Asia League Ice Hockey

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The Asia League Ice Hockey is a nine team league that has teams from Japan, China, and South Korea. As of 2005-06, nine teams play a 38-game schedule, with the top 6 teams advancing to the playoffs which are played in a best-of-5 format.

Contents

1 Teams

1.1 Active Teams
1.2 Defunct Teams

2 History

2.1 2005-2006 Standings
2.2 2004-2005 Standings
2.3 2003-2004 Standings

3 External links

Teams

Active Teams

(Home City, Year Joined League)

Chinese Teams
*Harbin Ice Hockey Team (Harbin, 2004)
*Qiqihar Ice Hockey Team (Qiqihar, 2004)
*Nordic Vikings (Beijing, 2005)
Japanese Teams
*Kokudo Ice Hockey Team (Nishi-Tokyo, 2003)
*Nikko Kobe IceBucks (Nikko, 2003)
*Nippon Paper Cranes (Kushiro, 2003)
*Oji Ice Hockey Team (Tomakomai, 2003)
South Korean Teams
*Anyang Halla (Anyang, 2003)
*Kangwon Land (Chuncheon, 2005)

Defunct Teams

(Years in League)

Russian Team
*Golden Amur (Khabarovsk, 2004-2005)

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 brings the number of teams in the league to nine. The Nordic Vikings team consists of young Scandinavian players as well as six players from Qiqihar and Harbin, in an effort to raise the skill levels of those teams.

2005-2006 Standings

Regular Season (Team, W-OW-T-OL-L, Pts, bold made playoffs):

Nippon Paper Cranes, 30-2-1-0-5, 95
Anyang Halla, 35-0-0-3-10, 78
Kokudo, 25-0-4-1-9, 77
Oji, 22-0-4-2-10, 72
Nordic Vikings, 20-2-1-0-15, 65
Nikko Kobe Icebucks, 16-2-2-1-17, 55
Kangwon Land, 7-2-2-1-26, 28
Harbin, 7-1-1-0-29, 24
Qiqihar, 3-0-1-1-33, 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

2004-2005 Standings

Regular Season (Team, W-OW-T-OL-L, Pts, GF-GA bold made playoffs):

Nippon Paper Cranes, 31-0-5-0-6, 98, 206-85
Kokudo Ice Hockey Team, 31-0-4-1-6, 98, 208-90
Golden Amur, 26-1-3-1-11, 84, 204-90
Oji Ice Hockey Team, 24-2-2-1-13, 79, 181-124
Anyang Halla Winia, 17-1-5-1-18, 59, 152-140
HC Nikko Icebucks, 13-1-2-2-24, 45, 110-125
Harbin Ice Hockey Team, 7-2-1-0-32, 26, 91-225
Qiqihar Ice Hockey Team, 1-0-0-1-40, 4, 53-326

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)

2003-2004 Standings

Regular Season (Team, W-OW-T-OL-L, Pts, GF-GA bold made playoffs):

Nippon Paper Cranes, 13-0-0-0-3, 26, 80-49
Kokudo Ice Hockey Team, 12-0-0-0-4, 24, 78-36
Anyang Halla Winia, 6-0-0-0-10, 12, 45-86
Oji Ice Hockey Team, 5-0-2-0-9, 12, 55-58
HC Nikko Icebucks, 2-0-2-0-12, 4, 38-67

No Playoffs

External links

[Asia League Ice Hockey] - Official site

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