The 2018–19 Slovak Extraliga season was the 26th season of the Slovak Extraliga, the highest level of ice hockey in Slovakia. During the season, HK Orange 20 was created as a project to prepare the Slovakia junior ice hockey team for the IIHF World U20 Championship. The team does not play a complete regular season and cannot advance to the playoffs or get relegated. Since the 2018–19 season, the league also includes two teams from Hungary.
Regular season Standings Each team played 55 games, playing each of the other eleven teams five times. 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 finishes with the most points was crowned the league champion.
Statistics
Scoring leaders
The following players led the league in points, at the conclusion of the regular season. Player Team HC '05 Banská Bystrica 52 24 48 72 +7 36 HKm Zvolen 56 20 48 68 +16 34 HC Košice 48 34 27 61 +25 28 HC '05 Banská Bystrica 42 24 35 59 +19 28 HK Nitra 56 20 38 58 +17 12 HC '05 Banská Bystrica 55 29 26 55 +4 68 HK Poprad 56 19 33 52 +18 16 HK Nitra 53 30 21 51 +26 20 DVTK Jegesmedvék 57 27 22 49 +16 48 HKm Zvolen 48 18 31 49 +15 8
Leading goaltenders The following goaltenders 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.
Player Team DVTK Jegesmedvék 31 1886:22 15 8 8 58 7 94.85 1.84 HK Dukla Trenčín 49 2887:33 22 10 17 97 2 92.58 2.02 HKm Zvolen 33 1916:31 15 10 8 68 4 92.80 2.13 HKm Zvolen 26 1529:42 15 5 6 55 5 92.48 2.16 43 2493:23 24 10 9 91 2 91.85 2.19 HC Košice 44 2590:36 25 7 12 96 5 93.22 2.22 HC Nové Zámky 47 2790:01 19 9 19 105 6 93.30 2.26 HK Nitra 39 2208:20 22 7 10 85 2 92.09 2.31 HK Poprad 38 2225:10 18 9 11 90 5 93.11 2.43 MAC Budapest 32 1825:19 10 7 16 86 3 91.63 2.83
Relegation series Relegation series played between MsHK Žilina, the 12th team in regular season, and HK Dukla Michalovce, the winner of 1.liga. The winner of best-of-seven series played in Extraliga in 2019–20 season.
PlayOut
Michalovce wins the series 4-3 and will play in 2019–20 Slovak Extraliga season
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.
Bracket
Wild card round
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Finals
Final rankings Banská Bystrica Nitra Zvolen4 Poprad5 Košice6 Trenčín7 Budapest8 Detva9 Nové Zámky10 Miskolc11 Liptovský Mikuláš12 Žilina
References
External links Official website