RAHL1 at the halfway point of the regular season: Wild Thing Karaoke eight from eight, Petržalka two points behind, Griglák leads the scoring

With round 9 on Saturday 7 November 2026, RAHL1 reached the halfway point of the regular season. The nine teams have completed the first round-robin – each has played eight games and had one bye. The 35 games played produced 263 goals, an average of 7.5 per game, and only three ended in a draw. One game, Uličníci – Neanderthals in round 1, was awarded 5:0 by default.

The standings after the first half

Wild Thing Karaoke have been top since round 1 and have 16 points, with HK Petržalka two points behind. Uličníci are third on 11 points. The middle of the table is tight – only three points separate fourth-placed AHS and seventh-placed AHC Pezinok Ducks. At the bottom are Mad Vipers with three points and Neanderthals with two.

Wild Thing Karaoke: eight games, eight wins

Wild Thing Karaoke are the only RAHL1 team that has not dropped a point. They have won all eight games with a goal difference of 42:14 and were top after every one of the nine rounds. They kept two clean sheets (6:0 against Mad Vipers and 3:0 against Neanderthals) and are the only team to beat HK Petržalka this season – 3:1 in round 2. On Saturday they beat AHC Pezinok Ducks 9:3, their highest score in a game this season.

The team's strength is its depth: fifteen different players have already scored, the most in the league together with Black Jokers. The top scorer is Patrik Trischitz (8 goals, 13 points), while Marián Horváth has the most assists (4 goals and 12 assists). The league named Peter Gajdoš player of round 1 and Marcel Ulehla, who scored a hat-trick against Black Jokers, player of round 5.

Wild Thing Karaoke – HK Petržalka (round 2, 3:1) – Petržalka's only defeat in the first half. Photo: RAHL

HK Petržalka: the best attack and six wins in a row

Defending champions HK Petržalka have lost only once, to Wild Thing Karaoke. Since then they have won six in a row, have the league's best attack (48 goals) and, together with Wild Thing Karaoke, have conceded the fewest goals (14). They also recorded the biggest win of the first half, 11:0 against AHC Pezinok Ducks in round 4, and on Saturday beat Mad Vipers 7:1.

Ľubomír Patlevič has scored ten goals in five games, the most in the league – four of them against Neanderthals in round 5 and a hat-trick against Uličníci in round 6. The league named him player of round 6 and player of the month for October, and fans on szalh.sk voted him player of rounds 5 and 6. Patrik Hubek has added 4 goals and 12 assists, Jakub Valovič has 14 points from four games and Jozef Krafčák scored four goals in the 11:0 win. Three Petržalka players have already received the league's Player of the Round award – Krafčák, Patlevič and Valovič.

HK Petržalka celebrating the 2025/26 title. Photo: RAHL

Uličníci third, Griglák leads the scoring

Uličníci have 11 points (5 wins, 1 draw, 2 losses) and have lost only to the top two – 2:5 to Wild Thing Karaoke and 3:8 to Petržalka. On Saturday they beat Wild Hogs 3:1. Tomáš Griglák leads the scoring in the whole league with 17 points (7 goals and 10 assists) and scored a hat-trick against AHS in round 7. Dominik Vaniak has 10 points from four games.

The middle of the table: four teams within three points

AHS have 8 points and moved up to fourth after Saturday's 5:0 win over Neanderthals. Black Jokers are a point behind but have the league's third-best goal difference at +9. After round 3 they were even second, and in that round they also recorded the second-biggest win of the first half, 10:0 against Neanderthals, with a hat-trick from Stano Bročko. Alex Ftáčnik has nine assists.

Wild Hogs started with two draws (7:7 with Ducks and 5:5 with Mad Vipers) but have now lost three in a row and have 6 points. Vladimír Hegely has 16 points (6 goals and 10 assists) and was named the league's player of the month for September, while Tomáš Nekoranec has added 12 points. AHC Pezinok Ducks have 5 points and have conceded the most goals (48), but they also have one of the best scorers: Lukáš Opath has scored nine goals in four games, including a hat-trick against Uličníci and four goals against Black Jokers. Michal Sklár also scored a hat-trick, against Neanderthals in round 2.

Mad Vipers and Neanderthals looking for points

Mad Vipers have three points. Their only win came in round 3 against Ducks (6:2), they drew 5:5 with Wild Hogs and have now lost five in a row. Neanderthals had to wait until round 8 for their first win, beating Mad Vipers 5:2. They have scored seven goals in eight games and lost 0:5 to AHS on Saturday.

The first half in numbers

• 263 goals in 35 games played, an average of 7.5 per game; the most goals (36) came in round 8.
• Biggest win: HK Petržalka – AHC Pezinok Ducks 11:0 (round 4). Most goals in a game: AHC Pezinok Ducks – Wild Hogs 7:7 (round 1).
• Nine hat-tricks: two each for Patlevič and Opath, one each for Sklár, Bročko, Krafčák, Ulehla and Griglák. Krafčák, Patlevič and Opath have each scored four goals in a game.
• Six points in one game: Jozef Krafčák (4+2 against Ducks) and Jakub Valovič (2+4 against AHS).
• The most goals, 43, were scored in the last five minutes of games.
• Clean sheets: Wild Thing Karaoke and HK Petržalka two each, Black Jokers and AHS one each (both against Neanderthals).
• Neanderthals have the most penalty minutes (42), AHC Pezinok Ducks the fewest (20).

Awards in the first half

After every round the RAHL league picks a player of the round, and once a month a player of the month. Fans on szalh.sk vote for the Superfanúšik Player of the Round, who receives a 100 € voucher from SuperFanúšik.sk.

• Player of the round chosen by the league: 1. Peter Gajdoš (Wild Thing Karaoke), 2. Michal Sklár (AHC Pezinok Ducks), 3. Stano Bročko (Black Jokers), 4. Jozef Krafčák (HK Petržalka), 5. Marcel Ulehla (Wild Thing Karaoke), 6. Ľubomír Patlevič (HK Petržalka), 7. Lukáš Opath (AHC Pezinok Ducks), 8. Jakub Valovič (HK Petržalka).
• Player of the month: September Vladimír Hegely (Wild Hogs), October Ľubomír Patlevič (HK Petržalka).
• Fan vote: round 5 Ľubomír Patlevič, round 6 Ľubomír Patlevič, round 7 Robert Križan (AHC Pezinok Ducks), round 8 Jakub Valovič (HK Petržalka).

What the second half will bring

The second round-robin starts on Saturday 14 November 2026. Six rounds will be played before Christmas (the last on 19 December), the competition resumes after the break on 23 January and the regular season ends on 6 February 2027. That final round brings together HK Petržalka and Wild Thing Karaoke, so first place may only be decided in their head-to-head game.

Round 10 on Saturday 14 November: Wild Thing Karaoke – Mad Vipers (8:30), HK Petržalka – Black Jokers (9:45), Neanderthals – Uličníci (11:00) and Wild Hogs – AHC Pezinok Ducks (12:15). AHS have a bye. All of November RAHL is also playing for a good cause: every goal means 2 € for the RAHL Movember fundraiser for the League Against Cancer.