The 2017–18 Czech Extraliga season was the 25th season of the Czech Extraliga since its creation after the breakup of Czechoslovakia and the Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League in 1993. Defending champions HC Kometa Brno won their second consecutive title and 13th national title in all, after beating HC Oceláři Třinec by 4 games to 1.

Regular season Pl. Team GP W OTW OTL L Goals Pts 1. HC PlzeňCHL 52 28 7 9 8 172:123 107 2. Mountfield HKCHL 52 26 7 7 12 146:101 99 3. HC Oceláři Třinec 52 24 6 8 14 143:122 92 4. HC Vítkovice Ridera 52 26 4 6 16 157:119 92 5. HC Kometa Brno 52 23 6 9 14 148:121 90 6. HC Dynamo Pardubice 52 20 5 6 21 148:121 76 7. HC Bílí Tygři Liberec 52 18 9 4 21 132:138 76 8. HC Olomouc 52 16 10 7 19 129:136 75 9. PSG Berani Zlín 52 18 8 4 22 121:140 74 10. HC Sparta Praha 52 18 5 7 22 140:150 71 11. Piráti Chomutov 52 13 10 9 20 132:155 68 12. BK Mladá Boleslav 52 15 6 8 23 118:139 65 13. HC Dukla Jihlava 52 12 7 7 26 106:139 57 14. HC Litvínov 52 10 7 6 29 118:168 50

CHL Qualification to Champions Hockey League

Scoring leaders

List shows the ten best skaters based on the number of points during the regular season. If two or more skaters are tied (i.e. same number of points, goals and played games), all of the tied skaters are shown.

GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/– = Plus/minus; PIM = Penalty minutes Player Team HC Škoda Plzeň 48 23 38 61 +20 50 HC Škoda Plzeň 50 30 27 57 +18 59 HC Oceláři Třinec 49 29 25 54 +4 42 PSG Berani Zlín 50 21 28 49 +15 56 HC Kometa Brno 49 12 34 46 0 20 Piráti Chomutov 52 18 25 43 -6 20 Mountfield HK 46 15 27 42 +12 20 Bílí Tygři Liberec 52 14 26 40 0 34 HC Litvínov 45 15 24 39 +6 34 Mountfield HK 48 21 17 38 +19 54

Leading goaltenders These were the leaders in GAA among goaltenders who played at least 40% of the team's minutes. The table is sorted by GAA, and the criteria for inclusion are bolded.

GP = Games played; TOI = Time on ice (minutes); GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; Sv% = Save percentage; GAA = Goals against average Player Team Mountfield HK 36 2078 60 7 93.19 1.73 HC Oceláři Třinec 44 2546 86 4 92.82 2.03 HC Škoda Plzeň 47 2770 97 5 92.57 2.10 HC Vítkovice Ridera 47 2781 98 5 93.34 2.11 HC Kometa Brno 37 2249 85 6 91.60 2.27 Bílí Tygři Liberec 45 2536 99 6 91.29 2.34 HC Sparta Praha 28 1580 62 1 91.83 2.35 HC Dynamo Pardubice 41 2398 98 3 91.81 2.45 BK Mladá Boleslav 38 2126 87 3 91.71 2.46 HC Olomouc 48 2841 117 7 90.53 2.47

Playoffs Ten teams qualified for the playoffs, with 1–6 walked over to the quarterfinals while teams 7–10 meeting each other in a preliminary playoff round.

Playoff bracket In the first round, the seventh-ranked team met the tenth-ranked team, while eighth-ranked team met the ninth-ranked team for a place in the second round. In the second round, the top-ranked team met the lowest-ranked winner of the first round, the second-ranked team faced the other winner of the first round, the third-ranked team faced the sixth-ranked team, and the fourth-ranked team faced the fifth-ranked team. In the third round, the highest remaining seed faced the lowest remaining seed. In each round, the higher-seeded team is awarded home advantage. The first round meetings were played as best-of-five series and the rest was best-of-seven series that follows an alternating home team format: the higher-seeded team played at home for the first and second matches, whilst lower-seeded one played at home for the third and fourth matches.

Play-off final: HC Oceláři Třinec - HC Kometa Brno 1:4 (5:1, 2:3, 2:3, 2:5, 1:4). HC Kometa Brno won its second Czech league title (and 13th overall title).

Relegation Place Team GP W OTW OTL L GF GA Pts1 HC Litvínov 12 5 2 1 4 27 27202 HC Karlovy Vary 12 4 3 2 3 30 24 20 3 HC Dukla Jihlava 12 5 1 2 4 29 25 194 HC Kladno 12 4 0 1 7 17 27 13

References

External links

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