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2025 Aurora Borealis Cup Playoffs
The 2025 Aurora Borealis Cup playoffs or the 2025 Auroraliiga playoffs () is the playoff tournament for the 2024–25 season of the Auroraliiga. The tournament began on 22 February and the Aurora Borealis Cup was awarded to Kiekko-Espoo on 29 March. IFK Helsinki, winners of the 2024 Naisten Liiga playoffs, were the defending Aurora Borealis Cup champions until being eliminated in the 2025 quarterfinals. Entering the playoffs, Kiekko-Espoo were the favorites for the 2025 Aurora Borealis Cup. Season reviews Kiekko-Espoo Finishing thirteen points ahead of the competition, Kiekko-Espoo claimed the regular season title for the second consecutive season. Three of the season's top-five scorers were Kiekko-Espoo players, including the overall league points leader, Emma Nuutinen (27 goals+38 assists=65 points); the league's top goal scorer, Lisette Täks (30+25); and the league's top-scoring defenseman, Minttu Tuominen (14+35). HPK HPK ended the regular season ranked second ... [...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] |
Defenceman
Defence or defense (in American English) in ice hockey is a player position that is primarily responsible for preventing the opposing team from Goal (ice hockey), scoring. They are often referred to as defencemen, D, D-men or blueliners (the latter a reference to the blue line in ice hockey which represents the boundary of the offensive zone; defencemen generally position themselves along the line to keep the puck in the zone). They were once called cover-point. In regular play, two defencemen complement three Forward (ice hockey), forwards and a goaltender on the ice. Exceptions include Overtime (ice hockey), overtime during the regular season and when a team is short-handed (i.e. has been assessed a penalty), in which two defencemen are typically joined by only two forwards and a goaltender; when a team is on the Power play (sporting term), power play (i.e. the opponent has been assessed a penalty), teams will often play only one defenceman, joined by four forwards and a goal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centre (ice Hockey)
The centre (or center in American English) in ice hockey is a forward (ice hockey), forward position of a player whose primary Hockey rink#Zones, zone of play is the middle of the ice, away from the sideboards. Centres have more flexibility in their positioning and therefore often end up covering more ice surface than any other player. Centres are ideally strong, fast skaters who are able to Checking (ice hockey)#Backchecking, backcheck quickly from deep in the opposing zone. Generally, centres are expected to be gifted passers more so than goal scorers, although there are exceptions - typically larger centres who position themselves directly in front of the net in order to score off rebounds. They are also expected to have exceptional "ice vision", Hockey IQ, intelligence, and creativity. They also generally are the most defensively-oriented forwards on the ice, as they are expected to play the role of the third player in defense, after the defenceman, defencemen. Centres usuall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tea Koljonen
Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured or fresh leaves of ''Camellia sinensis'', an evergreen shrub native to East Asia which probably originated in the borderlands of south-western China and northern Myanmar. Tea is also made, but rarely, from the leaves of ''Camellia taliensis''. After plain water, tea is the most widely consumed drink in the world. There are many types of tea; some have a cooling, slightly bitter, and astringent flavour, while others have profiles that include sweet, nutty, floral, or grassy notes. Tea has a stimulating effect in humans, primarily due to its caffeine content. An early credible record of tea drinking dates to the third century AD, in a medical text written by Chinese physician Hua Tuo. It was popularised as a recreational drink during the Chinese Tang dynasty, and tea drinking spread to other East Asian countries. Portuguese priests and merchants introduced it to Europe during the 16th century. D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RoKi Naiset
Rovaniemen Kiekko Naiset ('Rovaniemi's Puck Women'), abbreviated RoKi Naiset, are an ice hockey team in the Auroraliiga. They play at Lappi Areena in Rovaniemi, the capital city of Finnish Lapland. History The team was founded as the women's representative team of the ice hockey club Rovaniemen Kiekko (RoKi) in 2012. RoKi Naiset quickly established themselves as perennially successful competitors in the Naisten Mestis, the second-tier women's ice hockey league in Finland. In December 2019, RoKi earned promotion to the Lower Division () of the Naisten Liiga, Finland's premier women's ice hockey league. RoKi first played a full regular season in the Naisten Liiga during the 2020–21 season. They successfully defended their place in the Naisten Liiga during the post-season qualification series in 2021, 2022, and 2023. Season-by-season results ''This is a partial list of recent seasons completed by RoKi Naiset.Note: Finish = Rank at end of series; GP = Games played, W = Win ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iida Lappalainen
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Karoliina Rantamäki
Karoliina Stina Margaretha Rantamäki (born 23 February 1978) is a Finnish ice hockey forward. She plays in the Auroraliiga with Kiekko-Espoo. Rantamäki holds the all-time career record for games played with the Finnish women's national ice hockey team, having played in 256 top level international matches. She represented Finland at five Olympic Games and won bronze medals in the women's ice hockey tournaments in 1998 and 2010. She also represented Finland at thirteen IIHF World Women's Championships and earned eight World Championship bronze medals (1997, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2015). Rantamäki has played with national championship winning teams in both the in Finland and the Zhenskaya Hockey League (ZhHL) in Russia and its predecessor, the Russian Women's Hockey League. The Finnish Ice Hockey Association trophy for Most Valuable Player In team sports, a most valuable player (MVP) award is an honor typically bestowed upon an individual (or individuals, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siiri Yrjölä
Siiri Yrjölä (born 8 September 2004) is a Finnish college ice hockey player for St. Cloud State and a member of Finland women's national ice hockey team. She previously played for IFK Helsinki of the Naisten Liiga. Playing career Yrjölä began her ice hockey career for IFK Helsinki of the Naisten Liiga. During the 2022–23 season, she led all defensemen in scoring with 16 goals and 26 assists in 31 regular season games. During the 2023 Aurora Borealis Cup playoffs she led all defensemen in scoring with two goals and eight assists in eight playoff games, and helped Helsinki win the Aurora Borealis Cup for the first time in program history. Following the season she was named the Päivi Halonen Award winner, as the league's best defenseman, and named to the Naisten Liiga First All-Star team. During the 2023–24 season, she recorded five goals and 28 assists in 27 regular season games. Her 28 assists led all defensemen in the league. During the 2024 Aurora Boreali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clara Rozier
Clara Rozier (born 28 August 1997) is a French ice hockey player and member of the French national ice hockey team. She is signed in the Swiss Women's League (SWHL A) with the women's team of SC Bern for the 2024–25 season. Playing career Rozier made her senior league debut in the French women's ice hockey championship with HC Neuilly-sur-Marne during the 2012–13 season. After seven seasons playing in France – primarily with Pôle France Féminin, the French women's national development team – Rozier signed with HIFK Naiset in the Naisten Liiga (NSML) ahead of the 2020–21 season. International play Rozier represented France at the Top Division tournament of the 2019 IIHF Women's World Championship. Personal life Rozier was born on 28 August 1997 in Évian-les-Bains, a town on the French shore of Lake Geneva Lake Geneva is a deep lake on the north side of the Alps, shared between Switzerland and France. It is one of the List of largest lakes of Europ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Liikala
Julia Liikala (born 20 March 2001) is a Finnish ice hockey winger and member of the Finnish national ice hockey team. She is signed with the Hockey Club Ambrì-Piotta Girls (HCAP Girls) of the Swiss Women's League (SWHL A) for the 2024–25 season. Playing career Liikala was born and raised in Peräseinäjoki, which was merged with Seinäjoki in 2005. As a child, she began playing ice hockey with the local club, S-Kiekko. Her debut in a women's league came at age 13, in a Naisten Suomi-sarja game between S-Kiekko and the Kisa-Eagles on 7 February 2015, where she scored the sixth goal in a 10–0 whitewash. At age 16, Liikala considered joining Team Kuortane of the Kuortaneen urheilulukio in Kuortane, east of Seinäjoki, where a significant number of players from the Finnish national U18 team played and attended secondary school (). Ultimately, she felt that Kuortane was too close to home and opted instead to sign with HPK Kiekkonaiset and continue her studies in Hämee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
