2012–13 SM-liiga season

• Head coaches marked with ‡ took their jobs mid-season. ==Regular season==

Each team played four times against every other team (twice home and twice away), getting to 52 games. Additionally, the teams were divided to two groups, where teams would play one extra game. One group included Ässät, Blues, HIFK, Jokerit, Kärpät, Lukko and TPS, while other had HPK, Ilves, JYP, KalPa, Pelicans, SaiPa and Tappara. Additionally, there were two games where teams could choose the opponents. These were played back-to-back in January and the choices were made in December, with team with lowest point total to that date was able to choose first. These pairs were: Pelicans-Ilves, TPS-Lukko, Ässät-Blues, HIFK-HPK, Tappara-Jokerit, Kärpät-KalPa and SaiPa-JYP. The Top 10 made the playoffs, with the top six advancing straight to the quarter-finals, and teams between 7th and 10th positions playing wild card round for the final two spots. The last-placed team Ilves had to play best-of-seven series against Mestis winner Jukurit. == Playoffs ==

Wild card round (best-of-three) Kärpät-Lukko 1-2 :Kärpät-Lukko 4-5 :Lukko-Kärpät 2-4 :Kärpät-Lukko 2-3 (OT) HIFK-SaiPa 2-1 :HIFK-SaiPa 2-3 (OT) :SaiPa-HIFK 2-3 (OT) :HIFK-SaiPa 5-2 Quarterfinals (best-of-seven) Jokerit-Lukko 2-4 :Jokerit-Lukko 3-0 :Lukko-Jokerit 5-2 :Jokerit-Lukko 3-4 (OT) :Lukko-Jokerit 2-1 :Jokerit-Lukko 5-2 :Lukko-Jokerit 3-1 Tappara-HIFK 4-1 :Tappara-HIFK 3-1 :HIFK-Tappara 1-4 :Tappara-HIFK 3-2 :HIFK-Tappara 3-2 :Tappara-HIFK 3-1 JYP-HPK 4-1 :JYP-HPK 3-1 :HPK-JYP 3-2 :JYP-HPK 4-2 :HPK-JYP 2-3 (OT) :JYP-HPK 5-1 Ässät-KalPa 4-1 :Ässät-KalPa 2-1 :KalPa-Ässät 0-2 :Ässät-KalPa 5-2 :KalPa-Ässät 5-0 :Ässät-KalPa 3-0 Semifinals (best-of-seven) Tappara-Lukko 4-0 :Tappara-Lukko 3-2 (OT) :Lukko-Tappara 3-4 (OT) :Tappara-Lukko 3-0 :Lukko-Tappara 0-5 JYP-Ässät 1-4 :JYP-Ässät 3-4 (OT) :Ässät-JYP 2-0 :JYP-Ässät 1-4 :Ässät-JYP 1-2 :JYP-Ässät 0-1 Bronze-medal game :JYP-Lukko 2-0 Finals (best-of-seven) Tappara-Ässät 2-4 :Tappara-Ässät 2-1 :Ässät-Tappara 5-1 :Tappara-Ässät 3-2 :Ässät-Tappara 4-0 :Tappara-Ässät 1-2 (OT) :Ässät-Tappara 3-2 ==Relegation (best-of-seven)==

Ilves-Jukurit 4-1 :Ilves-Jukurit 2-0 :Jukurit-Ilves 1-3 :Ilves-Jukurit 2-1 (OT) :Jukurit-Ilves 7-4 :Ilves-Jukurit 4-2 ==External links==