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Thanks to everyone (100+ people!) who joined the spontaneous stream while we did the lottery. There are a total of 48 teams, divided into 8 groups. 32 teams make the playoffs, meaning 4 teams out of each group. Groups 1-4 will be on the left side of the playoff tree and 5-8 on the right-hand side. More info will be available shortly, but for now, here are the groups: GROUP 1 Dynasty Beniserna Nordic Lightning ORIGINS Inter Iceland Nupurin Haukka GROUP 2 Sjukstugan Ace Holes HC Kattiautomaatti Vastaanottokeskus A la Carte Nordic Hockey Tigers GROUP 3 Nordic Nightmare Breaking Records TIKI TALK Victorious Secret HC Fat Cats Kontoret GROUP 4 Nordic Blizzard No Guts No Glory Refuse To Lose SIKA HC Aurinko Rising Force GROUP 5 Synergy Hockey Aapon Taikasauva The Unstoppable Warriors Written In The Stars Hc IceTigers KiekkoVesa GROUP 6 UKnightedHC Infinity Nordic Stars Silver Sword Griffins Freaky Friday LEBKOUNG MAFIA GROUP 7 Northern Stars Anahaim Ducks Finnish Panthers murohoki Helter Skelter Raakkelin Liekit GROUP 8 MUKIMIEHET Falun Coal Miners Rising Phantoms HC The Beagle Boyz Dynamo Swiss HC Shameful Knights Please note that you are not supposed to be able to join a team, nor invite players to a team at this stage. This will be made available on Sunday. On behalf of the NHL Gamer staff,

Thanks for the feedback! I'll address the issue briefly. Right now, if everything goes according to the plan, the finals would end at around mid-June. We don't want to risk the final teams going on summer holidays etc. before the playoffs are over. Nine days is a lot in this perspective. Also, with 32 teams advancing to the playoffs I can't see it would make much of a difference. If it were 16 teams, then definitely a longer group stage. Aren't the group stage games more important now, when there's less games and less room for error? I think upsets would be even harder to pull off if the group stage had twice as many games.

Just checked the schedule for the upcoming season, and had a thought. Wouldn't it be better if the group round would have more games than just 10 per team? For example, playing four times against each team would increase the importance of the group round, and considering the fact that at the moment the group round is scheduled to last for just 9 days, it kind of feels way too short. Adding 9 more days in it wouldn't make it way too long anyway. For example, play another round of games in reverse order compared to the first round. This is just my opinion, but I'm pretty sure I'm not alone with this.

Group 1 1 Dynasty 2.Nordic Lightning 3.Beniserna 4.Origins Group 2 1. Kattiautomaatti(i hope ) 2.Sjukstugan 3.Ace holes 4.Nordic hockey tigers

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