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2022 Aurora Borealis Cup Playoffs
The 2022 Aurora Borealis Cup playoffs or the 2022 Naisten Liiga playoffs () is the playoff tournament of the 2021–22 season of the Naisten Liiga. The tournament began on 26 March and the Aurora Borealis Cup was awarded to Kiekko-Espoo Naiset on 24 April. Playoff bracket Quarterfinals The best-of-five quarterfinals () began on 26 March. Games were scheduled to be played on 26, 27, and 31 March, and 2 and 3 April. Home ice advantage was granted to the higher seeded teams for the first, third, and potential fifth games. (1) Kiekko-Espoo vs. (8) KalPa Kiekko-Espoo claimed the first seed after winning the regular season title with 2.77 points per game, marking the team’s fourth consecutive regular season victory. After a dismal preliminary series in which they finished with just half a point per game, KalPa went on to win eight of ten games in the lower division series – six in regulation, two in overtime – to secure the eighth seed. The teams last met in the 2020–21 A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playoff Format
There are a number of formats used in various levels of competition in sports and games to determine an overall champion. Some of the most common are the ''single elimination'', the ''best-of-'' series, the ''total points series'' more commonly known as ''on aggregate'', and the '' round-robin tournament''. Single elimination A single-elimination ("knockout") playoff pits the participants in one-game matches, with the loser being dropped from the competition. Single-elimination tournaments are often used in individual sports like tennis. In most tennis tournaments, the players are seeded against each other, and the winner of each match continues to the next round, all the way to the final. When a playoff of this type involves the top four teams, it is sometimes known as the Shaughnessy playoff system, after Frank Shaughnessy, who first developed it for the International League of minor league baseball. Variations of the Shaughnessy system also exist, such as in the promotion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilves Naiset
Tampereen Ilves Naiset (lit. 'Tampere Lynx Women') are an ice hockey team in the Naisten Liiga, the premier women's ice hockey league in Finland. They are the representative women's team of the multi-sport club Ilves, based in Tampere, Pirkanmaa, and their home arena is the Tesoman jäähalli in Tampere's Tesoma district. They are the only team to have iced a team every season since the establishment of the Naisten SM-sarja in 1982 (renamed Naisten Liiga in 2017). The team ranks second on the list of most Aurora Borealis Cup wins, with ten, and has claimed the most Finnish Championship medals in league history, with ten gold, twelve silver, and six bronze for 28 total medals. Season-by-season results This is a partial list of the most recent seasons completed by the Tampereen Ilves Naiset. Note: Finish = Rank at end of regular season; GP = Games played, W = Wins (3 points), OTW = Overtime wins (2 points), OTL = Overtime losses (1 point), L = Losses, GF = Goals for, GA = Go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiira Yrjänen
Kiira Yrjänen (born 2 January 2002) is a Finnish ice hockey player and member of the Finnish national team, currently playing in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL) with HV71. She was officially named to the Finnish roster for the 2020 IIHF Women's World Championship on 4 March 2020, before the tournament was cancelled on 7 March 2020 due to public health concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Playing career The 2020 World Championship would have been Yrjänen's debut with the Finnish women's national team at an IIHF-organized international tournament, though she has previously represented Finland with the women's national U18 team at the IIHF World Women's U18 Championships in 2017, 2018, and 2020, and with the bronze medal team in 2019 File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ella Viitasuo
Ella Viitasuo (born 27 May 1996) is a Finnish ice hockey player and member of the Finnish national team. She most recently played during the 2022–23 season with HV71 of the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL). Viitasuo represented Finland with the national under-18 ice hockey team at the IIHF World Women's U18 Championship in 2012, 2013, and 2014; Finland placed fifth in all three tournaments. Her first match with the women's national team came in August 2014, and her world championship debut was made at the 2016 IIHF Women's World Championship. She played in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games, in which Finland claimed bronze, and at the 2019 IIHF Women's World Championship, in which Finland won their first-ever silver medal. Playing career Viitasuo developed in the minor system of the Pelicans 2000, an ice hockey club with a loose affiliation to the Liiga's Lahti Pelicans, in Hollola, a neighboring municipality to her hometown of Laht ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmi Rakkolainen
Emmi Rakkolainen (born 9 August 1996) is a Finnish ice hockey player and member of the Finnish national team, currently playing in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL) with HV71 Dam. Playing career Rakkolainen previoisly served as captain of Kiekko-Espoo Naiset in the Naisten Liiga (NSML). International play Rakkolainen was officially named to the Finnish roster for the 2020 IIHF Women's World Championship on 4 March 2020, prior to the IIHF canceling the tournament on 7 March 2020 in response to public health concerns related to COVID-19 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a virus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The disease quick .... The 2020 World Championship would have been Rakkolainen's debut with the Finnish women's national team at an IIHF-organized international tournament, though she previously represented Finl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janina Aro
Ioannina ( el, Ιωάννινα ' ), often called Yannena ( ' ) within Greece, is the capital and largest city of the Ioannina (regional unit), Ioannina regional unit and of Epirus (region), Epirus, an Modern regions of Greece, administrative region in north-western Greece. According to the 2011 census, the city population was 65,574, while the municipality had 112,486 inhabitants.GOV. results of permanent population 2011, p. 10571 (p. 97 of pdf), and in Excel formatTable of permanent population 2011 from the sitHellenic Statistical Authority 24 November 2017. Retrieved 2018-01-09. It lies at an elevation of approximately above mean sea level, above sea level, on the western shore of Lake Pamvotis (). Ioannina is located northwest of Athens, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanni Rantala
Sanni Rantala (born 8 July 2002) is a Finnish ice hockey player and member of the Finnish national ice hockey team, currently playing in the Naisten Liiga (NSML) with KalPa Naiset. Rantala won a bronze medal in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. International play Rantala was officially named to the Finnish roster for the 2020 IIHF Women's World Championship on 4 March 2020, before the tournament was cancelled on 7 March 2020 due to public health concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic. She appeared on the national team roster for all four of the tournaments of the 2019–20 Euro Hockey Tour. After a knee injury sustained in a preseason game kept her in rehabilitation and off the ice for the entire 2020–21 season, the 2022 Winter Olympics served as Rantala's senior-level IIHF debut. She played in all seven games and scored two points in the tournament, a goal and an assist, both tallied against the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiina Ranne
Tiina Ranne (born 6 December 1994) is a Finnish ice hockey goaltender, currently playing with KalPa Kuopio of the Naisten Liiga and the Finnish national team. She previously played for Team Oriflame Kuortane, JYP Jyväskylä Naiset, and HPK Kiekkonaiset in the Naisten Liiga and its predecessor, the Naisten SM-sarja. She participated at the 2016 IIHF Women's World Championship The 2016 IIHF Women's World Championship was the 17th such event hosted by the International Ice Hockey Federation. It was contested in Kamloops, Canada from 28 March to 4 April 2016. Venues included the Sandman Centre, and the McArthur Island S .... References External links * 1994 ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiia Pajarinen
Tiia Pajarinen (born 17 April 1998) is a Finnish ice hockey goaltender and member of the Finnish national team, currently playing in the Naisten Liiga (NSML) with Kiekko-Espoo. Playing career Pajarinen began playing ice hockey with boys' teams in the minor ice hockey department of Polvijärven Urheilijat (PoU) in her hometown of Polvijärvi. Her earliest seasons were spent as a skater but she soon became interested in goaltending and moved to the net. She made her senior league debut in the 2010–11 season of the Naisten Suomi-sarja with the women's team of Outokummun Kiekko (OoKoo), a junior club based in the nearby town of Outokumpu, and continued to play with the team through the 2012–13 season. During that period, she also played with youth and women's teams of Joensuun Kiekko-Pojat (Jokipojat) in the city of Joensuu. Naisten Liiga ;Team Kuortane Motivated by a desire to train full-time alongside her secondary school studies, Pajarinen moved from home to enroll at K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern European Time
Eastern European Time (EET) is one of the names of UTC+02:00 time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. The zone uses daylight saving time, so that it uses UTC+03:00 during the summer. A number of African countries use UTC+02:00 all year long, where it is called Central Africa Time (CAT), although Egypt and Libya also use the term ''Eastern European Time''. The most populous city in the Eastern European Time zone is Cairo, with the most populous EET city in Europe being Athens. Usage The following countries, parts of countries, and territories use Eastern European Time all year round: * Egypt, since 21 April 2015; used EEST ( UTC+02:00; UTC+03:00 with daylight saving time) from 1988–2010 and 16 May–26 September 2014. See also Egypt Standard Time. * Kaliningrad Oblast (Russia), since 26 October 2014; also used EET in years 1945 and 1991–2011. See also Kaliningrad Time. * Libya, since 27 October 2013; switched from Central European Time, whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aamuposti
''Aamuposti'' is a Finnish language morning daily newspaper published in Finland. History and profile ''Aamuposti'' was established in 2003. The paper is published by the Suomen Lehtiyhtymä. It is distributed in Hyvinkää, Riihimäki, Loppi, Nurmijärvi and Hausjärvi. Laura Liski is the editor of the daily. In February 2015 Aamuposti switched from broadsheet format to tabloid format A tabloid is a newspaper with a compact page size smaller than broadsheet. There is no standard size for this newspaper format. Etymology The word ''tabloid'' comes from the name given by the London-based pharmaceutical company Burroughs We .... ''Aamuposti'' had a circulation of 22,164 copies in 2008. Its circulation was 22,000 copies in 2010 and 21,502 copies in 2011. The circulation of the paper was 18,791 copies in 2013. References External links * {{Official website 2003 establishments in Finland Finnish-language newspapers Daily newspapers published in Finland Newspapers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
