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Hello NHLGamers, Today we bring you a different kind of news story, albeit a very welcome one. We are very happy to announce we've received word that our fellow NHLGamer member, previous ECL championship winner and immensly talented NHL 17 player @Hansulinho has signed a contract with well-known e-Sports organization ENCE eSports. First of all, a big round of applause to Hansu for what we're sure is an insanely exciting opportunity. Second of all, this signals there is growing interest in creating an eSports scene using the NHL series as a platform. With trailblazers like Hansulinho and other profiles in the community leading the way, this could hopefully lead to some great opportunities in the future. We had a chance to talk to Hansu for a few minutes to find out his reaction to the new contract; NHLG: First off, congratulations Hansu! So, tell us about ENCE! Hansulinho: Thank you! Well, ENCE is basically a Finnish eSports organization. They have their own CS:GO & Overwatch teams and Starcraft and Heartsone players. Now they are expanding to console sports and want me to be their "NHL-player". So what does this mean, practically? Practically, they want me to improve mine and their visibility in the eSports scene. This also means representing them in upcoming tournaments and events! Quite an opportunity, huh? Honestly, this is a project full of opportunities! I believe this will bring my "career" quite a large boost and I can't wait to see what the future brings - exciting times. What are your thoughts on NHL and eSports in the future? In my opinion it's definitely growing. To be honest, so far it's been growing in baby steps, but there may be big changes in the future. I'm sure many of us would like to know, what made you so successfull in the Versus game mode? Basically, many years of experience and having played in so many important games. The tolerance of stress grows from the experience and it has given me the ability to win tight games consistently. The ECL quarter finals are under way - how is the atmosphere in the Laser HT locker room regarding your matchup with Northern Ascendancy? Feels great, getting to play against dear enemies and friends again. Hopefully we'll be able to win this one! (Editors note: After 3 games, the matchup is 2-1 Laser) Finally and most importantly, what is the secret to beating last years finalist in the Finnish Championships, @Kenu, in Versus? Well, it's not that hard really. Just score more goals than him... Hansulinho Fact Box [Player Profile] 4-time Finnish National Champion in Versus Participated in all 3 ECL tournaments, twice for Nordic Blizzard (champions of ECL 1) and now Laser HT 117 ECL regular season points in 29 games and 67 playoff points in 22 games Favors the RW position in EASHL Read the full announcement article at: http://www.ence.gg/article/welcome-hansulino/ Finnish speakers may appreciate this article: http://www.iltasanomat.fi/digitoday/esports/art-2000005041322.html On behalf of the NHLGamer staff - later skaters, The_Alpha_Furyan11 points -
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Hello NHLGamers, As some of you may have noticed, Round 3 of the ECL 3 playoffs kicked off last night with some great battles. For those of you who did miss it, here are the playoff pairings (the ECL 3 "Final Eight" teams) for Round 3 - scheduled to be played 11/1 to 17/1; Laser HT - Northern Ascendancy Written In The Stars - Finnish Roosters Aapon Taikasauva - MUKIMIEHET X Factor - SIKA I'm sure all of us in the community are looking forward to some great battles here and as evidenced by the teams respective Twitch streams yesterday - the quality of play is top notch! Also, be sure to be on the lookout for a lengthy ECL 3 Finals Preview produced by myself and new NHLGamer Staff member @vSilenttio - featuring game analysis, some quotes from the captains and a prediction for who will be our next ECL champion. Finally, if all goes well we are looking into the possibility of producing a game broadcast from the Official NHLGamer Twitch Channel during the ECL Finals. Is this something you would like to see? Perhaps with a preview show? Some cat videos from @Kenu? Let us know in the comment section! We want your feedback. As always, later skaters // The_Alpha_Furyan5 points -
Go for it! Maybe even some commentators as well?3 points
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Laser HT - Northern Ascendancy 4-1 Written In The Stars - Finnish Roosters 4-2 Aapon Taikasauvat - MUKIMIEHET 4-1 X-Factor - SIKA 4-1 I'll already make precition to semifinals and finals Laser HT - X-Factor 4-2 Aapon Taikasauvat - Written in The Stars 4-2 Laser HT - Aapon Taikasauvat 3-42 points
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I would watch that show, go for it. Couple beers and snacks and the finals, sounds like a plan.2 points
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Big step for you and Nhl communityn thanks to you. Congratulations! and GL for future tournaments.2 points
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Doing something u love to do and getting paid for it, living the dream I would say. Congratulations and GL for future tournaments.2 points
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Well done, my friend! Congratulations!2 points
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This topic will work as NHLGamer's official streaming discussion and information thread. Feel free to share your streams here. Reminder! When you put up a ECL stream, remember to add your stream to NHLGamer as well. It really does give you more visibility and makes it easier and faster to watch your stream instead of just only writing the link into chatbox which is of course also good thing to do. All you need to do is click "add stream" in the front page and you're one click away from the fame! And all this takes only 30 seconds at max. to do. Support for other platforms (Youtube etc.) will be done in the future as well. My links are in my forum signature, both personal & SIKA's (SpiderRoyal's stream).1 point
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So @Joukki will finally win after 4 straight seasons of being second.1 point
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Hansulinho to Ence 1v1 e-Sports team http://nhlgamer.com/community/news/other/nhlgamer-member-hansulinho-signs-contract-with-e-sports-team-r941 point
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Laser HT - Northern Ascendancy 4-1Written In The Stars - Finnish Roosters 2-4Aapon Taikasauvat - MUKIMIEHET 4-2X-Factor - SIKA 4-21 point
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Pens will win the Cup again. Book it. Also I jinxed it. So Chicago will win instead. Damnit. Blue Jackets biggest surprise by far. No one thought a Tortorella-coached team would do well, let alone lead the NHL. Tampa Bay struggling is a surprise for me too. Early awards predictions: Art Ross: Crosby Hart: Dubnyk Lindsay: Crosby Richard: Crosby Norris: Burns Selke: Koivu Vezina: Dubnyk1 point
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Experienced C/LW looking for ECL Elite team and new winds to ECL4. I have been playing Eashl since '11-12'. Teams where I have played: SIKA, Written in the Stars What I want from the new team is good puck moving and comfortable athmosphere. If you're interested, contact on psn: Nampa77 or here in pm. Playercard: http://nhlgamer.com/player.php?playerID=6921 point
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Hello, I hope I am not too late to discuss divisions. I spent some time reading all the comments here and think about this, these are my toughts. First division 3 amateur: I don't think 3 divisions will stop teams falling apart, drama is always there in this league as in life. And it does not stop teams from quitting before the tournament ends. It might even engourage to that in div3. All of the teams aim to go in div2? Think about teams that have worked for months to get in div2 from div3 and if they think in the middle of the tournament they won't make it. So much furstration, try next time in 3 months to play in the division they want to play? Why even try to finish? What they have to lose in div3 they dont even want to play in? I think there will be highest amount of quits in div3 that has ever been in a tournament. Who wants that? Let's be honest here, nobody wants to play in div3 and I think that is a huge problem as we can't stop the drama in teams. New teams will always come and go. Why punish them? Why is a new team so bad thing, if they want to make a new team let them. Why kill their ECL dreams by putting them in div3, where nobody wants. It will be really hard to create a new team if you have to start from div3, who wants to go play there if you have option to go in higher div as free agent. Divisions will create more drama in teams because now when some teams players want to go different ways, there will be fights who keeps the team in higher div, who has to go free agency and who has to create new team in div3, which might mean quitting ECL rather than playing in div3. I think every team who wants to play ECL wants to play competitive and play against better teams. If not I think EASHL is the right place for them, not ECL. We should not change ECL to be more pleasant for teams that do not want to play against the best teams. Division 2 pro: I think divisions 2 and 3 should be combined as div2. New teams start always from div2. Teams would be in groups, every season groups would be divided evenly by last season standings. There would be as many groups as needed. For example 30 teams in div2 = 2 groups, 45 teams = 3 groups. Total of 16 best teams from groups would go in the playoffs. After playoffs #1 goes to div1 elite and #16 of elite relegation to div2. #2-4 of div2 would play best of 7 series against elite #13-15 for elite spots for next season. Division 1 elite: It's good to have division 1. #16 straight relegation and #13-15 has to play best of 7 against relegation. I personally play for Kattiautomaatti and we have to play in div2 in next ECL and I think we deserved it. We did not play as good as we should or as good as we can play. We will try to get back in div1 elite playoffs. So I am not playing in div1 and I am not against divisions. I am not playing in div3 amateur but I am still strongly against div3. I only see more cons than pros in it. We can't stop players making new teams and we should not punish players for that. I think it is only bad for this community. Feel free to comment this post.1 point
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I would actually agree with debi about the playoff spots. If there is 20 teams for example, would be better to have a 16 in the playoffs! Trying to keep everyone in the battle is a perfect solution!1 point
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