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The 2020–21 Slovak Extraliga season was the 28th season of the Slovak Extraliga, the highest ice hockey league in Slovakia. The league also includes one team from Hungary.

Team changes

After two seasons in Slovak Extraliga, the Hungarian team MAC Budapest left the league to participate in the Erste Liga. The reason for this decision was the uncertain financial situation, as the Hungarian government has suspended subsidies for sports clubs due to the coronavirus pandemic and MAC is also having difficulties finding other sponsors.

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 (22.12.2020 – 6.1.2021) 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 were 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	GP	G	A	Pts	+/–	PIM
Marcel Haščák	HK Poprad	48	38	31	69	+18	24
Patrik Svitana	HK Poprad	49	20	36	56	+21	22
Michal Chovan	HC Košice	45	12	44	56	+8	22
Marek Tvrdoň	HK Nitra	50	23	31	54	−3	64
Dávid Skokan	HK Poprad	49	18	34	52	+29	107
Carl Ackered	HK Dukla Trenčín	50	17	35	52	+8	34
Radovan Bondra	HKM Zvolen	49	26	25	51	+24	83
Marek Slovák	HK Nitra	50	18	31	49	+8	46
Mikko Nuutinen	HKM Zvolen	49	18	31	49	+11	72
Pavel Klhůfek	HC Košice	47	31	17	48	+13	58

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 the regular season.

Player	Team	GP	TOI	W	L	GA	SO	Sv%	GAA
Tyler Parks	HC Slovan Bratislava	24	1400:32	18	6	40	5	93.97	1.71
Tomáš Tomek	HK Dukla Michalovce	43	2479:52	28	15	86	4	92.82	2.08
Dominik Riečický	HC Košice	23	1180:56	10	13	45	2	92.46	2.29
Robin Rahm	HKM Zvolen	41	2487:49	27	14	98	1	92.14	2.36
Henri Kiviaho	HC Nové Zámky	43	2609:55	18	25	113	2	91.51	2.60
Tomáš Vošvrda	HK Poprad	41	2409:16	26	15	105	2	90.81	2.61
Jakub Sedláček	HC Košice	23	1288:51	13	10	57	2	90.98	2.65
Filip Belányi	HC '05 Banská Bystrica	25	1396:39	12	13	63	2	91.04	2.71
Roman Petrík	HC 07 Detva	22	1193:40	12	10	54	2	92.33	2.71
Tomas Sholl	HC 07 Detva	22	1245:22	11	11	58	1	92.86	2.79

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

	Zvolen
	Poprad
	Michalovce
4	Slovan Bratislava
5	Nitra
6	Detva
7	Trenčín
8	Nové Zámky
9	Košice
10	Banská Bystrica
11	Miskolc
12	Liptovský Mikuláš

References

1. "Tipsport Liga v nasledujúcej sezóne definitívne aj s Miškovcom od 2. októbra" (in Slovak).
2. "Tipsport Liga oficiálne prišla o jedného maďarského účastníka" (in Slovak).
3. "MAC Budapešť končí v Tipsport lige: Klub na to nemá peniaze! Lintner prezradil, čo s Miškovcom". sport24.pluska.sk (in Slovak).
4. "Statistics – Hráči 2020/2021" (in Slovak). hockeyslovakia. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
5. "Statistics – Brankári 2020/2021" (in Slovak). hockeyslovakia. Retrieved 2 October 2020.

External links

• Official website Archived 2016-03-28 at the Wayback Machine

• Slovak Extraliga seasons
• 2020–21 in European ice hockey leagues
• 2020–21 in Slovak ice hockey leagues