus: Federal Council prohibits large events. Retrieved March 2, 2020 .

[2] National League: Game operations in the National League and Swiss League interrupted. Retrieved March 2, 2020 .

[3] Swiss Ice Hockey Federation: All Swiss ice hockey championships have been canceled. sihf.ch, March 12, 2020, accessed on March 12, 2020 .

[4] Swiss Ice Hockey Federation: Swiss League mode. Swiss Ice Hockey Federation, August 2, 2019, accessed on January 31, 2020 .