Hungarian ice hockey league 2008/09

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Master:	Alba Volán Székesfehérvár
Relegated:	none
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The 2008/09 season was the 72nd season of the Hungarian Ice Hockey League , the highest Hungarian ice hockey league . Champion was for the tenth time in the club's history Alba Volán Székesfehérvár .

mode

The league was played with a total of five teams in the form of main round, intermediate round and playoffs with semi-finals, finals and various placement rounds. At the same time, the international MOL League competition ran for the first time (see MOL League 2008/09 ). In order to keep the number of games at a manageable level, the main round of the Hungarian league consisted only of the purely Hungarian matches rated in a separate table. Only from the intermediate round and after the end of the MOL league in February 2011 were the Hungarian league's own matches played.

Alba Volán Székesfehérvár ran a farm team this season; the combat team, which was also taking part in the Erste Bank Eishockey Liga , only entered the competition at the beginning of the semi-finals and was fully qualified. In theory, an encounter between the first and second team would have been possible, but this did not happen.

Main round

The twenty encounters in the main round consisted of the purely Hungarian encounters in the MOL league, which were rated separately here. In both tables, however, the teams appear in the same order. In addition, a total of twelve games (two per team) were played against the Hungarian U20 national team, which, however, played out of competition and only won one of their encounters, a 9-0 victory against the farm team of Alba Volán. Another point came from a shootout loss against Miskolci JJSE.

rank	team	SP	S.	SNV	NNV	N	Gates	Points
1.	Újpesti TE	20th	17th	0	1	2	99:43	52
2.	Budapest stars	20th	14th	2	0	4th	81:38	46
3.	Dunaújvárosi Acélbikák	20th	12	1	2	5	90:58	40
4th	Ferencvárosi TC	20th	7th	0	1	12	53:80	22nd
5.	Miskolci Jegesmedvék JSE	20th	3	1	1	15th	36:92	12
6th	Alba Volán Székesfehérvár II	20th	2	1	0	17th	48:96	8th

Intermediate round

For the intermediate round, nine, six and three bonus points were awarded to the three best-placed teams in the main round. A simple round-trip round to determine the final placement for the playoffs followed.

rank	team	SP	S.	SNV	NNV	N	Gates	Points
1.	Újpesti TE	10	6th	1	1	2	49:30	30 (9)
2.	Budapest stars	10	6th	1	0	3	40:29	26 (6)
3.	Dunaújvárosi Acélbikák	10	7th	0	1	2	52:28	25 (3)
4th	Ferencvárosi TC	10	4th	1	2	3	30:35	16
5.	Miskolci Jegesmedvék JSE	10	3	1	0	6th	33:43	11
6th	Alba Volán Székesfehérvár II	10	0	0	0	10	23:62	0

Playoffs

Pre-playoffs

In the pre-playoffs, the three participants for the semi-finals were determined (the first team of Alba Volán Székesfehérvár was added as the fourth team). For this purpose, the pairings first against sixth, second against fifth and third against fourth played a best-of-three series.

date	Home team		Visiting team	Result
February 27, 2009	Újpesti TE	-	Alba Volán Székesfehérvár II	8: 3 (1: 0, 2: 0, 5: 3)
March 1, 2009	Alba Volán Székesfehérvár II	-	Újpesti TE	0: 4 (0: 2, 0: 1, 0: 1)

date	Home team		Visiting team	Result
February 27, 2009	Budapest stars	-	Miskolci JJSE	5: 4 (3: 1, 2: 0, 0: 3)
March 1, 2009	Miskolci JJSE	-	Budapest stars	2: 3 (0: 1, 1: 1, 1: 1)

date	Home team		Visiting team	Result
February 27, 2009	Dunaújvárosi Acélbikák	-	Ferencvárosi TC	6: 2 (3: 0, 1: 1, 2: 1)
March 1, 2009	Ferencvárosi TC	-	Dunaújvárosi Acélbikák	8: 5 (2: 0, 4: 1, 2: 4)
March 3, 2009	Dunaújvárosi Acélbikák	-	Ferencvárosi TC	6: 2 (1: 1, 2: 0, 3: 1)

Playoff tree

Semifinals		final


Újpesti TE	3
Budapest stars	0


		Alba Volán Székesfehérvár	4th
		Újpesti TE	1

		Game for third place

Alba Volán Székesfehérvár	3	Budapest stars	0
Dunaújvárosi Acélbikák	0	Dunaújvárosi Acélbikák	3

Semifinals

The actual playoffs began with the semifinals series. Here the first-placed Újpesti TE competed against the Budapest Stars, while lateral entrant Alba Volán had the worst-placed team to oppose Dunaújvárosi Acélbikák. The favorites were able to assert themselves in both series.

date	Home team		Visiting team	Result
March 5, 2009	Újpesti TE	-	Budapest stars	4: 1 (1: 0, 3: 1, 0: 0)
March 6, 2009	Budapest stars	-	Újpesti TE	2: 4 (1: 1, 0: 0, 1: 3)
March 8, 2009	Újpesti TE	-	Budapest stars	2: 0 (2: 0, 0: 0, 0: 0)

date	Home team		Visiting team	Result
March 5, 2009	Alba Volán Székesfehérvár	-	Dunaújvárosi Acélbikák	5: 1 (1: 0, 3: 1, 1: 0)
March 6, 2009	Dunaújvárosi Acélbikák	-	Alba Volán Székesfehérvár	3: 5 (1: 2, 1: 0, 1: 3)
March 8, 2009	Alba Volán Székesfehérvár	-	Dunaújvárosi Acélbikák	6: 0 (2: 0, 2: 0, 2: 0)

final

The final series ran over five games, of which Alba Volán won four. The away win of Újpesti TE was also Fehérvár's last defeat in the playoffs up to and including 2010/11. Alba Volán was able to win the tenth title; it was also the seventh in a row.

date	Home team		Visiting team	Result
March 13, 2009	Alba Volán Székesfehérvár	-	Újpesti TE	5: 1 (0: 0, 1: 1, 4: 0)
March 15, 2009	Újpesti TE	-	Alba Volán Székesfehérvár	3: 6 (1: 1, 2: 1, 0: 4)
March 17, 2009	Alba Volán Székesfehérvár	-	Újpesti TE	2: 3 (0: 1, 1: 2, 1: 0)
March 19, 2009	Újpesti TE	-	Alba Volán Székesfehérvár	0: 5 (0: 0, 0: 3, 0: 2)
March 21, 2009	Alba Volán Székesfehérvár	-	Újpesti TE	4: 0 (1: 0, 1: 0, 2: 0)

Series for third place

The two teams losing out in the semi-finals played a series for third place. Here the team from Dunaújváros was able to prevail with three wins in three games.

date	Home team		Visiting team	Result
March 13, 2009	Budapest stars	-	Dunaújvárosi Acélbikák	1: 2 n.p. (0: 0, 1: 1, 0: 0, 0: 0, 0: 1)
March 16, 2009	Dunaújvárosi Acélbikák	-	Budapest stars	3: 2 (1: 2, 1: 0, 1: 0)
March 18, 2009	Budapest stars	-	Dunaújvárosi Acélbikák	1: 2 (0: 1, 1: 1, 0: 0)

Placement games

The teams in places five to seven played an easy round-trip round for the final placement, with the master's farm team missing out. The U18 national team of Hungary also took part in this series and played six games, one of which was won 5-2 against Alba Volán. However, these games were not rated in the table.

rank	team	SP	S.	N	Gates	Points
5.	Miskolci Jegesmedvék JSE	4th	3	1	21:12	9
6th	Ferencvárosi TC	4th	3	1	19:13	9
7th	Alba Volán Székesfehérvár II	4th	0	4th	5:20	0

Championship final result

Squad of the Hungarian champions

This season's title was also the last championship win for Gábor Ocskay , who died of a heart attack just a few days after the end of the season. Ocskay had been one of the team's leading players for many years; In his honor, the club now bears the number 19 in its name.

Hungarian master Alba Volán Székesfehérvár	Goalkeepers: Zoltán Becze , Zoltán Hetényi , Levente Szuper Defenders: Ryan Bonni , Andreas Byström , Blake Forsyth , András Horváth , Dávid Jobb , Erik Maklári , Nick Martens , Rastislav Ondrejcik , Viktor Tokaji Attackers: John Alans , András Benk , Derek Couture , Dániel Fekete , Szabolcs Fodor , Jason Guerriero , Adam Hegyi , Csaba Kovács , Nathan Martz , Gergo Nagy , Gábor Ocskay , Krisztián Palkovics , István Sofron , Adrián Tóth , Artyom Vaszjunyin , Juhamatti Yli- Junnila Trainer: Ted Sator

Web links

Playing time at hockeyarchives.info (French)
Playing time on the homepage of the Hungarian Ice Hockey Federation