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| title            = 2008–09 Slovenian Hockey League Season
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| season_champs    = [[KHL Medveščak|Medveščak]]
| season_champ_name= Regular-season winner
| league_champs    = [[HK Acroni Jesenice|Jesenice]]
| league_champ_name= Champions
| second_place     = [[HDD Olimpija Ljubljana|Olimpija]]
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| seasonslist      = Slovenian Ice Hockey Championship#Sloveninan Champions
| seasonslistnames = Slovenian Ice Hockey League
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| prevseason_year  = [[2007–08 Slovenian Hockey League season|2007–08 season]]
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| nextseason_year  = [[2009–10 Slovenian Hockey League season|2009–10 season]]
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The '''2008–09 Slovenian Hockey League''' was the 18th season in [[Slovenia]]. The competition was mostly made up of teams from [[Slovenia]], but there were two teams from [[Croatia]] too.

The regular season was the first such season where a non-Slovenian team placed in first.

At the end of the regular season the playoffs were held. It was the first time, that playoffs featured a non-Slovenian team. In the end [[HK Acroni Jesenice|Jesenice]] won the title.

==Teams==

*{{flagicon|CRO}} [[KHL Medveščak|Medveščak]]
*{{flagicon|CRO}} [[KHL Mladost|Mladost]]
*{{flagicon|SLO}} [[HD Mladi Jesenice|Mladi Jesenice]]
*{{flagicon|SLO}} [[HDK Maribor|Maribor]]
*{{flagicon|SLO}} Maribor Mladi
*{{flagicon|SLO}} [[HK Alfa|Alfa]]
*{{flagicon|SLO}} [[HK MK Bled|Bled]]
*{{flagicon|SLO}} [[HK Slavija Ljubljana|Slavija]]
*{{flagicon|SLO}} [[HK Triglav Kranj|Triglav Kranj]]
*{{flagicon|SLO}} [[HK Olimpija Ljubljana (2004)|HK Olimpija]]
*{{flagicon|SLO}} [[HDD Olimpija Ljubljana|HDD Olimpija]] (play-offs only)
*{{flagicon|SLO}} [[HK Acroni Jesenice|Jesenice]] (play-offs only)

==Standings after the regular season==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left;"
|-
!width=20 |Rk
!width=200 |Team
!width=20 abbr="Games Played" |GP
!width=20 abbr="Won" |W
!width=20 abbr="Overtimes Won" |OTW
!width=20 abbr="Overtime Lost" |OTL
!width=20 abbr="Lost" |L
!width=20 abbr="Goals for" |GF
!width=20 abbr="Goals against" |GA
!width=20 abbr="Points" |Pts
|-
|style="text-align:center;"|1.||  {{flagicon|CRO}} [[KHL Medveščak|Meveščak]]
|35 ||33 ||0 ||1 ||1 ||227 ||66 ||'''100'''
|-
|style="text-align:center;"|2.|| {{flagicon|SLO}} [[HDK Maribor|Maribor]]
|35 ||25 ||3 ||3 ||4 ||208 ||59 ||'''84'''
|-
|style="text-align:center;"|3.|| {{flagicon|SLO}} [[HK Triglav Kranj|Triglav Kranj]]
|35 ||21 ||2 ||1 ||11 ||172 ||71 ||'''68'''
|-
|style="text-align:center;"|4.|| {{flagicon|SLO}} [[HD Mladi Jesenice|Mladi Jesenice]]
|35 ||19 ||2 ||2 ||12 ||208 ||89 ||'''63'''
|-
|style="text-align:center;"|5.|| {{flagicon|SLO}} [[HK Olimpija Ljubljana (2004)|HK Olimpija]]
|35 ||16 ||5 ||4 ||10 ||192 ||98 ||'''62'''
|-
|style="text-align:center;"|6.|| {{flagicon|SLO}} [[HK MK Bled|Bled]]
|35 ||16 ||2 ||2 ||15 ||155 ||134 ||'''54'''
|-
|style="text-align:center;"|7.|| {{flagicon|CRO}} [[KHL Mladost|Mladost]]
|35 ||14 ||1 ||2 ||18 ||152 ||175 ||'''46'''
|-
|style="text-align:center;"|8.|| {{flagicon|SLO}} [[HK Slavija Ljubljana|Slavija]]
|35 ||8 ||2 ||2 ||23 ||140 ||160 ||'''30'''
|-
|style="text-align:center;"|9.|| {{flagicon|SLO}} Maribor Mladi
|35 ||5 ||0 ||1 ||29 ||77 ||250 ||'''16'''
|-
|style="text-align:center;"|10.|| {{flagicon|SLO}} [[HK Alfa|Alfa]]
|35 ||0 ||1 ||0 ||34 ||62 ||491 ||'''2'''
|}

==Play-offs==

===Round 1===
Medveščak defeated Slavija 2–0 in a best of three series.
*Medveščak – Slavija 9–1 (2–0, 5–0, 2–1)
*Slavija – Medveščak 1–6 (0–1, 1–3, 0–2)

Maribor defeated Mladost 2–0 in a best of three series.
*Maribor – Mladost 3–1
*Mladost – Maribor 2–4 (0–1, 0–1, 2–2)

Triglav Kranj defeated Bled 2-1 in a best of three series.
*Triglav Kranj – Bled 5–3 (1–2, 4–0, 0–1) 
*Bled – Triglav Kranj 6–2 (1–1, 3–1, 2–0)
*Triglav Kranj – Bled 6–0 (1–0, 4–0, 1–0)

HK Olimpija defeated Mladi Jesenice 2–0 in a best of three series.
*HK Olimpija – Mladi Jesenice 4–1 (1–1, 2–0, 1–0) 
*Mladi Jesenice – HK Olimpija 1–3 (0–2, 1–0, 0–1)

===Quarter-finals===
Maribor defeated Triglav Kranj 2–1 in a best of three series.
*Maribor – Triglav Kranj 2–3 (0–1, 0–1, 2–1)
*Triglav Kranj – Maribor 2–3 OT (0–0, 1–0, 1–2, 0–1)
*Maribor – Triglav Kranj 7–2 (1–2, 4–0, 2–0)

Medveščak defeated HK Olimpija 2–0 in a best of three series.
*Medveščak – HK Olimpija 3–2 (0–0, 0–1, 2–1, 1–0) OT
*HK Olimpija – Medveščak 3–4 (0–1, 2–1, 1–2)

===Semi-finals===
Jesenice and HDD Olimpija joined in the semi-finals.

Jesenice defeated Maribor 2–0 in a best of three series.
*Jesenice – Maribor 8–2 (3–1, 4–1, 1–0)
*Maribor – Jesenice 2–3 (1–1, 1–1, 0–0, 0–1) OT

Olimpija defeated Medveščak 2–1 in a best of three series.
*Olimpija – Medveščak 0–1 (0–1, 0–0, 0–0)
*Medveščak – Olimpija 3–6 (2–2, 0–3, 1–1) 
*Olimpija – Medveščak 4–1 (1–0, 2–1, 1–0)

===Final===
Jesenice defeated Olimpija 4–0 in a best of seven series.
*Jesenice – Olimpija 5–2 (3–0, 2–1, 0–1)
*Jesenice – Olimpija 2–1 (0–0, 1–0, 0–1, 0–0, 1–0)
*Olimpija – Jesenice 0–2 (0–0, 0–1, 0–1) 
*Olimpija – Jesenice 1–2 (0–1, 0–0, 1–1)

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