2017–18 Mestis season

2017–18 Mestis
League	Mestis
Sport	Ice hockey
Duration	September 2017 – March 2018
Number of teams	12
Regular season
Best record	KeuPa HT
Runners-up	SaPKo
Top scorer	Joona Jääskeläinen
Playoffs
Finals champions	KeuPa HT
Runners-up	TUTO Hockey
Mestis seasons
← 2016–17 2018–19 →

The 2017–18 Mestis season is the 18th season of Mestis, the second highest level of ice hockey in Finland after Liiga. Imatran Ketterä was promoted from Suomi-sarja at the end of last season, while JYP-Akatemia and Hokki faced bankruptcy and were relegated.

Clubs[]

Team	City	Home arena, capacity	Founded	Head coach
Espoo United	Espoo	Espoo Metro Areena, 6,982	2016
Hermes	Kokkola	Kokkolan jäähalli, 4,200	1953	14.12.2017
IPK	Iisalmi	, 1,358	1966
Jokipojat	Joensuu	Mehtimäki Ice Hall, 4,800	1953
Ketterä	Imatra	, 1,300	1957
KeuPa HT	Keuruu	, 1,100	1995
Kiekko-Vantaa	Vantaa	, 2,004	1994	Pasi Arvonen
LeKi	Lempäälä	Masku Areena, 900	1904
Peliitat	Heinola	Versowood Areena, 2,686	1984	Santeri Heiskanen 1.3.2018
RoKi	Rovaniemi	Lappi Areena, 3,500	1979
SaPKo	Savonlinna	Talvisalo ice rink, 2,833	1929
TUTO Hockey	Turku	, 3,000	1929	Miika Elomo

Regular season[]

Top eight advance to the Mestis playoffs while the bottom two face the top two teams from Suomi-sarja for a relegation playoff. Since the highest series of Finnish hockey is a closed series no team will be promoted to Liiga.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final Result
1	KeuPa HT	50	30	2	3	15	182	132	+50	97	Advance to playoffs
2	SaPKo	50	24	9	6	11	175	138	+37	96
3	Ketterä	50	25	4	5	16	180	159	+21	88
4	Kiekko-Vantaa	50	21	6	5	18	150	151	−1	80
5	TUTO Hockey	50	21	4	8	17	166	129	+37	79
6	Jokipojat	50	21	4	5	20	156	140	+16	76
7	IPK	50	19	5	5	21	141	161	−20	72
8	LeKi	50	16	9	5	20	146	149	−3	71
9	Espoo United	50	18	6	3	23	141	147	−6	69
10	RoKi	50	17	5	7	21	150	171	−21	68
11	Hermes	50	14	4	9	23	142	186	−44	59	Qualification to the relegation playoffs
12	Peliitat	50	9	7	4	30	153	219	−66	45

Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Penalty minutes.^[1]

Playoffs[]

Playoffs are being played in three stages. Each stage is a best-of-7 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[]

	Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Finals
	1	KeuPa HT	4
	8	LeKi	1
						1	KeuPa HT	4
						6	Jokipojat	0
	2	SaPKo	4
	7	IPK	2
											1	KeuPa HT	4
											5	TUTO Hockey	2
	3	Ketterä	0
	6	Jokipojat	4
						2	SaPKo	3			Third place
						5	TUTO Hockey	4
	4	Kiekko-Vantaa	1								2	SaPKo	1
	5	TUTO Hockey	4								6	Jokipojat	0

Quarterfinals[]

Semifinals[]

Bronze medal game[]

6 April 2018 18:30

SaPKo

3–1 (1–0, 0–0, 2–1)

Jokipojat

Winter Salon rink, Savonlinna Attendance: 1,187

Game reference
	22 min	Penalties	8 min
	35	Shots	30

Finals[]

6 April 2018 18:30

KeuPa HT

2–4 (0–2, 1–0, 1–2)

TUTO Hockey

Keuruu Ice Hall, Keuruu Attendance: 985

Game reference
	2 min	Penalties	2 min
	26	Shots	28

8 April 2018 17:00

TUTO Hockey

2–5 (0–4, 1–0, 1–1)

KeuPa HT

Kupittaan jäähalli, Turku Attendance: 2,018

Game reference
	12 min	Penalties	14 min
	47	Shots	31

11 April 2018 18:30

KeuPa HT

2–1 (1–1, 1–0, 0–0)

TUTO Hockey

Keuruu Ice Hall, Keuruu Attendance: 867

Game reference
	18 min	Penalties	8 min
	22	Shots	27

13 April 2018 18:15

TUTO Hockey

4–1 (1–0, 1–0, 2–1)

KeuPa HT

Kupittaan jäähalli, Turku Attendance: 1,809

Game reference
	4 min	Penalties	6 min
	37	Shots	24

14 April 2018 16:30

KeuPa HT

3–1 (1–0, 0–0, 2–1)

TUTO Hockey

Keuruu Ice Hall, Keuruu Attendance: 938

Game reference
	20 min	Penalties	22 min
	22	Shots	16

16 April 2018 18:15

TUTO Hockey

1–2 OT1 (0–1, 1–0, 0–0, 0–1)

KeuPa HT

Kupittaan jäähalli, Turku Attendance: 1,748

Game reference
	12 min	Penalties	14 min
	34	Shots	34

KeuPa HT wins the series 4-2.

Relegation playoffs[]

The bottom two teams will face the top two teams from Suomi-sarja for a best-of-7 series were the winners will get a place in Mestis for the next season.

No team got relegated from or promoted to Mestis for the next season.

See also[]

• 2017–18 Liiga season

References[]