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Hey NHLGamers, Please join us now for our ECL Playoffs stream, where we will be enjoying at least 4 games of ECL Playoff action. Our first matchup is the ECL Pro battle between FILADELPHIA and Quality, after which we will watch some ECL Lite Playoff action between Suomen Sonnit and Style. The games will be commentated by @Panarinz and @Kenu and you can watch it here: https://www.twitch.tv/NHLGamerTwitch You can read about our predictions for these playoff battles below: The full Pro predictions will be released later today. You can read all Lite Playoff predictions by clicking here.

Hey NHLGamers, We recently had a competition to win tickets to see Jokerit and CSKA play in the KHL Playoffs at the Hartwall Arena in Helsinki and I was lucky enough to join the winners to this game on Tuesday. After CSKA goalie Ilja Sorokin and his defence leaving Jokerit scoreless twice in Moscow, Jokerit had finally managed to squeeze a couple in and won the first game in Helsinki 2-1 in OT. Going into Tuesday's game CSKA had a 2-1 series lead. The seats were good and close to the action After a scoreless first period that was slightly dominated by home team Jokerit, CSKA shocked the home audience with an early goal in the second. Jokerit bounced back quite quickly with a deflection goal that tied the game up and the game went into the 3rd period tied at 1-1. The game was starting to feel like another overtime game, until Sergei Andronov fought his way around the net and tried to make a cross crease pass - a pass that eventually would bounce off the skate of an unlucky Jokerit defenceman and into his own net. Jokerit had some quality chances to tie the game up on the power play towards the end, but got into penalty trouble themselves in the last minute and the comeback never happened. Our lucky winners who travelled quite a bit to be there. Thanks for the company! The final result: 1-2 for CSKA and a decisive looking 3-1 series lead. You can watch the highlights of the game here. The games continued last night in Moscow and Jokerit managed to win the game - which turned out to be the longest game in KHL history - in the 5th overtime period! The shots were 84-48 in CSKA's favor, but Karri Rämö only let in one goal and forced the series into game 6, which will be played in Helsinki on Saturday the 24th of March. You can watch the highlights of game 5 here and if you're interested in getting tickets for game 6 in Helsinki, they are available here. Be sure to clear your calendar, just to be safe, in case these two teams decide to break some new records on Saturday night. If you're in the Nordics, but can't make it to Helsinki for the game, you can also watch the game with a Viaplay subscription. We would like to thank our guests for the good company at Tuesdays game and a big thank you to Jokerit for cooperation in this competition. Let's hope this series gets a deserved game 7. For NHLGamer.com

The All-Star Week Gameday 2-stream is live NOW at our Twitch-channel! Stream is hosted by @Kenu and @ICappeI The schedule of tonight will be as follows: 20:30 CET Team MartindalexC - Team vatalisti 20:45 CET Team FlyerKungen - Team Norpee 21:00 CET Team vatalisti - Team FlyerKungen 21:15 CET Team MartindalexC - Team Norpee 21:30 CET Team FlyerKungen - Team MartindalexC 21:45 CET Team Norpee - Team vatalisti See you there!

Hey NHLGamers, You may have noticed that there is a break in the ECL Elite schedule next week and there's a reason for this. We hereby want to present to you, the ECL Elite All-Star Week! We asked every ECL Elite team to submit a list of 4 players from their team that they wanted to nominate for the event, consisting of: 2 Forwards 1 Defenceman 1 Goalie There were some requirements for the players, in order to be eligible for the All-Star Event: The nominees have to had played in at least 50% of the teams games this season. At the very least, one of the nominees has to be able to stream. Nominees have to be available to play at the following times: Wednesday the 21st 20:30 CET Thursday the 22nd 20:30 CET Sunday the 25th 20:30 CET Most teams submitted 4 players per team, some were unable to. In the end, we ended up with a pool of 54 players. From this pool the ECL Staff selected 8 captains, who will draft their own teams from the pool of remaining players. How does the ECL Elite All-Star week work? 3-on-3 hockey (+ goalies)! Out of the 54 players that we were presented with by the Elite teams, the staff have picked 8 captains. These 8 captains will draft from the pool of the remaining 46 players to form teams of 4 players, including: 2 forwards 1 defenceman 1 goalie The remaining 22 players that were not picked won't be in the All-Star event, unless something unexpected happens and a team needs to substitute a player. These restrictions apply to the captains selecting the teams: A minimum of 1 player from each Elite team needs to be represented in the All-Star event In the first round of picks, players for the remaining 8 teams that aren't represented through the captains have to be picked. Two players from the same ECL Elite team should not play on the same All-Star team. The players that are available in the draft pool must be selected for the same position as they are in the pool. A goalie should not be selected to play forward, etc. The 8 teams will be randomly split into 2 groups: Group 1 plays on Wednesday the 21st, starting 20:30 CET. 3 games will be live streamed with commentary - the exact details will be agreed between broadcast team and teams. Group 2 plays on Thursday the 22nd, starting 20:30 CET. 3 games will be live streamed with commentary - the exact details will be agreed between broadcast team and teams. The best two teams from each group will make it into the semi-final stage, best-of-1. All three games (2x semis and 1x final) will be streamed. The semi-finals and finals will be played on Sunday the 25th, starting 20:30 CET. The All-Star Draft As mentioned above, the captains will draft their team from the remaining pool of players, meaning there will be a total of three rounds in the drafts in order to fill out the teams. The draft will be a snake draft, meaning the captain that goes first in the first round, will pick last in the second round and then first in the third round again. The draft order was randomly picked and it looks as follows: cHIIMEERa vatalisti FlyerKungen Norpee ICappeI SepiDN TehhAhola MartindalexC The first round of picks is from the teams that are not represented by a captain. Below you can see the full list of the players in the All-Star player pool. The captains are marked in bold and with a grey background and the available picks in round 1 have a blue background. In the two following rounds, captains can fill out their empty spots from any team, except the team they represent themselves. What an exciting list of talented players! Who would you pick on your team? Let us know in the comments. We kick off tomorrow (Sunday) with the All-Star Draft stream at 17:00 CET at twitch.tv/NHLGamerTwitch and we hope to see you there! You can see the full All-Star Week schedule below: Art by @cHIIMEERa

Hey NHLGamers, We're excited to announce that we are cooperating with the Helsinki based KHL team Jokerit in bringing you the opportunity for you and your friend to win tickets to see the best hockey played here in Europe when Jokerit and CSKA Moscow meet for game #4 in Helsinki on Tuesday the 20th of March. EDIT: THE COMPETITION HAS ENDED How do I participate? There are two ways to participate and you can double your chances by doing both: #1: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/nhlgamerofficial/ You can participate by checking out our Instagram and commenting on it with your guess on the final score for game #1 (played in Moscow on Friday the 16th of March) and by tagging your friend who you want to take to the game. Also be sure to follow our Instagram to stay on top of our content there. All entries must be entered before the game starts in order to be entered into the competition. One entry per person. If the winner is unable to make it, the prize will be re-drawn. #2: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/NHLGamer/ All entries must be entered before the game starts in order to be entered into the competition. One entry per person. If the winner is unable to make it, the prize will be re-drawn. What's the prize? There will be two winners (one on Instagram and one of Facebook) of two tickets to the Jokerit - CSKA Moscow game on Tuesday the 20th of March. I will personally be joining the winners at this spectacle of an event. These are some good seats close to the action, so we will definitely have a great time at the game! If several people guess the correct score, we will randomly pick two winners. The winners will be selected and contacted on Saturday 17th of March. Can I still buy tickets for the game(s)? There are still tickets available for both game #3 (Monday 19th of March) and #4 (Tuesday 20th of March). You can buy them here: https://www.ticketmaster.fi/artist/jokerit-tickets/973335?language=en-us But I'm too far from Helsinki! If you don't want to make the trip and you live in the Nordics, the games can be viewed on Viaplay with a subscription. Hope to see you at the game!

NHLGamer is happy to announce that starting mid-March we will host another online league on our website. The German GEL - which just finished its first season with a complete new staff - will join NHLGamer. This means that NHLGamer besides the European-wide ECL and the Russian RCL, now also offers a third 6vs6 league. While joining NHLGamer, the GEL will be renamed to GCL, which stands for the German Championship League. The GCL is targeted at ambitious teams from the German speaking area (typically Germany, Austria and Switzerland) which want to gather a first experience in a 6vs6 league. This operation mode shall also be kept, meaning the league will be restricted to teams which have at least German speaking captains. Several teams which played last years' initial GEL season also play in the ECL. The most well-known team is probably Inter Iceland, followed by teams such as Deadly Phantoms, Clowns on Ice and Rising Phantoms. Besides those, a few new teams that got their very first 6vs6 experience in the GEL decided to also join ECL 6. The GEL Staff from the will continue to operate the league and move over to NHLGamer. Besides the current GCL Staff, the team is still looking for new people willing to join. Anybody interested should contact @typolino79, @Capitano_82, @Bille123 or @Hennisch. We are very proud to have the GCL as a part of NHLGamer and welcome the GCL Staff, teams and players with open arms! On behalf of NHLGamer