There they lost 5 of 6 games against VŽKG Ostrava, VTŽ Chomutov and Spartak Motorlet Praha and did not promote to the First League.

In 1990–91 Dukla lost in the semifinals against Litvínov but they won the bronze medals against VSŽ Košice.

Róbert Švehla, defenceman of Dukla, won the Golden Hockey Stick in the same season.

Pavol Demitra played complete regular season and he was a scoring leader of the Extraliga (82 Pts).

Despite a star lineup Dukla lost 3–4 in the excited semifinals against HC Slovan Bratislava.

Gáborík's teammate in Minnesota Wild was Ľubomír Sekeráš who played three seasons for the club.

Chára, drafted 56th overall by New York Islanders in 1996, is the first Slovak and only the second European captain of an NHL team who won the Stanley Cup.

Chára is also the first Slovak winner of the James Norris Memorial Trophy, given to the best defenseman of a season.

Richard Lintner was drafted in the same year as Chára, another NHL player who was born in Trenčín.

The stadium in Trenčín was named after Pavol Demitra who died in the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash.