1st League (Czechoslovakia) 1976/77

1st League
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Master:	SONP Kladno
Relegated:	TJ Gottwaldov
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The 1976/77 season of the 1st division was the 34th regular staging of the top ice hockey division in Czechoslovakia . SONP Kladno prevailed with 70 points . For the team it was the fourth Czechoslovak championship title in a row.

mode

As in the previous season, the league was played with twelve teams. Since each team played two home and two away games against each group opponent, the total number of games per team was 44 games. Champion became the winner of the main round. The bottom of the table was relegated directly to the respective national championship.

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Torv.	Pt.
1.	TJ SONP Kladno	44	33	4th	7th	214: 111	70
2.	Dukla Jihlava	44	32	5	7th	183: 90	69
3.	Spartak ČKD Prague	44	23	6th	15th	156: 131	52
4th	Tesla Pardubice	44	20th	10	14th	175: 145	50
5.	Motor České Budějovice	44	18th	8th	18th	154: 156	44
6th	Slovan CHZJD Bratislava	44	19th	6th	19th	118: 125	44
7th	TJ Vítkovice	44	17th	7th	20th	159: 160	41
8th.	TJ Škoda Plzeň	44	17th	6th	21st	178: 191	40
9.	CHZ Litvínov	44	16	8th	20th	144: 190	40
10.	VSŽ Košice	44	15th	7th	22nd	176: 176	37
11.	ZKL Brno	44	11	7th	26th	119: 168	29
12.	TJ Gottwaldov	44	3	6th	35	119: 252	12

Top scorer

The top scorer in the league was Milan Nový from master SONP Kladno, who scored 59 goals in his team's 44 games.

Pl.	Surname	team	Games	Gates	Assists	Points
1	Milan Nový	SONP Kladno	44	59	30th	89
2	Vincent Lukáč	VSŽ Košice	44	48	34	82
3	Eduard Novák	SONP Kladno	42	37	26th	63
4th	Ivan Hlinka	CHZ Litvínov	43	39	23	62
5	Bohuslav Ebermann	Škoda Plzeň	44	31	25th	56
6th	Jiří Novák	Tesla Pardubice	43	30th	23	53
7th	Miroslav Klapáč	Škoda Plzeň	44	30th	23	53
8th	Peter Šťastný	Slovan CHZJD Bratislava	44	24	26th	50
9	Vladimír Martinec	Tesla Pardubice	42	28	21st	49
10	Marián Šťastný	Slovan CHZJD Bratislava	43	28	20th	48

Master team from SONP Kladno

	goalkeeper	Miroslav Krása , Miroslav Termer
	Defender	Jan Neliba , František Pospíšil , Otakar Vejvoda , Jaroslav Vinš , Bohumil Čermák , František Větrovec , František Kaberle senior , Antonín Melč
	striker	Eduard Novák , Milan Nový , Lubomír Bauer , Zdeněk Nedvěd , Václav Sýkora , Miroslav Křiváček , Ladislav Vysušil , Milan Skrbek , Zdeněk Müller , Jiří Filip , Jiří Kopecký , Jan Novotný
	Trainer	Jaroslav Volf , Slansky

1st league qualification

The winners of the Czech and Slovak 2nd division groups competed against each other in a best-of-seven series for promotion to the 1st division for the following season. The Slovak representative Dukla Trenčín prevailed.

• Slezan Opava - Dukla Trenčín 2: 4 (7: 2, 3: 0, 0: 5, 2: 3, 2: 5, 3: 4)

Awards

Source: hockeyarchives.info

• Zlatá hokejka : Milan Nový (SONP Kladno)
• Top TIPu :
  • Best goalkeeper: Vladimír Dzurilla (Zetor Brno)
  • Best defender: Jiří Bubla (CHZ Litvínov)
  • Best striker: Milan Nový (SONP Kladno)

• All-Star Team : Vladimír Dzurilla (Brno); Jiří Bubla (Litvínov) - František Pospíšil (Kladno); Bohuslav Ebermann (Plzeň) - Milan Nový (Kladno) - Vladimír Martinec (Pardubice).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ hokej.cz, Historie hokejové ligy, sezona 1976–1977
2. ↑ hockeyarchives.info, Championnat de Tchécoslovaquie 1976/77

Web links

• 1st league statistics (Czech)