2015–16 SHL season
| League |  Swedish Hockey League
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| 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 | |
← 2014–15 2016–17 →
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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.[1][2]
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).[1][2]
| 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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Starttider och sändningar för SM-slutspelet 2016". shl.se. 19 February 2016. http://www.shl.se/artikel/76963/. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "SM-slutspelet 2016". shl.se. http://www.shl.se/matcher/slutspelet-2016. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
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