2008 Kvalserien

The 2008 Kvalserien was played between 19 March and 10 April 2008. The top two ranked teams, which were Brynäs and Rögle, qualified for the 2008–09 Elitserien season.
This year's qualification was probably the closest one ever, the excitement went on till the end when 4 out of 6 teams all had 16 points before the game round, when the underdog Rögle beat former Elitserien club Mora at home 3-2 and Brynäs beat Västerås away with 7-0, which made Brynäs win the group followed by Rögle. Before the qualification began, no one believed Rögle could qualify, but they shocked everyone and qualified for the 2008–09 Elitserien season, despite finishing only third in HockeyAllsvenskan. Brynäs finished last in Elitserien, but succeeded to win the qualification and therefore stay in the highest division. Leksand was a big disappointment for everyone, they had been the favourites to have a possibility to qualify, but failed. Even Malmö Redhawks was one of the favourites, but the favourites fell and Rögle surprised everyone. Västerås was the by far worst team in the qualification, being the 5th team of HockeyAllsvenskan and qualified for the qualification in a kind of playoff-series between the teams from 4 to 7 in HockeyAllsvenskan to compete for the last spot in the qualification rounds for Elitserien.
== Standings==
#	Teams 	GP	W	L	T	OTW/SOW	OTL/SOL	GF	GA	DIF	PTS
1	Brynäs IF (Q) 	10	6	3	1	0 	0 	40	23	+17	19
2	Rögle BK (Q) 	10	6	3	1	0 	0 	39	35	+5 	19
3	Malmö Redhawks	10	5	3	1	0 	1 	35	30	+5 	17
4	Mora IK 	10	5	4	1	0 	0 	26	26	0 	16
5	Leksands IF 	10	4	5	0	1 	0 	34	30	+4 	14
6	Västerås HK 	10	1	9	0	0 	0 	15	46	−31	3
Q = Qualified for the 2008–09 Elitserien season
== Game log==
2008–09 Elitserien qualification Game Log 	2008–09 Elitserien qualification Game Log	 	 	 	 	 	
border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="wikitable" width="100%"	Round 	Date 	Home 	Visitor	Result 	Venue	Attendance
1 	Wednesday, March 19 	Brynäs IF 	VIK Västerås HK 	4–2 	Läkerol Arena 	5,360	
1 	Wednesday, March 19 	Malmö Redhawks 	Leksands IF 	3–0 	Malmö Isstadion 	5,388	
1 	Wednesday, March 19 	Mora IK 	Rögle BK 	2–1 	FM Mattsson Arena	3,871	
2 	Friday, March 21 	Rögle BK 	Malmö Redhawks 	5–3 	Ängelholms Ishall	4,185	
2 	Friday, March 21 	Leksands IF 	Brynäs IF 	2–3 	Ejendals Arena 	7,650	
2 	Friday, March 21 	VIK Västerås HK 	Mora IK 	1–3 	ABB Arena 	5,035	
3 	Sunday, March 23 	Brynäs IF 	Rögle BK 	6–1 	Läkerol Arena 	6,116	
3 	Sunday, March 23 	IF Malmö Redhawks	Mora IK 	4–1 	Malmö Isstadion 	3,924	
3 	Monday, March 24 	Leksands IF 	Västerås IK 	9–1 	Ejendals Arena 	7,427	
4 	Thursday, March 27 	Mora IK 	Brynäs IF 	2–2 	FM Mattsson Arena	4,112	
4 	Thursday, March 27 	Rögle BK 	Leksands IF 	2–5 	Ängelholms Ishall	4,184	
4 	Thursday, March 27 	VIK Västerås HK 	IF Malmö Redhawks	1–2 	ABB Arena 	2,791	
5 	Saturday, March 29 	Brynäs IF 	IF Malmö Redhawks	2–3 	Läkerol Arena 	6,293	
5 	Saturday, March 29 	Rögle BK 	VIK Västerås HK 	7–4 	Ängelholms Ishall	2,258	
5 	Saturday, March 29 	Leksands IF 	Mora IK 	2–0 	Ejendals Arena 	7,650	
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|April
Round	Date 	Home 	Visitor 	Result 	Venue 	Attendance
6 	Tuesday, April 1 	IF Malmö Redhawks	Brynäs IF 	7–5 	Malmö Isstadion 	5,673
6 	Tuesday, April 1 	Mora IK 	Leksands IF 	4–3 	FM Mattsson Arena	4,500
6 	Tuesday, April 1 	VIK Västerås HK 	Rögle BK 	2–4 	ABB Arena 	1,532
7 	Friday, April 4 	Brynäs IF 	Mora IK 	6–2 	Läkerol Arena 	6,704
7 	Friday, April 4 	IF Malmö Redhawks	VIK Västerås HK 	1–2 	Malmö Isstadion 	4,837
7 	Friday, April 4 	Leksands IF 	Rögle BK 	4–8 	Ejendals Arena 	7,650
8 	Sunday, April 6 	Mora IK 	IF Malmö Redhawks	5–4 	FM Mattsson Arena	3,478
8 	Sunday, April 6 	Rögle BK 	Brynäs IF 	4–2 	Ängelholms Ishall	4,600
8 	Sunday, April 6 	VIK Västerås HK 	Leksands IF 	2–4 	ABB Arena 	4,918
9 	Tuesday, April 8 	Brynäs IF 	Leksands IF 	3–0 	Läkerol Arena 	8,214
9 	Tuesday, April 8 	IF Malmö Redhawks	Rögle BK 	4–4 	Malmö Isstadion 	5,800
9 	Tuesday, April 8 	Mora IK 	VIK Västerås HK 	5–0 	FM Mattsson Arena	4,111
10 	Thursday, April 10	Rögle BK 	Mora IK 	3–2 	Ängelholms Ishall	4,600
10 	Thursday, April 10	Leksands IF 	IF Malmö Redhawks	5–4 (OT)	Ejendals Arena 	6,198
10 	Thursday, April 10	VIK Västerås HK 	Brynäs IF 	0–7 	ABB Arena 	5,103
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