2017–18 Czech Extraliga season


The 2017–18 Czech Extraliga season was the 25th season of the Czech Extraliga since its creation after the breakup of Czechoslovakia and the Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League in 1993. Defending champions HC Kometa Brno won their second consecutive title and 13th national title in all, after beating HC Oceláři Třinec by 4 games to 1.
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Regular season

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, all of the tied skaters are shown.
GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/– = Plus/minus; PIM = Penalty minutes
PlayerTeam
sortname|Milan|Gulaš

Leading goaltenders

These were the leaders in GAA 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 ; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; Sv% = Save percentage; GAA = Goals against average
PlayerTeam
sortname|Patrik|Rybár

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 home advantage. 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 - HC Kometa Brno '1:4'. HC Kometa Brno won its second Czech league title.