2021–22 Slovak Extraliga season

The 2021–22 Slovak Extraliga season is the 29th season of the Slovak Extraliga, the highest ice hockey league in Slovakia. [1][2]

2021–22 Slovak Extraliga season
League Slovak Extraliga
SportIce hockey
Duration
  • 24 September 2021 – 6 March 2022
  • (regular season)
  • 11 March – May 2022 (playoffs)
Number of games50
Number of teams12
Regular season
Playoffs
Finals

Team changes

The newly established hockey club HC 21 Prešov replaced HC 07 Detva in Slovak Extraliga from this season. Ernest Bokroš was the head coach and the basic team should be made up of players from Detva. The final point for moving the Detvian club to Prešov gave the Slovak Ice Hockey Federation, but it was only a formality.[3]

In closing, we don't have the loss of one player, we have the loss of a whole club. After MAC Budapest, extraliga also separated from the second Hungarian representative from Miskolc, DVTK Jegesmedvék. There were three season of ice in our competition, but their maximum was to participate in the wild–card round in 2018–19 season. Last year they ended up with a 47–point profit in the penultimate place before the MHK 32 Liptovský Mikuláš. However, during his performance in Slovakia, Miskolc offered several high-quality legionnaires and fans will be happy to remember the excursions made by Hungarian cakes, rusks in a bun or bread with butter and onions.[4]

Regular season

Standings

Each team plays 50 games: playing each of the other eleven teams four times – 2x at home, 2x away (44 games) and during the Christmas holidays (26.12.2021 – 9.1.2022) each team play the inserted matches within the region 1x at home, 1x away = 6 games.

Points are 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 will be crowned the league champion.

Pos Team Pld W OTW OTL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Slovan Bratislava 26 19 1 1 5 98 55 +43 57 Qualification to Quarter-finals
2 Zvolen 26 14 4 0 8 93 75 +18 50
3 Nitra 23 10 4 3 6 81 65 +16 41
4 Michalovce 25 12 2 1 10 65 76 −11 41
5 Košice 23 12 0 2 9 74 59 +15 38
6 Poprad 22 9 2 3 8 86 67 +19 34
7 Spišská Nová Ves 23 9 1 4 9 70 71 −1 33 Qualification to
Wild card round
8 Trenčín 25 10 1 0 14 61 73 −12 32
9 Prešov 23 10 1 0 12 61 81 −20 32
10 Nové Zámky 25 8 0 1 16 63 84 −21 25
11 Banská Bystrica 23 6 2 3 12 56 78 −22 25
12 Liptovský Mikuláš 26 5 3 3 15 64 88 −24 24 Qualification to Play Out
Updated to match(es) played on 15 December 2021. Source: Tipos extraliga
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points.

Scoring leaders

The following shows the top ten players who led the league in points, at the conclusion of matches played on 15 December 2021.[5]

Player Team GP G A Pts +/– PIM
Brant Harris HC Slovan Bratislava 25 13 22 35 +12 10
Patrik Svitana HK Poprad 22 10 25 35 +15 12
William Rapuzzi HC Slovan Bratislava 26 13 21 34 +16 6
Samuel Takáč HC Slovan Bratislava 25 10 22 32 +16 20
Dávid Skokan HK Poprad 19 9 17 26 +16 24
Michal Chovan HC Košice 23 5 21 26 +7 18
Tony Cameranesi HK Dukla Michalovce 25 7 17 24 −5 20
Matthew MacKenzie HC Slovan Bratislava 26 4 20 24 +15 49
Pavel Klhůfek HC Košice 22 14 9 23 +6 10
James Livingston HK Poprad 22 7 16 23 +9 8

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 matches played on 16 November 2021.[6]

Player Team GP TOI W L GA SO Sv% GAA
Dominik Riečický HC Košice 8 397:50 6 2 14 0 93.03 2.11
Marcel Melicherčík HK Spišská Nová Ves 9 513:17 3 6 20 1 93.55 2.34
Kristers Gudļevskis HC Slovan Bratislava 12 660:15 9 3 27 0 91.54 2.45
David Honzík HK Nitra 12 652:38 9 3 27 0 91.64 2.48
Filip Belányi HC '05 Banská Bystrica 10 608:38 5 5 26 0 90.71 2.56
Michal Valent HK Dukla Trenčín 12 666:53 5 7 29 0 90.58 2.61
Andrej Košarišťan HC Košice 9 493:14 3 6 22 1 91.30 2.68
Robin Rahm HKM Zvolen 15 902:21 10 5 44 1 91.41 2.93
Karolus Kaarlehto HK Dukla Michalovce 11 658:32 7 4 33 0 89.52 3.01
Nikita Bespalov HC 21 Prešov 14 778:00 7 7 43 0 91.71 3.32

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  
2  
 
 
(Pairings are re-seeded after the first and second round)
 
3  
6  
8  
9  
 
 
4  
5  

Wild card round

Final rankings
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References
  1. "V prvom kole TIPOS Extraligy privíta majster nováčika zo Spiša, Prešov doma proti Bystrici". hockeyslovakia.sk (in Slovak).
  2. "Nový ročník hokejovej extraligy sa začne v septembri". sport.aktuality.sk (in Slovak).
  3. "Ľupták oživil hokej v Prešove, možno pribudne Tibor Turan". hokejportal.net (in Slovak).
  4. "Desať najväčších strát Tipos extraligy". hockeyslovakia.sk (in Slovak).
  5. "Statistics – Hráči 2021/2022" (in Slovak). hockeyslovakia.sk. Retrieved 24 September 2021.
  6. "Statistics – Brankári 2021/2022" (in Slovak). hockeyslovakia.sk. Retrieved 24 September 2021.
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