2012–13 Slovak Extraliga season

The 2012–13 Slovak Extraliga season was the 20th season of the Slovak Extraliga, the highest level of ice hockey in Slovakia.

2012–13 Slovak Extraliga season
League	Slovak Extraliga
Sport	Ice hockey
Duration	13 September 2012 – 15 April 2013
Average attendance	2,018
Regular season
League Champion	HKm Zvolen
Top scorer	Žigmund Pálffy (HK 36 Skalica)
Playoffs
Finals
Champions	HKm Zvolen
Runners-up	HC Košice

Regular season

Standings

Po.	Club	GP	W	OTW/SOW	OTL/SOL	L	GF	GA	PTS
1.	HKm Zvolen	56	32	8	3	13	203	145	115
2.	HC Košice	56	32	4	5	15	214	138	109
3.	HK Nitra	56	29	8	4	15	187	139	107
4.	ŠHK 37 Piešťany	56	25	3	14	14	146	138	95
5.	HK 36 Skalica	56	27	4	2	23	208	179	91
6.	HK Dukla Trenčín	56	22	7	6	21	165	161	86
7.	HK Poprad	56	22	6	5	23	188	177	83
8.	HC ’05 Banská Bystrica	56	20	6	4	26	153	186	76
9.	MsHK Žilina	56	13	3	8	32	135	194	53
10.	MHC Mountfield	56	12	5	3	36	117	205	49
11.	HK Orange 20	20	2	0	0	18	34	88	6

	clinched playoff spot
	will play in relegation series

Key - GP: Games played, W: Wins, OTW/SOW: Overtime/Shootout wins, OTL/SOL: Overtime/Shootout losses, L: Losses, GF: Goals for, GA: Goals against, PTS: Points.

Statistics

Scoring leaders

GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/– = Plus/minus; PIM = Penalty minutes ^[1]

Player	Team	GP	G	A	Pts	+/–	PIM
Žigmund Pálffy	HK 36 Skalica	39	26	47	73	+40	103
Lukáš Jurík	HKm Zvolen	54	30	37	67	+37	56
Richard Jenčík	HC Košice	56	23	43	66	+46	14
Marcel Haščák	HC Košice	51	31	33	64	+30	48
René Školiak	HK 36 Skalica	54	15	48	63	+27	92
Kamil Brabenec	HKm Zvolen	55	23	35	58	+38	68
Michal Chovan	HKm Zvolen	41	14	43	57	+32	62
Peter Klouda	HK Poprad	53	10	45	55	+14	48
Lukáš Hvila	HK Poprad	55	30	23	53	+30	54
Roman Tománek	HK Nitra	55	34	18	52	+36	24
Michael Vandas	HK Poprad	49	21	31	52	+33	83

Leading goaltenders

These are the leaders in GAA among goaltenders that have played at least 1200 minutes.^[2]

GP = Games played; TOI = Time on ice (minutes); GA = Goals against; Sv% = Save percentage; GAA = Goals against average

Player	Team	GP	TOI	GA	Sv%	GAA
Tomáš Tomek	ŠHK 37 Piešťany	52	3106:07	111	.932	2.14
Miroslav Lipovský	HK 36 Skalica	23	1388:38	53	.930	2.29
Alexandr Hylák	HC Košice	52	3052:59	120	.919	2.36
Marek Šimko	HKm Zvolen	54	3278:37	134	.917	2.45
Marek Laco	HK Nitra	43	2536:33	113	.916	2.67

Playoffs

Playoff bracket

	Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Finals
	1.	HKm Zvolen	4
	8.	HC ’05 Banská Bystrica	1
						1.	HKm Zvolen	4
						4.	ŠHK 37 Piešťany	3
	4.	ŠHK 37 Piešťany	4
	5.	HK 36 Skalica	3
											1.	HKm Zvolen	4
											2.	HC Košice	1
	2.	HC Košice	4
	7.	HK Poprad	3
						2.	HC Košice	4
						3.	HK Nitra	1
	3.	HK Nitra	4
	6.	HK Dukla Trenčín	0

Quarterfinals (best-of-seven)

• Zvolen – Banská Bystrica 4–1 (1–2, 2–1, 4–0, 3–2, 3–2PS)
• Piešťany – Skalica 4–3 (5–1, 1–4, 3–2PS, 0–4, 4–5, 3–0, 4–1)
• Košice – Poprad 4–3 (2–1, 2–1, 2–4, 3–6, 3–2, 0–3, 3–1)
• Nitra – Trenčín 4–0 (2–1, 2–0, 4–0, 4–1)

Semifinals (best-of-seven)

• Zvolen – Piešťany 4–3 (2–1, 3–4PS, 3–2PS, 1–6, 2–1PS, 0–4, 5–0)
• Košice – Nitra 4–1 (3–5, 2–1PS, 7–4, 3–2PS, 6–3)

Finals (best-of-seven)

• Zvolen – Košice 4–1 (2–1PS, 2–1, 3–2, 2–6, 2–1)

Playoff statistics

Playoff scoring leaders

^[3]

Player	Team	GP	G	A	Pts	+/–	PIM
Richard Jenčík	HC Košice	17	13	5	18	+11	2
Dušan Pašek	HC Košice	17	9	9	18	+10	10
Marcel Haščák	HC Košice	17	4	13	17	+13	36
Andrej Podkonický	HKm Zvolen	17	6	6	12	+13	14
Roman Tománek	HK Nitra	9	8	3	11	+8	6
Kamil Brabenec	HKm Zvolen	17	7	4	11	+12	12
René Školiak	HK 36 Skalica	7	6	4	10	+3	10
Samir Saliji	ŠHK 37 Piešťany	12	5	5	10	-4	2
Marek Slovák	HC Košice	16	4	6	10	+1	14
Peter Zuzin	HKm Zvolen	17	4	6	10	+5	0
Jakub Ručkay	ŠHK 37 Piešťany	14	3	7	10	+6	18
Gabriel Spilar	HC Košice	14	1	9	10	0	14

Relegation round

In the relegation round the 10th place team MHC Martin played against the 1.Liga champion HC 46 Bardejov.

MHC Martin vs. HC 46 Bardejov

March 19, 2013	MHC Martin		1–2		HC 46 Bardejov	Martin Ice Stadium	Recap
Andrej Novotný – 47:44 – PP		Scoring stats			21:31 – Dancsák Juraj 36:15 – Ladislav Ščurko

March 20, 2013	MHC Martin		4–3		HC 46 Bardejov	Martin Ice Stadium	Recap
Tomáš Petruška – 18:26 – PP Andrej Themár – 30:10 – SH Tomáš Petruška – 48:07 – PP Filip Vaško 57:54		Scoring stats			34:11 – Martin Krčula 44:48 – Marcel Baláž 47:19 – Tomáš Stríž

March 23, 2013	HC 46 Bardejov		2–4		MHC Martin	Bardejov Ice Stadium	Recap
Marek Nagy – 15:17 Ladislav Ščurko – 42:41 – PP		Scoring stats			31:40 – Tomáš Petruška 35:02 – PP2 – Andrej Themár 57:19 – Michal Važan 57:49 – PP – Tomáš Petruška

March 24, 2013	HC 46 Bardejov		4–2		MHC Martin	Bardejov Ice Stadium	Recap
Igor Halás 03:10 34:53 – PP – Martin Tkáč Juraj Dancsák – 46:42 Ladislav Ščurko – 59:18		Scoring stats			06:30 – Andrej Themár 57:06 – PP –Fujerík Dominik

March 27, 2013	MHC Martin		4–2		HC 46 Bardejov	Martin Ice Stadium	Recap
Róbert Pukalovič – 16:50 – PP Milan Kolena – 40:58 Važan Michal – 56:46 – SH Andrej Themár – 49:17 – PP		Scoring stats			25:47 – Ladislav Ščurko 52:22 – Marek Nagy

March 29, 2013	HC 46 Bardejov		3–1		MHC Martin	Bardejov Ice Stadium	Recap
Ľubomír Sabol – 01:51 – PP Ľubomír Sabol – 41:17 Erik Belušár – 55:19		Scoring stats			49:30 – PP – Michal Važan

March 31, 2013	MHC Martin		4–3	GWS	HC 46 Bardejov	Martin Ice Stadium	Recap
Michal Dvořák – 14:22 Martin Hollý – 45:30 – PP Martin Hollý – 55:00 Andrej Novotný – GWS		Scoring stats			06:06 Marcel Baláž 38:52 Ladislav Ščurko 41:04 Ľubomír Sabol

Martin won series 4 – 3

Attendance

Source:^[4]

Team Name	Arena	Capacity	Attendance	%
HC Košice	Steel Aréna	8,378	4,060	49%
HC ’05 Banská Bystrica	Banská Bystrica Ice Stadium	3,518	1,660	47%
HK 36 Skalica	Skalica Ice Stadium	4,100	1,910	47%
HK Dukla Trenčín	Pavol Demitra Ice Stadium	6,150	1,801	29%
HK Nitra	Nitra Aréna	3,600	2,593	72%
HK Orange 20	Vladimír Dzurilla Ice Stadium	3,500	—	—
HK Poprad	Poprad Ice Stadium	4,050	1,500	37%
HKm Zvolen	Zvolen Ice Stadium	7,038	2,286	33%
MHC Mountfield	Martin Ice Stadium	4,200	1,329	32%
MsHK Žilina	Garmin Arena	6,200	1,127	18%
ŠHK 37 Piešťany	EASTON Aréna	3,050	2,204	72%

All-Stars Team

Source:

Goaltender	Tomáš Tomek ŠHK 37 Piešťany
Defencemen	Peter König HK Nitra			Martin Štrbák HC Košice
Forwards	Marcel Haščák HC Košice		Lukáš Jurík HKm Zvolen		Žigmund Pálffy HK 36 Skalica

Final rankings

	Zvolen
	Košice
	Nitra
4	Piešťany
5	Skalica
6	Trenčín
7	Poprad
8	Banská Bystrica
9	Žilina
10	Martin