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2020–21 Mestis
League Mestis
Sport Ice hockey
Duration September 2020 – April 2021
Number of teams 14
Regular season
Best record K-Espoo
  Runners-up JoKP
Top scorer Joonas Larinmaa (KeuPa HT)
Playoffs

The 2020–21 Mestis season was the 21st season of Mestis, the second highest level of ice hockey in Finland after Liiga. Due to promotion/relegation games being cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in the last season both semi-finalists from last seasons Suomi-sarja (K-Espoo and FPS) were promoted to Mestis. Therefore this seasons consisted of 14 teams.[1]

Clubs[]

Team City Home arena, capacity Founded Head coach
FPS Forssa Forssa Ice Hall, 3,000 1931 Flag of Finland Asko Rantanen
Hermes Kokkola Kokkolan jäähalli, 4,200 1953 Flag of Finland Jere Härkälä
Hokki Kajaani Kajaanin jäähalli, 2,372 1968 Flag of Finland Niko Eronen
IPK Iisalmi Kankaan jäähalli, 1,358 1966 Flag of Finland Niko Härkönen
JoKP Joensuu PKS Areena, 4,800 1953 Flag of Finland Joni Petrell 19.1.2021
Flag of Finland Benjamin Laurinkari
Ketterä Imatra Imatra Spa Areena, 1,200 1957 Flag of Finland Maso Lehtonen
KeuPa HT Keuruu Keuruun Jäähalli, 1,100 1995 Flag of Finland Tomas Westerlund
K-Espoo Espoo Espoo Metro Areena, 6,982 2018 Flag of Finland Janne Tuunanen
K-Vantaa Vantaa Trio Areena, 2,004 1994 Flag of Finland Mika Niskanen
KOOVEE Tampere Tampere Ice Stadium, 7,300 1929 Flag of Finland Juuso Hahl
Peliitat Heinola Versowood Areena, 2,686 1984 Flag of Finland Vesa Petäjä
RoKi Rovaniemi Lappi Areena, 3,500 1979 Flag of Finland Santeri Immonen
SaPKo Savonlinna Talvisalo ice rink, 2,833 1929 Flag of Finland Pasi Räsänen
TUTO Hockey Turku Kupittaan jäähalli, 3,000 1929 Flag of Finland Antti Virtanen

Regular season[]

Initially the plan was to have each team play 50 games in total but due to the season being on hold from 2nd December 2020 to 10th February 2021 the teams were unable to play the full season.[2][3] Due to this points-per-game determines the order of the teams. SaPKo and RoKi decided not to continue the season when it resumed in February 2021.[4]

Top six advanced straight to the quarter-finals, while teams between 7th and 10th positions played a wild card round for the final two spots. Since the highest series of Finnish hockey is a closed series no team will be promoted to Liiga.


Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD W+ Pts PPG Final Result
1 K-Espoo 31 17 6 8 108 84 24 3 60 1.94 Advance to Quarterfinals
2 JoKP 31 17 5 9 107 89 18 3 59 1.90
3 Ketterä 31 17 5 9 130 92 38 1 57 1.84
4 KeuPa HT 31 17 4 10 112 102 10 2 57 1.84
5 IPK 30 14 6 10 108 94 14 5 53 1.77
6 KOOVEE 28 13 3 12 89 93 −4 2 44 1.57
7 K-Vantaa 29 11 7 11 89 85 4 2 42 1.45 Advance to Wild-card round
8 TUTO Hockey 30 11 6 13 98 104 −6 3 42 1.40
9 Hermes 30 8 9 13 86 96 −10 4 37 1.23
10 Peliitat 31 9 5 17 92 113 −21 4 36 1.16
11 FPS 30 10 1 19 77 103 −26 1 32 1.07
12 Hokki 30 6 7 17 79 107 −28 2 27 0.90
13 SaPKo 18 6 5 7 62 68 −6 4 27 1.50 Did not finish the season
14 RoKi 18 7 3 8 57 64 −7 0 24 1.33
Source: Liiga

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

Playoffs[]

Playoffs are being played in four stages. Each stage before the final is a best-of-3 series, with the final being a best-of-5 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[]

  Wild-card round (best-of-3) Quarter-finals (best-of-3) Semi-finals (best-of-3) Finals (best-of-5)
                                     
  1 K-Espoo 0  
9 Hermes 2  
7 K-Vantaa 2     2 JoKP 0  
10 Peliitat 0     9 Hermes 2  
2 JoKP 2
  7 K-Vantaa 1  
(Pairings are re-seeded after the first and second round)   3 Ketterä 3
  9 Hermes 2
  3 Ketterä 2  
6 KOOVEE 0  
8 TUTO Hockey 1     3 Ketterä 2
9 Hermes 2     5 IPK 0  
4 KeuPa HT 1
  5 IPK 2  

Wild-card round[]

K-VantaaPeliitat 2-0
30.3.2021 K-Vantaa Peliitat 6-2 ref
1.4.2021 Peliitat K-Vantaa 1-3 ref
K-Vantaa wins the series 2-0.


TUTO HockeyHermes 1-2
30.3.2021 TUTO Hockey Hermes 5-6 ref
1.4.2021 Hermes TUTO Hockey 1-3 OT2 ref
3.4.2021 TUTO Hockey Hermes 3-4 OT1 ref
Hermes wins the series 2-1.



Quarter-finals[]

K-EspooHermes 0-2
6.4.2021 K-Espoo Hermes 4-5 OT1 ref
8.4.2021 Hermes K-Espoo 2-1 OT1 ref
Hermes wins the series 2-0.



JoKPK-Vantaa 2-1
6.4.2021 JoKP K-Vantaa 6-3 ref
8.4.2021 K-Vantaa JoKP 5-4 ref
10.4.2021 JoKP K-Vantaa 4-2 ref
JoKP wins the series 2-1.


KetteräKOOVEE 2-0
6.4.2021 Ketterä KOOVEE 5-3 ref
8.4.2021 KOOVEE Ketterä 1-4 ref
Ketterä wins the series 2-0.



KeuPa HTIPK 1-2
6.4.2021 KeuPa HT IPK 2-3 ref
8.4.2021 IPK KeuPa HT 0-4 ref
10.4.2021 KeuPa HT IPK 3-4 OT1 ref
IPK wins the series 2-1.



Semi-finals[]

JoKPHermes 0-2
13.4.2021 JoKP Hermes 2-3 ref
15.4.2021 Hermes JoKP 3-1 ref
Hermes wins the series 2-0.


KetteräIPK 2-0
13.4.2021 Ketterä IPK 4-3 ref
15.4.2021 IPK Ketterä 5-6 OT1 ref
Ketterä wins the series 2-0.


Bronze medal game[]

02021-04-21 21 April 2021
18:30
JoKP 0–4
(0–1, 0–1, 0–2)
IPK PKS Areena, Joensuu
Attendance: 20

Finals[]

02021-04-20 20 April 2021
18:30
Ketterä 2–3
(1–1, 1–0, 0–2)
Hermes Imatra Spa Areena, Imatra
Attendance: 6
02021-04-22 22 April 2021
18:30
Hermes 2–7
(1–3, 1–0, 0–4)
Ketterä Kokkolan jäähalli, Kokkola
Attendance: 20
02021-04-24 24 April 2021
17:00
Ketterä 5–9
(4–2, 0–2, 1–5)
Hermes Imatra Spa Areena, Imatra
Attendance: 6
02021-04-27 27 April 2021
18:30
Hermes 3–4 2OT
(1–2, 1–1, 1–0, 0–0, 0–1)
Ketterä Kokkolan jäähalli, Kokkola
Attendance: 20
02021-04-29 29 April 2021
18:30
Ketterä 8–3
(3–2, 4–0, 1–1)
Hermes Imatra Spa Areena, Imatra
Attendance: 6

Ketterä wins the finals 3-2.

See also[]

References[]

  1. Lisenssikomitean päätöksiä - Forssan Palloseuralle Mestis-lisenssi (Finnish). mestis.fi (2020-05-18). Retrieved on 2021-04-15.
  2. Mestis-kausi starttaa torstaina - näin pelataan (Finnish). mestis.fi (2020-09-23). Retrieved on 2021-04-15.
  3. Jääkiekkoliiton alaisten sarjojen syyskausi keskeytetään 2.12. alkaen (Finnish). finhockey.fi (2020-12-01). Retrieved on 2021-04-15.
  4. Mestiksen runkosarja jatkuu ensi viikolla jo torstaina - näin pelataan (Finnish). mestis.fi (2021-02-05). Retrieved on 2021-04-15.
  5. Sarjataulukko. Jatkoaika.com. Retrieved on 2019-03-08.
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