2009 - 10 Czech Extraliga season The 2009 – 10 Czech Extraliga season was the 17th season of the Czech Extraliga since its creation after the breakup of Czechoslovakia and the Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League in 1993 . In the regular season , Plzeň 1929 finished atop the league , Roman Červenka led the league in points and assists , and Petr Ton led the league in goals . Regular season . Season summary . The regular season consisted of 52 games for each team . Every team plays each of the other 13 teams four times , twice at home and twice on the road . Each game is worth three points in the standings . A game won in regulation nets the victor three points and the loser none . A game the ends in a tie at the end of regulation goes into overtime and , if necessary , a shootout . In an overtime or shootout game , the winner earns two points while the loser is awarded one point . Playoffs . Bracket . The playoff bracket is not a fixed bracket . Like the intraconference bracket in the NHL , the matchups are adjusted in each successive round in order to place the top - ranked team against the bottom - ranked team . Playoff summary . At the end of the regular season , the seventh through tenth - placed teams played in a best - of - five , preliminary playoff round . In the preliminary round Bílí Tygři Liberec defeated České Budějovice and Slavia Prague defeated Litvínov , both series going the 5 - game distance . Liberec was then paired against Plzeň , and Slavia were paired against Zlín . Other first round matchups included Vítkovice – Sparta and Pardubice – Třinec . The quarterfinal round saw two major upsets as the preliminary round winners knocked off the two highest - seeded teams from the regular season . Eighth - seeded Liberec knocked off top seed Plzeň in six games , 4 – 2 , capped off by a 7 – 2 victory in game 6 . The other first round upset saw Slavia knock off Zlín , also in six games and in front of their home crowd . Third - seeded Pardubice , after dropping the first game at home , ran off four straight victories to defeat Třinec 4 – 1 . The only first round series to go the seven - game distance saw Vitkovice win at home to hold off Sparta . In the semifinal round , Pardubice , the highest - remaining seed , were placed against Liberec , and Vitkovice were paired against Slavia . Relegation . Play - out round . The bottom four teams from the regular season – Karlovy Vary , Kometa Brno , Mladá Boleslav , Kladno – were placed in a " play - out " relegation group . The group is structued like a mini - season in which each of the four teams played each of the other four times , twice at home and twice on the road , the same as the regular season format . The results from the regular season standings are retained , and the additional relegation round match results are added to the table in order to determine which team is relegated to the Czech First League . Mladá Boleslav won only two of their twelve relegation round games , one in regulation and one in a shootout , and faced the 1 . národní hokejová liga winner KLH Chomutov in best - of - seven series . Play - off round . Mladá Boleslav were paired against KLH Chomutov , playoff winners of the 2009 - 10 playoffs of the 1 . národní hokejová liga , with the winner of the best of seven series earning a place in the 2010 – 11 Czech Extraliga season . Mladá Boleslav won the series 4 – 1 and retained their position in the Extraliga .