Asia League Ice Hockey

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Asia League Ice Hockey
Asia League Ice Hockey
Sport Ice Hockey
Founded 2003
No. of teams 8
Country Flag of People's Republic of China China
Flag of Japan Japan
Flag of South Korea Republic of Korea
Current champions Nippon Paper Cranes

The Asia League Ice Hockey is an ice hockey league that has teams from Japan, China, and South Korea. As of 2006-07, eight teams play a 34-game schedule, with the top 6 teams advancing to the playoffs which are played in a best-of-5 format.

Contents

[edit] Teams

[edit] Active Teams

(Home City, Year Joined League)

[edit] Defunct Teams

(Years in League)

[edit] History

The Asia League Ice Hockey was formed out an expansion of the Japan Ice Hockey League in 2003-2004, with the remaining four members of the Japan Ice Hockey League playing half a season (16 games) with the Anyang Halla Winia. The addition of non-Japanese teams was deemed such a success that the JIHL was disbanded, and three teams, two Chinese teams and the Golden Amur who played in Khabarovsk, Russia joined for the next season. Though they finished third in the league, financial troubles caused the Golden Amur to withdraw from the league after only a single season.

Two teams joined for the 2005-06 season, Kangwon Land from Gangwon Province in South Korea and the Nordic Vikings of Beijing, China. This brought the number of teams in the league to nine. The Nordic Vikings team consisted of young Scandinavian players as well as six players from Qiqihar and Harbin, in an effort to raise the skill levels of those teams.

For the 2006-07 season, the Qiqihar and Harbin franchises moved to Changchun and Beijing, respectively. The Nordic Vikings franchise left the league. Also, the Kokudo team was renamed Seibu.

[edit] 2006-2007 Standings

GP W OW T OTL L GF GA PTS
Nippon Paper Cranes (1) 34 27 1 1 2 3 198 79 86
Seibu Prince Rabbits (2) 34 21 3 5 1 4 173 71 75
Oji Paper (3) 34 20 0 4 1 9 151 80 65
Kangwon Land (4) 34 18 3 1 1 11 153 110 62
Anyang Halla (5) 34 16 0 2 1 15 146 117 51
Nikkō Kobe IceBucks (6) 34 12 0 1 0 21 90 158 37
Hosa (7) 34 6 0 0 1 27 86 188 19
Changchun Fuao (8) 34 2 0 0 0 32 41 235 6

Playoffs (bold advance):

  • Quarter-finals:
    • Icebucks 3-1 Oji Paper
    • Kangwon Land 3-0 Anyang Halla
  • Semi-finals:
    • Nippon Paper Cranes 3-0 Kangwon Land
    • Seibu Prince Rabbits 3-0 Icebucks
  • Finals:
    • Seibu Prince Rabbits 1-3 Nippon Paper Cranes

[edit] 2005-2006 Standings

GP W OW T OTL L GF GA PTS
Nippon Paper Cranes (1) 38 30 2 1 0 5 240 66 95
Anyang Halla (2) 38 25 0 0 3 10 164 100 78
Kokudo (3) 38 25 0 4 1 9 156 78 77
Oji (4) 38 22 0 4 2 10 159 87 72
Nordic Vikings (5) 38 20 2 1 0 15 129 108 65
Nikkō Kobe IceBucks (6) 38 16 2 2 1 17 103 118 55
Kangwon Land (7) 38 7 2 2 1 26 96 143 28
Harbin (8) 38 7 1 1 0 29 68 198 24
Qiqihar (9) 38 3 0 1 1 33 61 278 11

Playoffs (bold advance):

  • Quarter-finals:
    • Oji 3-1 Nordic Vikings
    • Kokudo 3-0 Icebucks
  • Semi-finals:
    • Nippon Paper Cranes 3-0 Oji
    • Kokudo 3-1 Anyang Halla
  • Finals:
    • Nippon Paper Cranes 2-3 Kokudo

[edit] 2004-2005 Standings

GP W OW T OTL L GF GA PTS
Nippon Paper Cranes (1) 42 31 0 5 0 6 206 85 98
Kokudo (2) 42 31 0 4 1 6 208 90 98
Golden Amur (3) 42 26 1 3 1 11 204 90 84
Oji (4) 42 24 2 2 1 13 181 124 79
Anyang Halla Winia (5) 42 17 1 5 1 18 152 140 59
HC Nikkō IceBucks (6) 42 13 1 2 2 24 110 125 45
Harbin (7) 42 7 2 1 0 32 91 225 26
Qiqihar (8) 42 1 0 0 1 40 53 326 4

Playoffs (bold advance):

  • Semi-finals:
    • Nippon Paper Cranes 3-1 Oji Ice Hockey Team (2-3, 3-2, 2-1, 5-4)
    • Kokudo Ice Hockey Team 3-0 Golden Amur (3-0, 4-3, 2-1)
  • Finals:
    • Nippon Paper Cranes 1-3 Kokudo Ice Hockey Team (2-0, 4-6, 1-2, 2-5)

[edit] 2003-2004 Standings

GP W OW T OTL L GF GA PTS
Nippon Paper Cranes (1) 16 13 0 0 0 3 80 49 39
Kokudo (2) 16 12 0 0 0 4 78 36 37
Halla Winia (3) 16 5 1 0 0 10 45 86 17
Oji (4) 16 5 0 2 0 9 55 58 17
HC Nikkō IceBucks (5) 16 2 0 2 0 12 38 67 8

No Playoffs

[edit] External links


Asia League Ice Hockey

Anyang Halla (KOR)| Changchun Fuao (CHN)| Hosa (CHN)| Kangwon Land (KOR)
Nikkō Kobe IceBucks (JPN)| Nippon Paper Cranes (JPN)
Oji Ice Hockey Team (JPN)| Seibu Prince Rabbits (JPN)