1987–88 SM-liiga season

The SM- liiga season 1987/88 was the 13th season of the Finnish SM- liiga. Finnish Champion became the eleventh time overall and for the seventh time since the introduction of the SM - liiga Tappara Tampere.

  • Table 2.1
  • 2.2 Best Scorer
  • 3.1 tournament tree
  • 3.2 Finnish Champion

Regular Season

Mode

The ten teams in the SM- liiga first played in 44 regular season games against each other. The first four teams qualified for the play- offs. Due to a league run two teams in the following year, no team got off directly. The last placed SM liiga had to compete against the third-placed I- divisioona to avoid relegation and promotion, with KooKoo prevailed against Reipas Lahti. For a win, each team was given two points, a draw there was a point and a defeat.

Main Round

Table

Sp = Matches, W = Wins, D = drawn, L = Loss, OTS = Overtime wins, OTN = Overtime defeat, SOS = Penalty victories, SON = Penalty defeat

Best Scorer

Play-offs

The semi-final was played in mode " Best-of -Five", the place match in a single playoff. The final turn found in the mode " Best-of -Seven " instead.

Tournament tree

Finnish Champion

Goalkeepers: Tom Draper, Jari Halme

Defender: Juha Jokiniemi, Markku Jutila Timo Jutila, Pekka Laksola, Harri Laurila, Jukka Marttila, Petri Matikainen, Teppo Numminen

Attacker: Kari Heikkinen, Jussi -Pekka Järvinen, Pauli Järvinen, Arto Kulmala, Erkki Lehtonen, Reijo Mikkolainen, Janne Ojanen, Hannu Oksanen, Tommi Pohja, Jyrki Silius, Sami Siren, Timo Susi, Tero Toivola, Risto Tuominen

Head Coach:

League Relegation

KooKoo won the series 3-2 and remains in the SM- liiga.

Awards

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