2023–24 Slovak Extraliga season explained

2023–24 Slovak Extraliga season
League:Slovak Extraliga
Sport:Ice hockey
No Of Games:50
No Of Teams:12
Season:Regular season
Season Champ Name:League Champion
Season Champs:HK Poprad
Playoffs:Playoffs
Playoffs Link:
  1. Playoffs
Finals:Finals
Finals Champ:HK Nitra
Finals Runner-Up:HK Spišská Nová Ves
Playoffs Mvp:Samuel Buček (Nitra)
Playoffs Mvp Link:Golden Skate
Nextseason Year:2024–25
Prevseason Year:2022–23
Seasonslistnames:Slovak Extraliga

The 2023–24 Slovak Extraliga season was the 31st season of the Slovak Extraliga, the highest ice hockey league in Slovakia.[1]

Team changes

HC 19 Humenné are playing in the league for the first time after winning Slovak 1. Liga in the season 2022–23 in a best-of-seven playoff against Vlci Žilina.[2]

HC MV Transport Prešov finished in the 2022–23 Slovak Extraliga season on the last 12th place and was relegated to a second highest ice hockey league in Slovakia.[3]

Regular season

Standings

Each team played 50 games: playing each of the other eleven teams four times – 2x at home, 2x away (44 games) and during the Christmas holidays (22.12.2023 – 5.1.2024) each team played the inserted matches within the region 1x at home, 1x away = 6 games.

Points were awarded for each game, where three points are awarded for winning in regulation time, two points for winning in overtime or shootout, one point for losing in overtime or shootout, and zero points for losing in regulation time. At the end of the regular season, the team that finished with the most points was crowned the league champion.

Statistics

Scoring leaders

The following shows the top ten players who led the league in points, at the conclusion of the regular season.[4]

PlayerTeamdata-sort-type="number" style="width: 4em;"
HK Spišská Nová Ves45144559+1138
HK Poprad44302757+2944
HK Nitra44263157−216
HC '05 Banská Bystrica41253156+222
HK Dukla Michalovce48114354+1420
HC '05 Banská Bystrica49193352+487
HK Nitra48143852+312
HC Slovan Bratislava46173148+1630
HK Spišská Nová Ves49103848+2714
HK Nitra44262046+1210

Leading goaltenders

The following shows the top ten goaltenders who led the league in goals against average, provided that they have played at least 40% of their team's minutes, at the conclusion of the regular season.[5]

PlayerTeam
HC Košice241,287:06131141393.641.91
HK Poprad442,501:15301489192.882.13
HC Košice301,711:23151563292.352.21
HK Dukla Michalovce392,322:38251490493.082.32
HK Spišská Nová Ves301,721:17191171090.652.47
HC Slovan Bratislava301,744:44191179291.512.72
HC '05 Banská Bystrica271,491:51161171391.942.86
492,756:142128132190.692.87
HK Dukla Trenčín402,282:282020110391.522.89
HC Nové Zámky482,867:451929139191.182.91

Playoffs

Ten teams qualify for the playoffs: the top six teams in the regular season have a bye to the quarterfinals, while teams ranked seventh to tenth meet each other (7 versus 10, 8 versus 9) in a preliminary playoff round.

Finals

Final rankings

align=center style="width:20px;Nitra
Spišská Nová Ves
Michalovce
4Košice
5Poprad
6Slovan Bratislava
7Banská Bystrica
8Zvolen
9Trenčín
10Liptovský Mikuláš
11Nové Zámky
12

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Extraligová sezóna odštartuje 15. septembra, v prvom kole súboj majstra s nováčikom. Slovak. hockeyslovakia.sk.
  2. Web site: Humenné si vybojovalo historický postup do extraligy. Slovak. teraz.sk.
  3. Web site: Prešov prehral vo Zvolene 0:7 a vypadol z extraligy. Slovak. hokejportal.net.
  4. Web site: Statistics – Hráči 2023/2024. hockeyslovakia.sk. 27 August 2023. Slovak.
  5. Web site: Statistics – Brankári 2023/2024. hockeyslovakia.sk. 27 August 2023. Slovak.