The 2021–22 Slovak Extraliga season was the 29th season of the Slovak Extraliga, the highest ice hockey league in Slovakia.
Team changes The newly established hockey club HC 21 Prešov replaced HC 07 Detva in Tipos extraliga from this season as Prešov should be made up of Detva players. After three seasons in Slovak Extraliga, the Hungarian team DVTK Jegesmedvék left the league to participate in the Erste Liga.
HK Spišská Nová Ves won Slovak 1. Liga in the season 2020–21 in a best-of-seven playoff against Vlci Žilina. They returned to Slovak Exraliga after eleven years, the last time they played there was in the 2009–10 season.
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 (26.12.2021 – 9.1.2022) 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.
Statistics Scoring leaders
The following shows the top ten players who led the league in points, at the conclusion of the regular season. Player Team HK Nitra 50 41 23 64 +26 34 HC Slovan Bratislava 49 21 38 59 +21 26 HC Slovan Bratislava 50 25 31 56 +31 12 HK Poprad 49 16 39 55 +12 16 HC Slovan Bratislava 48 20 32 52 +26 32 HC Slovan Bratislava 32 23 27 50 +22 20 HK Dukla Michalovce 49 16 30 46 +3 34 HK Poprad 46 18 27 45 +11 24 HC Košice 49 14 31 45 +5 24 HC Nové Zámky 50 23 21 44 −8 14
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.
Player Team 23 1296:25 17 6 47 4 92.62 2.18 38 2194:10 20 18 81 4 93.75 2.21 25 1516:15 14 11 58 2 92.46 2.30 HK Nitra 27 1381:13 16 11 57 0 92.29 2.48 HK Dukla Trenčín 34 1801:21 15 19 75 2 91.50 2.50 HK Dukla Michalovce 22 1303:21 13 9 56 0 91.32 2.58 HC Košice 35 1906:26 16 19 84 2 91.84 2.64 HK Nitra 30 1636:58 22 8 74 2 91.41 2.71 HKM Zvolen 40 2391:40 26 14 110 4 91.81 2.76 HK Dukla Michalovce 38 2161:14 14 24 106 3 90.54 2.94
Relegation series Relegation series played between MHk 32 Liptovský Mikuláš, the 12th team in regular season, and Vlci Žilina, the winner of 1. Liga. The winner of the best-of-seven series will play in the 2022–23 Slovak Extraliga.
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
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Finals
Final rankings Slovan Bratislava Nitra Zvolen4 Košice5 Michalovce6 Poprad7 Banská Bystrica8 Prešov9 Spišská Nová Ves10 Trenčín11 Nové Zámky12 Liptovský Mikuláš
References
External links Official website