2010–11 SM-liiga season

March 2026 January 2011 2010–11 SM-liiga SM-liiga Ice hockey September 2010 – April 2011 14 UrhoTV, Nelonen Regular season JYP Best record Ässät Ville Peltonen Lasse Oksanen trophy Perttu Lindgren Veli-Pekka Ketola trophy Playoffs Toni Söderholm Jari Kurri trophy HIFK Blues List of SM-liiga seasons SM-liiga 2009–10 SM-liiga season 2009–10 2011–12 SM-liiga season 2011–12 The 2010–11 SM-liiga season was the 36th season of the SM-liiga, the top level of ice hockey in Finland, since the league's formation in 1975. The title was won by HIFK who defeated Espoo Blues in the finals. The title was 7th in team history. Teams Team City Head coach Arena Capacity Captain Ässät HC Ässät Pori Oy Assat Pori Pekka Rautakallio Porin jäähalli 6481 Matti Kuparinen Blues Espoo Petri Matikainen Barona Areena 6798 Toni Kähkönen HIFK Helsinki Kari Jalonen Helsingin jäähalli 8200 Ville Peltonen HPK Hämeenlinna Harri Rindell Patria-areena 5360 Marko Tuulola Ilves Tampere Juha Pajuoja Tampereen jäähalli 7600 Pasi Määttänen Jokerit Helsinki Erkka Westerlund* Hartwall Areena 13506 Ossi Väänänen JYP Jyväskylä Jyvaskyla Risto Dufva Jyväskylän jäähalli 4618 Juha-Pekka Hytönen KalPa Kuopio Pekka Virta Niiralan monttu 5224 Tommi Miettinen Kärpät Oulu Hannu Aravirta* Oulun Energia Areena 6768 Ilkka Mikkola Lukko Rauma Rauli Urama Äijänsuo Arena 5400 Tomi Pettinen Pelicans Lahti Pari Räsänen* Isku Areena 5530 Jan Latvala SaiPa Lappeenranta Ari-Pekka Selin Kisapuisto 4825 Ville Koho Tappara Tampere Sami Hirvonen Tampereen jäähalli 7600 Pekka Saravo TPS Turku Jukka Koivu* Turkuhalli 11820 Ville Vahalahti Head coaches listed with asterisk (*) were mid-season replacements. Regular season Each team played four times against every other team (twice home and twice away), getting to 52 games. Additionally, the teams were divided to two groups, where teams would play one extra game. One group included Blues, HIFK, Jokerit, JYP, KalPa, Pelicans and SaiPa, while other had HPK, Ilves, Kärpät, Lukko, Tappara, TPS and Ässät. New addition to schedule was two games where teams could choose the opponents. These were played back-to-back in late January and the choices were made in December, with team with lowest point total to that date was able to choose first. These pairs were: TPS-Ilves, Pelicans-KalPa, SaiPa-Tappara, Kärpät-Blues, Jokerit-HIFK, Lukko-Ässät and HPK-JYP. Team GP W OTW OTL L GF GA +/− P JYP 60 39 4 4 13 186 97 +89 129 Ässät 60 30 11 7 12 176 132 +44 119 HIFK 60 31 6 12 11 199 140 +59 117 Lukko 60 27 6 5 22 175 157 +18 98 KalPa 60 26 9 2 23 150 141 +9 98 Jokerit 60 25 6 9 20 165 150 +15 96 HPK 60 25 4 9 22 154 151 +3 92 Kärpät 60 23 8 4 25 151 161 −10 89 Blues 60 21 8 7 24 142 151 −9 86 Ilves 60 21 7 4 28 161 192 −31 81 Tappara 60 17 7 6 30 142 181 −39 71 SaiPa 60 16 4 9 31 137 186 −49 65 TPS 60 12 8 8 32 134 186 −52 60 Pelicans 60 17 2 4 37 133 180 −47 59 Source: Elite ProspectsSM-liiga Standings 2010-11 https://www.eliteprospects.com/league/sm-liiga/standings/2010-2011 live https://web.archive.org/web/20260122231729/https://www.eliteprospects.com/league/sm-liiga/standings/2010-2011 2026-01-22 2026-03-28 Elite Prospects Playoffs Wild card round (best-of-three) HPK – Ilves 0–2 HPK-Ilves 3–5 Ilves-HPK 5–2 Kärpät – Blues 1–2 Kärpät-Blues 2–3 (OT) Blues-Kärpät 3–5 Kärpät-Blues 1–2 (OT) Quarterfinals (best-of-seven) JYP – Ilves 4–0 JYP-Ilves 7–3 Ilves-JYP 1–2 JYP-Ilves 4–3 Ilves-JYP 2–3 Ässät – Blues 2–4 Ässät-Blues 3–4 (OT) Blues-Ässät 3–0 Ässät-Blues 1–2 Blues-Ässät 1–5 Ässät-Blues 2–0 Blues-Ässät 3–0 HIFK – Jokerit 4–3 HIFK-Jokerit 0–1 Jokerit-HIFK 4–2 HIFK-Jokerit 2–1 Jokerit-HIFK 2–3 (OT) HIFK-Jokerit 1–3 Jokerit-HIFK 1–2 (OT) HIFK-Jokerit 5–1 Lukko – KalPa 4–3 Lukko-KalPa 2–3 KalPa-Lukko 3–0 Lukko-KalPa 2–1 KalPa-Lukko 2–5 Lukko-KalPa 5–0 KalPa-Lukko 3–2 (2OT) Lukko-KalPa 5–1 Semifinals (best-of-seven) JYP – Blues 1–4 JYP-Blues 1–3 Blues-JYP 4–3 JYP-Blues 4–2 Blues-JYP 2–0 JYP-Blues 1–3 HIFK – Lukko 4–1 HIFK-Lukko 2–3 (3OT) Lukko-HIFK 1–3 HIFK-Lukko 5–2 Lukko-HIFK 0–3 HIFK-Lukko 7–1 Bronze medal game JYP-Lukko 2–4 Finals (best-of-seven) HIFK-Blues 4–0 HIFK-Blues 3–2 Blues-HIFK 1–5 HIFK-Blues 5–3 Blues-HIFK 2–4 References 1 Finnish Category:Liiga seasons