The 1997–98 SM-liiga season was the 23rd season of the SM-liiga, the top level of ice hockey in Finland. 12 teams participated in the league, and HIFK...

The SM-liiga (marketed as just Liiga from 2013 on), colloquially called the Finnish Elite League in English or FM-ligan in Swedish, is the top professional...

championships as a prominent member of the Finnish SM-liiga in the years 1973, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, and 2002. Additionally, Jokerit has three European...

right winger. Pitkäjärvi played 36 games for Jokerit during the 1997–98 SM-liiga season, scoring no points. He then played in the I-Divisioona for Haukat...

Palloseura is an ice hockey team and 10-time champion of SM-liiga and 1-time champion of SM-sarja. They play in Turku, Finland, at Gatorade Center. In...

player. Pietilä was a SM-liiga head coach with HPK for the 1995–96 SM-liiga season and Jokerit for the 1997–98 SM-liiga season. He was the head coach...

Association as the Naisten SM-sarja (NSMs; lit. 'Women's Finnish Championship series') in 1982, it was known as the Naisten Liiga (NSML;lit. 'Women's League')...

professional career in his native Finland in 1996 and in 1997 won the Jarmo Wasama memorial trophy as SM-liiga rookie of the year. He won the Matti Keinonen and...

professional ice hockey player, who last played in 2002. Ikonen played in the SM-liiga for Espoo Blues and in the Elitserien for Västra Frölunda HC. He also played...

championship. The top six teams from the regular season qualified for the promotion and relegation round of the SM-liiga. Ahmat Hyvinkää - KooKoo 3:2 (5:2, 2:4...

Spartak Moscow in the Soviet Union, and later for Tappara of the Finnish SM-liiga. His son, Aleksander Barkov Jr., was born in Finland and is the captain...

will try to enter SM-liiga in the 2024–2025 season, and applied for the license on 30 October 2023. The license for the 2024–25 season got accepted on 20...

The F-liiga is the top men's floorball league in Finland. The league was founded as Salibandyn SM-sarja (English: Floorball Finnish Champions-Series)...

1975–76 and won promotion to SM-liiga after finishing second in the qualifying series. Kiekkoreipas spent nine seasons in SM-liiga. In 1978–79 they achieved...

2016-2019, KHL Ilves 2022-2023, Liiga SM-liiga, Kanada-malja champion – 1984-85 SM-liiga, Runners-up – 1997-98 SM-liiga, Bronze – 2000-01 Elitserien, Le...

after the 1976–77 season. In their debut season in SM-liiga, Kärpät managed to finish seventh out of ten teams. During their second season in the top level...

professional ice hockey team based in Helsinki, Finland that plays in the SM-liiga, the sport's top-level league in Finland. The team plays at Helsinki Ice...

list of Finnish Elite Ice Hockey League seasons since inception of the SM-liiga and also of its predecessor, the SM-sarja: 1927–28 | 1928–29 | 1929–30 (cancelled)...

career with the Montreal Canadiens in 1995–96 after three seasons with TPS of the Finnish SM-liiga. Koivu served as the Canadiens' captain for ten of his...

Rafalski spent four seasons in Europe - winning the Pekka Rautakallio trophy as best Liiga Defenseman in 1997, and 1999, the Finnish SM-liiga championship with...

began his professional career in 1989–90 with Jokerit of the SM-liiga and played 21 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Winnipeg Jets, Anaheim...

America in 1993 as a junior pro from the SM-Liiga. He enrolled at the University of Denver where he played four seasons for the Pioneers. Laaksonen was selected...

International Hockey League (IHL) in 1997–98, before transferring overseas mid-season to HIFK of the Finnish SM-Liiga. Thomas played 18 games with a save...

two seasons in the minors with the Saint John Flames. McTavish continued his career in Europe in 1997, playing three seasons in the Finnish SM-liiga with...

SM-liiga season. Karalahti was soon seen as a good physical defenceman and he began to have more ice time season by season. Karalahti's best SM-liiga...

F-liiga is the highest-tier of floorball for women in Finland. The league was founded as Salibandyn naisten SM-sarja (English: Women's Floorball Finnish...

League) and then later to Jokerit of SM-liiga where he finished the 2009-10 hockey season. For the 2010–11 season, Nylander played in the Florida Panthers...

professionally in the NHL and AHL before ending his playing career in the Finnish SM-liiga in 2003–04. Hodson suffered from Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome (rapid...

SM-liiga, from there Lehtinen started his professional career. He spent another year with Kiekko-Espoo, but the team struggled, and after one season,...

relegated to the I-Divisioona for the 1989–90 season, but it was promoted back to the SM-liiga after just one season. Ässät has won the Kanada-malja championship...