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{{Short description|Swedish ice hockey league season}}
The '''2008 [[Kvalserien]]''' was played between 19 March and 10 April 2008. The top two ranked teams, which were [[Brynäs IF|Brynäs]] and [[Rögle BK|Rögle]], qualified for the [[2008–09 Elitserien season]].

This year's Kvalserien maybe was one of the closest ones ever; the excitement went on until the end, when 4 out of 6 teams all had 16 points before the final round and had the chance to qualify for the 2008–09 Elitserien season. In the final round, [[Rögle BK|Rögle]] beat former [[Swedish Hockey League|Elitserien]] club [[Mora IK|Mora]] at home 3–2 and [[Brynäs IF|Brynäs]] beat [[VIK Västerås HK|Västerås]] away 7–0, which made Brynäs win the group, followed by Rögle. Before the qualification began, no one believed Rögle could qualify, but they surprised everyone and qualified for the [[2008–09 Elitserien season]], despite finishing only third in [[HockeyAllsvenskan]]. Brynäs finished last in the [[2007–08 Elitserien season]], but succeeded to win the qualification and thus managed to stay in the highest division. Rögle's game-winning goal against Mora in the final round was scored with 26 seconds left of regulation time.

[[Leksands IF|Leksand]] were a big disappointment for everyone; they were one of the favourites to have a possibility to qualify, but failed. Even [[Malmö Redhawks|Malmö]] were one of the favourites, having 15 points after the first six rounds and topping the Kvalserien at that time, but the team only managed two more points in the last four games.

Västerås was by far the worst team in the qualification. They were the 5th team in 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. Västerås' only win in the 2008 Kvalserien came against Malmö.

== Standings ==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! #
! Teams
! {{Tooltip|GP|Games played}}
! {{Tooltip|W|Wins (3p)}}
! {{Tooltip|L|Losses (0p)}}
! {{Tooltip|T|Ties (1p)}}
! {{Tooltip|OTW|Overtime wins (1p)}}
! {{Tooltip|OTL|Overtime losses (0p)}}
! {{Tooltip|GF|Goals forward}}
! {{Tooltip|GA|Goals against}}
! {{Tooltip|DIF|Goal difference}}
! {{Tooltip|PTS|Points}}
|- bgcolor=#ccffcc
! 1
|align=left| '''[[Brynäs IF]] (Q)''' || 10 || 6 || 3 || 1 || 0 || 0 || 40 || 23 || +17 || '''19'''
|- bgcolor=#ccffcc
! 2
|align=left| '''[[Rögle BK]] (Q)'''   || 10 || 6 || 3 || 1 || 0 || 0 || 39 || 35 ||  +5 || '''19'''
|- 
! 3
|align=left| [[Malmö Redhawks]] || 10 || 5 || 3 || 1 || 0 || 1 || 35 || 30 ||  +5 || '''17'''
|- 
! 4
|align=left| [[Mora IK]] || 10 || 5 || 4 || 1 || 0 || 0 || 26 || 26 ||   0 || '''16''' 
|- 
! 5
|align=left| [[Leksands IF]] || 10 || 4 || 5 || 0 || 1 || 0 || 34 || 30 ||  +4 || '''14'''
|- 
! 6
|align=left| [[VIK Västerås HK|Västerås HK]]   || 10 || 1 || 9 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 15 || 46 || −31 || '''3'''
|}

'''Q''' = Qualified for the [[2008–09 Elitserien season]]

== Game log ==
{{Game log start|style=|title= 2008 Kvalserien game log}}
{{Game log section start|hide=y|style=|title=March| Round| Date| Home| Visitor| Result| Venue| Attendance}}
|-
|rowspan="3"|1||rowspan="3"|Wednesday, March 19||Brynäs IF||VIK Västerås HK||4–2||Läkerol Arena||5,360
|-
|Malmö Redhawks||Leksands IF||3–0||Malmö Isstadion||5,388
|-
|Mora IK||Rögle BK||2–1||FM Mattsson Arena||3,871
|-
|rowspan="3"|2||rowspan="3"|Friday, March 21||Rögle BK||Malmö Redhawks||5–3||Ängelholms Ishall||4,185
|-
|Leksands IF||Brynäs IF||2–3||Ejendals Arena||7,650
|-
|VIK Västerås HK||Mora IK||1–3||ABB Arena||5,035
|-
|rowspan="3"|3||rowspan="2"|Sunday, March 23||Brynäs IF||Rögle BK||6–1||Läkerol Arena||6,116
|-
|IF Malmö Redhawks||Mora IK ||4–1||Malmö Isstadion||3,924
|-
|Monday, March 24||Leksands IF||Västerås IK||9–1||Ejendals Arena||7,427
|-
|rowspan="3"|4||rowspan="3"|Thursday, March 27||Mora IK||Brynäs IF||2–2||FM Mattsson Arena||4,112
|-
|Rögle BK||Leksands IF||2–5||Ängelholms Ishall||4,184
|-
|VIK Västerås HK||IF Malmö Redhawks||1–2||ABB Arena||2,791
|-
|rowspan="3"|5||rowspan="3"|Saturday, March 29||Brynäs IF||IF Malmö Redhawks||2–3||Läkerol Arena||6,293
|-
|Rögle BK||VIK Västerås HK||7–4||Ängelholms Ishall||2,258
|-
|Leksands IF||Mora IK||2–0||Ejendals Arena||7,650
|-
{{Game log section end}}
{{Game log section start|hide=y|style=|title=April| Round| Date| Home| Visitor| Result| Venue| Attendance}}
|-
|rowspan="3"|6||rowspan="3"|Tuesday, April 1||IF Malmö Redhawks||Brynäs IF||7–5||Malmö Isstadion||5,673
|-
|Mora IK||Leksands IF||4–3||FM Mattsson Arena||4,500
|-
|VIK Västerås HK||Rögle BK||2–4||ABB Arena||1,532
|-
|rowspan="3"|7||rowspan="3"|Friday, April 4||Brynäs IF||Mora IK||6–2||Läkerol Arena||6,704
|-
|IF Malmö Redhawks||VIK Västerås HK||1–2||Malmö Isstadion||4,837
|-
|Leksands IF||Rögle BK||4–8||Ejendals Arena||7,650
|-
|rowspan="3"|8||rowspan="3"|Sunday, April 6||Mora IK||IF Malmö Redhawks||5–4||FM Mattsson Arena||3,478
|-
|Rögle BK||Brynäs IF||4–2||Ängelholms Ishall||4,600
|-
|VIK Västerås HK||Leksands IF||2–4||ABB Arena||4,918
|-
|rowspan="3"|9||rowspan="3"|Tuesday, April 8||Brynäs IF||Leksands IF||3–0||Läkerol Arena||8,214
|-
|IF Malmö Redhawks||Rögle BK||4–4||Malmö Isstadion||5,800
|-
|Mora IK||VIK Västerås HK||5–0||FM Mattsson Arena||4,111
|-
|rowspan="3"|10||rowspan="3"|Thursday, April 10||Rögle BK||Mora IK||3–2||Ängelholms Ishall||4,600
|-
|Leksands IF||IF Malmö Redhawks||5–4 (OT)||Ejendals Arena||6,198
|-
|VIK Västerås HK||Brynäs IF||0–7||ABB Arena||5,103
|-
{{Game log section end}}
{{Game log end}}

== External links ==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070304144240/http://stats.swehockey.se/default.htm Swehockey.se] — Official statistics

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[[Category:2007–08 in Swedish ice hockey leagues|Kvalserien]]
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