2012–13 SPHL season
2012–13 SPHL season | |
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League | Southern Professional Hockey League |
Sport | Ice hockey |
Duration | October 26, 2013–April 14, 2013 |
Regular season | |
Season champions | Fayetteville FireAntz |
Season MVP | Josh McQuade (Fayetteville) |
Top scorer | Josh McQuade (Fayetteville) |
Playoffs | |
Finals champions | Pensacola Ice Flyers |
Finals runners-up | Huntsville Havoc |
The 2012–13 Southern Professional Hockey League season was the ninth season of the Southern Professional Hockey League (SPHL). The regular season began October 26, 2012 and ended April 14, 2013, after a 56-game regular season and an 8-team playoff. The Fayetteville FireAntz captured their first SPHL regular season title.[1] The Pensacola Ice Flyers defeated the Huntsville Havoc in the President's Cup final 2 games to 1 to win the team's first President's Cup.[2]
Contents
Regular season
Final standings
Team[3] | GP | W | L | OTL | GF | GA | Pts |
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Fayetteville FireAntz‡ | 56 | 35 | 18 | 3 | 195 | 154 | 73 |
Louisiana IceGators | 56 | 34 | 17 | 5 | 172 | 167 | 73 |
Pensacola Ice Flyers | 56 | 33 | 18 | 5 | 171 | 149 | 71 |
Knoxville Ice Bears | 56 | 33 | 19 | 4 | 180 | 157 | 70 |
Columbus Cottonmouths | 56 | 28 | 24 | 4 | 149 | 138 | 60 |
Mississippi Surge | 56 | 25 | 23 | 8 | 152 | 156 | 58 |
Mississippi RiverKings | 56 | 24 | 24 | 8 | 165 | 183 | 56 |
Huntsville Havoc | 56 | 21 | 29 | 6 | 135 | 179 | 48 |
Augusta RiverHawks | 56 | 19 | 31 | 6 | 150 | 186 | 44 |
- ‡ William B. Coffey Trophy winners
- Advanced to playoffs
Attendance
Team | Total | Games | Average |
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Huntsville | 98,393 | 28 | 3,514 |
Knoxville | 96,570 | 28 | 3,448 |
Fayetteville | 96,313 | 28 | 3,439 |
Pensacola | 92,087 | 28 | 3,288 |
Columbus | 79,260 | 28 | 2,830 |
Mississippi RiverKings | 70,373 | 28 | 2,513 |
Louisiana | 64,080 | 28 | 2,288 |
Mississippi Surge | 58,496 | 28 | 2,089 |
Augusta | 51,247 | 28 | 1,830 |
League | 706,819 | 252 | 2,804 |
President's Cup playoffs
First Round | Semifinals | Final | |||||||||||||||||
1 | Fayetteville FireAntz | 2 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
8 | Huntsville Havoc | 3* | 5* | ||||||||||||||||
2 | Louisiana IceGators | 3 | 2*** | 1 | |||||||||||||||
8 | Huntsville Havoc | 5 | 1 | 5 | |||||||||||||||
4 | Knoxville Ice Bears | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
5 | Columbus Cottonmouths | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
(Pairings are re-seeded after the first round.) | 8 | Huntsville Havoc | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
3 | Pensacola Ice Flyers | 2* | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
6 | Mississippi Surge | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
3 | Pensacola Ice Flyers | 4 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
3 | Pensacola Ice Flyers | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
4 | Knoxville Ice Bears | 2 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
7 | Mississippi RiverKings | 5 | 5 | 4 | |||||||||||||||
2 | Louisiana IceGators | 7 | 2 | 5* |
* indicates overtime game.
Finals
April 9, 2013 7:05pm |
Huntsville | 1 – 2 OT (1–0, 0–1, 0–0, 0–1) |
Pensacola | Pensacola Civic Center Pensacola, Florida Attendance: 3,632 |
Game reference | ||||
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Jesse Kallechy | Goalies | Ross MacKinnon | Referees: Andrew Howard Tyler Puddifant |
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Stuart Stefan (Fidler, Gurtler) - 17:08 |
First Period 1–0 Second Period 1–1 Overtime 1–2 |
19:10 - Mitchell Good (Soehner, Dupuis) 17:01 - Dan Buccella (Cooper, Knowlton) |
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2 min | Penalties | 2 min | ||
44 | Shots | 72 |
April 12, 2013 7:30pm |
Pensacola | 1 – 2 (0–0, 1–0, 0–2) |
Huntsville | Von Braun Center Huntsville, Alabama Attendance: 4,856 |
Game reference | ||||
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Ross MacKinnon | Goalies | Jesse Kallechy | Referees: Peter MacDougall Curtis Marouelli |
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Patrick Knowlton (Dunbar) - pp - 16:10 |
Second Period 1–0 Third Period 1–1 1–2 |
10:30 - Aaron McGill (Fidler, DeBruyn) 19:51 - Justin Fox (Stefan, McGill) |
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43 min | Penalties | 39 min | ||
37 | Shots | 25 |
April 14, 2013 6:05pm |
Huntsville | 0 – 2 (0–1, 0–1, 0–0) |
Pensacola | Pensacola Civic Center Pensacola, Florida Attendance: 4,693 |
Game reference | ||||
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Jesse Kallechy | Goalies | Ross MacKinnon | Referees: Tyler Puddifant Curtis Marouelli |
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First Period 0–1 Second Period 0–2 |
2:07 - Patrick Knowlton (Dunbar, Vossberg) 12:32 - Brad Cooper (Dunbar, Chong) |
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2 min | Penalties | 4 min | ||
28 | Shots | 46 |
Awards
The SPHL All-Rookie team was announced on March 27, 2013, the All-SPHL teams on March 28, Defenseman of the Year on March 29, Rookie of the Year on April 1, Goaltender of the Year on April 2, Coach of the Year on April 3, and Most Valuable Player on April 4.[4]
Award | Recipient(s) | Finalists |
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President's Cup | Pensacola Ice Flyers | Huntsville Havoc |
William B. Coffey Trophy (Best regular-season record) |
Fayetteville FireAntz | |
Easton Defenseman of the Year | Andrew Smale (Fayetteville) | Kirk Byczynski (Louisiana) |
Easton Rookie of the Year | Matt Gingera (Columbus) | Kirk Byczynski (Louisiana) Ross MacKinnon (Pensacola) |
Sher-Wood Goaltender of the Year | Riley Gill (Louisiana) | Andrew Loewen (Columbus) |
Easton Coach of the Year | Mark DeSantis (Fayetteville) | Kevin Kaminski (Louisiana) |
Easton Most Valuable Player | Josh McQuade (Fayetteville) | Riley Gill (Louisiana) |
All-SPHL selections
Position | First Team[5] | Second Team[6] | All-Rookie[7] |
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G | Riley Gill (Louisiana) | Andrew Loewen (Columbus) | Ross MacKinnon (Pensacola) |
D | Andrew Smale (Fayetteville) | Kirk Byczynski (Louisiana) | Kirk Byczynski (Louisiana) |
D | Mark Van Vliet (Knoxville) | Bret Tyler (Columbus) | Mike Kavanagh (Fayetteville) |
F | Josh McQuade (Fayetteville) | Matt Gingera (Columbus) | Derek Elliott (Fayetteville) |
F | Matt Robertson (Louisiana) | Eric Satim (Knoxville) | Matt Gingera (Columbus) |
F | Ryan Salvis (Pensacola) | Matt Whitehead (Mississippi RiverKings) | Todd Hosmer (Mississippi RiverKings)) |
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