2021–22 ICE Hockey League season

2021–22 bet-at-home ICE Hockey League
2021–22 bet-at-home ICE Hockey League
League	ICE Hockey League
Sport	Ice hockey
Duration	Regular season:; 16 September 2021 – 1 February 2022
Number of games	Regular season: 308
Number of teams	14
Regular season
Placement round
Play-offs
Austrian Hockey League seasons
	← 2020–21 season →

The 2021–22 ICE Hockey League season will begin on 16 September 2021. The league's title sponsor is bet-at-home.com. The defending champions are EC KAC.

Teams[]

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2021–22 ICE Hockey League season teams.

Team	City	Arena	Capacity
Dornbirn Bulldogs	Dornbirn	Messestadion Dornbirn	4,270
Moser Medical Graz 99ers	Graz	Merkur-Eisarena	4,126
HC TWK Innsbruck	Innsbruck	Tiroler Wasserkraft Arena	3,000
EC KAC	Klagenfurt	Stadthalle Klagenfurt	4,945
Steinbach Black Wings 1992	Linz	Keine Sorgen EisArena	4,865
EC Red Bull Salzburg	Salzburg	Eisarena Salzburg	3,200
Vienna Capitals	Vienna	Erste Bank Arena	7,022
EC GRAND Immo VSV	Villach	Villacher Stadthalle	4,800
HC Orli Znojmo	Znojmo	Hostan Arena	4,800
Bratislava Capitals	Bratislava	Ondrej Nepela Arena	4,800
HK Olimpija	Ljubljana	Tivoli Hall	5,000
Hydro Fehérvár AV19	Székesfehérvár	Ifjabb Ocskay Gábor Ice Hall	3,500
HCB Südtirol Alperia	Bolzano	Eiswelle	7,200
HC Pustertal Wölfe	Bruneck		2,050

Standings[]

Regular season[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	PCT	Qualification
1	EC Red Bull Salzburg	49	24	9	6	10	162	109	+53	.653	Qualified to 2022–23 Champions Hockey League and quarter-finals
2	EC VSV	47	24	6	3	14	180	147	+33	.617
3	Fehérvár AV19	48	25	3	3	17	165	133	+32	.583	Qualified to quarter-finals
4	Vienna Capitals	48	23	3	5	17	132	122	+10	.556
5	HC Pustertal Wölfe	49	20	6	6	17	146	139	+7	.531
6	HK Olimpija	46	22	2	3	19	136	140	−4	.529
7	HC Orli Znojmo	48	21	4	3	20	168	151	+17	.514	Qualified to pre-playoffs^[1]
8	EC KAC	49	18	6	9	16	139	117	+22	.510
9	HCB Südtirol Alperia	46	19	4	4	19	125	143	−18	.500
10	Graz 99ers	48	20	4	3	21	142	137	+5	.493
11	HC Innsbruck	49	19	5	1	24	142	156	−14	.463
12	Dornbirn Bulldogs	48	10	4	7	27	118	181	−63	.313
13	Steinbach Black Wings 1992	49	8	3	7	31	108	185	−77	.252
14	Bratislava Capitals	14	5	2	1	6	42	45	−3	.476	Withdrew from the tournament

Source: ICE Hockey League
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points.^[2]

Statistics[]

Scoring leaders[]

The following shows the top ten players who led the league in points, at the conclusion of games played on 24 February 2022.^[3] If two or more skaters are tied (i.e. same number of points, goals and played games), all of the tied skaters are shown.

Player	Team	GP	G	A	Pts	+/–	PIM
	Orli Znojmo	46	25	26	51	+20	12
	Orli Znojmo	47	17	34	51	-1	14
Peter Schneider	EC Red Bull Salzburg	44	28	22	50	+19	6
Tim McGauley	HC Innsbruck	46	19	29	48	-4	53
John Hughes	Villacher SV	43	17	31	48	+18	16
T. J. Brennan	EC Red Bull Salzburg	47	20	26	46	+32	22
	HC Innsbruck	44	12	34	46	+7	8
Brian Lebler	Black Wings Linz	46	25	20	45	-13	48
Scott Kosmachuk	Villacher SV	44	24	21	45	+14	42
Johan Harju	HC Pustertal	47	18	25	43	+1	18

Leading goaltenders[]

The following shows the top ten goaltenders who led the league in goals against average, provided that they have played at least 40% of their team's minutes, at the conclusion of games played on 2 October 2021.^[4]

Player	Team(s)	GP	TOI	GA	Sv%	GAA
Christian Engstrand	Graz 99ers	21	1262	39	.931	1.86
	EC Red Bull Salzburg	16	963	31	.931	1.93
	EC Red Bull Salzburg	26	1592	51	.924	1.92
	HC Pustertal	45	2716	121	.924	2.67
Bernhard Starkbaum	Vienna Capitals	22	1310	51	.923	2.34
Sebastian Dahm	EC KAC	39	2377	79	.921	1.99
	Fehérvár AV19	26	1533	60	.916	2.35
Niklas Lundström	Graz 99ers	17	937	39	.914	2.50
Justin Fazio	HC Bolzano	18	1027	46	.912	2.69
David Kickert	Vienna Capitals	21	1222	54	.909	2.65

Playoffs[]

Bracket[]

Pre-playoffs (best-of-3)					Quarter-finals (best-of-7)				Semi-finals (best-of-7)		Finals (best-of-7)

					1	EC Red Bull Salzburg	3
					7	HC Orli Znojmo	0
7	HC Orli Znojmo	2

10	Graz 99ers	0
					2	EC VSV	2

					6	HK Olimpija	1
(Pairings are re-seeded after the first and second round)

					3	Fehérvár AV19	3
					5	HC Pustertal Wölfe	0
								8	EC KAC	2

			9	HCB Südtirol Alperia	0
4	Vienna Capitals	2

					8	EC KAC	1

Pre-playoffs[]

(7) HC Orli Znojmo vs. (10) Graz 99ers[]

2 March	HC Orli Znojmo		3–2 OT	Graz 99ers	Nevoga Arena, Znojmo	Recap
(, ) - 10:25		First period		19:55 - Hjalmarsson (Martin, Latta)
Hrabal (, Ahl) - 21:28		Second period		24:13 - Zalewski (Ograjenšek, Hjalmarsson)
No scoring		Third period		No scoring
Ahl (, ) - 69:32		Overtime		No scoring
Pavel Kantor ( 26 saves / 28 shots )		Goalie stats		Christian Engstrand ( 36 saves / 39 shots )

4 March	Graz 99ers		4–5 OT	HC Orli Znojmo	Eisstadion Graz Liebenau, Graz	Recap
		First period		09:24 - Sedlák (, ) (PP2) 10:59 - Culkin (Prokeš, Gorčík) (PP1)
Ograjenšek (Zalewski, ) - 28:37 Blood (, Ograjenšek) - 34:31		Second period
(, ) - 41:05 Zalewski (Hjalmarsson, Ograjenšek) - 48:30		Third period		53:45 - Zubov (Ahl, Culkin) 56:43 - Prokeš ()
No scoring		Overtime		87:44 - Gorčík (, Prokeš)
Christian Engstrand ( 28 saves / 33 shots )		Goalie stats		Pavel Kantor ( 68 saves / 72 shots )

HC Orli Znojmo win the series 2–0

(8) EC KAC vs. (9) HCB Südtirol Alperia[]

2 March	EC KAC		3–2 OT		HCB Südtirol Alperia	Stadthalle, Klagenfurt	Recap
Sebastian Dahm ( 30 saves / 32 shots )		Goalie stats			Andreas Bernard ( 47 saves / 50 shots )

4 March	HCB Südtirol Alperia		0–7	EC KAC	PalaOnda, Bolzano	Recap
		First period		13:08 - Petersen (Tičar, Postma) (PP1)
		Second period		26:40 - Fraser (Schumnig, Koch)
		Third period		41:17 - (Petersen, Tičar) 49:42 - Haudum (Postma) 50:12 - Haudum (Fraser, Tavželj) 58:28 - Koch (Petersen, Postma) (PP2) 59:41 - Unterweger (Haudum, Obersteiner) (PP2)
Andreas Bernard ( 8 saves / 13 shots ) Justin Fazio ( 9 saves / 11 shots )		Goalie stats		Sebastian Dahm ( 35 saves / 35 shots )

EC KAC win the series 2–0

Quarter-finals[]

(1) EC Red Bull Salzburg vs. (7) HC Orli Znojmo[]

9 March	EC Red Bull Salzburg		3–1	HC Orli Znojmo	Eisarena Salzburg, Salzburg	Recap
(Pallestrang, Heinrich) - 06:28 Schneider (Raffl, ) (PP1; EN) - 11:37		First period
		Second period
Raffl (Schneider, Heinrich) (PP1; EN) - 59:53		Third period		43:04 - Svoboda (, Matuš)
Jean-Philippe Lamoureux ( 21 saves / 22 shots )		Goalie stats		Pavel Kantor ( 32 saves / 34 shots )

11 March	HC Orli Znojmo		2–3	EC Red Bull Salzburg	Nevoga Arena, Znojmo	Recap
(Gorčík, ) - 06:59		First period		16:57 - ()
		Second period
(, Ahl) - 52:59		Third period		48:22 - Lebler (Loney, Järvinen) 58:09 - Lebler (Brennan)
Pavel Kantor ( 28 saves / 31 shots )		Goalie stats		Jean-Philippe Lamoureux ( 25 saves / 27 shots )

13 March	EC Red Bull Salzburg		5–3	HC Orli Znojmo	Eisarena Salzburg, Salzburg	Recap
(Raffl, Schneider) - 04:50 - 13:10		First period		17:30 - Svoboda (, Matuš)
Brennan () - 29:35		Second period		27:55 - (Zubov, Ahl)
Brennan - 50:51 (, Hochkofler) - 52:26		Third period		48:15 - Gorčík (, )
Jean-Philippe Lamoureux ( 16 saves / 19 shots )		Goalie stats		Pavel Kantor ( 41 saves / 46 shots )

EC Red Bull Salzburg lead the series 3–0

(2) EC VSV vs. (6) HK Olimpija[]

9 March	EC VSV		4–6	HK Olimpija	Stadthalle, Villach	Recap
(Rauchenwald) - 00:28		First period		00:18 - Leclerc () 04:23 - (, Robar) (PP1)
Collins (Hughes, ) - 39:28		Second period		25:39 - Maïa (Leclerc) 34:34 - Leclerc (, Čimžar) (PP2) 39:01 - (Mušič)
(Lindner, Flemming) - 50:10 Schofield (Hughes, Lanzinger) - 59:28		Third period		59:59 - Pance (Mušič, Zajc)
Tomi Karhunen ( 23 saves / 28 shots )		Goalie stats		( 32 saves / 26 shots )

11 March	HK Olimpija		3–4	EC VSV	Tivoli Hall, Ljubljana	Recap
(Leclerc, ) (PP1) - 03:51		First period		16:03 - Flemming (Rauchenwald, )
Leclerc (Murphy, ) (PP1) - 32:42		Second period		23:56 - Karlsson (Hughes, Collins) 27:34 - Karlsson (Rauchenwald, Fraser)
(, Robar) (PP1) - 42:12		Third period		57:34 - Kosmachuk (Schofield)
( 25 saves / 29 shots )		Goalie stats		Tomi Karhunen ( 31 saves / 34 shots )

13 March	EC VSV		8–5	HK Olimpija	Stadthalle, Villach	Recap
Oleksuk (Karlsson, Hughes) (PP1) - 19:45		First period		03:48 - Maïa (Leclerc, )
Hughes (Oleksuk, ) - 23:52 (Fraser, ) - 34:43 Kosmachuk (Krastenbergs, Joslin) (PP1) - 37:54 Richter (Flemming, ) - 39:15		Second period		21:58 - Pance (, ) 22:22 - Zajc (Magovac, ) 28:30 - Pance (Leclerc, Čimžar)
Schofield (Fraser, Kosmachuk) - 51:42 Joslin (Karlsson, Hughes) - 52:14 Karlsson (Hughes, Flemming) (EN) - 57:21		Third period		46:39 - Leclerc (Pance, ) (PP1)
( 26 saves / 31 shots )		Goalie stats		( 34 saves / 41 shots )

EC VSV lead the series 2–1

(3) Fehérvár AV19 vs. (5) HC Pustertal Wölfe[]

9 March	Fehérvár AV19		8–1	HC Pustertal Wölfe	Ifjabb Ocskay Gábor Ice Hall, Székesfehérvár	Recap
(, Dahlroth) - 09:42 (, Nilsson) - 09:49 Atkinson (Hári, Kuralt) - 13:10 Magosi (Fournier) - 16:14 Kuralt (, Hari) - 17:34		First period
Jacobs (Terbócs, Sarauer) - 23:51		Second period
Erdély (Bartalis, Petan) - 41:02 Atkinson (Hari, Kuralt) (PP1) - 55:07		Third period		45:36 - (Willcox, )
( 23 saves / 24 shots )		Goalie stats		( 12 saves / 17 shots ) ( 16 saves / 19 shots )

11 March	HC Pustertal Wölfe		2–6	Fehérvár AV19	, Bruneck	Recap
(, Willcox) (PP1) - 05:34 (Hannoun, Stukel) - 17:18		First period		08:20 - Bartalis (Petan, Erdély) 18:52 - Bartalis (Petan, )
		Second period		26:00 - Petan
		Third period		45:46 - (Erdely, ) (PP1) 50:03 - Terbócs (Dahlroth, ) 57:00 - Hári (Atkinson) (EN)
( 20 saves / 25 shots )		Goalie stats		( 30 saves / 32 shots )

13 March	Fehérvár AV19		5–2	HC Pustertal Wölfe	Ifjabb Ocskay Gábor Ice Hall, Székesfehérvár	Recap
(Nilsson, Hári) - 00:31 Shaw (Kuralt, Hári) - 03:52 Shaw (Kuralt, Nilsson) - 13:56		First period		13:02 - Bardaro
Petan (, Hari) (PP2) - 39:43		Second period		27:55 - (, )
(, ) (PP1) - 58:08		Third period
( 26 saves / 28 shots )		Goalie stats		( 29 saves / 34 shots )

Fehérvár AV19 lead the series 3–0

(4) Vienna Capitals vs. (8) EC KAC[]

9 March	Vienna Capitals		1–2 OT		EC KAC	Erste Bank Arena, Vienna	Recap
Bernhard Starkbaum ( 22 saves / 24 shots )		Goalie stats			Sebastian Dahm ( 34 saves / 35 shots )

11 March	EC KAC		1–4	Vienna Capitals	Stadthalle, Klagenfurt	Recap
Haudum (Petersen, ) - 08:29		First period		09:12 -
		Second period		34:57 - Lowry (SH1)
		Third period		58:31 - Meyer 59:15 - Lowry (, Bradley)
Sebastian Dahm ( 16 saves / 18 shots )		Goalie stats		Bernhard Starkbaum ( 20 saves / 21 shots )

13 March	Vienna Capitals		5–3		EC KAC	Erste Bank Arena, Vienna	Recap
Bernhard Starkbaum ( 21 saves / 24 shots )		Goalie stats			Sebastian Dahm ( 23 saves / 27 shots )

Vienna Capitals lead the series 2–1

References[]

^ ICE Hockey League Gamebook Season 2021/2022
^ bet-at-home ICE Hockey League
^ "Player stats". ICE Hockey League. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
^ "Goalkeeper Goals against AVG". ICE Hockey League. Retrieved 17 September 2021.

External links[]

Official website

[1] ICE Hockey League Gamebook Season 2021/2022

[2] t-at-home ICE Hockey League

[3] "Player stats". ICE Hockey League. Retrieved 17 September 2021.

[4] "Goalkeeper Goals against AVG". ICE Hockey League. Retrieved 17 September 2021.

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