The 2017–18 Czech Extraliga season was the 25th season of the

Czech Extraliga The Czech Extraliga () is the highest-level ice hockey league in the Czech Republic. It was created in 1993 following the peaceful dissolution of Czechoslovakia midway through the 1992–93 Czechoslovak Extraliga season (which all Slovak and ...

since its creation after the breakup of Czechoslovakia and the

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in 1993. Defending champions

HC Kometa Brno HC Kometa Brno ("Comet" in English) is a professional ice hockey team based in Brno, Czech Republic. They play in the Czech Extraliga. Kometa is the most successful ice hockey club in the Czech Republic with 14 Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League ...

won their second consecutive title and 13th national title in all, after beating HC Oceláři Třinec by 4 games to 1.

Regular season

*^CHL Qualification to

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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''

Leading goaltenders

These were the leaders in

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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''

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

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. 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. Play-off final: HC Oceláři Třinec -

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

References

External links

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2017–18 in Czech ice hockey leagues Czech Extraliga seasons