2013–14 SHL season

2013–14 SHL season
League	Swedish Hockey League
Sport	Ice hockey
Duration	14 September 2013 – 21 April 2014
Number of games	55 (330 total)
Number of teams	12
Total attendance	1,974,388[1]
Average attendance	5,983[1]
Regular season
League Champion	Skellefteå AIK
Season MVP	Joakim Lindström (Skellefteå)
Top scorer	Pär Arlbrandt (Linköping)
Playoffs
Playoffs Playoffs MVP	Joakim Lindström
Finals
Champions	Skellefteå AIK (3rd title)
Runners-up	Färjestad BK

The 2013–14 SHL season was the 39th season of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). The regular season began on 14 September 2013 and ended on 8 March 2014.^[2] The following playoffs began on 15 March 2014 and ended on 21 April 2014. It was the first season since the league changed name from Elitserien to Swedish Hockey League in June 2013.^[3]

Skellefteå AIK defended their 2013 Swedish Championship title by defeating Färjestad BK four games to zero in the Finals. Skellefteå AIK became the first team to defend the Swedish Championship title since Djurgårdens IF did so with their consecutive Swedish Championship titles in 2000 and 2001. Skellefteå AIK also became the first team since Brynäs IF in 1976–77 to win consecutive Swedish Championships by not losing a single game in both Finals series.

A number of format changes were introduced this season. Instead of the top eight teams in the regular season qualifying for the playoffs and the teams ranked 9–10 ending their season, the top six teams qualified for the playoffs directly, and the four teams ranked 7–10 played a best-of-three series and battled for the two remaining playoff spots. The two teams ranked 11–12 still had to play in the Kvalserien round-robin tournament in order to requalify for the SHL. Also, the top three teams no longer got to pick their opponents in the quarterfinals; instead, the 1st-ranked team faced the lowest-ranked winner of the two best-of-three series, the 2nd-ranked team faced the other winner of the two best-of-three-series, the 3rd-ranked team faced the 6th-ranked team, and the 4th-ranked team faced the 5th-ranked team.^[4]

In Kvalserien, Örebro HK requalified and Djurgårdens IF qualified for the 2014–15 SHL season at the expense of AIK.

Participating teams

Luleå

Skellefteå

Modo

Brynäs

Leksand

AIK

Örebro

Färjestad

Linköping

HV71

Frölunda

Växjö

SHL team map

Team	City	Arena	Capacity
AIK	Stockholm	Hovet	8,094
Brynäs IF	Gävle	Läkerol Arena	8,585
Frölunda HC	Gothenburg	Scandinavium	12,044
Färjestad BK	Karlstad	Löfbergs Arena	8,647
HV71	Jönköping	Kinnarps Arena	7,000
Leksands IF	Leksand	Tegera Arena	7,650
Linköpings HC	Linköping	Cloetta Center	8,500
Luleå HF	Luleå	Coop Norrbotten Arena	6,300
Modo Hockey	Örnsköldsvik	Fjällräven Center	7,600
Skellefteå AIK	Skellefteå	Skellefteå Kraft Arena	6,001
Växjö Lakers	Växjö	Vida Arena	5,700
Örebro HK	Örebro	Behrn Arena	5,200

League changes

Similar to the system in the Finnish Liiga, only the top six teams qualified directly for the playoffs. The four teams ranked 7–10 played a best-of-three series, known as Play In, in order to qualify for the playoffs. The 7th-ranked team faced the 10th-ranked team and the 8th-ranked team faced the 9th-ranked team, with the better-ranked teams receiving home advantage in two games if necessary to determine a winner of the series. The winners of these two best-of-three series took the two remaining playoff spots. The teams ranked 11–12 were still forced to play in the Kvalserien in order to requalify for the next season of the SHL.^[4]

From this season, the ability for the top three teams to pick their opponents in the quarterfinals was dropped; instead, the 1st-ranked team faced the lowest-ranked winner of the two best-of-three series, the 2nd-ranked team faced the other winner of the two best-of-three series, the 3rd-ranked team faced the 6th-ranked team, and the 4th-ranked team faced the 5th-ranked team.^[4]

Summary

This season's outdoor game was played on December 14, 2013, between Frölunda HC and Skellefteå AIK at Gamla Ullevi, Gothenburg. The game was won by Skellefteå 4–1 in front of 13,452 spectators.^[5] It was the second SHL outdoor game to be hosted in Gothenburg, Sweden's second largest city, as well as the second SHL outdoor game featuring Frölunda HC.^[6]

On February 8, 2014, Leksands IF defenceman Patrik Hersley scored his 22nd goal of the season. With this, he broke the previous record for the number of goals by a defenceman in an SHL regular season, set by Jan Huokko in the 1998–99 season with 21 goals.^[7] Hersley added another two goals to finish the regular season with 24 goals. He was awarded the Salming Trophy, as the SHL's best defenceman, for his performance.^[8]

Linköpings HC forward Pär Arlbrandt finished the season with 71 points, becoming the third player in league history (after Håkan Loob and Bud Holloway) to score 70 points in a regular season.^[9]

Regular season

Standings

Updated as of March 8, 2014.

2013–14 SHL season	GP	W	L	OTW	OTL	GF	GA	+/–	Pts
Skellefteå AIK^y	55	32	12	4	7	179	121	+58	111
Frölunda HC^x	55	29	15	4	7	153	123	+30	102
Växjö Lakers^x	55	23	14	7	11	156	130	+26	94
Brynäs IF^x	55	19	19	11	6	163	152	+11	85
Färjestad BK^x	55	21	19	7	8	143	134	+9	85
Luleå HF^x	55	22	21	6	6	136	115	+21	84
Leksands IF^p	55	23	23	5	4	118	155	–37	83
Modo Hockey^p	55	18	20	10	7	131	132	–1	81
Linköpings HC^p	55	20	24	7	4	174	167	+7	78
HV71^p	55	17	27	9	2	146	182	–36	71
Örebro HK^r	55	13	25	5	12	119	160	–41	61
AIK^r	55	12	30	6	7	124	171	–47	55

x – clinched playoff spot; y – clinched regular season league title; p – qualified for Play In; r – play in relegation series

Statistics

Scoring leaders

List shows the ten best skaters based on the amount of points during the regular season. If two or more skaters are tied (i.e. same amount of points, goals and played games), all of the tied skaters are shown. Updated as of the end of the regular season.^[10]
GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/– = Plus/Minus; PIM = Penalty Minutes

Player	Team	GP	G	A	Pts	+/–	PIM
Pär Arlbrandt	Linköpings HC	53	26	45	71	+5	66
Joakim Lindström	Skellefteå AIK	55	23	40	63	+15	72
Linus Klasen	Luleå HF	54	28	29	57	+13	45
Simon Hjalmarsson	Linköpings HC	55	27	30	57	0	87
Chad Kolarik	Linköpings HC	53	30	18	48	0	64
Oscar Möller	Skellefteå AIK	48	27	18	45	+13	14
Joakim Hillding	Färjestad BK	55	18	23	41	+7	22
Ryan Gunderson	Brynäs IF	54	8	33	41	+13	14
Viktor Arvidsson	Skellefteå AIK	50	16	24	40	+4	59
Dennis Rasmussen	Växjö Lakers	52	16	24	40	+6	20

Leading goaltenders

These are the leaders in GAA among goaltenders who played at least 40% of the team's minutes. The table is sorted by GAA, and the criteria for inclusion are bolded. Updated as of the end of the regular season.^[11]

GP = Games Played; TOI = Time On Ice (minutes); GA = Goals Against; SO = Shutouts; Sv% = Save Percentage; GAA = Goals Against Average

Player	Team	GP	TOI	GA	SO	Sv%	GAA
David Rautio	Luleå HF	34	2019:02	60	4	.922	1.78
Linus Fernström	Frölunda HC	32	1765:33	60	2	.916	2.04
Lars Johansson	Frölunda HC	28	1533:01	52	1	.912	2.04
Markus Svensson	Skellefteå AIK	34	1904:41	65	5	.919	2.05
Scott Munroe	Växjö Lakers	36	2107:37	72	3	.913	2.05
Fredrik Pettersson-Wentzel	Färjestad BK	37	2217:47	76	5	.926	2.06
Linus Ullmark	Modo Hockey	35	2043:30	71	3	.931	2.08
Oscar Alsenfelt	Leksands IF	46	2707:24	106	4	.928	2.35
Daniel Larsson	AIK	45	2604:10	114	0	.917	2.63
Tim Sandberg	Örebro HK	38	2256:11	99	1	.899	2.63

Captains and alternate captains

Playoffs

This season, only the top six teams qualified directly for the playoffs. The four teams ranked 7–10 played a best-of-three series and battled for the two remaining playoff spots. Also, the top three teams no longer got to pick their opponents in the quarterfinals.^[4]

Play In

The teams ranked 7 and 10, and the teams ranked 8 and 9, respectively, faced each other in a best-of-three series in order to qualify for the playoffs. The better-ranked teams in the two series received home advantage, i.e. two home games, if necessary to determine a winner of the series. The two winners, HV71 and Linköpings HC, took the two remaining playoff spots.^[4]

(7) Leksands IF vs. (10) HV71

March 10	HV71		4–2		Leksands IF	Kinnarps Arena	Recap
Patrik Carlsson 1 – 12:30		First period			No scoring
Patrik Carlsson 2 – 10:42		Second period			11:21 – pp – Johan Ryno 1
Kevin Fiala 1 – 1:30 Andreas Jämtin 1 – pp – 17:50		Third period			2:19 – Kevin Kapstad 1
Gustaf Wesslau 19 saves / 21 shots		Goalie stats			Oscar Alsenfelt 42 saves / 46 shots

March 12	Leksands IF		2–1		HV71	Tegera Arena	Recap
No scoring		First period			17:15 – Anssi Salmela 1
Patrik Hersley 1 – pp – 10:26		Second period			No scoring
Johan Ryno 2 – 6:47		Third period			No scoring
Oscar Alsenfelt 36 saves / 37 shots		Goalie stats			Gustaf Wesslau 24 saves / 26 shots

March 13	Leksands IF		2–4		HV71	Tegera Arena	Recap
No scoring		First period			6:37 – Ted Brithén 1 14:37 – Johan Lindström 1 17:33 – Erik Christensen 1
No scoring		Second period			No scoring
Martin Grönberg 1 – 10:02 Jacob Blomqvist 1 – 11:12		Third period			3:02 – William Karlsson 1
Oscar Alsenfelt 30 saves / 34 shots		Goalie stats			Gustaf Wesslau 31 saves / 33 shots

HV71 won series 2–1

(8) Modo Hockey vs. (9) Linköpings HC

March 10	Linköpings HC		4–0		Modo Hockey	Cloetta Center	Recap
Eric Himelfarb 1 – pp – 2:23		First period			No scoring
Mattias Sjögren 1 – 9:14 Oscar Sundh 1 – 13:45 Chad Kolarik 1 – pp – 18.53		Second period			No scoring
No scoring		Third period			No scoring
Marcus Högberg 29 saves / 29 shots		Goalie stats			Linus Ullmark 35 saves / 39 shots

March 12	Modo Hockey		4–5	OT	Linköpings HC	Fjällräven Center	Recap
Simon Önerud 1 – 8:56 Niklas Nordgren 1 – 13:22		First period			No scoring
Richie Regehr 1 – 0:43 Mattias Ritola 1 – 1:37		Second period			13:41 – Simon Hjalmarsson 1
No scoring		Third period			4:15 – Eric Himelfarb 2 12:00 – pp – Mattias Sjögren 2 12:14 – pp – Joachim Rohdin 1
No scoring		First overtime period			7:15 – pp – Chad Kolarik 2
Linus Ullmark 45 saves / 50 shots		Goalie stats			Marcus Högberg 18 saves / 21 shots Christian Engstrand 18 saves / 19 shots

Linköpings HC won series 2–0

Playoff bracket

In the first round, the top-ranked team faced the lowest-ranked winner of the two best-of-three series, the 2nd-ranked team faced the other winner of the two best-of-three series, the 3rd-ranked team faced the 6th-ranked team, and the 4th-ranked team faced the 5th-ranked team. In the second round, the highest remaining seed was matched against the lowest remaining seed. In each round the higher-seeded team was awarded home advantage. Each series was a best-of-seven series that followed an alternating home team format: the higher-seeded team played at home for games 1 and 3 (plus 5 and 7 if necessary), and the lower-seeded team was at home for games 2 and 4 (plus 6 if necessary).

	Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Finals
	1	Skellefteå AIK	4
	10	HV71	1
						1	Skellefteå AIK	4
						9	Linköpings HC	1
	2	Frölunda HC	3
	9	Linköpings HC	4
		(Pairings are re-seeded after the first round)									1	Skellefteå AIK	4
											5	Färjestad BK	0
	3	Växjö Lakers	4
	6	Luleå HF	2
						3	Växjö Lakers	2
						5	Färjestad BK	4
	4	Brynäs IF	1
	5	Färjestad BK	4

Quarterfinals

(1) Skellefteå AIK vs. (10) HV71

March 15	Skellefteå AIK		3–1		HV71	Skellefteå Kraft Arena	Recap
No scoring		First period			7:44 – Patrik Carlsson 1
Jimmie Ericsson 1 – pp – 2:00		Second period			No scoring
Jimmie Ericsson 2 – pp – 4:20 Pierre-Édouard Bellemare 1 – 18:09		Third period			No scoring
Markus Svensson 20 saves / 21 shots		Goalie stats			Gustaf Wesslau 31 saves / 34 shots

March 17	HV71		2–3		Skellefteå AIK	Kinnarps Arena	Recap
No scoring		First period			15:09 – pp – Melker Karlsson 1 19:03 – Adam Pettersson 1
Johan Lindström 1 – 7:34		Second period			No scoring
Toni Rajala 1 – 3:00		Third period			19:54 – Fredrik Lindgren 1
Gustaf Wesslau 23 saves / 26 shots		Goalie stats			Markus Svensson 18 saves / 20 shots

March 19	Skellefteå AIK		6–4		HV71	Skellefteå Kraft Arena	Recap
Pierre-Édouard Bellemare 2 – pp – 2:00 Joakim Lindström 1 – pp – 4:44 Pierre-Édouard Bellemare 3 – 15:08		First period			No scoring
Jimmie Ericsson 3 – pp – 14:13		Second period			16:41 – Erik Christensen 1
Jimmie Ericsson 4 – 0:18 Oscar Möller 1 – pp2 – 11:02		Third period			10:10 – sh – Anton Bengtsson 1 13:50 – William Karlsson 1 17:24 – William Karlsson 2
Markus Svensson 29 saves / 33 shots		Goalie stats			Gustaf Wesslau 26 saves / 32 shots

March 21	HV71		2–1	2OT	Skellefteå AIK	Kinnarps Arena	Recap
Erik Christensen 2 – 10:38		First period			No scoring
No scoring		Second period			No scoring
No scoring		Third period			16:51 – Bud Holloway 1
Erik Christensen 3 – 12:53		Second overtime period			No scoring
Gustaf Wesslau 29 saves / 30 shots		Goalie stats			Markus Svensson 35 saves / 37 shots

March 23	Skellefteå AIK		3–1		HV71	Skellefteå Kraft Arena	Recap
No scoring		First period			No scoring
Petter Emanuelsson 1 – 11:24 Jimmie Ericsson 5 – pp – 17:33		Second period			No scoring
Viktor Arvidsson 1 – pp – 3:06		Third period			6:18 – Ted Brithén 1
Markus Svensson 29 saves / 30 shots		Goalie stats			Gustaf Wesslau 29 saves / 32 shots

Skellefteå AIK won series 4–1

(2) Frölunda HC vs. (9) Linköpings HC

March 15	Frölunda HC		3–2		Linköpings HC	Scandinavium	Recap
Magnus Kahnberg 1 – 14:02		First period			No scoring
No scoring		Second period			No scoring
Joel Lundqvist 1 – 12:02 Max Görtz 1 – 13:22		Third period			1:49 – Jakub Vrána 1 8:00 – Chad Kolarik 1
Linus Fernström 21 saves / 23 shots		Goalie stats			Marcus Högberg 45 saves / 48 shots

March 17	Linköpings HC		2–1	2OT	Frölunda HC	Cloetta Center	Recap
Eric Himelfarb 1 – 7:44		First period			No scoring
No scoring		Second period			13:44 – Anton Axelsson 1
No scoring		Third period			No scoring
Chad Kolarik 2 – 3:55		Second overtime period			No scoring
Marcus Högberg 29 saves / 30 shots		Goalie stats			Lars Johansson 28 saves / 30 shots

March 19	Frölunda HC		1–3		Linköpings HC	Scandinavium	Recap
No scoring		First period			15:40 – Johannes Salmonsson 1 18:58 – Jonas Almtorp 1
No scoring		Second period			No scoring
Anton Axelsson 2 – 14:58		Third period			19:37 – en – Johannes Salmonsson 2
Linus Fernström 8 saves / 10 shots		Goalie stats			Marcus Högberg 29 saves / 30 shots

March 21	Linköpings HC		2–3		Frölunda HC	Cloetta Center	Recap
Simon Hjalmarsson 1 – 0:29		First period			6:17 – Nicklas Lasu 1 7:38 – Andreas Johnson 1
No scoring		Second period			18:25 – pp – Mikael Wikstrand 1
Mark Matheson 1 – 6:36		Third period			No scoring
Marcus Högberg 16 saves / 19 shots Christian Engstrand 6 saves / 6 shots		Goalie stats			Lars Johansson 28 saves / 30 shots

March 23	Frölunda HC		6–2		Linköpings HC	Scandinavium	Recap
Erik Karlsson 1 – 3:17		First period			No scoring
Christian Bäckman 1 – 15:46		Second period			4:55 – Pär Arlbrandt 1
Mathis Olimb 1 – 2:12 Nicklas Lasu 2 – 5:10 Anton Blidh 1 – 16:29 Max Görtz 2 – 19:21		Third period			11:26 – Oscar Sundh 1
Lars Johansson 23 saves / 25 shots		Goalie stats			Marcus Högberg 22 saves / 28 shots

March 25	Linköpings HC		5–3		Frölunda HC	Cloetta Center	Recap
Carl Dahlström 1 – 18:41		First period			9:49 – Alexander Wennberg 1
Pär Arlbrandt 2 – 15:09		Second period			No scoring
Simon Hjalmarsson 2 – 3:30 Pär Arlbrandt 3 – 3:47 Chad Kolarik 3 – 12:05		Third period			13:56 – Dick Axelsson 1 16:27 – pp – Max Görtz 3
Christian Engstrand 26 saves / 29 shots		Goalie stats			Lars Johansson 14 saves / 18 shots Linus Fernström 3 saves / 4 shots

March 27	Frölunda HC		0–2		Linköpings HC	Scandinavium	Recap
No scoring		First period			8:43 – Jonas Almtorp 2
No scoring		Second period			7:19 – Kent McDonell 1
No scoring		Third period			No scoring
Lars Johansson 20 saves / 22 shots		Goalie stats			Christian Engstrand 24 saves / 24 shots

Linköpings HC won series 4–3

(3) Växjö Lakers vs. (6) Luleå HF

March 16	Växjö Lakers		4–0		Luleå HF	Vida Arena	Recap
Liam Reddox 1 – 6:52 Alexander Johansson 1 – 8:08		First period			No scoring
Rhett Rakhshani 1 – 9:22		Second period			No scoring
Alexander Johansson 2 – en – 19:29		Third period			No scoring
Teemu Lassila 21 saves / 21 shots		Goalie stats			David Rautio 23 saves / 26 shots

March 18	Luleå HF		2–3		Växjö Lakers	Coop Norrbotten Arena	Recap
No scoring		First period			19:17 – Noah Welch 1
Daniel Gunnarsson 1 – pp – 17:38		Second period			10:19 – Jan Hlaváč 1 18:07 – Jani Lajunen 1
Linus Klasen 1 – 18:33		Third period			No scoring
Mark Owuya 17 saves / 20 shots		Goalie stats			Teemu Lassila 32 saves / 34 shots

March 20	Växjö Lakers		3–4	OT	Luleå HF	Vida Arena	Recap
No scoring		First period			9:53 – pp – Linus Persson
No scoring		Second period			10:05 – pp – Linus Klasen 2
Jan Hlaváč 2 – pp – 6:23 Erik Josefsson 1 – pp – 9:57 Alexander Johansson 3 – 17:47		Third period			4:17 – Dean Kukan 1
No scoring		First overtime period			10:23 – Niklas Olausson 1
Teemu Lassila 19 saves / 23 shots		Goalie stats			David Rautio 28 saves / 31 shots

March 22	Luleå HF		5–4		Växjö Lakers	Coop Norrbotten Arena	Recap
Linus Omark 1 – pp – 11:34		First period			No scoring
Anton Hedman 1 – 2:20 Daniel Mannberg 1 – 13:16		Second period			4:42 – Alexander Johansson 4 5:11 – Noah Welch 2 12:21 – pp – Cory Murphy 1
Linus Omark 2 – 1:42 Lars Bryggman 1 – 11:48		Third period			5:48 – Dennis Rasmussen 1
David Rautio 21 saves / 25 shots		Goalie stats			Scott Munroe 12 saves / 15 shots Teemu Lassila 8 saves / 10 shots

March 24	Växjö Lakers		2–0		Luleå HF	Vida Arena	Recap
No scoring		First period			No scoring
Dennis Rasmussen 2 – 5:06		Second period			No scoring
Rhett Rakhshani 2 – 14:06		Third period			No scoring
Teemu Lassila 22 saves / 22 shots		Goalie stats			Mark Owuya 20 saves / 22 shots

March 26	Luleå HF		0–1		Växjö Lakers	Coop Norrbotten Arena	Recap
No scoring		First period			18:10 – Erik Josefsson 2
No scoring		Second period			No scoring
No scoring		Third period			No scoring
Mark Owuya 12 saves / 13 shots		Goalie stats			Teemu Lassila 19 saves / 19 shots

Växjö Lakers won series 4–2

(4) Brynäs IF vs. (5) Färjestad BK

March 16	Brynäs IF		1–2		Färjestad BK	Läkerol Arena	Recap
Anton Rödin 1 – 11:45		First period			No scoring
No scoring		Second period			8:35 – Patrik Lundh 1
No scoring		Third period			17:25 – Joakim Hillding 1
Bernhard Starkbaum 33 saves / 35 shots		Goalie stats			Fredrik Pettersson-Wentzel 34 saves / 35 shots

March 18	Färjestad BK		4–2		Brynäs IF	Löfbergs Arena	Recap
Magnus Nygren 1 – pp – 2:05 Linus Fröberg 1 – 11:41 Milan Gulaš 1 – 16:33		First period			No scoring
No scoring		Second period			4:41 – pp – Anton Rödin 2
Martin Røymark 1 – en – 19:36		Third period			15:31 – Johan Harju 1
Fredrik Pettersson-Wentzel 25 saves / 27 shots		Goalie stats			Bernhard Starkbaum 28 saves / 31 shots

March 20	Brynäs IF		1–2		Färjestad BK	Läkerol Arena	Recap
No scoring		First period			19:56 – Joakim Hillding 2
Daniel Brodin 1 – 13:28		Second period			No scoring
No scoring		Third period			11:44 – Linus Fröberg 2
Bernhard Starkbaum 33 saves / 35 shots		Goalie stats			Fredrik Pettersson-Wentzel 35 saves / 36 shots

March 22	Färjestad BK		0–2		Brynäs IF	Löfbergs Arena	Recap
No scoring		First period			11:40 – Bill Sweatt 1
No scoring		Second period			13:49 – Jesper Ollas 1
No scoring		Third period			No scoring
Fredrik Pettersson-Wentzel 23 saves / 25 shots		Goalie stats			Bernhard Starkbaum 33 saves / 33 shots

March 24	Brynäs IF		3–4	OT	Färjestad BK	Läkerol Arena	Recap
Johan Harju 2 – pp – 10:55		First period			No scoring
Christian Djoos 1 – 4:57		Second period			4:13 – Joakim Hillding 3 13:07 – Per Åslund 1
Greg Scott 1 – pp – 15:38		Third period			2:13 – Milan Gulaš 2
No scoring		First overtime period			8:27 – Patrik Lundh 2
Bernhard Starkbaum 34 saves / 38 shots		Goalie stats			Fredrik Pettersson-Wentzel 25 saves / 28 shots

Färjestad BK won series 4–1

Semifinals

(1) Skellefteå AIK vs. (9) Linköpings HC

March 31	Skellefteå AIK		3–0		Linköpings HC	Skellefteå Kraft Arena	Recap
Joakim Lindström 2 – pp – 4:57 Oscar Möller 2 – 11:45		First period			No scoring
No scoring		Second period			No scoring
Melker Karlsson 2 – en – 18:04		Third period			No scoring
Markus Svensson 20 saves / 20 shots		Goalie stats			Christian Engstrand 25 saves / 27 shots

April 2	Linköpings HC		2–8		Skellefteå AIK	Cloetta Center	Recap
Jonas Junland 1 – 17:34 Simon Hjalmarsson 3 – pp – 19:29		First period			7:37 – John Norman 1 8:50 – Oscar Möller 3 10:51 – Joakim Lindström 3 18:07 – Oscar Möller 4
No scoring		Second period			9:24 – pp – Joakim Lindström 4 10:18 – Petter Emanuelsson 2 18:54 – pp – Pierre-Édouard Bellemare 4
No scoring		Third period			8:15 – sh – Erik Andersson 1
Marcus Högberg 6 saves / 8 shots Christian Engstrand 23 saves / 29 shots		Goalie stats			Markus Svensson 16 saves / 18 shots

April 4	Skellefteå AIK		4–1		Linköpings HC	Skellefteå Kraft Arena	Recap
No scoring		First period			8:23 – Simon Hjalmarsson 4
Jimmie Ericsson 6 – pp2 – 3:27		Second period			No scoring
Viktor Arvidsson 2 – 11:01 Bud Holloway 2 – 15:36 Oskar Sundqvist 1 – pp, en – 18:25		Third period			No scoring
Markus Svensson 24 saves / 25 shots		Goalie stats			Marcus Högberg 36 saves / 39 shots

April 6	Linköpings HC		1–0		Skellefteå AIK	Cloetta Center	Recap
Jonas Junland 2 – 19:32		First period			No scoring
No scoring		Second period			No scoring
No scoring		Third period			No scoring
Marcus Högberg 37 saves / 37 shots		Goalie stats			Markus Svensson 24 saves / 25 shots

April 8	Skellefteå AIK		7–3		Linköpings HC	Skellefteå Kraft Arena	Recap
Niclas Burström 1 – 12:45 Viktor Arvidsson 3 – pp – 14:47 Jimmie Ericsson 7 – 19:19		First period			No scoring
Pierre-Édouard Bellemare 5 – 9:54		Second period			9:05 – Chad Kolarik 4 17:51 – Mattias Sjögren 1
Jimmie Ericsson 8 – 5:30 Oskar Sundqvist 2 – 11:59 Erik Forssell 1 – en – 17:02		Third period			11:33 – Johannes Salmonsson 3
Markus Svensson 24 saves / 27 shots		Goalie stats			Marcus Högberg 27 saves / 33 shots

Skellefteå AIK won series 4–1

(3) Växjö Lakers vs. (5) Färjestad BK

April 1	Växjö Lakers		1–2		Färjestad BK	Vida Arena	Recap
No scoring		First period			No scoring
Jan Hlaváč 3 – 16:17		Second period			No scoring
No scoring		Third period			7:09 – Pontus Åberg 1 11:07 – Per Åslund 2
Teemu Lassila 21 saves / 23 shots		Goalie stats			Fredrik Pettersson-Wentzel 31 saves / 32 shots

April 3	Färjestad BK		1–6		Växjö Lakers	Löfbergs Arena	Recap
Rickard Wallin 1 – 5:06		First period			15:15 – Ryan Lasch 1
No scoring		Second period			7:55 – Alexander Johansson 5 9:42 – Robert Rosén 1 17:01 – Robert Rosén 2
No scoring		Third period			8:27 – Robert Rosén 3 13:48 – pp – Rhett Rakhshani 3
Fredrik Pettersson-Wentzel 23 saves / 29 shots Pekka Tuokkola 0 saves / 0 shots		Goalie stats			Teemu Lassila 23 saves / 24 shots

April 5	Växjö Lakers		1–4		Färjestad BK	Vida Arena	Recap
Robert Rosén 4 – pp – 10:28		First period			11:45 – pp – Magnus Nygren 2
No scoring		Second period			12:53 – Milan Gulaš 3
No scoring		Third period			19:07 – en – Rickard Wallin 2 19:47 – en – Patrik Lundh 3
Teemu Lassila 24 saves / 26 shots		Goalie stats			Fredrik Pettersson-Wentzel 27 saves / 28 shots

April 7	Färjestad BK		1–2	OT	Växjö Lakers	Löfbergs Arena	Recap
No scoring		First period			No scoring
No scoring		Second period			1:56 – sh – Jan Hlaváč 4
Linus Fröberg 3 – pp – 12:46		Third period			No scoring
No scoring		First overtime period			14:27 – Alexander Johansson 6
Fredrik Pettersson-Wentzel 30 saves / 32 shots		Goalie stats			Teemu Lassila 26 saves / 27 shots

April 9	Växjö Lakers		2–3		Färjestad BK	Vida Arena	Recap
No scoring		First period			0:10 – Patrik Lundh 4
Malte Strömwall 1 – 8:56		Second period			No scoring
Robert Rosén 5 – pp – 13:30		Third period			10:58 – Milan Gulaš 4 11:56 – Jack Connolly 1
Teemu Lassila 17 saves / 20 shots		Goalie stats			Fredrik Pettersson-Wentzel 42 saves / 44 shots

April 11	Färjestad BK		3–2	OT	Växjö Lakers	Löfbergs Arena	Recap
No scoring		First period			No scoring
No scoring		Second period			9:02 – Robert Rosén 6
Rickard Wallin 3 – 1:35 Milan Gulaš 5 – 19:11		Third period			5:47 – Johan Markusson 1
Rickard Wallin 4 – 9:04		First overtime period			No scoring
Fredrik Pettersson-Wentzel 38 saves / 40 shots		Goalie stats			Teemu Lassila 33 saves / 36 shots

Färjestad BK won series 4–2

Finals: (1) Skellefteå AIK vs. (5) Färjestad BK

Skellefteå AIK made their fourth consecutive appearance in the Finals, following Finals appearances in 2011, 2012, and 2013. Färjestad BK reached the Finals for the first time since 2011, and became the first team seeded lower than 4th in the regular season to reach the Finals since 6th-seeded Modo Hockey made it to the Finals in 2000.

Skellefteå AIK swept Färjestad BK four games to zero and secured their third Swedish Championship title in club history, following titles in 1978 and 2013, the year before. Skellefteå AIK became the first team to defend the Swedish Championship title since Djurgårdens IF did so with their consecutive Swedish Championship titles in 2000 and 2001. Skellefteå AIK also became the first team since Brynäs IF in 1976–77 to win consecutive Swedish Championships by not losing a single game in both Finals series. Their 8–1 crush in game three marked the biggest goal margin (7 goals) in a single Finals game in SHL history.

April 15	Skellefteå AIK		3–0		Färjestad BK	Skellefteå Kraft Arena	Recap
Jimmie Ericsson 9 – pp – 6:53 Joakim Lindström 5 – 10:54		First period			No scoring
Pierre-Édouard Bellemare 6 – pp – 18:11		Second period			No scoring
No scoring		Third period			No scoring
Markus Svensson 21 saves / 21 shots		Goalie stats			Fredrik Pettersson-Wentzel 22 saves / 25 shots

April 17	Färjestad BK		2–6		Skellefteå AIK	Löfbergs Arena	Recap
No scoring		First period			19:02 – pp – Bud Holloway 3
Christian Berglund 1 – 7:43		Second period			13:39 – Pierre-Édouard Bellemare 7
Anders Bastiansen 1 – sh – 13:31		Third period			3:26 – Jimmie Ericsson 10 11:07 – John Norman 2 11:32 – Oskar Sundqvist 3 19:41 – en – Oscar Möller 5
Fredrik Pettersson-Wentzel 26 saves / 31 shots Pekka Tuokkola 6 saves / 6 shots		Goalie stats			Markus Svensson 27 saves / 29 shots

April 19	Skellefteå AIK		8–1		Färjestad BK	Skellefteå Kraft Arena	Recap
Viktor Arvidsson 4 – 14:43 Jimmie Ericsson 11 – pp – 17:01 Oskar Sundqvist 4 – sh – 19:21		First period			10:31 – Pontus Åberg 2
Joakim Lindström 6 – 11:50 Melker Karlsson 3 – 14:10		Second period			No scoring
Melker Karlsson 4 – 0:59 Pierre-Édouard Bellemare 8 – 2:08 Jimmie Ericsson 12 – 3:24		Third period			No scoring
Markus Svensson 20 saves / 21 shots		Goalie stats			Fredrik Pettersson-Wentzel 13 saves / 16 shots Pekka Tuokkola 18 saves / 23 shots

April 21	Färjestad BK		0–3		Skellefteå AIK	Löfbergs Arena	Recap
No scoring		First period			No scoring
No scoring		Second period			No scoring
No scoring		Third period			2:46 – Anton Lindholm 1 17:06 – pp – Pierre-Édouard Bellemare 9 18:18 – en – Martin Lundberg 1
Fredrik Pettersson-Wentzel 24 saves / 26 shots		Goalie stats			Markus Svensson 23 saves / 23 shots

Skellefteå AIK won series 4–0

Statistics

Scoring leaders

List shows the ten best skaters based on the amount of points during the playoffs. If two or more skaters are tied (i.e. same amount of points, goals and played games), all of the tied skaters are shown. Updated as of the end of the playoffs.^[12]
GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/– = Plus/Minus; PIM = Penalty Minutes

Player	Team	GP	G	A	Pts	+/–	PIM
Joakim Lindström	Skellefteå AIK	14	6	12	18	+11	10
Oscar Möller	Skellefteå AIK	14	5	13	18	+10	2
Viktor Arvidsson	Skellefteå AIK	14	4	12	16	+5	4
Jimmie Ericsson	Skellefteå AIK	14	12	2	14	0	12
Pierre-Édouard Bellemare	Skellefteå AIK	14	9	5	14	+4	6
Melker Karlsson	Skellefteå AIK	14	4	8	12	+9	12
Alexander Johansson	Växjö Lakers	12	6	4	10	+5	14
Rhett Rakhshani	Växjö Lakers	12	3	6	9	+1	12
Bud Holloway	Skellefteå AIK	11	3	5	8	0	6
Robert Rosén	Växjö Lakers	12	6	1	7	+4	2

Leading goaltenders

These are the leaders in GAA and save percentage among goaltenders who played more than 40% of the team's minutes. The table is sorted by GAA, and the criteria for inclusion are bolded. Updated as of the end of the season.^[13]

GP = Games Played; TOI = Time On Ice (minutes); GA = Goals Against; SO = Shutouts; Sv% = Save Percentage; GAA = Goals Against Average

Player	Team	GP	TOI	GA	SO	Sv%	GAA
Markus Svensson	Skellefteå AIK	14	870:37	20	3	.943	1.38
Teemu Lassila	Växjö Lakers	12	715:51	20	3	.929	1.68
Mark Owuya	Luleå HF	3	174:04	6	0	.891	2.07
Bernhard Starkbaum	Brynäs IF	5	303:44	11	1	.936	2.17
Lars Johansson	Frölunda HC	5	305:39	12	0	.904	2.36
Fredrik Pettersson-Wentzel	Färjestad BK	15	876:06	36	0	.921	2.47
Marcus Högberg	Linköpings HC	9	488:10	25	1	.908	3.07

SHL awards

Guldhjälmen: Joakim Lindström, Skellefteå AIK

Guldpucken: Joakim Lindström, Skellefteå AIK

Honken Trophy: Linus Ullmark, Modo Hockey

Håkan Loob Trophy: Chad Kolarik, Linköpings HC

Rookie of the Year: Andreas Johnson, Frölunda HC

Salming Trophy: Patrik Hersley, Leksands IF

Stefan Liv Memorial Trophy: Joakim Lindström, Skellefteå AIK

Guldpipan: Mikael Nord

See also

• 2014 Kvalserien
• List of SHL seasons
• 2013 in ice hockey
• 2014 in ice hockey

References

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External links

Media related to 2013–2014 Swedish Hockey League season at Wikimedia Commons