2023–24 Slovak Extraliga season
LeagueSlovak Extraliga
SportIce hockey
Duration
  • 15 September 2023 – 8 March 2024 (regular season)
  • 11 March – 30 April 2024 (playoffs)
Number of games50
Number of teams12
Regular season
Playoffs
Finals

The 2023–24 Slovak Extraliga season will be 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.

Pos Team Pld W OTW OTL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Spišská Nová Ves 36 21 4 1 10 124 96 +28 72 Qualification to Quarter-finals
2 Poprad 36 19 2 2 13 115 90 +25 63
3 Košice 35 19 0 4 12 111 86 +25 61
4 Michalovce 35 17 3 1 14 119 91 +28 58
5 Nitra 36 16 3 3 14 123 113 +10 57
6 Banská Bystrica 36 15 5 0 16 108 122 −14 55
7 Zvolen 36 14 1 8 13 116 118 −2 52 Qualification to
Wild card round
8 Liptovský Mikuláš 36 14 3 2 17 103 110 −7 50
9 Slovan Bratislava 36 13 4 3 16 107 122 −15 50
10 Trenčín 36 13 4 2 17 99 117 −18 49
11 Nové Zámky 36 11 3 3 19 100 113 −13 42
12 Humenné 36 10 1 4 21 88 135 −47 36 Relegated to Slovak 1. Liga
Updated to match(es) played on 14 January 2024. Source: Tipos extraliga
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points.

Statistics

Scoring leaders

The following players led the league in regular season points at the completion of games played on 7 January 2024.[4]

Player Team GP G A Pts +/– PIM
Olivier Archambault HK Spišská Nová Ves 31 12 34 46 +8 24
Samuel Buček HK Nitra 33 20 24 44 +1 10
Sahir Gill HK Nitra 31 10 30 40 +11 10
Ryan Dmowski HK Poprad 28 19 19 38 +13 38
Marcus Vela HC '05 Banská Bystrica 34 15 20 35 −2 34
Igor Merezhko HK Spišská Nová Ves 33 6 29 35 +23 12
Brent Gates HK Nitra 34 10 24 34 −2 8
Hunter Fejes HC Košice 33 16 17 33 +11 39
Carter Turnbull HC '05 Banská Bystrica 25 12 21 33 +5 14
Matt Wilkins HC '05 Banská Bystrica 34 11 22 33 +5 48

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 completion of games played on 22 December 2023[5]

Player Team GP TOI W L GA SO SV% GAA
Gašper Krošelj HC '05 Banská Bystrica 12 684:48 8 4 25 2 93.06 2.19
Ádám Vay HK Poprad 22 1,207:44 14 8 45 1 92.39 2.24
Stanislav Škorvánek HK Dukla Michalovce 24 1,421:43 15 9 55 1 93.23 2.32
Jaroslav Janus HC Košice 18 1,057:17 8 10 41 1 91.70 2.33
Marcel Melicherčík HK Spišská Nová Ves 17 997:56 13 4 39 0 91.01 2.34
Alexei Krasikov HK 32 Liptovský Mikuláš 28 1,589:10 13 15 75 0 90.83 2.83
Pavel Kantor HC Nové Zámky 27 1,605:08 12 15 83 1 90.32 3.10
Connor LaCouvee HK Dukla Trenčín 22 1,280:33 11 11 67 2 90.88 3.14
Jake Kupsky HKM Zvolen 24 1,359:05 10 14 73 2 90.05 3.22
Libor Kašík HK Nitra 21 1,213:03 10 11 68 0 89.59 3.36

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 (best-of-5) Quarter-finals (best-of-7) Semi-finals (best-of-7) Finals (best-of-7)
1  
7    
10    
 
4   (Pairings are re-seeded after the first and second round)
5  
 
 
2  
8    
9    
 
3  
6  

Final rankings

4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

References

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