Regular season ends, playoffs start Wednesday

The Tipsport Extraliga's regular season drew to a close on Sunday, with each team playing its 52nd and final game. Seven games were played, but at the end of the day, the standings were exactly the same as they were before they started.

The day's results were:

Kometa Brno	Slavia Praha	1:5
Eaton Pardubice	BK Mladá Boleslav	1:0
Vítkovice Steel	Oceláři Třinec	5:4
Plzeň 1929	PSG Zlín	1:0
Vagnerplast Kladno	Benzina Litvínov	3:5
Energie Karlovy Vary	Sparta Praha	1:2
Bílí Tygři Liberec	Mountfield České Budějovice	5:2

Click on the score for the game's statistics.

Of the 14 Extraliga teams, 10 make the playoffs with the top six advancing directly to the quarter-finals. Teams finishing seventh to 10th play off in best-of-five series to determine the other two quarter-finalists.

	Club	GP	Wins	OTW		OTL	Losses	GF:GA	Points
1	HC Oceláři Třinec	52	26	5		8	13	178:136	96
2	Bílí Tygři Liberec	52	26	5		6	15	159:139	94
3	HC Vítkovice Steel	52	26	6		2	18	162:137	92
4	PSG Zlín	52	22	7		8	15	158:134	88
5	HC Eaton Pardubice	52	24	3		10	15	146:125	88
6	HC Mountfield Č. Budějovice	52	23	6		4	19	158:131	85
7	HC Slavia Praha	52	21	9		3	19	140:131	84
8	HC Benzina Litvínov	52	23	2		4	23	133:162	77
9	HC Plzeň 1929	52	27	6		3	16	153:145	77
10	HC Energie Karlovy Vary	52	15	7		12	18	152:154	71
11	HC Kometa Brno	52	19	5		1	27	130:146	68
12	HC Sparta Praha	52	14	6		3	29	115:142	57
13	HC Vagnerplast Kladno	52	10	3		5	34	105:172	35
14	BK Mladá Boleslav	52	14	4		5	29	123:158	33

Play-In Round match-ups:

(7) Slavia Praha vs (10) Energie Karlovy Vary
(8) Benzina Litvínov vs (9) Plzeň 1929

Quarter-Final match-ups:

(1) Oceláři Třinec vs TBD
(2) Bílí Tygři Liberec vs TBD
(3) Vítkovice Steel vs (6) Mountfield České Budějovice
(4) PSG Zlín vs (7) Eaton Pardubice

Of the two teams that survive the play-in round, the higher-ranked team will play Liberec and the lower-ranked team will play Třinec.

The playoffs begin on Wednesday, with Litvínov hosting Plzeň at 17:30 and Slavia hosting Karlovy Vary at 18:15, CET. The TV schedule will be announced later. For complete playoff listings, check the hokej.cz schedule here.


Check back for Czech Hockey Report's playoff preview on Tuesday.