# 2017–18 Czech Extraliga season

The 2017–18 Czech Extraliga season was the 25th season of the Czech Extraliga since its creation after the breakup of Czechoslovakia and the Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League in 1993. Defending champions HC Kometa Brno won their second consecutive title and 13th national title in all, after beating HC Oceláři Třinec by 4 games to 1.

## Regular season

| Pl. | Team | GP | W | OTW | OTL | L | Goals | Pts |
| 1. | HC Plzeň$^{CHL}$ | 52 | 28 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 172:123 | 107 |
| 2. | Mountfield HK$^{CHL}$ | 52 | 26 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 146:101 | 99 |
| 3. | HC Oceláři Třinec | 52 | 24 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 143:122 | 92 |
| 4. | HC Vítkovice Ridera | 52 | 26 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 157:119 | 92 |
| 5. | HC Kometa Brno | 52 | 23 | 6 | 9 | 14 | 148:121 | 90 |
| 6. | HC Dynamo Pardubice | 52 | 20 | 5 | 6 | 21 | 148:121 | 76 |
| 7. | HC Bílí Tygři Liberec | 52 | 18 | 9 | 4 | 21 | 132:138 | 76 |
| 8. | HC Olomouc | 52 | 16 | 10 | 7 | 19 | 129:136 | 75 |
| 9. | PSG Berani Zlín | 52 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 22 | 121:140 | 74 |
| 10. | HC Sparta Praha | 52 | 18 | 5 | 7 | 22 | 140:150 | 71 |
| 11. | Piráti Chomutov | 52 | 13 | 10 | 9 | 20 | 132:155 | 68 |
| 12. | BK Mladá Boleslav | 52 | 15 | 6 | 8 | 23 | 118:139 | 65 |
| 13. | HC Dukla Jihlava | 52 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 26 | 106:139 | 57 |
| 14. | HC Litvínov | 52 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 29 | 118:168 | 50 |
* $^{CHL}$ Qualification to Champions Hockey League

### Scoring leaders

List shows the ten best skaters based on the number of points during the regular season. If two or more skaters are tied (i.e. same number of points, goals and played games), all of the tied skaters are shown.
GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/– = Plus/minus; PIM = Penalty minutes
| Player | Team | GP | G | A | Pts | +/– | PIM |
| Milan Gulaš | HC Škoda Plzeň | 48 | 23 | 38 | 61 | +20 | 50 |
| Tomáš Mertl | HC Škoda Plzeň | 50 | 30 | 27 | 57 | +18 | 59 |
| Martin Růžička | HC Oceláři Třinec | 49 | 29 | 25 | 54 | +4 | 42 |
| Roberts Bukarts | PSG Berani Zlín | 50 | 21 | 28 | 49 | +15 | 56 |
| Martin Erat | HC Kometa Brno | 49 | 12 | 34 | 46 | 0 | 20 |
| Michal Vondrka | Piráti Chomutov | 52 | 18 | 25 | 43 | -6 | 20 |
| Jaroslav Bednář | Mountfield HK | 46 | 15 | 27 | 42 | +12 | 20 |
| Martin Bakoš | Bílí Tygři Liberec | 52 | 14 | 26 | 40 | 0 | 34 |
| Viktor Hübl | HC Litvínov | 45 | 15 | 24 | 39 | +6 | 34 |
| Rudolf Červený | Mountfield HK | 48 | 21 | 17 | 38 | +19 | 54 |

### Leading goaltenders

These were the leaders in GAA among goaltenders who played at least 40% of the team's minutes. The table is sorted by GAA, and the criteria for inclusion are bolded.
GP = Games played; TOI = Time on ice (minutes); GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; Sv% = Save percentage; GAA = Goals against average
| Player | Team | GP | TOI | GA | SO | Sv% | GAA |
| Patrik Rybár | Mountfield HK | 36 | 2078 | 60 | 7 | 93.19 | 1.73 |
| Šimon Hrubec | HC Oceláři Třinec | 44 | 2546 | 86 | 4 | 92.82 | 2.03 |
| Miroslav Svoboda | HC Škoda Plzeň | 47 | 2770 | 97 | 5 | 92.57 | 2.10 |
| Patrik Bartošák | HC Vítkovice Ridera | 47 | 2781 | 98 | 5 | 93.34 | 2.11 |
| Marek Čiliak | HC Kometa Brno | 37 | 2249 | 85 | 6 | 91.60 | 2.27 |
| Roman Will | Bílí Tygři Liberec | 45 | 2536 | 99 | 6 | 91.29 | 2.34 |
| Sami Aittokallio | HC Sparta Praha | 28 | 1580 | 62 | 1 | 91.83 | 2.35 |
| Ondřej Kacetl | HC Dynamo Pardubice | 41 | 2398 | 98 | 3 | 91.81 | 2.45 |
| Brandon Maxwell | BK Mladá Boleslav | 38 | 2126 | 87 | 3 | 91.71 | 2.46 |
| Branislav Konrád | HC Olomouc | 48 | 2841 | 117 | 7 | 90.53 | 2.47 |

## Playoffs

Ten teams qualified for the playoffs, with 1–6 walked over to the quarterfinals while teams 7–10 meeting each other in a preliminary playoff round.

### Playoff bracket

In the first round, the seventh-ranked team met the tenth-ranked team, while eighth-ranked team met the ninth-ranked team for a place in the second round. In the second round, the top-ranked team met the lowest-ranked winner of the first round, the second-ranked team faced the other winner of the first round, the third-ranked team faced the sixth-ranked team, and the fourth-ranked team faced the fifth-ranked team. In the third round, the highest remaining seed faced the lowest remaining seed. In each round, the higher-seeded team is awarded home advantage. The first round meetings were played as best-of-five series and the rest was best-of-seven series that follows an alternating home team format: the higher-seeded team played at home for the first and second matches, whilst lower-seeded one played at home for the third and fourth matches.
| First round | First round | First round | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Finals | Finals | Finals |
| | | | 1 | HC Plzeň | 4 | | | | | | |
| 7 | HC Bílí Tygři Liberec | 3 | 8 | HC Olomouc | 1 | | | | | | |
| 10 | HC Sparta Praha | 0 | | | | 1 | HC Plzeň | 1 | | | |
| | | | | | | 5 | HC Kometa Brno | 4 | | | |
| | | | 2 | Mountfield HK | 4 | (Pairings are re-seeded after the first and second round) | (Pairings are re-seeded after the first and second round) | (Pairings are re-seeded after the first and second round) | | | |
| | | | 7 | HC Bílí Tygři Liberec | 3 | (Pairings are re-seeded after the first and second round) | (Pairings are re-seeded after the first and second round) | (Pairings are re-seeded after the first and second round) | | | |
| | | | | | | (Pairings are re-seeded after the first and second round) | (Pairings are re-seeded after the first and second round) | (Pairings are re-seeded after the first and second round) | 5 | HC Kometa Brno | 4 |
| | | | | | | (Pairings are re-seeded after the first and second round) | (Pairings are re-seeded after the first and second round) | (Pairings are re-seeded after the first and second round) | 3 | HC Oceláři Třinec | 1 |
| | | | 3 | HC Oceláři Třinec | 4 | (Pairings are re-seeded after the first and second round) | (Pairings are re-seeded after the first and second round) | (Pairings are re-seeded after the first and second round) | | | |
| 8 | HC Olomouc | 3 | 6 | HC Dynamo Pardubice | 3 | (Pairings are re-seeded after the first and second round) | (Pairings are re-seeded after the first and second round) | (Pairings are re-seeded after the first and second round) | | | |
| 9 | PSG Berani Zlín | 1 | | | | 2 | Mountfield HK | 2 | | | |
| | | | | | | 3 | HC Oceláři Třinec | 4 | | | |
| | | | 4 | HC Vítkovice Ridera | 0 | | | | | | |
| | | | 5 | HC Kometa Brno | 4 | | | | | | |
Play-off final: HC Oceláři Třinec - HC Kometa Brno 1:4 (5:1, 2:3, 2:3, 2:5, 1:4). HC Kometa Brno won its second Czech league title (and 13th overall title).

## Relegation

| Place | Team | GP | W | OTW | OTL | L | GF | GA | Pts |
| 1 | HC Litvínov | 12 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 27 | 27 | 20 |
| 2 | HC Karlovy Vary | 12 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 30 | 24 | 20 |
| 3 | HC Dukla Jihlava | 12 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 29 | 25 | 19 |
| 4 | HC Kladno | 12 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 17 | 27 | 13 |