2021–22 NL season

2021–22 National League season
2021–22 National League season
League	National League
Sport	Ice hockey
Duration	September 7, 2021 – March 14, 2022
Number of games	52
Number of teams	13
Regular season
Playoffs
Swiss champion NL
National League seasons
	← 2020–21 2022–23 →

The 2021–22 National League season is the 84th season of Swiss professional ice hockey and the fifth season as the National League (NL).

EV Zug are the defending champions.

13 teams are participating in the season as HC Ajoie was promoted to the National League after winning .

Teams[]

SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers

ZSC Lions

EV Zug

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NL teams for the 2021–22 season

Team	City	Arena	Capacity
HC Ambrì-Piotta	Ambrì	Valascia	6,500
HC Ajoie	Porrentruy		4,671
SC Bern	Bern	PostFinance Arena	17,031
EHC Biel	Biel/Bienne	Tissot Arena	6,521
HC Davos	Davos	Eisstadion Davos	6,800
Fribourg-Gottéron	Fribourg	BCF Arena	8,934
Genève-Servette HC	Geneva	Patinoire des Vernets	7,135
Lausanne HC	Lausanne	Vaudoise Aréna	9,600
HC Lugano	Lugano	Cornér Arena	7,800
SCL Tigers	Langnau im Emmental	Ilfis Stadium	6,000
SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers	Rapperswil	St. Galler Kantonalbank Arena	6,200
ZSC Lions	Zürich	Hallenstadion	11,200
EV Zug	Zug	Bossard Arena	7,200

Regular season[]

Standings[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	PCT	Qualification
1	EV Zug (Q)	51	24	12	3	12	176	125	+51	.647	Advance to Playoffs
2	Fribourg-Gottéron (Q)	49	26	6	4	13	159	122	+37	.639
3	SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers (Q)	51	28	3	4	16	162	129	+33	.614
4	ZSC Lions (Q)	51	26	5	6	14	167	129	+38	.614
5	HC Davos (T)	50	26	3	1	20	146	125	+21	.567
6	Lausanne HC (T)	50	26	1	4	19	151	142	+9	.560
7	EHC Biel (T)	50	23	5	5	17	150	127	+23	.560	Advance to Pre-playoffs
8	Genève-Servette HC (T)	51	22	6	7	16	142	129	+13	.556
9	HC Lugano (T)	51	21	4	5	21	159	154	+5	.497
10	SC Bern	51	17	3	8	23	135	144	−9	.425
11	HC Ambrì-Piotta	51	18	3	3	27	125	143	−18	.412
12	SCL Tigers	49	9	2	4	34	128	196	−68	.238
13	HC Ajoie	51	6	3	2	40	89	224	−135	.170

Updated to match(es) played on 12 March 2022. Source: NLA
Rules for classification: 1) points per game 2) greater number of games played 3) greater number of away games played 4) head-to-head points
(Q) Qualified to the phase indicated; (T) Qualified, but not yet to the particular phase indicated

Statistics[]

Scoring leaders[]

The following shows the top ten players who led the league in points, at the conclusion of games played on 25 September 2021.^[1] 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
Damien Brunner	EHC Biel-Bienne	9	7	6	13	+4	6
Jesper Olofsson	SCL Tigers	8	9	3	12	+7	2
Toni Rajala	EHC Biel-Bienne	9	1	10	11	+3	2
Alexandre Grenier	SCL Tigers	8	2	8	10	+2	4
	SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers	8	6	3	9	+2	6
Cory Conacher	SC Bern	8	6	3	9	0	8
Valtteri Filppula	Genève-Servette HC	8	4	5	9	–3	2
Harri Pesonen	SCL Tigers	8	4	5	9	–1	4
Niklas Hansson	EV Zug	9	3	6	9	+4	14
Dominik Kahun	SC Bern	8	3	6	9	+7	2

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 25 September 2021.^[2]

Player	Team(s)	GP	TOI	GA	Sv%	GAA
Leonardo Genoni	EV Zug	6	364:34	12	93.33	1.97
Lukas Flüeler	ZSC Lions	3	182:29	6	93.62	1.97
Joren van Pottelberghe	EHC Biel-Bienne	8	484:50	17	92.38	2.10
	SC Bern	5	303:07	11	93.45	2.18
Melvin Nyffeler	SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers	5	297:29	11	92.76	2.22
Reto Berra	Fribourg-Gottéron	8	475:14	19	91.91	2.40
	ZSC Lions	4	240:50	10	91.94	2.49
Tobias Stephan	Lausanne HC	5	297:57	13	90.00	2.62
Benjamin Conz	HC Ambri-Piotta	4	220:00	10	91.15	2.73
Gauthier Descloux	Genève-Servette HC	7	411:10	20	91.80	2.92

References[]

^ "Player stats". SIHF. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
^ "Goalie stats". SIHF. Retrieved 14 September 2021.

External links[]

[1] "Player stats". SIHF. Retrieved 14 September 2021.

[2] "Goalie stats". SIHF. Retrieved 14 September 2021.

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