2020–21 Slovak Extraliga season

The 2020–21 Slovak Extraliga season is the 28th season of the Slovak Extraliga, the highest ice hockey league in Slovakia. The league also includes one team from Hungary.[1][2]

2020–21 Slovak Extraliga season
League Slovak Extraliga
SportIce hockey
Duration
  • October 2020 – March 2021
  • (Regular season)
Number of teams12
Regular season
Playoffs

Regular season

Standings

Each team is scheduled to play 50 games: playing each of the other eleven teams four times – 2x at home, 2x away (44 games) and during the Christmas holidays (22.12.2020 – 6.1.2021) each team will play the inserted matches within the region 1x at home, 1x away = 6 games.

Points are awarded for each game, where three points were 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.

Pos Team Pld W OTW OTL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Poprad 37 20 6 3 8 136 95 +41 75 Qualification to Quarter-finals
2 Zvolen 37 19 6 6 6 126 94 +32 75
3 Slovan Bratislava 36 20 5 2 9 115 83 +32 72
4 Michalovce 37 18 5 4 10 116 91 +25 68
5 Detva 37 17 4 5 11 112 104 +8 64
6 Nitra 37 17 3 7 10 123 122 +1 64
7 Trenčín 37 16 4 3 14 132 99 +33 59 Qualification to
Wild card round
8 Košice 37 12 7 3 15 106 97 +9 53
9 Banská Bystrica 37 9 5 3 20 96 131 −35 40
10 Nové Zámky 36 9 4 4 19 91 103 −12 39
11 Miskolc 37 8 1 7 21 86 134 −48 33
12 Liptovský Mikuláš 37 6 0 3 28 86 172 −86 18
Updated to match(es) played on 5 February 2021. Source: Tipos Extraliga
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points

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  

Statistics

Scoring leaders

The following shows the top ten players who led the league in points, at the conclusion of games played on 29 January 2021.[3]

Player Team GP G A Pts +/– PIM
Marcel Haščák HK Poprad 33 29 19 48 +22 14
Marek Tvrdoň HK Nitra 34 18 22 40 −3 28
Patrik Svitana HK Poprad 34 15 23 38 +23 18
Oliver Okuliar HK Dukla Trenčín 32 15 23 38 +5 64
Marek Slovák HK Nitra 34 13 25 38 +6 24
Dávid Skokan HK Poprad 35 11 26 37 +31 83
Michal Chovan HC Košice 31 9 28 37 +2 12
Radovan Bondra HKM Zvolen 35 17 19 36 +23 57
Mikko Nuutinen HKM Zvolen 35 14 21 35 +6 22
Carl Ackered HK Dukla Trenčín 35 12 23 35 +6 18

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 4 December 2020.[4]

Player Team GP TOI W L GA SO Sv% GAA
Robin Rahm HKM Zvolen 12 750:47 8 4 28 0 92.13 2.24
Tomáš Vošvrda HK Poprad 15 894:36 11 4 35 0 91.94 2.35
Henri Kiviaho HC Nové Zámky 16 984:44 9 7 42 2 91.91 2.56
Tomáš Tomek HK Dukla Michalovce 14 759:45 6 8 36 0 90.98 2.84
Tomas Sholl HC 07 Detva 13 730:38 5 8 36 0 92.21 2.96
Michal Valent HK Dukla Trenčín 15 865:25 7 8 43 0 90.40 2.98
Miklós Rajna DVTK Jegesmedvék 10 555:50 3 7 28 0 90.85 3.02
Jakub Sedláček HC Košice 12 671:03 6 6 34 1 89.70 3.04
Evan Cowley HK Nitra 15 905:40 10 5 46 0 91.45 3.05
Roman Durný HC Slovan Bratislava 9 455:38 5 4 24 0 88.99 3.16

References
  1. "Tipsport Liga v nasledujúcej sezóne definitívne aj s Miškovcom od 2. októbra" (in Slovak).
  2. "Tipsport Liga oficiálne prišla o jedného maďarského účastníka" (in Slovak).
  3. "Statistics – Hráči 2020/2021" (in Slovak). hockeyslovakia. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  4. "Statistics – Brankári 2020/2021" (in Slovak). hockeyslovakia. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
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