Vysschaya League 1972/73

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Vysschaya League
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Master: CSKA Moscow
Relegated: Avtomobilist Sverdlovsk
• Vysschaya League |  Pervaya League ↓   |  Wtoraja Liga ↓↓

The 1972/73 season of the Vysschaya League was the 27th season of the highest Soviet ice hockey division . The Soviet championship title was secured for the 18th time by CSKA Moscow , while Avtomobilist Sverdlovsk was relegated to the second division .

mode

The nine teams of the Vysschaya League played four times against each opponent in a common main round, making the total number of games per team 32. The team with the highest points became champions, while the bottom of the table was relegated directly to the second division. The penultimate of the Wysschaja Liga had to compete in the relegation against the second in the second division. Each team received two points for a win, one point for a draw and zero points for a defeat.

Main round

club Sp S. U N T GT Points
1. CSKA Moscow 32 26th 2 4th 204 109 54
2. Spartak Moscow 32 23 2 7th 178 108 48
3. Krylya Sovetov Moscow 32 18th 4th 10 137 106 40
4th Dynamo Moscow 32 19th 1 12 140 82 39
5. Torpedo Gorky 32 12 4th 16 119 129 28
6th Chimik Voskressensk 32 13 1 18th 111 122 27
7th SKA Leningrad 32 9 4th 19th 101 155 22nd
8th. Chelyabinsk tractor 32 9 2 21st 114 184 20th
9. Avtomobilist Sverdlovsk 32 4th 2 26th 101 217 10

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

Top scorer

Bold: Season best

player team Gates Assists Points
Vladimir Petrov CSKA Moscow 27 22nd 49
Alexander Martynjuk Spartak Moscow 22nd 18th 40
Vladimir Wikulov CSKA Moscow 21st 19th 40
Vladimir Shadrin Spartak Moscow 24 15th 39
Boris Mikhailov CSKA Moscow 25th 13 38

Relegation

In the relegation, Tractor Chelyabinsk, the penultimate of the Vysschaya League, met Kristall Saratov, the runner-up in the second Soviet ice hockey league, and won against him with two wins.

Soviet master

Master CSKA Moscow
Logo of CSKA Moscow

Goalkeepers: Wladislaw Tretyak , Nikolai Adonin

Defenders: Yuri Blochin , Alexander Gusew , Viktor Kuskin , Vladimir Luttschenko , Alexander Ragulin , Alexei Wolchenkov , Gennady Zygankov

Attackers: Yuri Blinov , Valeri Kharlamov , Anatoly Firsow , Sergei Glazov , Boris Michailow , Evgeni Mishakov , Vladimir Petrov , Vladimir Popov , Vladimir Trunov , Vladimir Wikulov , Alexander Wolchkov

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ hockeystars.ru, championship team

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