The 1978–79 SM-liiga season was the fourth season of the SM-liiga, the top level of ice hockey in Finland. 10 teams participated in the league, and Tappara...
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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...
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Lapeenranta won the championship. SaiPa Lappeenranta and FoPS Forssa qualified for the promotion/relegation round of the SM-liiga. Season on hockeyarchives.info...
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The 1977–78 Porin Ässät season was the club's third season in the SM-liiga and the 11th season at the top-level ice hockey league in Finland. Ässät finished...
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HC TPS (redirect from TPS (SM-liiga))
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...
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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)...
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Oulun Kärpät (category Liiga teams)
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 in 1978–79,...
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HC Ässät Pori (category Liiga teams)
1989–90 season, but it was promoted back to the SM-liiga after just one season. Ässät has won the Kanada-malja championship three times (in 1971, 1978 and...
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Lahti Pelicans (category Liiga teams)
won promotion to SM-liiga after finishing second in the qualifying series. Kiekkoreipas spent nine seasons in SM-liiga. In 1978–79 they achieved their...
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Jokerit (category Former Liiga teams)
secured six league championships as a prominent member of the Finnish SM-liiga in the years 1973, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, and 2002. Additionally, Jokerit...
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Ilves (category Liiga teams)
1964, 1967, 1974, 1975[citation needed] SM-liiga Kanada-malja: 1985 SM-liiga Kanada-malja: 1990, 1998 SM-liiga Kanada-malja: 1983, 1989, 2001, 2022, 2023...
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Pekka Rautakallio (section Regular season and playoffs)
professional ice hockey defenceman and coach. He played 14 seasons in Finland's SM-sarja and SM-liiga between 1968 and 1987 for Ässät and HIFK Helsinki, during...
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Jari Kurri (section Regular season and playoffs)
He began his pro career with Jokerit in the Finnish SM-liiga. After an eleven-point rookie season for Jokerit in 1977–78, Kurri scored 30 and 39 points...
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Josef Boumedienne (category 1978 births)
Elitserien. After two seasons with Södertälje SK he went to play with Tappara in the Finnish SM-liiga. Boumedienne played two seasons with Tappara and in...
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Kari Takko (section Regular season and playoffs)
his SM-liiga career in Ässät during the 1978–79 season, and played there for seven seasons (1978–1985). Takko went to the NHL after the 1984–85 season. He...
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Glen Hanlon (section SM-Liiga coaching record)
2008, it was announced that Hanlon would be the head coach of Finnish SM-Liiga team Jokerit. On March 24, 2010, Glen Hanlon was announced as a new head...
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Veli-Pekka Ketola (section Regular season and playoffs)
with 493 points. He was selected to the SM-sarja and SM-liiga all-star team six times in his career. The Liiga top-scorer award is named after Ketola....
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overall) of the 1978 NHL Amateur Draft. He represented Finland at the 1978 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. Viitala made his SM-liiga debut playing...
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Olli Jokinen (category 1978 births)
trophy as SM-liiga rookie of the year. He won the Matti Keinonen and Jari Kurri trophies in 1998 as the most effective player of the regular season and most...
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the SM-liiga. Ässät did not celebrate their return to the SM-liiga for a long time, and the club immediately began preparing for the next season, 1990–91...
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Wildcats men's ice hockey team. He was NCAA First-Team All-Conference in 1978–79 and ECAC Hockey Player of the Year in 1979. Cox was the team's leading...
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college hockey, he played two more seasons for HIFK in Finland's SM-liiga and then finally played the 1983–84 season for the Canadian National Hockey team...
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promoted to SM-liiga from 1. Divisioona for the 1977–78 season, and Ruotsalainen played 30 games and posted 23 points in his first SM-liiga season. During...
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played in the SM-liiga. He played for Jokerit, SaPKo, and TPS. He was inducted into the Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame in 1990. He played one season in the WHA...
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is SM-liiga since 1975. The championship's present format did not take into effect until the league was originally formed for the 1975–76 season under...
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two seasons with the Capitals. After playing two seasons in the minor leagues, Bédard signed to play in the Finnish SM-liiga, After two seasons with...
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Tom Draper (section Regular season and playoffs)
one season in Finland with Tappara of the SM-liiga. He made his North American professional debut with the AHL's Moncton Hawks in the 1988–89 season, and...
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Ässät–Sport rivalry (category Liiga)
in the 2009 SM-liiga qualifiers, where Ässät beat Sport in seven games to keep their SM-liiga spot. Sport was later promoted to the SM-liiga in 2014. The...
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Mike Eaves (section Regular season and playoffs)
Eaves is also the father of former NHL forward Patrick Eaves, and former SM-Liiga Jokerit forward Ben Eaves (who is currently part of his father's coaching...
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Hannu Kamppuri (section Regular season and playoffs)
1984, 1987) SM-liiga Lynces Academici Goalie Award (6): (1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1989 First Team All-Star (SM-liiga) (6): (1978, 1979, 1981, 1983...
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