The 2010–11 Austrian Hockey League was a season of the Austrian Hockey League (known as Erste Bank Eishockey Liga (or EBEL league) for sponsorship reasons). The 2010–11 season ended with an exciting victory in game 7 of the championship finals for the EC Red Bull Salzburg team.
Teams Team City/Area Arena Capacity Founded Joined EBEL Red Bull Salzburg Salzburg Eisarena Salzburg 3,600 1977 Graz 99ers Graz Eisstadion Graz Liebenau 4,050 1999 EC KAC Klagenfurt Stadthalle Klagenfurt 5,500 1909 Black Wings Linz Linz Keine Sorgen Eisarena Linz 3,800 1992 Vienna Capitals Vienna Albert Schultz Eishalle 4,500 2000 Villacher SV Villach Villacher Stadthalle 4,800 1923 Acroni Jesenice Jesenice Dvorana Podmežakla 6,000 1948 2006/07 Olimpija Ljubljana Ljubljana Dvorana Tivoli 4,500 1929 2007/08 SAPA Fehérvár AV 19 Székesfehérvár Ifjabb Ocskay Gábor Ice Hall 3,600 1960 2007/08 KHL Medveščak Zagreb Zagreb Dom Sportova / Arena Zagreb 6,000 / 15,024 1961 2009/10
Regular season
Standings
Team 1EC KAC 54 36 12 6 190 159 78 2Red Bull Salzburg 54 33 19 2 206 181 68 3Vienna Capitals 54 31 18 5 200 162 67 4Villacher SV 54 28 20 5 180 167 63 5Black Wings Linz 54 26 21 7 156 166 59 6Graz 99ers 54 27 23 4 164 153 58 7Olimpija Ljubljana 54 24 25 5 165 197 53 8KHL Medveščak Zagreb 54 23 25 6 171 171 52 9SAPA Fehérvár AV 19 54 21 26 7 162 203 49 10Jesenice 54 20 25 9 161 196 49
Individual statistics
Scoring leaders The following players led the league in points at the conclusion of the regular season.
Player Team Vienna Capitals 51 48 36 84 +30 61Vienna Capitals 45 27 46 73 +23 247Jesenice 54 24 44 68 +8 16Olimpija Ljubljana 53 16 48 64 -6 28SAPA Fehérvár AV 19 54 22 38 60 -1 20Jesenice 54 33 26 59 -4 64KHL Medveščak Zagreb 49 30 29 59 +22 16Villacher SV 53 24 33 57 +9 158Red Bull Salzburg 49 23 34 57 +15 34Villacher SV 50 26 29 55 +25 62
Leading goaltenders The following goaltenders led the league in goals against average at the end of the regular season.
Player Team EC KAC 41 1,776:07 946 867 79 .916 2,67Vienna Capitals 28 1,425:18 744 680 64 .914 2,69Villacher SV 54 1,895:32 1101 1015 86 .922 2,72Graz 99ers 54 3,251:47 1625 1475 150 .908 2,77Black Wings Linz 52 2,775:01 1503 1374 129 .914 2,79KHL Medveščak Zagreb 52 2,844:18 1782 1649 133 .925 2,81Red Bull Salzburg 35 1,630:42 945 868 76 .919 2,83Vienna Capitals 34 1,672:44 947 868 79 .917 2,83Jesenice 20 1,195:49 599 539 60 .900 3,01EC KAC 54 1,510:39 813 733 80 .902 3,18
Playoffs The EC Red Bull Salzburg team won the season, after beating the EC KAC 4–3 in the final series. Game 7 ended with an exciting overtime goal by the Red Bulls, giving them the league championship for the second year in a row, with a final game score of 3–2.
After the regular season, the standard of 8 teams qualified for the playoffs. In the playoff games the better placed team at the end of the regular season will have the right to play at home first. In the quarterfinals the 1st ranked team will play against the 8th ranked team, 2nd vs 7th, 3rd vs 6th, 4th vs 5th - each in a best-of-seven series.
In the semifinals the four winners of the quarterfinals will play as follows: the best ranked club (in the regular season) of the four semifinalists will play against the worst ranked club, the second best ranked club against the second worst ranked club - each in a best-of-seven series. The two winners of the semifinals will play a best-of-seven series in the final round.
If a playoff game is undecided at the end of the regular time after a 17 minutes break a 20-minute "Sudden Victory Overtime" will be played. Should the game still be undecided after the first overtime period after another 17 minutes break a second 20-minute "Sudden Victory Overtime" will be played and so on until the deciding goal is scored. Each team may only use four skaters; however, at least three skaters must be used.
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