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2024 Aurora Borealis Cup Playoffs
The 2024 Aurora Borealis Cup playoffs or the 2024 Naisten Liiga playoffs () was the postseason tournament of the 2023–24 season of the Naisten Liiga. The tournament began on 23 February and the Aurora Borealis Cup was awarded to IFK Helsinki (HIFK) on 21 March 2024. Entering the playoffs, HIFK were the reigning Finnish Champions after winning the 2023 Aurora Borealis Cup. At the conclusion of the 2023–24 regular season, Kiekko-Espoo and HIFK were favorites for the 2024 Aurora Borealis Cup finals. Bracket Season reviews HIFK IFK Helsinki placed second in the regular season, despite having a greater number of games won than first place Kiekko-Espoo, as the result of a six point deduction issued by the disciplinary committee of the Finnish Ice Hockey Association. The penalty was incurred after it was identified that necessary international transfer documents had not been submitted ahead of the 2022–23 Naisten Liiga season for Michaela Pejzlová. Though the team ... [...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] |
Kärpät Naiset
Oulun Kärpät Naiset () are an ice hockey team in the Auroraliiga. They play in Oulu, a city on the northeastern coast of the Bothnian Bay in the Finnish north-central region of North Ostrobothnia, at the (; also known as Raksila 2) of Oulun Energia Areena. Ilves have won the Aurora Borealis Cup three times, in 2012, 2017, and 2018. The team’s parent club, Oulun Kärpät 46 Registered association (Finland), ry, is the junior affiliate of the Liiga team Oulun Kärpät and the teams are loosely affiliated through that association. Season-by-season results ''This is a partial list of the most recent seasons completed by Oulun Kärpät 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 = Ice hockey statistics, Goals against, Pts = Point (ice hockey), Points, Top scorer: Point (ice hockey), Points (Goal (ice hockey), Goals+Assist (ice hock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janika Järvikari
Janika is a given name. The feminine name is a diminutive A diminutive is a word obtained by modifying a root word to convey a slighter degree of its root meaning, either to convey the smallness of the object or quality named, or to convey a sense of intimacy or endearment, and sometimes to belittle s ... form of the name Jana. The English equivalent of the name is Janice. Pronounced ''yah-nee-kah''. It may refer to: People Female: * Janika Sillamaa (born 1975), Estonian singer and actress * Janika Vandervelde (born 1955), American composer Male: * Janika Balázs (1925–1988), tamburitza musician and band leader from Vojvodina, Serbia Film * '' Janika (film)'', a 1949 Hungarian comedy film See also * Janica * {{given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eline Gabriele , 1991 Dutch film directed by Harry Kümel, based on the 1889 ...
Eline is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Eline Berings (born 1986), Belgian athlete who competes in the 100 m hurdles *Eline Eriksen (1881–1963), wife of Edvard Eriksen, model for the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen, Denmark *Eline Flipse (born 1954), film director of documentaries *Eline Heger, née Schmidt (1774–1842), Danish stage actress and ballet dancer *Eline Jurg (born 1973), Dutch bobsledder *Eline Nygaard Riisnæs (1913–2011), Norwegian pianist *Marie Eline (1902–1981), American silent film child actress and sister of Grace Eline See also *Cyclone Leon–Eline, long-lived Indian Ocean tropical cyclone *Eline Vere (film) ''Eline Vere '' is a 1991 Dutch film directed by Harry Kümel, based on the Eline Vere, 1889 novel with the same title by Louis Couperus. The film was selected as the Dutch entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Best Foreign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oona Koukkula
Oona Koukkula (born 22 August 2003) is a Finnish ice hockey player for Brynäs IF of the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL) and member of the Finnish national ice hockey team. Playing career Koukkula began playing ice hockey at an ice hockey school in her hometown of Riihimäki around age nine. The following year, she joined the minor ice hockey department of the Riihimäki-based club and played with its boys teams, as there were no organized girls teams in the area at that time. During the 2016–17 season, she continued to play with Nikkarit boys teams and also played with a boys under-13 (U13) team of in Hyvinkää, a town about south of Riihimäki. At age fourteen, she made her debut in the Naisten Liiga (NSML; renamed Auroraliiga in 2024), the national championship women's ice hockey league in Finland, with KJT Hockey in the 2017–18 season. Across eighteen games with KJT that season, she scored one goal and accumulated four penalty minutes. During the 2017–18 ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbora Juříčková
Barbora (; ) is a Czech and Slovak female given name. It was derived from the Greek word ''barbaros'' () meaning "foreign", a variant of " Barbara". It is the 36th most popular given name in the Czech Republic (as of 2007). Notable people with the name include: *Barbora Bobuľová (born 1974), Slovak actress * Barbora Bukovská, Czech-Slovak human rights attorney *Barbora Dibelková (born 1983), Czech race walker *Barbora Kodetová (born 1970), Czech actress *Barbora Krejčíková (born 1995), Czech tennis player *Barbora Rezlerová-Švarcová (1890–1941), Slovak feminist and communist journalist *Barbora Schacková (1873/4–1958), Sudeten German politician *Barbora Seemanová (born 2000), Czech swimmer *Barbora Silná (born 1989), Czech-Austrian ice dancer *Barbora Špotáková (born 1981), Czech javelin thrower *Barbora Štefková (born 1995), Czech tennis player *Barbora Strýcová (born 1986), Czech tennis player See also *Barbara (given name) *Varvara (other) Varv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heta Seikkula
Heta is a conventional name for the historical Greek alphabet letter Eta (Η) and several of its variants, when used in their original function of denoting the consonant . Overview The letter Η had been adopted by Greek from the Phoenician letter Heth () originally with this consonantal sound value, and ''Hēta'' was its original name. The Italic alphabets, and ultimately Latin, adopted the letter H from this Greek usage. However, Greek dialects progressively lost the sound from their phonological systems. In the Ionic dialects, where this loss of happened early, the name of the letter naturally changed to ''Ēta'', and the letter was subsequently turned from a consonant to a new use as a vowel, denoting the long half-open sound. In this function it later entered the classical orthography adopted across the whole of Greece. According to traditional accounts, the new vowel, ''Ēta'', was originally the innovation of the poet Simonides of Ceos (556-468 BC). In dialects that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ella Välikangas
Ella is a feminine given name, which also used as a surname. Ella (or similar) may also refer to: Places United States * Ella, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * Ella, Oregon, an unincorporated community * Ella, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community * Ella, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community * Lake Ella, Tallahassee, Florida Greenland * Ella Island, an uninhabited island of the Greenland Sea, Greenland Sri Lanka * Ella, Sri Lanka, a town in Uva Province, Sri Lanka United Kingdom * East Ella, a suburb of Hull * Kirk Ella, village and parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire * West Ella, in Kirk Ella parish Arts and entertainment Musicians * Ella Fitzgerald (born 1917), sometimes referred to as "Lady Ella" * Ella (Brazilian singer) (born 1997) * Ella (Malaysian singer) (born 1966) * Ella Gross (born 2008), known mononymously as Ella, member of South Korean girl group Meovv Albums * ''Ella'' (Ella Fitzgerald album), 1969 * ''Ella'' (Juan Gabriel album), 1980 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ines Lukkarila
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Ines or INES may refer to: People * Ines (name), a feminine given name, also written as Inés or Inês * Saint Ines or Agnes (), Roman virgin–martyr * Eda-Ines Etti (stage name: ''Ines''; born 1981), Estonian singer Places * Doña Ines, a volcano in Chile * Institute of Applied Sciences Ruhengeri, a Rwandan university Science and technology * International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility * International Nuclear Event Scale Other uses * iNES (TV service), a Romanian IPTV television streaming service * ''Carte d'identité nationale électronique sécurisée'', proposed French national identity card See also * INE (other) * Santa Ines (other) Santa Ines (''Santa Inés'' or ''Santa Inês'') may refer to one of the following places: Places ;Brazil * Santa Inês, a city in Brazil ;Chile * Santa Inés Island, an island off the coast of southern Chile ;Mexico * Santa Inés del Monte, Oaxaca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tereza Pištěková
Tereza Pištěková (born 3 June 2005) is a Czech ice hockey player for Djurgårdens IF of the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL) and a member of the Czech Republic women's national ice hockey team. She previously played for TPS and HPK of the Finnish Naisten Liiga (NSML). Early life Pištěková was born in Tábor, and raised in Milevsko, until she was four years old and moved to České Budějovice. Playing career Pištěková began her ice hockey career for TPS during the 2022–23 season, where she recorded 14 goals and 26 assists in 34 games. She then joined HPK for the 2023–24 season, where she recorded 11 goals and 24 assists in 32 games. On 30 July 2024, she signed with Djurgårdens IF of the SDHL, after two seasons in the NSML. During the 2024–25 season, she recorded six goals and 18 assists in 35 games. International play Pištěková represented the Czech Republic at the IIHF U18 Women's World Championship in 2022 and 2023, where she recorded five goals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
