Mora IK

Mora Ishockeyklubb is a Swedish professional ice hockey club from Mora in northern Dalarna. They are currently playing in the second highest league in Sweden, HockeyAllsvenskan. Mora has previously played 25 seasons in the top tier of the Swedish ice hockey system, including four seasons in Elitserien (which today is called the SHL). The team has reached the finals of the Swedish Championships only once, in 1950, a match which they lost 7–2 to Djurgårdens IF. Mora has been playing in the top two tiers of Swedish hockey since the 1944–45 season.
==History==
ora IK was founded in 1935. In 1945, the club reached the top tier of ice hockey in Sweden for the first time, and participated in their first (and to date only) Swedish Championship final in 1950. Mora yo-yoed in and out of the top league, Division 1, until 1966, when they managed to maintain a spot in Division 1 for nine consecutive seasons, which remains Mora's longest run in Sweden's top hockey league. In 1975, Elitserien (today called the SHL) was created as a new top-tier hockey league, and Mora failed to qualify for this new league. They would continue play in Division 1 in its new function as Sweden's second-tier league, for 29 years, until 2004 when they managed promotion to Elitserien for the first time.
The club took advantage of the 2004–05 NHL lockout to sign several NHL players, including Shawn Horcoff, Daniel Cleary and brothers Marian Hossa and Marcel Hossa. They finished 9th that season, a respectable position for a newly promoted team. Mora finished 8th in both the 2005–06 and 2006–06 seasons, and accordingly participated in the Swedish Championship playoffs for the first time since 1970, but were eliminated in the quarterfinals each time. The 2007–08 Elitserien season resulted with Mora in 11th place, forcing them to play in the 2008 Elitserien qualifier (Kvalserien) to retain their spot in Elitserien. They finished 4th in that tournament, resulting in relegation back to HockeyAllsvenskan.
During the 2012–13 NHL lockout, Bobby Ryan of the Anaheim Ducks and Anze Kopitar of the Stanley Cup-winning Los Angeles Kings joined the team to play with his brother, Gašper, for the duration of the lockout. This period in the second tier came to an end after nine years when Mora defeated local rivals Leksands IF 4–2 in games in the 2017 SHL qualifiers, taking their spot in the top flight.[1] Their rivalries are commonly referred to as Siljansderbyt (English: the Siljan derby). The team would once again face Leksand in the 2019 SHL qualifiers, after finishing 13th in the regular season, where they lost 4–1 in games to Leksand and thus were relegated to HockeyAllsvenskan while Leksand took their SHL spot for the next season. 
===Seasons-by-season===
For the full season-by-season history, see List of Mora IK seasons
Year 	Level 	League 	Record 	Record 	 	Notes 	
Year 	Level 	League 	Position	W–OT–L 	 	Notes 	
2009–10	Tier 2 	HockeyAllsvenskan 	7th 	24–3–6–19	2,367	 	
2009–10	Tier 2 	Playoff to Elitserien qualifier	— 	0–0–1–1 	2,128	Eliminated in 1st round (0–2 in games vs Almtuna IS) 	
2010–11	Tier 2 	HockeyAllsvenskan 	7th 	23–3–9–17	2,259	 	
2010–11	Tier 2 	Playoff to Elitserien qualifier	1st 	6–0–0–0 	3,240	 	
2010–11	2011 Elitserien qualifier	2011 Elitserien qualifier 	6th 	2–0–0–8 	2,412	 	
2011–12	Tier 2 	HockeyAllsvenskan 	8th 	22–5–4–21	2,482	 	
2012–13	Tier 2 	HockeyAllsvenskan 	8th 	20–7–2–23	3,099	 	
2013–14	Tier 2 	HockeyAllsvenskan 	6th 	19–9–5–19	2,658	 	
2013–14	Tier 2 	Playoff to Elitserien qualifier	4th 	1–0–1–4 	1,740	 	
2014–15	Tier 2 	HockeyAllsvenskan 	7th 	22–3–7–20	2,710	 	
2014–15	Tier 2 	HockeyAllsvenskan playoffs 	5th 	1–0–3–1 	2,540	 	
2015–16	Tier 2 	HockeyAllsvenskan 	6th 	20–6–6–20	2,924	 	
2015–16	Tier 2 	HockeyAllsvenskan playoffs 	2nd 	3–1–0–1 	3,018	 	
2016–17	Tier 2 	HockeyAllsvenskan 	1st 	31–4–4–13	3,062	 	
2016–17	Tier 2 	HockeyAllsvenskan finals 	— 	3–0–0–0 	4,050	Won 3–0 in games vs BIK Karlskoga 	
2016–17	SHL qualifiers 	SHL qualifiers 	— 	4–0–0–2 	4,500	Won 4–2 in games vs Leksands IF Promoted to the SHL 	
2017–18	Tier 1 	SHL 	13th 	13–5–2–32	4,118	 	
2017–18	SHL qualifiers 	SHL qualifiers 	— 	4–0–0–1 	4,500	Won 4–1 in games vs Leksands IF 	
2018–19	Tier 1 	SHL 	13th 	13–9–3–27	4,070	 	
2018–19	SHL qualifiers 	SHL qualifiers 	— 	1–0–1–3 	4,500	Lost 1–4 in games vs Leksands IFRelegated to HockeyAllsvenskan	
==References==
==External links==
*Mora IK official website
Category:Ice hockey teams in Sweden