2023–24 SHL season
LeagueSwedish Hockey League
SportIce hockey
Duration
  • September 2023 – March 2024
  • (Regular season)
  • From March 2024
  • (Playoffs)
Regular season
Playoffs

The 2023–24 SHL season is the 49th season of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). The regular season began in September 2023 and will end in March 2024, where it will be followed by the playoffs and the relegation playoffs.

Teams

The league consists of 14 teams; Modo Hockey returned to the SHL after seven seasons in the HockeyAllsvenskan, where they won the 2022–23 title. Brynäs IF were relegated to the HockeyAllsvenskan at the end of the previous season, and as a result, Färjestad BK is now the only team to have constantly played in the SHL (formerly Elitserien) since its inception in 1975.

Team City Arena Capacity
Frölunda HC Gothenburg Scandinavium 12,044
Färjestad BK Karlstad Löfbergs Arena 8,647
HV71 Jönköping Husqvarna Garden 7,000
Leksands IF Leksand Tegera Arena 7,650
Linköping HC Linköping Saab Arena 8,500
Luleå HF Luleå Coop Norrbotten Arena 6,300
Malmö Redhawks Malmö Malmö Arena 13,000
Modo Hockey Örnsköldsvik Hägglunds Arena 7,265
IK Oskarshamn Oskarshamn Be-Ge Hockey Center 3,275
Rögle BK Ängelholm Catena Arena 5,150
Skellefteå AIK Skellefteå Skellefteå Kraft Arena 6,001
Timrå IK Timrå NHC Arena 6,000
Växjö Lakers Växjö Vida Arena 5,700
Örebro HK Örebro Behrn Arena 5,150

Regular season

Each team plays 52 games, playing each of the other thirteen teams four times: twice on home ice, and twice away from home. Points are awarded for each game, where three points are awarded for winning in regulation time, two points for winning in overtime or shootout, one point for losing in overtime or shootout, and zero points for losing in regulation time. At the end of the regular season, the team that finishes with the most points is crowned the league champion.

Standings

Pos Team Pld W OTW OTL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Färjestad BK 23 14 1 4 4 78 50 +28 48 Qualification to Quarter-finals
2 Växjö Lakers 24 12 3 2 7 72 51 +21 44
3 Timrå IK 23 11 1 5 6 59 57 +2 40
4 Linköping HC 24 10 3 3 8 69 63 +6 39
5 Luleå HF 23 11 2 1 9 59 49 +10 38
6 Frölunda HC 25 9 4 3 9 62 62 0 38
7 Skellefteå AIK 23 10 3 1 9 54 47 +7 37 Qualification to Eighth-finals
8 Leksands IF 23 11 1 1 10 66 54 +12 36
9 Örebro HK 23 8 3 5 7 62 59 +3 35
10 Modo Hockey 23 8 4 1 10 57 64 −7 33
11 Rögle BK 23 8 3 2 10 58 67 −9 32
12 Malmö Redhawks 23 7 3 3 10 63 63 0 30
13 HV71 23 6 2 3 12 60 86 −26 25 Qualification to Play Out
14 IK Oskarshamn 23 3 2 1 17 46 93 −47 14
Updated to match(es) played on 2 December 2023. Source: SHL.se
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored

Statistics

Scoring leaders

The following shows the top ten players who led the league in points, at the conclusion of games played on 2 December 2023.[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
Finland Kalle Kossila Växjö Lakers 24 11 14 25 +15 10
Canada Ty Rattie Linköping HC 24 10 13 23 +4 12
Sweden Victor Ejdsell Färjestad BK 23 13 9 22 +10 35
Sweden Marcus Sylvegård Växjö Lakers 24 13 9 22 +18 2
Finland Janne Kuokkanen Malmö Redhawks 23 7 13 20 0 6
Sweden Emil Pettersson Timrå IK 23 6 14 20 +16 6
Latvia Rodrigo Ābols Rögle BK 23 11 8 19 +1 4
Sweden Per Åslund Färjestad BK 21 9 10 19 +11 12
United States Broc Little Linköping HC 24 9 10 19 +5 0
Slovakia Peter Cehlárik Leksands IF 23 7 11 18 +19 6

Leading goaltenders

The following shows the top ten goaltenders who led the league in goals against average, provided that they had played at least 40% of their team's minutes, at the conclusion of games played on 2 December 2023.[2][3]

Player Team GP TOI W L GA SO Sv% GAA
Sweden Filip Larsson Leksands IF 11 659:50 7 4 17 3 94.16 1.55
Sweden Matteus Ward Luleå HF 15 810:16 8 6 21 3 92.45 1.56
Sweden Linus Söderström Skellefteå AIK 16 970:06 11 5 29 2 92.37 1.79
Sweden Carl Lindbom Färjestad BK 16 917:15 10 5 29 2 91.50 1.90
Finland Emil Larmi Växjö Lakers 20 1204:10 12 8 41 3 91.63 2.04
Sweden Tim Juel Timrå IK 10 586:53 6 4 20 2 90.87 2.04
Sweden Lars Johansson Frölunda HC 20 1100:44 12 6 38 2 92.12 2.07
Sweden Jhonas Enroth Örebro HK 17 1000:24 8 8 38 0 91.67 2.28
Sweden Daniel Marmenlind Malmö Redhawks 13 784:25 7 6 30 3 91.67 2.29
Finland Lassi Lehtinen Modo Hockey 15 899:31 8 7 35 2 91.05 2.33

Playoffs

Ten teams qualify for the playoffs: the top six teams in the regular season have a bye to the quarterfinals, while teams ranked seventh to tenth meet each other (7 versus 10, 8 versus 9) in a preliminary playoff round.[4]

Format

In the first round, the 7th-ranked team meets the 10th-ranked team and the 8th-ranked team meets the 9th-ranked team for a place in the second round. In the second round, the top-ranked team will meet the lowest-ranked winner of the first round, the second-ranked team will face the other winner of the first round, the third-ranked team will face the sixth-ranked team, and the fourth-ranked team will face the fifth-ranked team. In the third round, the highest remaining seed is matched against the lowest remaining seed. In each round the higher-seeded team is awarded home advantage. The meetings are in the first round played as best-of-three series, and in the later rounds as best-of-seven series. In the eighth-finals, the higher-seeded teams play at home for game 2 (plus 3 if necessary) while the lower-seeded teams play at home for game 1. In the later rounds, the higher-seeded teams are at home for games 1 and 3 (plus 5 and 7 if necessary) while the lower-seeded teams are at home for games 2 and 4 (plus 6 if necessary).[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Spelarstatistik 2023/2024" [Player Statistics 2023/2024]. Swedish Hockey League (in Swedish). SHL AB. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
  2. ↑ "Leading Goalies by Goal Against Average". Swedish Ice Hockey Association. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
  3. ↑ "Målvaktsstatistik 2023/24" [Goalkeepers Statistics 2023/24]. Swedish Hockey League (in Swedish). SHL AB. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
  4. 1 2 "Seriebestämmelser och Verksamhetsplan: Säsongen 2020–2021" [Series regulations and Business plan: Season 2020–2021] (PDF). Swehockey (in Swedish). Swedish Ice Hockey Association. pp. 4–6. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
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