1st League (Czechoslovakia) 1937/38

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The 1937/38 season of the 1st league ( Czech Státní liga ) was the second regular staging of the top ice hockey division in Czechoslovakia . With a 5-1 final victory, last year's champions LTC Prague won the final against AC Sparta Prague and thus again won the Czechoslovak championship , which was played within a nationwide league with two groups. Due to the outbreak of the Second World War , the game was stopped in the next few years and only resumed after the end of the war for the 1945/46 season . As an alternative, the championship of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia took place during the war years . In addition, an independent championship was held in Slovakia .

mode

In contrast to the previous year, the league was played in two groups of seven teams each, with the two group winners qualifying for the final.

Tables

Group A

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1.	LTC Prague	5	5	0	0	33-1	10
2.	I. ČLTK Prague	6th	4th	1	1	24-12	9
3.	HOVS Prague	5	2	2	1	12-11	6th
4th	SK Písek	4th	2	1	1	8-14	5
5.	SSK Vítkovice	5	1	1	3	2-14	3
6th	BK Mladá Boleslav	5	1	0	4th	6-17	2
7th	Troppauer EV Opava	4th	0	1	3	0-16	1

Group B

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1.	AC Sparta Prague	4th	4th	0	0	24-3	8th
2.	HC Tatry Poprad	5	4th	0	1	16-3	8th
3.	DFK Komotau	4th	2	0	2	10-10	4th
4th	DSK Třebíč	4th	1	1	2	8-13	3
5.	VŠ Bratislava	2	1	0	1	4-5	2
6th	AC Stadium in České Budějovice	4th	0	1	3	3-17	1
7th	LTC Pardubice	3	0	0	3	1-15	0

final

In the final, last year's champions and A-group winner LTC Prague prevailed 5-1 against AC Sparta Prague. The top scorer in the league was player- coach Mike Buckna from LTC Prague, who scored 14 goals in his team's six games.

March 10, 1938

LTC Prague

5: 1 (2: 1, 0: 0, 3: 0)

AC Sparta Prague

Best goal scorers

• Mike Buckna ( LTC Prague ) - 14 goals
• Josef Maleček (LTC Prague) - 10 goals
• Jaroslav Drobný ( I. ČLTK Prague ) - 9 goals
• Oldřich Hurych ( AC Sparta Prague ) - 9 goals
• Drahoš Jirotka (AC Sparta Prague) - 9 goals
• Wilhelm Heinz ( DFK Komotau ) - 7 goals

LTC Prague championship team

goalkeeper	Bohumil Modrý , Antonín Houba
Defender	Jaroslav Pušbauer , Vilibald Šťovík , Stephen Beda
striker	Ladislav Troják , Josef Maleček , Mike Buckna , Oldřich Kučera , František Pergl , Alois Cetkovský , Jaroslav Císař , Viktor Lonsmín , František Pácalt
Trainer	Mike Buckna

Individual evidence

1. ↑ hokej.cz, Historie hokejové ligy, sezona 1937–1938

Web links

• 1. League statistics ( Memento from November 20, 2002 in the Internet Archive ) (Czech)

• 1st League (Czechoslovakia) 1937/38 at hockeyarchives.info (French)