2021–22 Mestis season

The 2021–22 Mestis season was the 22nd season of Mestis, the second highest level of ice hockey in Finland after Liiga. Therefore, this season there would be 14 teams.
==Clubs==
Team 	City 	Home arena, capacity 	Founded	Head coach
FPS 	Forssa 	Forssa Ice Hall, 3,000 	1931 	Asko Rantanen
Hermes 	Kokkola 	Kokkolan jäähalli, 4,200 	1953 	Jere Härkälä
Hokki 	Kajaani 	Kajaanin jäähalli, 2,372 	1968 	Pasi Räsänen
IPK 	Iisalmi 	Kankaan jäähalli, 1,358 	1966 	Niko Härkönen
JoKP 	Joensuu 	PKS Areena, 4,800 	1953 	Kari Martikainen
Ketterä 	Imatra 	Imatra Spa Areena, 1,200 	1957 	Tuomo Ropo
KeuPa HT 	Keuruu 	Keuruun Jäähalli, 1,100 	1995 	Tomas Westerlund
K-Espoo 	Espoo 	Espoo Metro Areena, 6,982 	2018 	Kim Hirschovits
K-Vantaa 	Vantaa 	Trio Areena, 2,004 	1994 	Mika Niskanen
KOOVEE 	Tampere 	Tampere Ice Stadium, 7,300	1929 	Vesa Viitakoski
Peliitat 	Heinola 	Versowood Areena, 2,686 	1984 	Hannes Hyvönen
RoKi 	Rovaniemi 	Lappi Areena, 3,500 	1979 	Maso Lehtonen
SaPKo 	Savonlinna	Talvisalo ice rink, 2,833 	1929 	Niko Eronen 7.10.2021 Juho Nykänen
TUTO Hockey	Turku 	Kupittaan jäähalli, 3,000 	1929 	Antti Virtanen
==Regular season==
Rules for classification: 1) Points-per-game; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Penalty minutes.
==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.
===Bracket===
===Wild-card round===
===Quarter-finals===
===Semi-finals===
===Bronze medal game===
===Finals===
==Relegation==
The bottom four teams will face the top two teams from Suomi-sarja in a double round-robin format. The four best placed get a place in Mestis for the next season.
==Final rankings==
align=center	Ketterä
align=center	K-Espoo
align=center	RoKi
4 	FPS
5 	JoKP
6 	KeuPa HT
7 	Hokki
8 	IPK
9 	Hermes
10 	K-Vantaa
11 	TUTO Hockey
12 	SaPKo
13 	Peliitat
14 	KOOVEE
==References==
==External links==
*Mestis
*Mestis on eurohockey.com
*Mestis on eliteprospects.com
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