2012–13 SM-liiga season

2012–13 SM-liiga SM-liiga Ice hockey September 2012 – April 2013 14 UrhoTV, Nelonen Regular season Jokerit Best record Tappara Antti Raanta Lasse Oksanen trophy Juha-Pekka Haataja Veli-Pekka Ketola trophy Playoffs Antti Raanta Jari Kurri trophy Finals Ässät Tappara List of SM-liiga seasons SM-liiga 2011–12 SM-liiga season 2011–12 2013–14 Liiga season 2013–14 The 2012–13 SM-liiga season was the 38th 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 Ässät Pori who defeated Tappara Tampere in the finals. Teams Team City Head coach Arena Capacity Captain Ässät HC Ässät Pori Oy Assat Pori Karri Kivi Porin jäähalli 6481 Ville Uusitalo Blues Espoo Mikko Saarinen‡ Barona Areena 6798 Arto Laatikainen HIFK Helsinki Raimo Summanen‡ Helsingin jäähalli 8200 Ville Peltonen HPK Hämeenlinna Ari-Pekka Selin Ritarihalli 5360 Ville Viitaluoma Ilves Tampere Tuomas Tuokkola‡ Tampereen jäähalli 7600 Erkki Rajamäki Jokerit Helsinki Tomi Lämsä Hartwall Areena 13349 Ossi Väänänen JYP Jyväskylä Jyvaskyla Jyrki Aho Synergia-areena 4500 Éric Perrin KalPa Kuopio Jari Laukkanen Niiralan monttu 5004 Sami Kapanen Kärpät Oulu Hannu Aravirta Oulun Energia Areena 6768 Ilkka Mikkola Lukko Rauma Risto Dufva Äijänsuo Arena 5400 Otto Honkaheimo Pelicans Lahti Kai Suikkanen Isku Areena 5534 Tommi Paakkolanvaara SaiPa Lappeenranta Pekka Tirkkonen Kisapuisto 4825 Ville Koho Tappara Tampere Jukka Rautakorpi Tampereen jäähalli 7600 Tuukka Mäntylä TPS Turku Juha Pajuoja‡ HK Arena 11820 Ville Vahalahti Head coaches marked with ‡ took their jobs mid-season. 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 Ässät, Blues, HIFK, Jokerit, Kärpät, Lukko and TPS, while other had HPK, Ilves, JYP, KalPa, Pelicans, SaiPa and Tappara. Additionally, there were two games where teams could choose the opponents. These were played back-to-back in 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: Pelicans-Ilves, TPS-Lukko, Ässät-Blues, HIFK-HPK, Tappara-Jokerit, Kärpät-KalPa and SaiPa-JYP. The Top 10 made the playoffs, with the top six advancing straight to the quarter-finals, and teams between 7th and 10th positions playing wild card round for the final two spots. The last-placed team Ilves had to play best-of-seven series against Mestis winner Jukurit. Team GP W OTW OTL L GF GA +/− P Jokerit 60 28 10 7 15 168 136 +32 111 Tappara 60 29 7 7 17 178 145 +33 108 JYP 60 28 5 9 18 161 142 +19 103 Ässät 60 27 8 5 20 160 130 +30 102 KalPa 60 24 9 7 20 172 145 +27 97 HPK 60 20 12 12 16 157 144 +13 96 Kärpät 60 23 9 6 22 172 150 +22 93 HIFK 60 26 3 7 24 153 163 -10 91 SaiPa 60 23 7 6 24 162 173 -11 89 Lukko 60 24 3 8 25 151 170 -19 86 Pelicans 60 22 7 3 28 163 180 -17 83 Blues 60 21 6 5 28 151 164 -13 80 TPS 60 12 8 12 28 144 182 -38 64 Ilves 60 13 6 6 35 124 193 -69 57 Playoffs Wild card round (best-of-three) Kärpät-Lukko 1-2 Kärpät-Lukko 4-5 Lukko-Kärpät 2-4 Kärpät-Lukko 2-3 (OT) HIFK-SaiPa 2-1 HIFK-SaiPa 2-3 (OT) SaiPa-HIFK 2-3 (OT) HIFK-SaiPa 5-2 Quarterfinals (best-of-seven) Jokerit-Lukko 2-4 Jokerit-Lukko 3-0 Lukko-Jokerit 5-2 Jokerit-Lukko 3-4 (OT) Lukko-Jokerit 2-1 Jokerit-Lukko 5-2 Lukko-Jokerit 3-1 Tappara-HIFK 4-1 Tappara-HIFK 3-1 HIFK-Tappara 1-4 Tappara-HIFK 3-2 HIFK-Tappara 3-2 Tappara-HIFK 3-1 JYP-HPK 4-1 JYP-HPK 3-1 HPK-JYP 3-2 JYP-HPK 4-2 HPK-JYP 2-3 (OT) JYP-HPK 5-1 Ässät-KalPa 4-1 Ässät-KalPa 2-1 KalPa-Ässät 0-2 Ässät-KalPa 5-2 KalPa-Ässät 5-0 Ässät-KalPa 3-0 Semifinals (best-of-seven) Tappara-Lukko 4-0 Tappara-Lukko 3-2 (OT) Lukko-Tappara 3-4 (OT) Tappara-Lukko 3-0 Lukko-Tappara 0-5 JYP-Ässät 1-4 JYP-Ässät 3-4 (OT) Ässät-JYP 2-0 JYP-Ässät 1-4 Ässät-JYP 1-2 JYP-Ässät 0-1 Bronze-medal game JYP-Lukko 2-0 Finals (best-of-seven) Tappara-Ässät 2-4 Tappara-Ässät 2-1 Ässät-Tappara 5-1 Tappara-Ässät 3-2 Ässät-Tappara 4-0 Tappara-Ässät 1-2 (OT) Ässät-Tappara 3-2 Relegation (best-of-seven) Ilves-Jukurit 4-1 Ilves-Jukurit 2-0 Jukurit-Ilves 1-3 Ilves-Jukurit 2-1 (OT) Jukurit-Ilves 7-4 Ilves-Jukurit 4-2 External links Official site of the SM-liiga 1 Finnish Category:Liiga seasons