Whats new in Slovakia

After a three-game losing streak before the national team break HC Kosice won all the next four games. They are now 9 points ahead of second HK 36 Skalica and with a great prospect to win the regular season. It seems like no one wants to be the second, both HK 36 Skalica and HC Slovan Bratislava are losing games, so there is a chance for HK Poprad to catch them up. First four teams for quarterfinal play-off are clear, it depends only on places after regular season. The ninth MHC Martin still has a chance to qualify for the play-offs and they are definitively saved for next season. Only 4 rounds remain to be played and they have now a 13 point-distance towards last team HK Nitra. HK Nitra will be definitely last and probably will play the relegation battle with the winner of the 1.liga. It depends on the winner, cause there are 4 teams left in the 1.liga play-off (Piestany, Senica, Michalovce and Bardejov). Winner of the regular season Bardejov is affiliated to HC Kosice and if this team will win the 1.liga play-offs, relegation matches will be cancelled due to the fact that affiliated teams can´t be promoted to Slovak extraliga.

Highlights of the week:
- after 3 lost games last week HC Kosice won the next 4 in a row
- HC Slovan Bratislava lost 3 games in a row
- hattrick´s by Stanislav Gron (Kosice - Zvolen 9:3) and Zigmund Palffy (Skalica - Nitra 6:5)
- HK Nitra goes to the relegation battle

Team of the week: HC Kosice
Player of the week: Stanislav Gron 4GP 4G 3A 7Pts  0PIM  8+/-

Most penalized players:
1. Miroslav Satan  HC Slovan Bratislava    47 GP   119 PIM
2. Michal Novak  HC Kosice                     50        116
3. Vladimir Kutny  HC´05 Banská Bystrica 47       110
4. René Skoliak  HK 36 Skalica                50        106
5. Milan Hruska  HK Nitra                        34        101

Standings
1 HC Kosice                   51   33  2  1  15  181:117  104
2 HK 36 Skalica              51   30  1  3  17  191:148  95
3 HC Slovan Bratislava     51   29  1  6  15  165:128  95
4 HK SKP Poprad           51   27  3  5  16  174:136  92
5 Dukla Trencin               51   21  5  3  22  133:131  76
6 MsHK Garmin Zilina      51   19  6  5  21  128:147  74
7 HKm Zvolen                  51   20  3  3  25  121:160  69
8 HC´05 Banská Bystrica 51   15  7  9  20  123:128  68
9 MHC Martin                  51   14  7  3  27  127:168  59
10 HK Nitra                     51   11  5  3  32  130:184  46

 

Advanced player search

Tweets by @eurohockey