2020–21 Mestis season

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2020–21 Mestis
League Mestis
Sport Ice hockey
Duration September 2020 – April 2021
Number of teams 14
Regular season
Best record K-Espoo
Runners-up JoKP
Top scorer Joonas Larinmaa (KeuPa HT)
Playoffs
Playoffs MVP Marlo Koponen (Ketterä)
Finals champions Ketterä
  Runners-up Hermes
Mestis seasons

The 2020–21 Mestis season was the 21st season of Mestis, the second highest level of ice hockey in Finland after Liiga. Due to promotion/relegation games being cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in the last season both semi-finalists from last seasons Suomi-sarja (K-Espoo and FPS) were promoted to Mestis. Therefore this seasons consisted of 14 teams.[1]

Regular season

Initially the plan was to have each team play 50 games in total but due to the season being on hold from 2nd December 2020 to 10th February 2021 the teams were unable to play the full season.[2][3] Due to this points-per-game determines the order of the teams. SaPKo and RoKi decided not to continue the season when it resumed in February 2021.[4]

Top six advanced straight to the quarter-finals, while teams between 7th and 10th positions played a wild card round for the final two spots. Since the highest series of Finnish hockey is a closed series no team will be promoted to Liiga.

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD W+ Pts PPG Final Result
1 K-Espoo 31 17 6 8 108 84 24 3 60 1.94 Advance to Quarterfinals
2 JoKP 31 17 5 9 107 89 18 3 59 1.90
3 Ketterä 31 17 5 9 130 92 38 1 57 1.84
4 KeuPa HT 31 17 4 10 112 102 10 2 57 1.84
5 IPK 30 14 6 10 108 94 14 5 53 1.77
6 KOOVEE 28 13 3 12 89 93 −4 2 44 1.57
7 K-Vantaa 29 11 7 11 89 85 4 2 42 1.45 Advance to Wild-card round
8 TUTO Hockey 30 11 6 13 98 104 −6 3 42 1.40
9 Hermes 30 8 9 13 86 96 −10 4 37 1.23
10 Peliitat 31 9 5 17 92 113 −21 4 36 1.16
11 FPS 30 10 1 19 77 103 −26 1 32 1.07
12 Hokki 30 6 7 17 79 107 −28 2 27 0.90
13 SaPKo 18 6 5 7 62 68 −6 4 27 1.50 Did not finish the season
14 RoKi 18 7 3 8 57 64 −7 0 24 1.33

Playoffs

Playoffs are being played in four stages. Each stage before the final is a best-of-3 series, with the final being a best-of-5 series. The teams are reseeded after the quarterfinals, so that the best team by regular season performance to make the semifinals faces the worst team in the semifinals.

Bracket

  Wild-card round (best-of-3) Quarter-finals (best-of-3) Semi-finals (best-of-3) Finals (best-of-5)
                                     
    1  K-Espoo 0  
7  K-Vantaa 2     9  Hermes 2    
  2  JoKP 0  
10  Peliitat 0    
  9  Hermes 2    
2  JoKP 2
   
  7  K-Vantaa 1  
    3  Ketterä 3
  9  Hermes 2
  3  Ketterä 2    
6  KOOVEE 0    
  3  Ketterä 2
8  TUTO Hockey 1  
  5  IPK 0  
9  Hermes 2     4  KeuPa HT 1
 
    5  IPK 2  

Wild-card round

K-VantaaPeliitat 2-0
30.3.2021 K-Vantaa Peliitat 6-2 ref
1.4.2021 Peliitat K-Vantaa 1-3 ref
K-Vantaa wins the series 2-0.


TUTO HockeyHermes 1-2
30.3.2021 TUTO Hockey Hermes 5-6 ref
1.4.2021 Hermes TUTO Hockey 1-3 OT2 ref
3.4.2021 TUTO Hockey Hermes 3-4 OT1 ref
Hermes wins the series 2-1.



Quarter-finals

K-EspooHermes 0-2
6.4.2021 K-Espoo Hermes 4-5 OT1 ref
8.4.2021 Hermes K-Espoo 2-1 OT1 ref
Hermes wins the series 2-0.



JoKPK-Vantaa 2-1
6.4.2021 JoKP K-Vantaa 6-3 ref
8.4.2021 K-Vantaa JoKP 5-4 ref
10.4.2021 JoKP K-Vantaa 4-2 ref
JoKP wins the series 2-1.


KetteräKOOVEE 2-0
6.4.2021 Ketterä KOOVEE 5-3 ref
8.4.2021 KOOVEE Ketterä 1-4 ref
Ketterä wins the series 2-0.



KeuPa HTIPK 1-2
6.4.2021 KeuPa HT IPK 2-3 ref
8.4.2021 IPK KeuPa HT 0-4 ref
10.4.2021 KeuPa HT IPK 3-4 OT1 ref
IPK wins the series 2-1.



Semi-finals

JoKPHermes 0-2
13.4.2021 JoKP Hermes 2-3 ref
15.4.2021 Hermes JoKP 3-1 ref
Hermes wins the series 2-0.


KetteräIPK 2-0
13.4.2021 Ketterä IPK 4-3 ref
15.4.2021 IPK Ketterä 5-6 OT1 ref
Ketterä wins the series 2-0.


Bronze medal game

4/21/2021
18:30
JoKP 0–4
(0–1, 0–1, 0–2)
IPK PKS Areena, Joensuu
Attendance: 20

Finals

4/20/2021
18:30
Ketterä 2–3
(1–1, 1–0, 0–2)
Hermes Imatra Spa Areena, Imatra
Attendance: 6
4/22/2021
18:30
Hermes 2–7
(1–3, 1–0, 0–4)
Ketterä Kokkolan jäähalli, Kokkola
Attendance: 20
4/24/2021
17:00
Ketterä 5–9
(4–2, 0–2, 1–5)
Hermes Imatra Spa Areena, Imatra
Attendance: 6
4/27/2021
18:30
Hermes 3–4 2OT
(1–2, 1–1, 1–0, 0–0, 0–1)
Ketterä Kokkolan jäähalli, Kokkola
Attendance: 20
4/29/2021
18:30
Ketterä 8–3
(3–2, 4–0, 1–1)
Hermes Imatra Spa Areena, Imatra
Attendance: 6

Ketterä wins the finals 3-2.

See also

References

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