2015–16 SHL season

2015–16 SHL season
League	Swedish Hockey League
Sport	Ice hockey
Duration	September 2015 – April 2016
Regular season
League Champion	Skellefteå AIK
Top scorer	Ryan Lasch (Frölunda)
Playoffs
Finals champions	Frölunda HC (4th title)
Runners-up	Skellefteå AIK
SHL seasons
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The 2015–16 SHL season was the 41st season of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). The regular season began in September 2015 and ended in March 2016. The playoffs were played in March–April 2016.

Modo Hockey and Karlskrona HK were forced to play in the SHL qualifiers to defend their SHL status. Karlskrona won their series against AIK in five games while Modo lost to Leksands IF over seven games. Therefore, Leksand were promoted to the SHL on the expense of Modo.

Regular season

Pl.		GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	Goals	Diff	Pts
1.	Skellefteå AIK	52	33	4	4	11	160:103	+57	111
2.	Frölunda HC	52	30	7	0	15	169:112	+57	104
3.	Linköpings HC	52	23	9	7	13	163:121	+42	94
4.	Luleå HF	52	26	5	4	17	140:123	+17	92
5.	Färjestad BK	52	20	10	9	13	141:130	+11	89
6.	Växjö Lakers	52	25	4	4	19	147:139	+8	87
7.	Djurgårdens IF Hockey	52	23	5	7	17	144:135	+9	86
8.	Örebro HK	52	19	6	8	19	135:146	–11	77
9.	HV71	52	21	4	4	23	138:146	–8	75
10.	Brynäs IF	52	21	4	3	24	133:138	–5	74
11.	Rögle BK	52	16	4	6	26	125:154	–29	62
12.	Malmö Redhawks	52	15	5	6	26	116:153	–37	61
13.	Modo Hockey	52	13	3	4	32	119:166	–47	49
14.	Karlskrona HK	52	5	4	8	35	120:184	–64	31

Playoffs

The top six teams will qualify directly for the quarter-finals, while the four teams ranked 7–10 will play a best-of-three series and battle for the two remaining spots.

In the first round the 7th-ranked team will meet the 10th-ranked team and the 8th-ranked team will meet the 9th-ranked team for a place in the second round. In the second round, the top-ranked team will meet the lowest-ranked winner of the first round, the 2nd-ranked team will face the other winner of the first round, the 3rd-ranked team will face the 6th-ranked team, and the 4th-ranked team will face the 5th-ranked team. In the third round, the highest remaining seed is matched against the lowest remaining seed. In each round the higher-seeded team is awarded home advantage. The first round the meetings are played as best-of-three series and the rest is best-of-seven series that follows an alternating home team format: the higher-seeded team will play at home for games 1 and 3 (plus 5 and 7 if necessary), and the lower-seeded team will be at home for game 2 and 4 (plus 6 if necessary).

	Round of 16					Quarter-finals					Semi-finals					Finals
						1	Skellefteå AIK	4
						9	HV71	0
	7	Djurgårdens IF	2								1	Skellefteå AIK	4
	10	Brynäs IF	1								6	Växjö Lakers	3
						2	Frölunda HC	4
						7	Djurgårdens IF	1
	(Pairings are re-seeded after the first and second round)															1	Skellefteå AIK	1
																2	Frölunda HC	4
						3	Linköpings HC	2
						6	Växjö Lakers	4
	8	Örebro HK	0								2	Frölunda HC	4
	9	HV71	2								4	Luleå HF	2
						4	Luleå HF	4
						5	Färjestad BK	1

References

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