Season review for each team:
Salzburg
Highlights: 1st in the regular season, swept all three playoff series, won their first league championship since 2016. A great season all around.
Lowlights: Losing 1-3 against Rouen and being eliminated by them in the CHL.
Fehervar
Highlights: Just a very good season all around. Beating Villach in the SFs probably takes the cake though.
Lowlights: A rough stretch in December with 5 defeats in 7 games (GD -17). Getting swept in the finals has to hurt.
Villach
Highlights: Finishing 2nd in the regular season.
Lowlights: Three humilliating defeats against the traditional rival Klagenfurt with the scores of 0-4, 1-9 and 0-6.
Vienna
Highlights: Considering the roster? Everything from late October to late March. In particular, the crucial upset win over Klagenfurt in Game 7 of the QFs.
Lowlights: The preseason and the first month of the regular season were a disaster.
Znojmo
Highlights: High-scoring wins like 6-0 vs Klagenfurt, 10-2 vs Bolzano, 8-0 vs Ljubljana. Making the playoffs.
Lowlights: Some bad defeats like 1-6 vs Villach, 1-7 vs Fehervar and 1-6 vs Pustertal.
Pustertal
Highlights: Making the top 6 after a surge from December on.
Lowlights: October to November were weak. Getting swept in the playoff QFs.
Ljubljana
Highlights: Leading the league during the first few months. Late February to late March (playoffs) was also very decent.
Lowlights: Almost everything from December to February.
Klagenfurt
Highlights: Beating Villach three times with humiliating scores. Winning the CHL home game against Leksand 4-0.
Lowlights: A few bad losses in the regular season (0-6 vs Znojmo, 0-7 vs Fehervar). Lots of inconsistency over the season. The first few QFs games weren't good and the loss in Game 7 was disastrous.
Bolzano
Highlights: The stretch from late December to mid-February was good.
Lowlights: A bad start, a bad finish. A 2-10 defeat against Znojmo. Finishing 9th and getting eliminated by Klagenfurt in the preplayoffs.
Graz
Highlights: A great stretch in December with 23 points in 9 games.
Lowlights: Much of the rest of the season.
Innsbruck
Highlights: A great stretch from early October to early November (25 points in 11 games).
Lowlights: The long Covid break (early November to early December) that killed the momentum and chemistry. Ending up outside of the top 10.
Dornbirn
Highlights: A great stretch in October with 11 points in 5 games.
Lowlights: The rest of the season. First they started losing despite playing decent hockey and as the streak went on the wheels fell off.
Linz
Highlights: None.
Lowlights: The entire season was a letdown and a nightmare.