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...

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...

Lapeenranta won the championship. SaiPa Lappeenranta and FoPS Forssa qualified for the promotion/relegation round of the SM-liiga. Season on hockeyarchives.info...

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)...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Los Angeles Kings. He featured in the 1978 Stanley Cup Finals with the Bruins. Miller also played in the SM-liiga in Finland for Kärpät and the Nationalliga...