2014–15 SHL season
| League |  Swedish Hockey League
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| Sport | Ice hockey |
| Duration | 10 September 2014 – 23 April 2015 |
| Number of games | 55 (330 total) |
| Number of teams | 12 |
| Total attendance | 1,987,961[1] |
| Average attendance | 6,024[1] |
| Regular season | |
| League Champion | Skellefteå AIK |
| Season MVP | Július Hudáček (Örebro) |
| Top scorer | Derek Ryan (Örebro) |
| Playoffs | |
| Playoffs MVP | Noah Welch (Växjö) |
| Finals | |
| Finals champions | Växjö Lakers (1st title) |
| Runners-up | Skellefteå AIK |
| SHL seasons | |
← 2013–14 2015–16 →
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The 2014–15 SHL season was the 40th season of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). The regular season began on 10 September 2014 and ended on 5 March 2015. The following playoffs began on 12 March and ended on 23 April 2015.
Skellefteå AIK won the regular season for the third consecutive season. Växjö Lakers won the Swedish Championship title by defeating Skellefteå in six games in a series where none of the two teams managed to win at home until Växjö in game six. The title was Växjö's first in only their second play-off appearance.
Modo Hockey and Leksands IF were forced to play in the Direktkval till SHL to defend their SHL status. Modo swept the series against HC Vita Hästen while Leksand lost to Malmö Redhawks over seven games. Therefore Malmö were promoted to the SHL on the expense of Leksand.
Pre-season
On 29 April 2014, the Swedish Sports Confederation (RF) informed that Modo Hockey player Edwin Hedberg had tested positive for the banned substance sibutramine in February.[2][3] Hedberg voluntarily suspended himself for the duration of the investigation.[3] On 9 July 2014, the RF handed Hedberg a six-month suspension from all organised sporting activity; the suspension ended on 24 October 2014.[4]
On 7 July 2014, the RF suspended Luleå HF goaltender Mark Owuya from all sporting activity for one year.[5][6][7][8] The verdict came due to an incident in February, in which Owuya disappeared without supervision during out-of-competition testing for doping.[5][7] Owuya would have missed the entire 2014–15 season as a result, but appealed the decision to the top instance of the RF on 28 July 2014.[9] On 4 September 2014, the instance decided to lift the suspension.[10]
Regular season
Standings
Final Standings.[11]
| Key to colours in group tables |
|---|
| Top six teams advance directly to the playoffs |
| Teams placed 7-10 advance to the play-in for the playoffs |
| Bottom two teams qualify for relegation series |
| Team | GP |
W |
OTW |
OTL |
L |
GF |
GA |
GD |
Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skellefteå AIK | 55 | 32 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 169 | 116 | +53 | 111 |
| Frölunda HC | 55 | 23 | 11 | 6 | 15 | 145 | 120 | +25 | 97 |
| Växjö Lakers | 55 | 24 | 9 | 6 | 16 | 158 | 120 | +38 | 96 |
| Linköpings HC | 55 | 26 | 4 | 7 | 18 | 156 | 125 | +31 | 93 |
| HV71 | 55 | 25 | 6 | 5 | 19 | 145 | 141 | +4 | 92 |
| Örebro HK | 55 | 21 | 10 | 7 | 17 | 156 | 128 | +28 | 90 |
| Färjestad BK | 55 | 21 | 6 | 8 | 20 | 128 | 135 | −7 | 83 |
| Luleå HF | 55 | 21 | 6 | 4 | 24 | 127 | 131 | −4 | 79 |
| Djurgårdens IF | 55 | 15 | 9 | 8 | 23 | 128 | 157 | −29 | 71 |
| Brynäs IF | 55 | 19 | 3 | 5 | 28 | 132 | 159 | −27 | 68 |
| Leksands IF | 55 | 15 | 3 | 6 | 31 | 116 | 179 | −63 | 57 |
| Modo Hockey | 55 | 12 | 4 | 9 | 30 | 127 | 176 | −49 | 53 |
Playoffs
The top six teams will qualify directly for the playoffs, while the four teams ranked 7–10 will play a best-of-three series and battle for the two remaining playoff spots.[12][13]
Play-in
The teams ranked 7 and 10, and the teams ranked 8 and 9, respectively, will face each other in a best-of-three series in order to qualify for the playoffs. The better-ranked teams in the two series will receive home advantage, i.e. two home games, if necessary. The two winners will take the two remaining playoff spots.[12][13]
| Series | 1 | 2 | 3 | [HR] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Färjestad BK | – | Brynäs IF | 1:2 | 3:4 | 3:2 | 1:2 | [3:2] |
| Luleå HF | – | Djurgården Hockey | 2:0 | 1:0 | 3:1 | – | [2:3] |
Playoff bracket
In the first round, the top-ranked team will face the lowest-ranked winner of the two best-of-three series, the 2nd-ranked team will face the other winner of the two best-of-three series, the 3rd-ranked team will face the 6th-ranked team, and the 4th-ranked team will face the 5th-ranked team. In the second round, the highest remaining seed is matched against the lowest remaining seed. In each round the higher-seeded team is awarded home advantage. Each series is a 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).[12][13]
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | |||||||||||
| 1 | Skellefteå AIK | 4 | |||||||||||
| 10 | Brynäs IF | 0 | |||||||||||
| 1 | Skellefteå AIK | 4 | |||||||||||
| 4 | Linköpings HC | 1 | |||||||||||
| 2 | Frölunda HC | 4 | |||||||||||
| 8 | Luleå HF | 3 | |||||||||||
| (Pairings are re-seeded after the first round) | 1 | Skellefteå AIK | 2 | ||||||||||
| 3 | Växjö Lakers | 4 | |||||||||||
| 3 | Växjö Lakers | 4 | |||||||||||
| 6 | Örebro HK | 2 | |||||||||||
| 2 | Frölunda HC | 2 | |||||||||||
| 3 | Växjö Lakers | 4 | |||||||||||
| 4 | Linköpings HC | 4 | |||||||||||
| 5 | HV71 | 2 | |||||||||||
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Team attendance rates for the 2014–15 SHL regular season". Swedish Ice Hockey Association. http://stats.swehockey.se/Teams/Statistics/Attendance/5056. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
- ↑ Ek, Mattias. "Modos Edwin Hedberg har åkt fast för doping", 29 April 2014. Retrieved on 9 July 2014. (Swedish)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Edwin Hedberg utreds för användande av otillåtet preparat" (in Swedish). Modo Hockey. 29 April 2014. Archived from the original on 2 May 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140502053004/http://www.modohockey.se/artikel/55120/. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
- ↑ Wahlberg, Malin. "Hedberg stängs av sex månader", 9 July 2014. Retrieved on 9 July 2014. (Swedish)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Beslut från Dopingnämnden" (in Swedish) (PDF). [wedish Sports Confederation. 7 July 2014. Archived from the original on 10 July 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140710181854/http://cdn.shl.se/files/LHF/sport/140710Owuya.pdf. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
- ↑ "Luleås Mark Owuya blir avstängd i ett år", 10 July 2014. Retrieved on 10 July 2014. (Swedish)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Wahlberg, Malin. "När han gick in på toa tänkte jag att han manipulerade testet", 10 July 2014. Retrieved on 10 July 2014. (Swedish) Archived from the original on 10 July 2014.
- ↑ Hedlund, Robert (10 July 2014). "Avstängningen av Owuya" (in Swedish). Luleå HF. http://www.luleahockey.se/artikel/56025/. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
- ↑ Winblad, Johan (28 July 2014). "Owuya överklagar dopingavstänging" (in Swedish). Sveriges Television. http://www.svt.se/nyheter/regionalt/nordnytt/owuya-overklagar-dopingavstanging. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
- ↑ Wahlberg, Malin. "Owuyas nya bakslag – beslutet kan överklagas", 4 September 2014. Retrieved on 4 September 2014. (Swedish)
- ↑ "Statistik - SHL.se". SHL. http://www.shl.se/statistics/standings/summary/2014/All. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 "Datum och speldagar för Play In och Slutspel 2015". shl.se. 4 September 2014. http://www.shl.se/artikel/56912/. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 "Datum och speldagar för Play In och SM-slutspel 2015". shl.se. http://www.shl.se/matcher/play-in-slutspel-2015. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
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