Extraliga (Czech Republic) 2006/07

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Master:	HC Sparta Prague
Relegated:	Vsetínská hokejová (exclusion)
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The 2006/07 season was the 14th regular staging of the Czech extra league . In the play-off final, last year's champions HC Sparta Prague prevailed against HC Moeller Pardubice with 4-2 and were able to defend their title. In the first division of the Czech Republic , HC Slovan Ústečtí Lvi prevailed against KLH Chomutov and rose to the extra league without being relegated. After the end of the season Vsetínská hokejová was excluded from the league due to financial problems and unfulfilled conditions.

mode

In 52 games, all teams play against each other four times, each team has 26 home and 26 away games throughout the season. The teams in places 1-6. qualify directly for the play-offs, which will be played in the best-of-seven mode. The teams in places 7th – 10th play the other two places in the Best of Five against each other. There will be no relegation in the 2006/07 season, as this is not provided for in the rules of the Extraliga. This means that the champions of the first division are promoted directly to the extra division.

Regular season

table

Sparta vs. Slavia Prague, Jan. 2007

Space.	team	Sp	S3	S1	N1	N	Torv.	Points
1.	HC Bílí Tygři Liberec	52	28	6th	4th	14th	161: 112	100
2.	HC Moeller Pardubice	52	29	1	3	19th	177: 131	92
3.	HC České Budějovice	52	23	9	2	18th	160: 144	89
4th	HC Sparta Prague	52	25th	2	8th	17th	178: 157	87
5.	HC Hamé Zlín	52	21st	8th	7th	16	162: 158	86
6th	HC Slavia Prague	52	21st	6th	6th	19th	171: 162	81
7th	HC Energie Karlovy Vary	52	20th	7th	6th	19th	136: 124	80
8th.	HC Rabat Kladno	52	21st	6th	4th	21st	189: 173	79
9.	HC Znojemští Orli	52	20th	7th	2	23	117: 129	76
10.	HC Oceláři Třinec	52	20th	4th	8th	20th	145: 162	76
11.	HC Vítkovice Steel	52	22nd	2	5	23	141: 141	75
12.	HC Litvínov	52	20th	4th	6th	22nd	157: 165	74
13.	HC Lasselsberger Plzeň	52	20th	1	1	30th	141: 173	63
14th	Vsetínská hokejová	52	8th	3	4th	37	88: 192	34

Source: hokej.cz

Awards

• Top scorer: Petr Sýkora with 37 goals ( HC Pardubice )
• Top template: Pavel Patera ( HC Kladno ) with 41 assists
• Top scorer: Jaroslav Hlinka ( HC Sparta Prague ) 57 points, 19 goals and 38 assists

Average audience

HC Moeller Pardubice recorded the highest average attendance in the league.

team	cut		team	cut
HC Moeller Pardubice	8596		HC Slavia Prague	4402
Sparta Prague	6207		HC Litvínov	4236
HC České Budějovice	5206		HC Energie Karlovy Vary	3041
Bílí Tygři Liberec	4988		HC Rabat Kladno	2922
HC Lasselsberger Plzeň	4880		HC Znojmo	2822
HC Zlín	4517		HC Vsetín	2719
HC Vítkovice Steel	4405		HC Trinec	2578

Playoffs

Pre-playoffs

HC Energie Karlovy Vary (7) - (10) HC Oceláři Třinec 0: 3

HC Rabat Kladno (8) - (9) HC Znojemští Orli 0: 3

The last two places in the playoffs were played between the seventh to tenth-placed teams. The teams that were worse placed prevailed. At HC Třinec Roman Čechmánek showed an outstanding performance and saved 114 of 118 shots on his goal in the three games. Another legend of Czech ice hockey, Jiří Dopita , made it into the play-offs in his 700th Extraliga game with HC Znojemští Orli.

Tournament tree

	Quarter finals				Semifinals				final
	HC Sparta Prague	4th
	HC Hamé Zlín	1
					HC Sparta Prague	4th
					Bílí Tygři Liberec	1
	Bílí Tygři Liberec	4th
	HC Oceláři Třinec	3
									HC Sparta Prague	4th
									HC Moeller Pardubice	2
	HC Moeller Pardubice	4th
	HC Znojemští Orli	3
					HC Moeller Pardubice	4th			Game for third place
					HC České Budějovice	1
	HC Slavia Prague	2							not played out
	HC České Budějovice	4th

final

date	place	Home team	Visiting team	Result
April 4, 2007	Pardubice , ČEZ Aréna	HC Moeller Pardubice	HC Sparta Prague	4: 5
April 5, 2007	Pardubice, ČEZ Aréna	HC Moeller Pardubice	HC Sparta Prague	3: 5
April 8, 2007	Prague , T-Mobile Arena	HC Sparta Prague	HC Moeller Pardubice	7: 3
April 9, 2007	Prague, T-Mobile Arena	HC Sparta Prague	HC Moeller Pardubice	2: 5
April 12, 2007	Pardubice, ČEZ Aréna	HC Moeller Pardubice	HC Sparta Prague	5: 1
April 14, 2007	Prague, T-Mobile Arena	HC Sparta Prague	HC Moeller Pardubice	2-0

The champions of the 2006/07 season were HC Sparta Prague, which prevailed against HC Moeller Pardubice. Sparta won the fifth title in the club's history and was able to defend the title of the previous year.

Champion team of HC Sparta Prague

goalkeeper	Tomáš Duba , Dušan Salfický
Defender	Jiří Vykoukal , Ladislav Benýšek , Marek Černošek , Jan Hanzlík , Jaroslav Mrázek , Tomáš Protivný , František Ptáček , Richard Stehlík , Ján Tabaček , Karel Pilař
Attacking player	Jaroslav Hlinka , Martin Štrba , Petr Ton , David Vrbata , Jiří Zelenka , Michal Dragoun , Jan Hlaváč , Karel Hromas , Ondřej Kratěna , Jakub Langhammer , Tomáš Netík , Martin Podlešák , Luboš Rob , Michal Sivek
Trainer	František Výborný and Marian Jelínek

Awards

trophies

Award	winner	team
Player of the year	Petr Sýkora	HC Moeller Pardubice
Goalkeeper of the Year	Jiří Trvaj	HC Znojemští Orli
Defender of the Year	Lukáš Zíb	Bílí Tygři Liberec
Rookie of the year	Jaroslav Hübl	HC Chemopetrol
Coach of the year	František Výborný	HC Sparta Prague
MVP of the playoffs	Jaroslav Hlinka	HC Sparta Prague

All-Star Team

goal	Jiří Trvaj (Znojmo)
defense	Jiří Vykoukal			Lukáš Zíb (Liberec)
Storm	Petr Sýkora		Jaroslav Hlinka		Petr tone

Web links

Commons : Extraliga (Czech Republic) 2006/07  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Czech O2 Extraliga starts its 15th season . radio.cz
2. ↑ Table of the 2006/07 season at hokej.cz
3. ↑ Goal scorer statistics for the 2006/07 season at hokej.cz