2023–24 Naisten Liiga season

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2023–24 Naisten Liiga season
League Naisten Liiga
Sport Ice hockey
Duration
  • 9  2023 (2023-09-09) – 18 February 2024
  • Playoffs
  • 23 February 2024 – 23 March 2024
Number of games 32
Number of teams 9
TV partner(s) Leijonat.tv
Regular Season
Season champions Kiekko-Espoo
Runners-up IFK Helsinki
Top scorer Michaela Pejzlová, HIFK
Playoffs
Playoffs MVP Clara Rozier, HIFK
Finals champions IFK Helsinki
  Runners-up Kiekko-Espoo
Naisten Liiga seasons
2024–25 →

The 2023–24 Naisten Liiga season is the forty-first season of the Naisten Liiga, the premier level of women's ice hockey in Finland, since the league's establishment as the Naisten SM-sarja in 1982. The regular season began on 9 September 2023 and concluded on 18 February 2024. The playoffs began on 23 February 2024 and the Aurora Borealis Cup was awarded to HIFK Naiset on 21 March 2024.

Entering the season, HIFK were the reigning champions of both the 2022–23 regular season and the 2023 Aurora Borealis Cup.

Off-season

Dissolution of Lukko

Lukko unexpectedly withdrew from the Naisten Liiga and the team was dissolved in April 2023, just weeks after they’d successfully defended their place in the league in the 2023 Naisten Liiga qualification. Rauman Lukko ry, the team's operating association, cited difficulties in recruiting and retaining players as the principal reasons behind the decision.[1]

Lukko players were not consulted prior to the announcement. Captain Maija Koski was shocked by the news and felt that the team could have been saved if avenues of communication had been opened between the association and Lukko players.[2]

Lukko's departure from the Naisten Liiga decreased the number of teams in the league from ten to nine for the 2023–24 season. The standard 36-game season was reduced to 32 games per team to account for the four game that would have been played against Lukko.

Five Lukko players – forwards Carolina Grönroos, Maija Koski, and Amanda Julkunen, and defensemen Hanna Brofelt and Mette Karru – transferred to TPS in Turku, about 90 km southeast of Rauma. Centre Aliisa Toivonen, Lukko's leading scorer in the 2022–23 season, signed with Kiekko-Espoo.

Standings

Pos Team Pld W OTW OTL L GF GA GD Pts Postseason
1 Kiekko-Espoo 32 24 2 3 3 168 66 +102 79 Playoffs
2 HIFK 32 27 0 0 5 175 49 +126 75
3 HPK 32 21 0 3 8 120 68 +52 66
4 KalPa 32 18 2 2 10 119 81 +38 60
5 Tampereen Ilves 32 14 5 1 12 102 94 +8 53
6 Team Kuortane 32 9 2 3 18 65 99 −34 34
7 Oulun Kärpät 32 7 2 2 21 69 133 −64 27
8 TPS 32 5 3 2 22 59 133 −74 23
9 RoKi 32 2 1 1 28 55 209 −154 9 Qualification

Playoffs

Quarterfinals
  • Kiekko-Espoo - TPS 7:0, 8:1, 5:2
  • HIFK - Karpat 7:2, 3:2, 4:2
  • HPK - Kuortane 2:1 SO, 3:0, 5:1
  • KalPa - Ilves 2:1, 2:3, 2:0, 3:1
Semifinals
  • Kiekko-Espoo - KalPa 5:3, 4:0, 2:1
  • HIFK - HPK 0:1, 5:4, 5:0, 4:1
3rd place
  • KalPa - HPK 3:1
Final
  • HIFK - Kiekko-Espoo 0:3, 2:0, 4:2, 3:2

References

  1. ↑ "Lukko luopuu Naisten liigapaikasta" (in fi) (Press release). 2023-04-27. https://www.juniorilukko.fi/uutiset/53177/lukko-luopuu-naisten-liigapaikasta. 
  2. ↑ Seppä, Lassi (2023-04-29). "Kapteeni Maija Kosken Lukko-sydän murtui joukkueen lopetusuutisesta − "Aikuisten, maksavien pelaajien mielipidettä ei kysytty"" (in fi). https://www.jatkoaika.com/Haastattelu/Kapteeni-Maija-Kosken-Lukko-syd%C3%A4n-murtui-joukkueen-lopetusuutisesta-%E2%88%92-Aikuisten-maksavien-pelaajien-mielipidett%C3%A4-ei-kysytty/249559. 


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