2022–23 HockeyAllsvenskan season

2022–23 HockeyAllsvenskan season
2022–23 HockeyAllsvenskan season
League	HockeyAllsvenskan
Sport	Ice hockey
Duration	23 September 2022 – 10 March 2023 (regular season)
Number of teams	14
TV partner(s)	C More
First place	Modo Hockey
Top scorer	Nick Schilkey (Björklöven)
Promoted to SHL	Modo Hockey
Relegated to lower division	HC Vita Hästen (bankruptcy)
HockeyAllsvenskan seasons
	← 2021–22 2023–24 →

The 2022–23 HockeyAllsvenskan season was the 18th season of HockeyAllsvenskan, the second-highest professional ice hockey league in Sweden. The season consisted of 14 teams playing a regular season in which each team played each other team four times—twice at home and twice away. The regular season was followed by a series of promotion and relegation tournaments, with the teams finishing first through tenth participating in promotion playoffs, and those finishing thirteenth and fourteenth forced to requalify to avoid relegation to Hockeyettan.^[4]

For the 2022–23 season, there were four team movements. HV71 was promoted to the SHL as reigning 2022 HockeyAllsvenskan champions. IF Troja-Ljungby returned to Hockeyettan after one season in Allsvenskan. Longtime SHL club Djurgårdens IF was relegated to HockeyAllsvenskan.Östersunds IK won the 2022 Hockeyettan playoffs and was promoted.^[5]^[6]

Participating teams

HockeyAllsvenskan team map

Team	City	Arena	Capacity
AIK	Stockholm	Hovet	8,094
Almtuna IS	Uppsala	Upplands Bilforum Arena	2,800
IF Björklöven	Umeå	Winpos Arena	5,400
Djurgårdens IF	Stockholm	Hovet	8,094
BIK Karlskoga	Karlskoga	Nobelhallen	6,300
Kristianstads IK	Kristianstad	Kristianstads ishall	2,300
Modo Hockey	Örnsköldsvik	Hägglunds Arena	7,350
Mora IK	Mora	Smidjegrav Arena	4,500
Södertälje SK	Södertälje	Scaniarinken	6,200
Tingsryds AIF	Tingsryd	Nelson Garden Arena	3,400
HC Vita Hästen	Norrköping	Himmelstalundshallen	4,280
Västerviks IK	Västervik	Plivit Arena	2,500
Västerås IK	Västerås	ABB Arena Nord	4,902
Östersunds IK	Östersund	Östersund Arena	2,700

Regular season

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Modo Hockey	52	31	4	8	9	178	124	+54	109	Advance to the Quarterfinals
2	IF Björklöven	52	29	7	5	11	189	124	+65	106
3	Mora IK	52	27	5	5	15	162	122	+40	96
4	Djurgårdens IF	52	25	6	8	13	162	121	+41	95
5	Södertälje SK	52	24	9	5	14	159	122	+37	95
6	BIK Karlskoga	52	21	9	5	17	155	141	+14	86
7	Almtuna IS	52	19	7	4	22	123	125	−2	75	Advance to the Eighth-finals
8	HC Vita Hästen (R)	52	18	1	13	20	135	146	−11	69
9	Västerås IK	52	17	5	6	24	143	168	−25	67
10	AIK	52	17	4	6	25	146	174	−28	65
11	Kristianstads IK	52	15	6	6	25	128	152	−24	63
12	Östersunds IK	52	16	4	3	29	112	165	−53	59
13	Tingsryds AIF	52	13	6	7	26	119	169	−50	58	Advance to Play Out
14	Västerviks IK	52	9	10	2	31	113	171	−58	49	Advance to Play Out

Updated to match(es) played on 10 March 2023. Source: swehockey.se
(R) Relegated

Statistics

Scoring leaders

The following shows the top ten players who led the league in points, at the conclusion of matches played on 10 March 2023.^[7] 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
Nick Schilkey	IF Björklöven	52	25	43	68	+12	26
Linus Videll	Södertälje SK	42	27	30	57	+13	8
Johan Persson	Mora IK	51	30	23	53	+17	14
Nikola Pasic	Södertälje SK	51	18	34	52	+9	14
David Bernhardt	Modo Hockey	52	19	32	51	+26	24
Scott Pooley	IF Björklöven	52	29	21	50	+18	14
Marcus Krüger	Djurgårdens IF	50	12	37	49	+22	36
Daniel Ljunggren	Mora IK	44	11	37	48	+10	12
Olle Liss	Djurgårdens IF	52	22	25	47	+24	24
Pontus Näsén	Modo Hockey	50	8	37	45	+16	8

Leading goaltenders

The following shows the top five 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 matches played on 10 March 2023.^[8]

Player	Team	GP	W	L	TOI	GA	SO	Sv%	GAA
Carl Lindbom	Djurgårdens IF	36	25	11	2166:43	67	7	92.98	1.86
Kristers Gudļevskis	Modo Hockey	39	27	11	2366:10	74	5	92.03	1.88
Andreas Ljunggren	Mora IK	26	14	11	1509:52	50	2	91.90	1.99
Viktor Andrén	Almtuna IS	35	19	15	2087:36	71	2	92.14	2.04
Nikita Tolopilo	Södertälje SK	45	28	17	2652:53	93	4	92.40	2.10

Post-season

Playoff bracket

Eighth-finals Swedish: Åttondelsfinal			Quarterfinals Swedish: Kvartsfinal			Semifinals			Finals

			1	Modo Hockey	4
7	Almtuna IS	0	10	AIK	2
10	AIK	2				1	Modo Hockey	4
						3	Mora IK	0
			2	IF Björklöven	4	(Pairings are re-seeded after the first and second round)
			9	Västerås IK	1
									1	Modo Hockey	4
									4	Djurgårdens IF	3
			3	Mora IK	4
8	HC Vita Hästen	0	5	Södertälje SK	2
9	Västerås IK	2				2	IF Björklöven	2
						4	Djurgårdens IF	4
			4	Djurgårdens IF	4
			6	BIK Karlskoga	0

Eighth-finals

Teams 7–10 from the regular season will play best-of-three playoff series, where team 7 face team 10 and team 8 face team 9. In each series the higher-seeded team have home-ice advantage, playing at home for game 1 (plus 3 if necessary) while the lower-seeded team play at home for game 2. The winners move on to the quarterfinals.^[4]^[9]

Almtuna IS vs. AIK

12 March

AIK

5–2

Almtuna IS

2022–23 HockeyAllsvenskan season

Participating teams

Regular season

Standings

Statistics

Scoring leaders

Leading goaltenders

Post-season

Playoff bracket

Eighth-finals

Almtuna IS vs. AIK

HC Vita Hästen vs. Västerås IK

Quarterfinals

Modo Hockey vs. AIK

IF Björklöven vs. Västerås IK

Mora IK vs. Södertälje SK

Djurgårdens IF vs. BIK Karlskoga

Semifinals

Modo Hockey vs. Mora IK

IF Björklöven vs. Djurgårdens IF

Finals

Modo Hockey vs. Djurgårdens IF

Play Out

Tingsryds AIF vs. Västerviks IK

References

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