Icebergs Bat Yam

Bat Yam win Israeli League

An hattrick of former Neusser forward Evgeny Kozhevnikov gives HC Bat Yam the title of Israeli League, the third in the history of club, by beating 5-2 Canada Israel Hockey School Metula, at the first final after beating 6-5 SO reigning champion and regular season winner Rishon Le-Zion Ice Devils in the semifinals. Bat Yam won 9-4 the other semifinal against HC Kfar Saba that later forfeited the bronze game. Bat Yam Russian forward Artyom Verny finished as top scorer

Zeytinburnu Istanbul won Continental Cup first round

For the first time a Turkish team advances to second round of Continental Cup: national champion Zeytinburnu Istanbul dominated First Round, played at Winter Palace in Sofia, Bulgaria. With a perfect record and an impressive 32-6 goals record, Turkish demolished 5-1 home side Irbis-Skate Sofia, 8-3 Serbian champion Partizan Beograd and 19-2 in the last game the Israelian HC Bat-Yam. Partizan finished 2nd, ahead of Irbis Skate and Bat-Yam. Zeytinburnu dominates also the individual statistics, with 5 players finished as scoring leaders, with Ukranian forward Aleksei Voytsekhovsky as top scorer with 15 points (5+10).
Zeytinburnu advances to Second Round, scheduled for 21-23 October in Jaca, Spain against CH Jaca (SPA), Nottingham Panthers (GBR) and HK Liepaja (LAT)

HC Bat Yam wins title in Israel

HC Bat Yam wins Israel championship by beating 6-3 Monfort Maalot in the grand final. It's the second title in the history of the club since the first, won in 1995. In the semifinal Bat Yam, finished fourth in the regular season, surprisingly won 7-2 against season dominator Horses Kfar Saba, while Maalot caused another surprise by beating last-three-seasons champion Rishon Devils.
Rishon wins bronze winning 8-5 against Kfar Saba

Kfar Saba Russian forward Viktor Vorobiev was the top scorer with 24 points (19+5)

Maccabi Metulla wins Israeli League

By beating Icebergs Bat Yam 2-1 at shoot-outs Maccabi Metulla, coached by Semion Yakubovich, wins its first ever Israeli League title. Game final flows very dramatic. In the second period, Iceberg opened the score after the team's defender Nisan Butbol going out by one on one with the Maccabi goalie Alex Aronov. With 12 seconds before the end of the game Artem Korotin (Maccabi) equalized the score. Score did not change in over time, and in the series of penalty shoot Korotin again was accurate and realized his try