2021–22 Slovak Extraliga season

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 Slovak 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 Hungarian [[Erste Liga (ice hockey)
|Erste Liga]].
==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 matches played on 11 February 2022.
Player	Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	19	1052:27	13	6 	37	3	93.03	2.11
 	 	29	1668:24	16	13	62	3	93.47	2.23
 	HK Nitra 	21	1099:52	12	9 	46	0	92.51	2.51
 	HC Košice 	25	1439:50	10	15	64	1	91.78	2.67
 	HK Dukla Trenčín 	25	1355:26	10	15	61	1	90.88	2.70
 	HK Nitra 	22	1259:19	15	7 	59	1	91.01	2.81
 	HC Nové Zámky 	19	1105:18	8 	11	52	0	91.95	2.82
 	HKM Zvolen 	31	1848:36	21	10	87	3	91.78	2.82
 	HK Poprad 	17	938:17 	8 	9 	45	1	90.89	2.88
 	HK Dukla Michalovce	33	1907:15	13	20	93	3	90.75	2.93
==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==
align=center style="width:20px;	Slovan Bratislava
align=center 	Nitra
align=center 	Zvolen
4 	Košice
5 	Michalovce
6 	Poprad
7 	Banská Bystrica
8 	Prešov
9 	Spišská Nová Ves
10 	Trenčín
11 	Nové Zámky
12 	Liptovský Mikuláš
==References==
==External links==
*Official website
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