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NHLGamers, The upcoming ECL 11 season will feature some more German colors as the Herforder Ice Dragons further add to the growth in the central European community. The German organization was founded in the early 2000s and although its history has not been long, it has risen in popularity in its home country. Currently, the Ice Dragons are competing in the German Oberliga, which is the third tier of national competition. The esports section has made their biggest goal of the ECL 11 season to make the playoffs of the Neo division. The Herforder Ice Dragons stand for loyalty above all, as the virtual hockey team's colors will be represented by Dennis @NHLDennis86 Kuhlmann, who plays in net for the team and handles captains duties. He also happens to be the Zamboni driver in the home rink of the Herforder Ice Dragons. Tobias @Hohner Hohner, who plays forward for the virtual hockey team, commented on the team's starting points for the upcoming ECL 11 season. "Our players come not only from one region, but from different regions around Germany. Furthermore we can consider ourselves lucky to have a Croatian in our team. Most of us have already played together successfully in other clubs, so we can fall back on some experienced people." The Herforder Ice Dragons' virtual hockey team is formed out of the former NHL4you Gaming team. Hohner says that the goal has been to form a completely new team, as only three players from the current roster have previously played for NHL4you Gaming. "Our esports team is formed from the former team of NHL4you Gaming, the team has now been completely reformed and completely repositioned with only three players from the original roster. Me, Marko @Tornado.hr Dominkovic and Dennis @NHLDennis86 Kuhlmann have together taken the goal to build up a new ambitious team. It was important to us that the chemistry in the team is right and of course the performance on the ice should be good too." Despite seeing major changes since their last tournament, the team leans back on familiar forces to see success in their upcoming ECL campaign: "Our strength is the cohesion with each other. We discuss a lot about tactics and moves, which we try to implement outside and inside the league games. Team chemistry is also extremely important to us, so that we have a good atmosphere in the team." says Tobias @Hohner Hohner. With not too long left before the start of the season, the teams ambitious goals will be highlighted in discussions. "We want to develop as a team and have fun on the ice while also getting as far as possible in the ECL. The goal is of course the playoffs and everything else is a bonus." Hohner states

"Jack Link's has been part of HAVU's journey for the past two years, and we together always want to give more to the Finnish esports scene. As one of the leading Finnish esports organizations, supporting the Finnish scene and providing more entry-level competitions is always in our interest. This also applies to NHL, where we are taking that step today by announcing our first NHL tournament." - Lasse Salminen, CEO of HAVU Gaming NHLGamer provides it's true and tested platform for the Jack Link's Open in order to run the tournament as smoothly as possible! We're also tremendously excited about growing the scene and bringing interesting partners such as Jack Links and HAVU Gaming along for the ride in NHL 21. Jack Link's Open NHL 21 1v1 Tournament by HAVU will be played between 20-21.11.2020. Sign-ups close on Wednesday the 18th of November. The maximum amount of players is 256 and the entire tournament will be played as a single-elimination bracket. Each participant must be a Finnish resident. Tournament schedule: 20.11. Friday 18:00 EET - RO256 19:30 EET - RO128 21:00 EET - RO64 22:30 EET - RO32 21.11. Saturday 14:00 EET - RO16 15:30 EET - Quarterfinals (RO8) 17:00 EET - Semifinals (RO4) 19:00 EET - Finals (Preliminary dates, subject to change) Gameday 2 will be broadcasted in full - live on NHLGamer's official Twitch channel, where viewers are also able to participate in Jack Link's giveaways. Prizes: The main monetary prize in the tournament is 500€, which will be awarded to the winner. The top 4 placing players will also receive some great product prizes from Jack Link's. REGISTER NOW!

Hey NHLGamers, It would be safe to say that the 1.1 patch released just over two weeks ago was heavily expedited due to the broken defensive skill stick, which allowed people to poke / knock the puck loose without tripping the puck carrier. As such, we are now in the general time-frame in which EA would drop their first 'major' patch of the year and, right on cue, we have just that - releasing sometime today on the 5th of November 2020. Making up the bulk of the changes in the 1.2 patch are fixes / improvements that look to strengthen the gameplay, reducing the likelihood of weird events occurring. One such example of this would be 'fixing' cases where a player would drop the puck when blending in and out of animations. Additionally, for all the goalies out there, EA is also supposed to have packaged an improvement in human goalie save selection within this patch. Generally speaking though, most of the changes contained within this patch look to fix niggling issues more than anything so one would wager that the gameplay should remain largely similar to how it was pre-patch. The full changelog can be viewed below (press expand to view the full list): What does everyone think of these changes? Anything that stands out to you?