2020–21 Mestis season

The 2020–21 Mestis season was the 21st season of Mestis, the second highest level of ice hockey in Finland after Liiga. Due to promotion/relegation games being cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in the last season both semi-finalists from last seasons Suomi-sarja (K-Espoo and FPS) were promoted to Mestis. Therefore this seasons consisted of 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 	Niko Eronen
IPK 	Iisalmi 	Kankaan jäähalli, 1,358 	1966 	Niko Härkönen
JoKP 	Joensuu 	PKS Areena, 4,800 	1953 	Joni Petrell 19.1.2021 Benjamin Laurinkari
Ketterä 	Imatra 	Imatra Spa Areena, 1,200 	1957 	Maso Lehtonen
KeuPa HT 	Keuruu 	Keuruun Jäähalli, 1,100 	1995 	Tomas Westerlund
K-Espoo 	Espoo 	Espoo Metro Areena, 6,982 	2018 	Janne Tuunanen
K-Vantaa 	Vantaa 	Trio Areena, 2,004 	1994 	Mika Niskanen
KOOVEE 	Tampere 	Tampere Ice Stadium, 7,300	1929 	Juuso Hahl
Peliitat 	Heinola 	Versowood Areena, 2,686 	1984 	Vesa Petäjä
RoKi 	Rovaniemi 	Lappi Areena, 3,500 	1979 	Santeri Immonen
SaPKo 	Savonlinna	Talvisalo ice rink, 2,833 	1929 	Pasi Räsänen
TUTO Hockey	Turku 	Kupittaan jäähalli, 3,000 	1929 	Antti Virtanen
==Regular season==
Initially the plan was to have each team play 50 games in total but due to the season being on hold from 2nd December 2020 to 10th February 2021 the teams were unable to play the full season. Due to this points-per-game determines the order of the teams. SaPKo and RoKi decided not to continue the season when it resumed in February 2021.
Top six advanced straight to the quarter-finals, while teams between 7th and 10th positions played a wild card round for the final two spots. Since the highest series of Finnish hockey is a closed series no team will be promoted to Liiga.
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. Each stage before the final is a best-of-3 series, with the final being a best-of-5 series. The teams are reseeded after the quarterfinals, so that the best team by regular season performance to make the semifinals faces the worst team in the semifinals.
===Bracket===
===Wild-card round===
===Quarter-finals===
===Semi-finals===
===Bronze medal game===
===Finals===
Ketterä wins the finals 3-2.
==See also==
* 2020–21 Liiga season
==References==
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