1997–98 Alpenliga season

The 1997/98 season was the sixth regular hosting of the Alps league in hockey, which was held with a total of nine professional teams from Austria and Slovenia. Defending champion was the VEU Feldkirch, which was able to secure this season for the third time in a row the championship.

• 3.1 Group Stage
• 3.2 final

• 5.1 Team Statistics

Participants and mode

After last year only two Italian teams had participated in the league, was the number of participants in this season only from Slovenian and Austrian teams, which were, however, remained the same.

In the regular season, first a simple round-trip round was played, which meant sixteen games for each team. After the finalists were determined in two tournaments. The teams on the ranks 1, 4, 5, and 8 were in Group A, those assigned to the ranks 2, 3, 6 and 7 of group B. The two group winners finally came in the finals against each other.

Regular season

Table

Playoffs

Group stage

Final

With the draw in the second game of the VEU Feldkirch conquered the Alps third league title in a row.

Cadre of the Alps League Champion

Goalkeeper: Bruno Campese, Reinhard Divis

Attacker: Mika Asikainen, Raimund Divis, Fritz Ganster, Daniel Gauthier, Christopher Gesson, Bengt -Åke Gustafsson, Rick Nasheim, Gerhard Puschnik, Thomas Rundqvist, Bernd Schmidle, Thomas Sticha, Tomaž Vnuk, Simon Wheeldon, Nik Zupančič

Statistics

Team Statistics

Legend: = Sp games, PP-Sek/PK-Sec = time in Über-/Unterzahl, ADV = power play, DVG = shorthanded games, PPG = Powerplay Goals, SHG = shorthanded goals