The 2022–23 Mestis season was the 23rd season of Mestis, the second highest level of ice hockey in Finland after Liiga. This season there was 14 teams when the Latvian team HK Zemgale/LLU joined Mestis.
Clubs Team City Home arena, capacity Founded FPS Forssa Forssa Ice Hall, 3,000 1931 Hermes Kokkola Kokkolan jäähalli, 4,200 1953 HK Zemgale/LLU Jelgava, Latvia Jelgava Ice hall, 1,500 2002 Hokki Kajaani Kajaanin jäähalli, 2,372 1968 IPK Iisalmi Kankaan jäähalli, 1,358 1966 JoKP Joensuu PKS Areena, 4,800 1953 Ketterä Imatra Imatra Spa Areena, 1,200 1957 KeuPa HT Keuruu Keuruun Jäähalli, 1,100 1995 K-Espoo Espoo Espoo Metro Areena, 6,982 2018 K-Vantaa Vantaa Trio Areena, 2,004 1994 KOOVEE Tampere Tampere Ice Stadium, 7,300 1929 Peliitat Heinola Versowood Areena, 2,686 1984 RoKi Rovaniemi Lappi Areena, 3,500 1979 TUTO Hockey Turku Kupittaan jäähalli, 3,000 1929
Regular season
Rules for classification: 1) Points-per-game; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Penalty minutes.
*HK Zemgale/LLU would not participate in the relegation playoffs
Playoffs Playoffs are being played in four stages. Wild-card round is a best-of-3 series, with the quarter-finals, the semifinals and the final being best-of-7 series. The teams are reseeded after the first two stages, so that the best team by regular season performance to make the quarter-finals and the semifinals faces the worst team in the corresponding stage.
Promotion None as SM-liiga is currently closed for promotion.
Relegation For the season 2022-2023 the relegation system was changed. The relegation playoffs were done so that the last Finnish team from Mestis faced the winner of Suomi-sarja and the second last team from Mestis faced the runner-up from Suomi-sarja. The series were best-of-7 and winners of the pairs would play in Mestis in season 2023–2024.
Mestis last teamPeliitat4Suomi-sarja winnerPyry0
Mestis 2nd last teamFPS4Suomi-sarja runner-upJHT2
Final rankings K-Espoo Ketterä RoKi4 JoKP5 Hermes6 IPK7 KOOVEE8 TUTO Hockey9 KeuPa HT10 K-Vantaa11 Hokki12 HK Zemgale/LLU13 FPS14 Peliitat
References
External links Mestis Mestis on eurohockey.com Mestis on eliteprospects.com