2018–19 Slovak Extraliga season

The 2018–19 Slovak Extraliga season is 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.
==Regular season==
===Standings===
Each team plays 55 games, playing each of the other eleven teams five times. Points are 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 is crowned the league champion.
===Statistics===
====Scoring leaders====
The following players led the league in points, at the conclusion of the regular season. 
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
====Leading goaltenders====
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.
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==
Relegation series will be 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 will play in Extraliga in 2019–20 season.
===PlayOut===
Michalovce wins the series 4-3 and will play in 2019–20 Slovak Extraliga season
==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===
===Quarter-finals===
===Semi-finals===
=== Finals ===
==Final rankings==
align=center	Banská Bystrica
align=center	Nitra
align=center	Zvolen
4 	Poprad
5 	Košice
6 	Trenčín
7 	Budapest
8 	Detva
9 	Nové Zámky
10 	Miskolc
11 	Liptovský Mikuláš
12 	Žilina
==References==
==External links==
*Official website
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