[7] It replaced Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League after Czechoslovakia split.

The teams placed between 7 - 10th play each other in the best-of-five matches, the other two participants compete in a play-off quarter-final.

Before the Velvet Divorce the Czech Republic national team played as the Czechoslovakia men's national ice hockey team and they had an intense hockey rivalry with the USSR.

[10] The Czech Republic is a member of the so-called "Big Six", an unofficial list of major powers in world hockey.

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