Mora IK
| Mora IK | |
|---|---|
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| City | Mora, Sweden |
| League | HockeyAllsvenskan |
| Founded | 1935 |
| Home arena | Smidjegrav Arena |
| Colors |
Red, white, green |
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Mora Ishockeyklubb is a Swedish professional ice hockey club from Mora in northern Dalarna. They are currently playing in the second highest league in Sweden, HockeyAllsvenskan. Mora has previously played 25 seasons in the top tier of the Swedish ice hockey system, including four seasons in Elitserien (which today is called the SHL). The team has reached the finals of the Swedish Championships only once, in 1950, a match which they lost 7–2 to Djurgårdens IF. Mora has been playing in the top two tiers of Swedish hockey since the 1944–45 season.
History
ora IK was founded in 1935. In 1945, the club reached the top tier of ice hockey in Sweden for the first time, and participated in their first (and to date only) Swedish Championship final in 1950. Mora yo-yoed in and out of the top league, Division 1, until 1966, when they managed to maintain a spot in Division 1 for nine consecutive seasons, which remains Mora's longest run in Sweden's top hockey league. In 1975, Elitserien (today called the SHL) was created as a new top-tier hockey league, and Mora failed to qualify for this new league. They would continue play in Division 1 in its new function as Sweden's second-tier league, for 29 years, until 2004 when they managed promotion to Elitserien for the first time.
The club took advantage of the 2004–05 NHL lockout to sign several NHL players, including Shawn Horcoff, Daniel Cleary and brothers Marian Hossa and Marcel Hossa. They finished 9th that season, a respectable position for a newly promoted team. Mora finished 8th in both the 2005–06 and 2006–06 seasons, and accordingly participated in the Swedish Championship playoffs for the first time since 1970, but were eliminated in the quarterfinals each time. The 2007–08 Elitserien season resulted with Mora in 11th place, forcing them to play in the 2008 Elitserien qualifier (Kvalserien) to retain their spot in Elitserien. They finished 4th in that tournament, resulting in relegation back to HockeyAllsvenskan.
During the 2012–13 NHL lockout, Bobby Ryan of the Anaheim Ducks and Anze Kopitar of the Stanley Cup-winning Los Angeles Kings joined the team to play with his brother, Gašper, for the duration of the lockout. This period in the second tier came to an end after nine years when Mora defeated local rivals Leksands IF 4–2 in games in the 2017 SHL qualifiers, taking their spot in the top flight.[1] Their rivalries are commonly referred to as Siljansderbyt (English: the Siljan derby). The team would once again face Leksand in the 2019 SHL qualifiers, after finishing 13th in the regular season, where they lost 4–1 in games to Leksand and thus were relegated to HockeyAllsvenskan while Leksand took their SHL spot for the next season.
Seasons-by-season
For the full season-by-season history, see List of Mora IK seasons
| Year | Level | League | Record | Avg. home atnd. |
Notes | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Position | W–OT–L | ||||||
| 2009–10 | Tier 2 | HockeyAllsvenskan | 7th | 24–3–6–19 | 2,367 | ||
| Playoff to Elitserien qualifier | — | 0–0–1–1 | 2,128 | Eliminated in 1st round (0–2 in games vs Almtuna IS) | |||
| 2010–11 | Tier 2 | HockeyAllsvenskan | 7th | 23–3–9–17 | 2,259 | ||
| Playoff to Elitserien qualifier | 1st | 6–0–0–0 | 3,240 | ||||
| 2011 Elitserien qualifier | 6th | 2–0–0–8 | 2,412 | ||||
| 2011–12 | Tier 2 | HockeyAllsvenskan | 8th | 22–5–4–21 | 2,482 | ||
| 2012–13 | Tier 2 | HockeyAllsvenskan | 8th | 20–7–2–23 | 3,099 | ||
| 2013–14 | Tier 2 | HockeyAllsvenskan | 6th | 19–9–5–19 | 2,658 | [1] | |
| Playoff to Elitserien qualifier | 4th | 1–0–1–4 | 1,740 | [2] | |||
| 2014–15 | Tier 2 | HockeyAllsvenskan | 7th | 22–3–7–20 | 2,710 | [3] | |
| HockeyAllsvenskan playoffs | 5th | 1–0–3–1 | 2,540 | [4] | |||
| 2015–16 | Tier 2 | HockeyAllsvenskan | 6th | 20–6–6–20 | 2,924 | [5] | |
| HockeyAllsvenskan playoffs | 2nd | 3–1–0–1 | 3,018 | [6] | |||
| 2016–17 | Tier 2 | HockeyAllsvenskan | 1st | 31–4–4–13 | 3,062 | [7] | |
| HockeyAllsvenskan finals | — | 3–0–0–0 | 4,050 | Won 3–0 in games vs BIK Karlskoga | [8] | ||
| SHL qualifiers | — | 4–0–0–2 | 4,500 | Won 4–2 in games vs Leksands IF Promoted to the SHL
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| 2017–18 | Tier 1 | SHL | 13th | 13–5–2–32 | 4,118 | [10] | |
| SHL qualifiers | — | 4–0–0–1 | 4,500 | Won 4–1 in games vs Leksands IF | [11] | ||
| 2018–19 | Tier 1 | SHL | 13th | 13–9–3–27 | 4,070 | [12] | |
| SHL qualifiers | — | 1–0–1–3 | 4,500 | Lost 1–4 in games vs Leksands IF Relegated to HockeyAllsvenskan
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References
- ↑ "HockeyAllsvenskan: 2013–14: HockeyAllsvenskan". Swedish Ice Hockey Association. http://stats.swehockey.se/ScheduleAndResults/Overview/3906.
- ↑ "HockeyAllsvenskan: 2013–14: PlayOff-Serien". Swedish Ice Hockey Association. http://stats.swehockey.se/ScheduleAndResults/Overview/4901.
- ↑ "HockeyAllsvenskan: 2014–15: Allsvenskan". 14 April 2015. http://stats.swehockey.se/ScheduleAndResults/Overview/5057.
- ↑ "HockeyAllsvenskan: 2014–15: Allsvenskan playoffs". 14 April 2015. http://stats.swehockey.se/ScheduleAndResults/Overview/5964.
- ↑ "HockeyAllsvenskan: 2015–16: Allsvenskan". 14 October 2016. http://stats.swehockey.se/ScheduleAndResults/Overview/6053.
- ↑ "HockeyAllsvenskan: 2015–16: Playoffs". 14 October 2016. http://stats.swehockey.se/Teams/Statistics/ScoringAndGoalkeeping/6701.
- ↑ "HockeyAllsvenskan: 2016–17: Allsvenskan". 14 October 2017. http://stats.swehockey.se/ScheduleAndResults/Overview/7157.
- ↑ "HockeyAllsvenskan: 2016–17: Allsvenskan finals". 14 October 2017. http://stats.swehockey.se/ScheduleAndResults/Overview/7840.
- ↑ "SHL: 2016–17: SHL Qualifiers". 14 October 2017. http://stats.swehockey.se/ScheduleAndResults/Overview/7979.
- ↑ "SHL: 2017–18: SHL". 13 August 2018. http://stats.swehockey.se/ScheduleAndResults/Overview/6053.
- ↑ "SHL: 2017–18: SHL Qualifiers". 14 October 2018. http://stats.swehockey.se/ScheduleAndResults/Overview/9066.
- ↑ "SHL: 2018–19: SHL". 13 May 2019. http://stats.swehockey.se/ScheduleAndResults/Overview/9171.
- ↑ "SHL: 2018–19: SHL Qualifiers". 14 April 2019. http://stats.swehockey.se/ScheduleAndResults/Overview/9428.
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