2023–24 Slovak Extraliga season

2023–24 Slovak Extraliga season
2023–24 Slovak Extraliga season
League	Slovak Extraliga
Sport	Ice hockey
Duration	15 September 2023 – 8 March 2024 (regular season); 11 March – 24 April 2024 (playoffs);
Number of games	50
Number of teams	12
Regular season
League Champion	HK Poprad
Top scorer	Olivier Archambault ; (Spišská Nová Ves); (59 points);
Playoffs
Playoffs MVP	Samuel Buček (Nitra)
Finals
Champions	HK Nitra
Runners-up	HK Spišská Nová Ves
Slovak Extraliga seasons
	← 2022–23 2024–25 →

The 2023–24 Slovak Extraliga season was 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	Poprad	50	27	5	3	15	163	119	+44	94	Qualification to Quarter-finals
2	Michalovce	50	27	4	1	18	167	121	+46	90
3	Spišská Nová Ves	50	24	6	3	17	163	138	+25	87
4	Košice	50	24	2	5	19	147	117	+30	81
5	Slovan Bratislava	50	21	5	4	20	157	160	−3	77
6	Banská Bystrica	50	21	6	1	22	151	172	−21	76^[a]
7	Zvolen	50	19	4	11	16	165	160	+5	76^[a]	Qualification to Wild card round
8	Nitra	50	21	4	5	20	172	158	+14	76^[a]
9	Trenčín	50	21	5	2	22	144	156	−12	75
10	Liptovský Mikuláš	50	18	3	4	25	136	161	−25	64
11	Nové Zámky	50	16	3	4	27	133	159	−26	58
12	Humenné	50	13	1	5	31	121	198	−77	46	Relegated to Slovak 1. Liga

Source: Tipos extraliga
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points.
Notes:

Statistics

Scoring leaders

The following shows the top ten players who led the league in points, at the conclusion of the regular season.^[4]

Player	Team	GP	G	A	Pts	+/–	PIM
Olivier Archambault	HK Spišská Nová Ves	45	14	45	59	+11	38
Ryan Dmowski	HK Poprad	44	30	27	57	+29	44
Samuel Buček	HK Nitra	44	26	31	57	−2	16
Carter Turnbull	HC '05 Banská Bystrica	41	25	31	56	+2	22
Kaspars Daugaviņš	HK Dukla Michalovce	48	11	43	54	+14	20
Matthew Wilkins	HC '05 Banská Bystrica	49	19	33	52	+4	87
Brent Gates	HK Nitra	48	14	38	52	+3	12
Liam Pecararo	HC Slovan Bratislava	46	17	31	48	+16	30
Igor Merezhko	HK Spišská Nová Ves	49	10	38	48	+27	14
Robby Jackson	HK Nitra	44	26	20	46	+12	10

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 the regular season.^[5]

Player	Team	GP	TOI	W	L	GA	SO	SV%	GAA
Dominik Riečický	HC Košice	24	1,287:06	13	11	41	3	93.64	1.91
Ádám Vay	HK Poprad	44	2,501:15	30	14	89	1	92.88	2.13
Jaroslav Janus	HC Košice	30	1,711:23	15	15	63	2	92.35	2.21
Stanislav Škorvánek	HK Dukla Michalovce	39	2,322:38	25	14	90	4	93.08	2.32
Marcel Melicherčík	HK Spišská Nová Ves	30	1,721:17	19	11	71	0	90.65	2.47
Denis Godla	HC Slovan Bratislava	30	1,744:44	19	11	79	2	91.51	2.72
Gašper Krošelj	HC '05 Banská Bystrica	27	1,491:51	16	11	71	3	91.94	2.86
Alexei Krasikov	HK 32 Liptovský Mikuláš	49	2,756:14	21	28	132	1	90.69	2.87
Connor LaCouvee	HK Dukla Trenčín	40	2,282:28	20	20	110	3	91.52	2.89
Pavel Kantor	HC Nové Zámky	48	2,867:45	19	29	139	1	91.18	2.91

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)

			3	Spišská Nová Ves	4
7	Zvolen	3	6	Banská Bystrica	0
10	Liptovský Mikuláš	2				3	Spišská Nová Ves	4
						4	Košice	3
			4	Košice	4	(Pairings are re-seeded after the first and second round)
			5	Slovan Bratislava	0
									3	Spišská Nová Ves	0
									8	Nitra	4
			2	Michalovce	4
8	Nitra	3	7	Zvolen	1
9	Trenčín	2				2	Michalovce	2
						8	Nitra	4
			1	Poprad	2
			8	Nitra	4

Wild card round

Nitra – Trenčín 3–2
11.3.2024	Nitra	Trenčín	5-2
12.3.2024	Nitra	Trenčín	3-4
14.3.2024	Trenčín	Nitra	3-2
15.3.2024	Trenčín	Nitra	4-5
17.3.2024	Nitra	Trenčín	5-1
Nitra won the series 3–2.

Quarterfinals

Spišská Nová Ves – Banská Bystrica 4–0
18.3.2024	Spišská Nová Ves	Banská Bystrica	3-2 OT
19.3.2024	Spišská Nová Ves	Banská Bystrica	4-2
22.3.2024	Banská Bystrica	Spišská Nová Ves	3-4 OT
23.3.2024	Banská Bystrica	Spišská Nová Ves	3-6
Spišská Nová Ves won the series 4–0.

Michalovce – Zvolen 4–1
20.3.2024	Michalovce	Zvolen	5-0
21.3.2024	Michalovce	Zvolen	5-1
24.3.2024	Zvolen	Michalovce	2-6
25.3.2024	Zvolen	Michalovce	3-2
27.3.2024	Michalovce	Zvolen	3-1
Michalovce won the series 4–1.

Košice – Slovan Bratislava 4–0
18.3.2024	Košice	Slovan Bratislava	6-2
19.3.2024	Košice	Slovan Bratislava	5-4
22.3.2024	Slovan Bratislava	Košice	3-5
23.3.2024	Slovan Bratislava	Košice	2-4
Košice won the series 4–0.

Semifinals

Spišská Nová Ves – Košice 4–3
5.4.2024	Spišská Nová Ves	Košice	5-4 OT
6.4.2024	Spišská Nová Ves	Košice	4-0
9.4.2024	Košice	Spišská Nová Ves	6-2
10.4.2024	Košice	Spišská Nová Ves	4-2
12.4.2024	Spišská Nová Ves	Košice	4-3 OT2
14.4.2024	Košice	Spišská Nová Ves	4-1
16.4.2024	Spišská Nová Ves	Košice	2-1
Spišská Nová Ves won the series 4–3.