| 2023–24 Slovak Extraliga season | |
| League: | Slovak Extraliga |
| Sport: | Ice hockey |
| No Of Games: | 50 |
| No Of Teams: | 12 |
| Season: | Regular season |
| Season Champ Name: | League Champion |
| Season Champs: | HK Poprad |
| Playoffs: | Playoffs |
| Playoffs Link: |
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| Finals: | Finals |
| Finals Champ: | HK Nitra |
| Finals Runner-Up: | HK Spišská Nová Ves |
| Playoffs Mvp: | Samuel Buček (Nitra) |
| Playoffs Mvp Link: | Golden Skate |
| Nextseason Year: | 2024–25 |
| Prevseason Year: | 2022–23 |
| Seasonslistnames: | Slovak Extraliga |
The 2023–24 Slovak Extraliga season was the 31st season of the Slovak Extraliga, the highest ice hockey league in Slovakia.[1]
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]
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.
The following shows the top ten players who led the league in points, at the conclusion of the regular season.[4]
| Player | Team | data-sort-type="number" style="width: 4em;" | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HK Spišská Nová Ves | 45 | 14 | 45 | 59 | +11 | 38 | ||
| HK Poprad | 44 | 30 | 27 | 57 | +29 | 44 | ||
| HK Nitra | 44 | 26 | 31 | 57 | −2 | 16 | ||
| HC '05 Banská Bystrica | 41 | 25 | 31 | 56 | +2 | 22 | ||
| HK Dukla Michalovce | 48 | 11 | 43 | 54 | +14 | 20 | ||
| HC '05 Banská Bystrica | 49 | 19 | 33 | 52 | +4 | 87 | ||
| HK Nitra | 48 | 14 | 38 | 52 | +3 | 12 | ||
| HC Slovan Bratislava | 46 | 17 | 31 | 48 | +16 | 30 | ||
| HK Spišská Nová Ves | 49 | 10 | 38 | 48 | +27 | 14 | ||
| HK Nitra | 44 | 26 | 20 | 46 | +12 | 10 |
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 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HC Košice | 24 | 1,287:06 | 13 | 11 | 41 | 3 | 93.64 | 1.91 | ||
| HK Poprad | 44 | 2,501:15 | 30 | 14 | 89 | 1 | 92.88 | 2.13 | ||
| HC Košice | 30 | 1,711:23 | 15 | 15 | 63 | 2 | 92.35 | 2.21 | ||
| HK Dukla Michalovce | 39 | 2,322:38 | 25 | 14 | 90 | 4 | 93.08 | 2.32 | ||
| HK Spišská Nová Ves | 30 | 1,721:17 | 19 | 11 | 71 | 0 | 90.65 | 2.47 | ||
| HC Slovan Bratislava | 30 | 1,744:44 | 19 | 11 | 79 | 2 | 91.51 | 2.72 | ||
| HC '05 Banská Bystrica | 27 | 1,491:51 | 16 | 11 | 71 | 3 | 91.94 | 2.86 | ||
| 49 | 2,756:14 | 21 | 28 | 132 | 1 | 90.69 | 2.87 | |||
| HK Dukla Trenčín | 40 | 2,282:28 | 20 | 20 | 110 | 3 | 91.52 | 2.89 | ||
| HC Nové Zámky | 48 | 2,867:45 | 19 | 29 | 139 | 1 | 91.18 | 2.91 |
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.
| align=center style="width:20px; | Nitra | |
| Spišská Nová Ves | ||
| Michalovce | ||
| 4 | Košice | |
| 5 | Poprad | |
| 6 | Slovan Bratislava | |
| 7 | Banská Bystrica | |
| 8 | Zvolen | |
| 9 | Trenčín | |
| 10 | Liptovský Mikuláš | |
| 11 | Nové Zámky | |
| 12 |