2018–19 Slovak Extraliga season


The 2018–19 Slovak Extraliga season is the 26th season of the Slovak Extraliga, the highest level of ice hockey in Slovakia.
HK Orange 20 is 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 plays 55 games, playing each of the other eleven teams five times. 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 is crowned the league champion.

Statistics

Scoring leaders

The following players led the league in points, at the conclusion of the regular season.
PlayerTeam
HC '05 Banská Bystrica52244872+736
HKm Zvolen56204868+1634
HC Košice48342761+2528
HC '05 Banská Bystrica42243559+1928
HK Nitra56203858+1712
HC '05 Banská Bystrica55292655+468
HK Poprad56193352+1816
HK Nitra53302151+2620
DVTK Jegesmedvék57272249+1648
HKm Zvolen48183149+158

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.
PlayerTeam
DVTK Jegesmedvék311886:22158858794.851.84
HK Dukla Trenčín492887:3322101797292.582.02
HKm Zvolen331916:311510868492.802.13
HKm Zvolen261529:42155655592.482.16
432493:232410991291.852.19
HC Košice442590:362571296593.222.22
HC Nové Zámky472790:0119919105693.302.26
HK Nitra392208:202271085292.092.31
HK Poprad382225:101891190593.112.43
MAC Budapest321825:191071686391.632.83

Relegation series

Relegation series will be 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 will play 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 in a preliminary playoff round.

Bracket

Wild card round

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Finals

Final rankings