1st League (Czechoslovakia) 1972/73

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1st League
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Master: Tesla Pardubice
Relegated: Motor České Budějovice
• 1st division |  1. ČNHL ↓   |  1. SNHL ↓

The 1972/73 season of the 1st league was the 30th regular staging of the top ice hockey division in Czechoslovakia . In the playoff final, Tesla Pardubice prevailed with 4-2 wins against Dukla Jihlava . For the team it was their first ever Czechoslovak championship . Motor České Budějovice rose to the second division, while VŽKG Ostrava / Vítkovice rose from this to the first division.

mode

As in the previous season, the league was played with ten teams. Since each team played two home and two away games against each group opponent, the total number of games per team was 36 games. Then the best four teams played the champions in the playoffs. While the semi-finals and the game for third place took place in best-of-five mode, the final was played in best-of-seven mode. The bottom of the table had to compete in qualifying for the first division for the following season against the three winners of the second division groups.

Main round

Pl. team Sp. S. U N Torv. Pt.
1. Tesla Pardubice 36 24 3 9 154: 92 51
2. Dukla Jihlava 36 19th 8th 9 156: 100 46
3. Slovan CHZJD Bratislava 36 16 6th 14th 119: 117 38
4th TJ SONP Kladno 36 13 10 13 107: 107 36
5. ZKL Brno 36 15th 6th 15th 109: 110 36
6th TJ Škoda Plzeň 36 14th 7th 15th 124: 127 35
7th CHZ Litvínov 36 13 7th 16 97: 135 33
8th. Spartak ČKD Prague 36 12 6th 18th 117: 125 30th
9. VSŽ Košice 36 10 9 17th 114: 139 29
10. Motor České Budějovice 36 11 4th 21st 88: 133 26th

The top scorer in the main round was Július Haas from Slovan CHZJD Bratislava, who scored 32 goals in his team's 36 games.

Play-offs

  Semifinals final
       
 Tesla Pardubice 3
 Slovan Bratislava 2  
   
 
 Tesla Pardubice 4th
   Dukla Jihlava 2
 
Game for third place
   
 Dukla Jihlava 3  Slovan Bratislava 3
 SONP Kladno 0    SONP Kladno 2

Champion team from Tesla Pardubice

goalkeeper Jiří Crha , Ráca
Defender Frantisek Panchártek , Horymir Sekera , Karel Vohralík , Dočkal, Andrt, Slavík, Bezdíček, Bačina
Attacking player Vladimír Martinec , Jiří Novák , Bohuslav Šťastný , Stanislav Prýl , Frantisek Bulis , Veith, Josef Paleček , Pavlíček, Haňka, Milan Hejduk senior , Čížek
Trainer Horymir Sekera senior

1st league qualification

The winners of the three second division groups , VTŽ Chomutov , VŽKG Ostrava / Vítkovice and Lokomotíva Bučina Zvolen , as well as the second in group A, ZVVZ Milevsko and the last in the 1st league Motor České Budějovice played in a round trip for inclusion in 1. League or remaining in it for the following season. The first three teams prevailed and played in the first division a year later. Originally the B-team of Dukla Jihlava was first in group A, but the team was not eligible to move up to the first division, so that Chomutov and ZVVZ Milevsko moved up.

space team Points
1. VŽKG Ostrava / Vítkovice 12
2. Motor České Budějovice 12
3. VTŽ Chomutov 9
4th ZVVZ Milevsko 5
5. Lokomotíva Bučina Zvolen 2

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ hokej.cz, Historie hokejové ligy, sezona 1972–1973

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