| 2018–19 Slovak Extraliga season | |
| League: | Slovak Extraliga |
| Sport: | Ice hockey |
| Duration: | September 2018 – April 2019 |
| No Of Teams: | 13 |
| Season: | Regular season |
| Season Champ Name: | League Champion |
| Season Champs: | HC '05 Banská Bystrica |
| Second Place: | HKm Zvolen |
| Top Scorer: | Ladislav Nagy (Košice) |
| Average Attendance: | 1,1814 [1] |
| Playoffs: | Playoffs |
| Playoffs Link: |
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| Finals: | Finals |
| Finals Champ: | HC '05 Banská Bystrica |
| Finals Runner-Up: | HK Nitra |
| Playoffs Mvp: | Samuel Buček (Nitra) |
| Playoffs Mvp Link: | Golden Skate |
| Nextseason Year: | 2019–20 |
| Prevseason Year: | 2017–18 |
| Seasonslistnames: | Slovak Extraliga |
The 2018–19 Slovak Extraliga season was 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.[2]
Each team played 55 games, playing each of the other eleven teams five times. 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 finishes with the most points was crowned the league champion.
The following players led the league in points, at the conclusion of the regular season.[3]
| Player | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | HC '05 Banská Bystrica | 52 | 24 | 48 | 72 | +7 | 36 | |
 | HKm Zvolen | 56 | 20 | 48 | 68 | +16 | 34 | |
| | HC Košice | 48 | 34 | 27 | 61 | +25 | 28 | |
| | HC '05 Banská Bystrica | 42 | 24 | 35 | 59 | +19 | 28 | |
| | HK Nitra | 56 | 20 | 38 | 58 | +17 | 12 | |
| | HC '05 Banská Bystrica | 55 | 29 | 26 | 55 | +4 | 68 | |
| | HK Poprad | 56 | 19 | 33 | 52 | +18 | 16 | |
| | HK Nitra | 53 | 30 | 21 | 51 | +26 | 20 | |
 | DVTK Jegesmedvék | 57 | 27 | 22 | 49 | +16 | 48 | |
| | HKm Zvolen | 48 | 18 | 31 | 49 | +15 | 8 |
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.[4]
| Player | Team | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | DVTK Jegesmedvék | 31 | 1886:22 | 15 | 8 | 8 | 58 | 7 | 94.85 | 1.84 | |
| | HK Dukla Trenčín | 49 | 2887:33 | 22 | 10 | 17 | 97 | 2 | 92.58 | 2.02 | |
| HKm Zvolen | 33 | 1916:31 | 15 | 10 | 8 | 68 | 4 | 92.80 | 2.13 | ||
| | HKm Zvolen | 26 | 1529:42 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 55 | 5 | 92.48 | 2.16 | |
 | 43 | 2493:23 | 24 | 10 | 9 | 91 | 2 | 91.85 | 2.19 | ||
 | HC Košice | 44 | 2590:36 | 25 | 7 | 12 | 96 | 5 | 93.22 | 2.22 | |
| | HC Nové Zámky | 47 | 2790:01 | 19 | 9 | 19 | 105 | 6 | 93.30 | 2.26 | |
| | HK Nitra | 39 | 2208:20 | 22 | 7 | 10 | 85 | 2 | 92.09 | 2.31 | |
| | HK Poprad | 38 | 2225:10 | 18 | 9 | 11 | 90 | 5 | 93.11 | 2.43 | |
| | MAC Budapest | 32 | 1825:19 | 10 | 7 | 16 | 86 | 3 | 91.63 | 2.83 |
Relegation series 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 played in Extraliga in 2019–20 season.
Michalovce wins the series 4-3 and will play in 2019–20 Slovak Extraliga season
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.
| Banská Bystrica | ||
| Nitra | ||
| Zvolen | ||
| 4 | Poprad | |
| 5 | Košice | |
| 6 | Trenčín | |
| 7 | Budapest | |
| 8 | Detva | |
| 9 | Nové Zámky | |
| 10 | Miskolc | |
| 11 | Liptovský Mikuláš | |
| 12 | Žilina |