1988–89 Nationalliga A season
The season 1988/1989 was the 51th regular hosting of the Swiss National League A. In the final of the play-offs, the SC Bern sat against the HC Lugano through and thus became Swiss champion. The HC Davos failed in the relegation round at the league and dismounted in the National League B. From the NLB Zürcher SC reached the rise, while the HC Ajoie in the relegation round realized in the league.
- 3.1 tournament tree
- 3.2 quarterfinals
- 3.3 Semi-finals
- 3.4 final
- 3.5 champion team SC Bern
- 3.6 Statistics
Mode
After the qualifying round, to attend the Ten teams, the top eight teams play the Swiss Cup from the play-offs. The teams ranked 9 and 10 of the qualifying round play along with the top four teams in the National League B the relegation round.
Qualification
The NLA qualification was mainly dominated by the HC Lugano, which reached 29 wins in 36 games and only four times left as losers the ice. In contrast, the HC Davos lost 25 of his 36 league games and therefore missed the play-offs.
Final Table
Statistics
Best scorer of qualifications was the Canadians Don Laurence from EV train, who scored 46 goals and 27 assists in 36 games. Most of the points reached Normand Dupont of the EHC Biel, who scored 75 points scorer in 36 games this season.
Audience
The SC Bern had an average of 11,227 spectators at home games the highest average attendance of Switzerland and throughout Europe. Here, on average twice as many came to the matches of the SC Bern as playing the EV train and even four times as many as at home games of HC Davos.
Swiss All- Star team
After qualifying an All -Star team was selected by Swiss players that especially players of the two best teams of the season, the EHC Kloten and HC Lugano, contained.
Play-offs
Tournament tree
Quarterfinals
The quarter-final was played in best of three mode.
Semifinal
The semi-final was played in best of five mode.
Final
The final was played in the best of five mode.
In the final for the title initially went the HC Lugano with a 6-2 victory for the visitors. However, the next two games decided the SC Bern for themselves, so this resulted in the series 2-1. The fourth game of the playoff finals Lugano won 5-1, but could not keep up in the decisive fifth game and lost 2:4. The SC Bern was so Swiss Champion 1989.
Champion team SC Bern
Goalkeeper Martin Studer, Renato Tosio
Defender: Andreas Beutler, André Kuenzi, Thomas Kuenzi, Sven Leuenberger, Martin Rauch, Reijo Ruotsalainen, Daniel Rutschi, Remo Wyssen
Attacker: Peter Baertschi, Martin Bützberger, Pietro Cunti, Reto Dekumbis, Alan Haworth, Adrian Hotz, Patrick Howald, Robert Martin, Romeo Mattioni, Thomas Maurer, Bat Nuspliger, Roberto Triulzi, Peter Vondal
Head Coach: Bill Gilligan
Statistics
Best points scorer of the playoffs was Kent Johansson from HC Lugano, who scored seven goals and ten assists in. Top scorer was Andreas tone which met nine times the gate.