BK Mladá Boleslav
| BK Mladá Boleslav | |
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| City | Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic |
| League | Czech Extraliga, 2014 - present |
| Founded | 1908 |
| Home arena |
Ško-Energo Aréna (capacity: 4,200) |
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| Owner(s) |
 Jan Plachý, City of Mladá Boleslav
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| Head coach |
František Výborný
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| Captain |
Jan Hanzlík
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| Website | www.bkboleslav.cz |
| Franchise history | |
| Bruslařský Klub Mladá Boleslav | |
BK Mladá Boleslav (Czech: Bruslařský klub Mladá Boleslav) is a Czech ice hockey team, which plays in the Czech Extraliga, the country's highest level. They were promoted into the league on 18 April 2014 after a two-year absence. They play their home games at Ško-Energo Aréna.
In 2000 and 2001, Mladá Boleslav won the 2nd national hockey league, and in 2008 they won the 1st national hockey league. In that year, they joined the Extraliga, after winning a promotion-relegation play-off against HC Slovan Ústečtí Lvi. In each of its first three seasons in the Czech Extraliga, Mladá Boleslav had to win a best-of-seven promotion-relegation play-off to stay in the top league, beating Slovan Ústečtí Lvi 4-3 in the last of them.
During the 2010-2011 season, the team was docked 22 points for using players not correctly registered to the club, an affair which also involved HC Plzeň and HC Kladno. An appeal against the penalty was turned down. The club was later fined 3 million Czech crowns in a separate matter in which its administration was ruled to have deliberately withheld information concerning club debt.
In September 2011, locally born Radim Vrbata of the NHL's Vancouver Canucks, bought a 33% share in the club, which he held until 2015.
In April 2012 the club finished in last place and lost the subsequent promotion-relegation play-off against HC Piráti Chomutov in seven games. The club was therefore relegated from the Extraliga to the 1st League.
Coach František Výborný, father of the team's captain David, was hired as coach for the 2012-2013 season. The club finished the league phase of that season in first place with 117 points from 52 games.
For the 2012/13 a new system for promotion and relegation between the Extraliga and the 1st League was implemented, involving the two lowest-placed teams from the Extraliga and the two highest teams from the 1st League. Each team would meet each other team twice at home and twice away, each playing 12 games in total. Points would be awarded in the same way as in the regular season (3 points for a win in regulation, 2 points for a win in overtime, 1 point for an overtime loss, and 0 points for a regulation loss). Since both semi-finalists would enter the promotion/relegation play-off, the 1st League championship final was omitted. However, BK Mladá Boleslav, as the winning semi-finalist with the better regular season record, secured the championship trophy ahead of the other semi-finalist HC Olomouc. The other teams in the play-offs were Piráti Chomutov and Bílí Tygři Liberec.
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