2014–15 HockeyAllsvenskan season

2014–15 HockeyAllsvenskan season
League	HockeyAllsvenskan
Sport	Ice hockey
Duration	10 September 2014 – 2 April 2015
Number of teams	14
Total attendance	1,086,734
Average attendance	2,986
TV partner(s)	Viasat
First place	VIK Västerås HK
Top scorer	Jacob Lagace (ASP)
Promoted to SHL	Karlskrona HK Rögle BK Malmö Redhawks
Relegated to Hockeyettan	Södertälje SK

The 2014–15 HockeyAllsvenskan season was the tenth season of the second tier of ice hockey in Sweden under that name. The league featured 14 teams, including Stockholm-based AIK, who were relegated from the SHL following four seasons in the top league. Also joining HockeyAllsvenskan was HC Vita Hästen, which marked the return of elite-level hockey to Norrköping. A previous Vita Hästen club had played in Sweden's second-tier league until the 1995–96 season, but following that club's bankruptcy in 1996, the new Vita Hästen club rebuilt from the bottom of the league system, culminating in their promotion back to the second tier in the 2014 HockeyAllsvenskan qualifiers.^[1]

Sweden's top league, the SHL, expanded from 12 to 14 teams for the 2015–16 season. This, coupled with changes to the promotion and relegation format, created an "arms race" type of situation, in which teams had a strong incentive to invest heavily to try to secure an SHL spot during this season.^[2]

Format

As with previous seasons, the 2014–15 HockeyAllsvenskan season featured a 52-game regular season, with teams facing each other twice at home and twice away; however, significant changes were made to the format for promotion to the SHL. Teams 1 and 2 from HockeyAllsvenskan competed in the HockeyAllsvenskan finals (Swedish: HockeyAllsvenska finalen), a best-of-five series in which the winner qualified for play in the 2015–16 SHL season. Meanwhile, teams 3–8 advanced to the playoffs (Swedish: slutspelsserien), a single round robin tournament.

The three best teams from the playoff series, along with the loser from the HockeyAllsvenskan finals, and the two teams with the worst records from the 2014–15 SHL season, met in the SHL qualifiers (Swedish: Direktkval till SHL). These six teams were pair off into three best-of-seven series, with the winners of each matchup qualifying to play in the SHL.^[3]^[4] On 16 February 2015, HockeyAllsvenskan announced that the playoffs was to be sponsored by Swedish firm MECA and have the collective name MECA Hockey Race.^[5] This was later rejected by the Swedish Ice Hockey Association, saying they owned the naming rights.^[6]

Participating clubs

2014–15 HockeyAllsvenskan teams

Team	City	Arena	Capacity
AIK	Stockholm	Hovet	8,094
Almtuna IS	Uppsala	Metallåtervinning Arena	2,800
Asplöven HC	Haparanda	Arena Polarica	1,500
IF Björklöven	Umeå	T3 Center	5,400
BIK Karlskoga	Karlskoga	Nobelhallen	6,300
Karlskrona HK	Karlskrona	Telenor Arena Karlskrona	3,464
IF Malmö Redhawks	Malmö	Malmö Arena	13,000
Mora IK	Mora	FM Mattsson Arena	4,514
IK Oskarshamn	Oskarshamn	Arena Oskarshamn	3,346
Rögle BK	Ängelholm	Lindab Arena	5,150
Södertälje SK	Södertälje	AXA Sports Center	6,130
Timrå IK	Timrå	E.ON Arena	6,000
VIK Västerås HK	Västerås	ABB Arena Nord	4,902
HC Vita Hästen	Norrköping	Himmelstalundshallen	4,280

Regular season

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	VIK Västerås	52	28	4	6	14	144	116	+28	98	Advance to the HockeyAllsvenskan finals
2	Karlskrona HK	52	26	8	2	16	159	124	+35	96	Advance to the HockeyAllsvenskan finals
3	Malmö Redhawks	52	25	7	6	14	168	122	+46	95	Advance to the playoffs
4	Rögle BK	52	22	6	7	17	158	140	+18	85
5	BIK Karlskoga	52	22	6	4	20	162	162	0	82
6	IF Björklöven	52	19	10	4	19	135	136	−1	81
7	Mora IK	52	22	3	7	20	130	141	−11	79
8	Vita Hästen	52	19	6	5	22	129	142	−13	74
9	Almtuna IS	52	20	3	8	21	130	146	−16	74
10	Timrå IK	52	20	2	7	23	128	139	−11	71
11	IK Oskarshamn	52	16	6	9	21	133	151	−18	69
12	Asplöven HC	52	16	7	6	23	150	160	−10	68
13	AIK	52	16	5	7	24	118	142	−24	65	Advance to the HockeyAllsvenskan qualifiers
14	Södertälje SK	52	10	10	5	27	123	146	−23	55	Advance to the HockeyAllsvenskan qualifiers

Source:

Post-season

HockeyAllsvenskan finals

VIK Västerås HK and Karlskrona HK, as the first and second place teams from the regular season, advanced to the HockeyAllsvenskan finals (Swedish: HockeyAllsvenska finalen), a best-of-five series. Karlskrona HK won the series, and were thus crowned HockeyAllsvenskan champions and qualified for play in the 2015–16 SHL season. VIK Västerås HK meanwhile advanced to the SHL qualifiers.^[7]

VIK Västerås HK vs. Karlskrona HK

4 March	VIK Västerås HK		2–1	Karlskrona HK	ABB Arena	Recap
No scoring		First period		Erik Thorell 1 - 0:33
Dustin Johner 1 - 14:11		Second period		No scoring
Dustin Johner 2 - 17:18		Third period		No scoring
Jonatan Bjurö ( 15 saves / 16 shots )		Goalie stats		Patrick Galbraith ( 35 saves / 37 shots )

6 March	Karlskrona HK		3–1	VIK Västerås HK	Telenor Arena Karlskrona	Recap
Maksim Matushkin 1 - pp - 2:18 Niklas Lihagen 1 - pp - 12:56		First period		No scoring
No scoring		Second period		No scoring
Alexander Bergström 1 - pp - 14:47		Third period		Fredrik Johansson 1 - 19:49
Patrick Galbraith ( 38 saves / 39 shots )		Goalie stats		Jonatan Bjurö ( 19 saves / 22 shots )

8 March	VIK Västerås HK		3–4	2OT	Karlskrona HK	ABB Arena	Recap
Robin Jacobsson 1 - pp - 13:33 Jonas Emmerdahl 1 - 17:26		First period			No scoring
No scoring		Second period			Joel Kellman 1 - 2:02 Joel Kellman 2 - 9:23
Robin Jacobsson 2 - 17:53		Third period			Niklas Lihagen 2 - 0:11
No scoring		Second overtime period			Joel Kellman 3 - 10:50
Jonatan Bjurö ( 30 saves / 34 shots )		Goalie stats			Patrick Galbraith ( 60 saves / 63 shots )

10 March	Karlskrona HK		2–1	VIK Västerås HK	Telenor Arena Karlskrona	Recap
No scoring		First period		Dustin Johner 3 - 4:11
No scoring		Second period		No scoring
Joel Kellman 4 - pp - 13:04 Vyacheslav Trukhno 1 - 15:31		Third period		No scoring
Patrick Galbraith ( 21 saves / 22 shots )		Goalie stats		Jonas Fransson ( 34 saves / 36 shots )

Karlskrona HK won series 3–1

Playoffs

Teams 3 to 8 played a playoff series (Swedish: slutspelsserien), a round robin tournament consisting of five rounds where every team faced each other once. Teams 3–5 had home advantage in three out of five games. Teams were awarded starting points based on their position in the regular season standings: Malmö started with three points, Rögle with two, and BIK Karlskoga with one. The three best teams in the series, Rögle BK, HC Vita Hästen and Malmö Redhawks advanced to the SHL qualifiers (Swedish: Direktkval till SHL).^[7]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Rögle BK	5	2	3	0	0	19	11	+8	14	Advance to SHL qualifiers
2	HC Vita Hästen	5	3	1	1	0	14	9	+5	12
3	Malmö Redhawks	5	1	1	0	3	8	13	−5	8
4	IF Björklöven	5	1	2	0	2	10	9	+1	7	Return to HockeyAllsvenskan for the 2015–16 season
5	Mora IK	5	1	0	3	1	12	13	−1	6
6	BIK Karlskoga	5	0	0	3	2	10	18	−8	4

Source:

SHL qualifiers

In the SHL qualifiers (Swedish: direktval till SHL), six teams were paired up into three best-of-seven series, where each series winner would qualify for play in the 2015–16 SHL season. Västerås, as winners of the HockeyAllsvenskan finals, were paired with playoff-winners Rögle BK. Modo, who finished 12th in the SHL, were paired with Vita Hästen who finished second in the HockeyAllsvenskan playoffs. Lastly, Leksands IF, who finished 11th in the SHL were paired with Malmö, who finished third in the HockeyAllsvenskan playoffs.

The better-ranked teams Leksand, Modo, and Västerås, had home venue advantage in games 1, 3, 5 and 7.^[7] Modo were the first team to win their series, beating Vita Hästen 4–0 on 25 March 2015 and therefore successfully defending their SHL spot. Four days later, on 29 March 2015, Rögle won their series against Västerås 4–1, and were promoted to the SHL. The series between Leksands IF and Malmö Redhawks went to a decisive game seven on 2 April 2015 in which Malmö Redhawks won and therefore also the series with 4–3. Malmö Redhawks were promoted to the SHL while Leksands IF lost their SHL spot.

Leksands IF vs. Malmö Redhawks

15 March	Leksands IF		3–4	Malmö Redhawks	Tegera Arena	Recap
Tomi Sallinen 1 - 2:15		First period		No scoring
Linus Hultström 1 - pp - 3:47		Second period		Björn Svensson 1 - pp - 12:05 Eric Himelfarb 1 - 19:55
Mattias Guter 1 - 1:23		Third period		Eric Himelfarb 2 - 12:50 Mattias Persson 1 - 18:30
Oscar Alsenfelt ( 26 saves / 30 shots )		Goalie stats		Niko Hovinen ( 19 saves / 22 shots )

18 March	Malmö Redhawks		2–3	OT	Leksands IF	Malmö Arena	Recap
Eric Himelfarb 3 - 4:57		First period			No scoring
Christoffer Forsberg 1 - 14:38		Second period			Linus Hultström 2 - pp - 18:52
No scoring		Third period			Linus Hultström 3 - 11:53
No scoring		First overtime period			Tomi Sallinen 2 - 13:41
Niko Hovinen ( 31 saves / 34 shots )		Goalie stats			Oscar Alsenfelt ( 26 saves / 28 shots )

21 March	Leksands IF		4–3	Malmö Redhawks	Tegera Arena	Recap
Mattias Guter 2 - 0:50		First period		No scoring
Mattias Guter 3 - 7:11 Patrick Cehlin 1 - 12:26		Second period		No scoring
Mattias Guter 4 - 8:15		Third period		Christoffer Forsberg 2 - 9:53 Nils Andersson 1 - 11:44 Magnus Häggström 1 - 16:06
Oscar Alsenfelt ( 30 saves / 33 shots )		Goalie stats		Niko Hovinen ( 19 saves / 23 shots )

24 March	Malmö Redhawks		3–1	Leksands IF	Malmö Arena	Recap
Jens Jakobs 1 - 1:00 Nicklas Jadeland 1 - pp - 11:19		First period		No scoring
No scoring		Second period		Kevin Kapstad 1 - 15:29
Nils Andersson 2 - 14:58		Third period		No scoring
Niko Hovinen ( 34 saves / 35 shots )		Goalie stats		Oscar Alsenfelt ( 33 saves / 36 shots )

27 March	Leksands IF		2–1	Malmö Redhawks	Tegera Arena	Recap
Tomi Sallinen 3 - pp - 14:57		First period		Eric Himelfarb 4 - 18:10
No scoring		Second period		No scoring
Patrick Cehlin 2 - 2:50		Third period		No scoring
Oscar Alsenfelt ( 24 saves / 25 shots )		Goalie stats		Niko Hovinen ( 31 saves / 33 shots )

30 March	Malmö Redhawks		6–3	Leksands IF	Malmö Arena	Recap
Jeremias Augustin 1 - 11:29 Nils Andersson 3 - pp - 13:59 Nicklas Jadeland 2 - 17:31		First period		Jon Knuts 2 - 12:46 Tomi Sallinen 4 - pp - 19:47
Mathias Tjärnqvist 1 - pp - 21:01		Second period		Patrick Cehlin 3 - 22:55
Jens Jakobs 2 - 52:36 Mathias Tjärnqvist 2 - 59:40		Third period		No scoring
Niko Hovinen ( 28 saves / 31 shots )		Goalie stats		Oscar Alsenfelt ( 21 saves / 26 shots )

2 April	Leksands IF		2–4	Malmö Redhawks	Tegera Arena	Recap
Jonas Frögren 1 - 12:59		First period		19:46 - Nils Andersson 4
Tomi Sallinen 5 - 15:29		Second period		6:44 - Jens Henrik Tönjum 1 10:47 - Björn Svensson 2
No scoring		Third period		19:50 - en - Henrik Hetta 1
Oscar Alsenfelt ( 29 saves / 32 shots )		Goalie stats		Niko Hovinen ( 35 saves / 37 shots )

Malmö Redhawks won series 4–3

Modo Hockey vs. HC Vita Hästen

16 March	Modo Hockey		3–0	HC Vita Hästen	Fjällräven Center	Recap
No scoring		First period		No scoring
Donald Brashear 1 - pp - 1:01		Second period		No scoring
Juha-Pekka Haataja 1 - 5:49 Per-Åge Skrøder 1 - en - 18:04		Third period		No scoring
Linus Ullmark ( 19 saves / 19 shots )		Goalie stats		Henrik Lundberg ( 34 saves / 36 shots )

19 March	HC Vita Hästen		0–2	Modo Hockey	Himmelstalundshallen	Recap
No scoring		First period		Jonas Ahnelöv 1 - 18:56
No scoring		Second period		Marcel Hossa 1 - 3:59
No scoring		Third period		No scoring
Henrik Lundberg ( 39 saves / 41 shots )		Goalie stats		Linus Ullmark ( 24 saves / 24 shots )

22 March	Modo Hockey		4–1	HC Vita Hästen	Fjällräven Center	Recap
Simon Önerud 1 - 11:20		First period		No scoring
Marcel Hossa 2 - 10:16 Adrian Kempe 1 - 10:41		Second period		No scoring
Simon Önerud 2 - 9:58		Third period		Daniel Åhsberg 1 - pp - 11:55
Linus Ullmark ( 22 saves / 23 shots )		Goalie stats		Henrik Lundberg ( 26 saves / 30 shots )

25 March	HC Vita Hästen		1–4	Modo Hockey	Himmelstalundshallen	Recap
Wilhelm Westlund 1 - 10:17		First period		Samuel Påhlsson 1 - 9:34
No scoring		Second period		Emil Pettersson 1 - 1:08 Simon Önerud 3 - 1:33
No scoring		Third period		Peter Öberg 1 - 17:20
Henrik Lundberg ( 29 saves / 33 shots )		Goalie stats		Linus Ullmark ( 31 saves / 32 shots )

Modo Hockey won series 4–0

VIK Västerås HK vs. Rögle BK

17 March	VIK Västerås HK		3–4	Rögle BK	ABB Arena	Recap
No scoring		First period		Ludvig Rensfeldt 1 - pp - 3:27
Stefan Gråhns 1 - 3:14 Erik Andersson 1 - 13:17		Second period		Christopher Liljewall 1 - 3:43 Jordan Smotherman 1 - pp - 11:59
Stefan Gråhns 2 - pp - 14:42		Third period		Jordan Smotherman 2 - pp - 16:37
Jonas Fransson ( 20 saves / 24 shots )		Goalie stats		Lars Volden ( 44 saves / 47 shots )

20 March	Rögle BK		4–3	VIK Västerås HK	Lindab Arena	Recap
No scoring		First period		No scoring
Calle Rosén 1 - pp - 3:18 Sebastian Stålberg 1 - 6:39		Second period		No scoring
Ludvig Rensfeldt 2 - 4:40 Peter LeBlanc 1 - 6:41		Third period		Brock Montpetit 1 - 5:33 Jonte Berg 1 - 10:16 Eddie Davidsson 1 - 13:06
Lars Volden ( 25 saves / 28 shots )		Goalie stats		Jonas Fransson ( 18 saves / 22 shots )

23 March	VIK Västerås HK		3–0	Rögle BK	ABB Arena	Recap
Fredrik Johansson 1 - 10:52		First period		No scoring
Mikael Frycklund 1 - 4:13 Stefan Gråhns 3 - 19:45		Second period		No scoring
No scoring		Third period		No scoring
Jonas Fransson ( 38 saves / 38 shots )		Goalie stats		Lars Volden ( 24 saves / 27 shots )

26 March	Rögle BK		6–1	VIK Västerås HK	Lindab Arena	Recap
Daniel Sylwander 1 - 15:26		First period		Jeremy Williams 1 - 16:38
Niklas Hansson 1 - 4:24 Jakob Lilja 1 - 7:57 Peter LeBlanc 2 - 14:04		Second period		No scoring
Calle Rosén 2 - 3:28 Taylor Matson 1 - 11:49		Third period		No scoring
Lars Volden ( 34 saves / 35 shots )		Goalie stats		Jonas Fransson ( 23 saves / 29 shots )

29 March	VIK Västerås HK		0–2	Rögle BK	ABB Arena	Recap
No scoring		First period		No scoring
No scoring		Second period		Jesper Jensen 1 - 5:06
No scoring		Third period		Christopher Liljewall 2 - 12:38
Jonatan Bjurö ( 18 saves / 20 shots )		Goalie stats		Lars Volden ( 31 saves / 31 shots )

Rögle BK won series 4–1

2015 HockeyAllsvenskan qualifiers

AIK and Södertälje SK, ranked 13th and 14th after the regular season, were forced to defend their HockeyAllsvenskan spots against four teams from Hockeyettan in the 2015 HockeyAllsvenskan qualifiers (Swedish: Kvalserien till HockeyAllsvenskan). Joining them from Hockeyettan were AllEttan North winners IF Sundsvall, AllEttan South winners IK Pantern, and the two surviving teams from the Hockeyettan playoffs, Västerviks IK and Tingsryds AIF. These six teams played a double round-robin tournament, with the top four teams qualifying for play in HockeyAllsvenskan for the 2015–16 season.^[7] AIK defended their spot in the HockeyAllsvenskan while Södertälje SK were relegated to Hockeyettan. Tingsryds AIF, IK Pantern and IF Sundsvall Hockey were promoted to HockeyAllsvenskan.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	AIK	10	4	4	0	2	35	23	+12	20	Qualify for play in the 2015–16 HockeyAllsvenskan season
2	Tingsryds AIF (P)	10	5	0	2	3	37	28	+9	17
3	IK Pantern (P)	10	5	1	0	4	26	29	−3	17
4	IF Sundsvall (P)	10	4	1	1	4	19	22	−3	15
5	Västerviks IK	10	3	0	2	5	17	29	−12	11	Qualify for play in the 2015–16 Hockeyettan season
6	Södertälje SK (R)	10	3	0	1	6	26	29	−3	10	Qualify for play in the 2015–16 Hockeyettan season

Source:
(P) Promoted; (R) Relegated.

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HockeyAllsvenskan

Teams	AIK Almtuna IS Asplöven HC BIK Karlskoga IF Björklöven IK Pantern IF Sundsvall Hockey Leksands IF Mora IK IK Oskarshamn Timrå IK Tingsryds AIF VIK Västerås HK HC Vita Hästen

Arenas	ABB Arena Nord Arena Oskarshamn Arena Polarica Gärdehov Himmelstalundshallen Hovet Kirsebergs Ishall Metallåtervinning Arena Nelson Garden Arena NHK Arena Nobelhallen Smidjegrav Arena Tegera Arena T3 Center

Seasons	1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17

Related topics	Swedish Ice Hockey Association Kvalserien (HockeyAllsvenskan) Hockeyettan Kvalserien Swedish Hockey League Guldpucken J20 SuperElit National men's team National women's team

See also: IIHF IIHF Continental Cup IIHF European Champions Cup

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