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Hey Everyone, We'd like to thank you for getting the regular season done in a timely matter! Unfortunately we didn't get through even this short regular season without a dropout and thus handing out WO's, but for the most part, things have been going really smoothly. It's time to move into the second ECL Season Playoffs and below you will find the Playoff pairs: Group 1 vs Group 2 Nordic Lightning - Nordic Hockey Tigers Dynasty - Ace Holes HC Sjukstugan - ORIGINS Kattiautomaatti - Beniserna Group 3 vs Group 4 Nordic Nightmare - Rising Force Victorious Secret HC - SIKA Refuse To Lose - TIKI TALK Nordic Blizzard - Fat Cats Group 5 vs Group 6 Synergy Hockey - Freaky Friday Aapon Taikasauva - Nordic Stars Infinity - Written In The Stars Silver Sword Griffins - HC IceTigers Group 7 vs Group 8 Helter Skelter - Rising Phantoms HC Finnish Roosters - Falun Coal Miners HC Shameful Knights - Murohoki MUKIMIEHET - Northern Stars The games will be played best-out-of-7 and groups 1-4 will be on the left hand side of the playoff tree and 5-8 on the right side. In the second round the teams will be reseeded based on points per game, however groups 1-4 and 5-8 won't mix until the finals. The time allotted for every round in the playoffs is one week and the default scheduled days are Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. Sunday should not be used for scheduling - only as a last resort to get the games played. This will allow us to have everything set up and for the next round to start on time. There are a few statistical mistakes currently displaying on the page that will be fixed shortly. The actual standings have been taken into consideration while creating the above pairs. On behalf of the NHL Gamer Staff,

Hey NHL Gamers, As you may have noticed from our previous news article, EA Sports released a trailer for NHL 17 today. In case you missed it, we've embedded it below for you! We have already taken apart the first 'Vision' trailer for the upcoming NHL 17, and we made a few interesting findings - which we want to share with you! Please note: You can click on each screenshot to see them in full size! 1) Custom EASHL logos and jerseys are back The screenshot above shows an unknown team logo, which suggests it is a self-made one for EASHL. As it does not make sense to use custom logos with existing jerseys (licensing etc.), we highly expect custom jerseys to be back, too. 2) Customizable arenas Above screenshots show different arena designs with the same fantasy logo on the right hand side, which makes us believe that EASHL teams will be able to customize their own arenas to some extent. At a quick glance the screenshots may look like they are the same one over and over again, but when you look closely, you can see a difference in seat colors. 3) Tie-ups could return The trailer includes a longer snippet of 2 players motion-capturing tie-ups in front of the net. Considering they have been scratched in the PS4 and Xbox One versions of NHL 15 and 16, they could finally return for NHL 17. 4) New 'Trade in' feature for Hockey Ultimate Team The above screenshot shows a menu screen of Hockey Ultimate Team, titled 'Gold Coach Trade In'. The description says: "Complete this set by turning in any 10 Gold Coach items for a Gold Trophy Pack, which contains at least 1 Gold Trophy." We believe that EA created a new trade-in system that allows you to trade existing cards, which you draw from packs or bought off the auction house, for new packs of the same class. However, we are unsure what Gold Trophies are or allow you to do. 5) World Cup of Hockey is included We were hoping and expecting it would be in the game, but here is the confirmation - NHL 17 features the new World Cup of Hockey! 6) New celebrations The trailer concludes with several snippets of new goal celebrations, which means they replaced / updated some of the old ones or also added a few new ones. 6) New menus The game menu has received what we'd consider a major facelift. It looks very sleek, clean and what could hopefully result in a more smooth user experience; as we all know, the previous iterations of the menus have been quite sluggish to use. Apart from new animations or updated training arenas for EASHL, this is all we were able to catch. We will keep you updated with future developments about NHL 17, and expect major news to drop during the next E3 which takes places in Los Angeles from June 14 to June 16! What did you think about the trailer? Did you notice something we didn't? Please let us know in the comments below!

Hey NHL Gamers, after releasing the first trailer for NHL 17, EA also kicked off their yearly Cover Vote again. This is the schedule: Round 1: April 26th at 12:00 pm EST – May 2nd at 3:00 pm EST. Round 2: May 3rd at 12:00 pm EST – May 9th at 3:00 pm EST. Round 3: May 10th at 12:00 pm EST – May 16th at 3:00 pm EST. The winner will be announced at the NHL Awards on June 22nd. To leave your vote, visit this page. Below you can find the match-ups for Round 1:

Hey NHL Gamers, EA Sports just released their first trailer for NHL 17, called "The Vision". You can find it below: We will be back with a trailer analysis shortly!

Hey NHL Gamers,April 25th marks a very special day for everyone of us, as we just passed an astonishing milestone: 1000 members!1000 members, not even half a year after we launched our first European Championship League on PlayStation 4. It's a pleasure to see such massive support from our community. No time for celebrations though, as we want to keep moving forward with the website and it's offerings (Xbox gamers, we are looking at you!). Do you remember our interview with Dean Richards, General Manager of the EA NHL series, which we held last September ahead of the NHL 16 launch?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmxTYoIQ7RYNot only do we want to provide you with great NHL leagues and tournaments, but with in-depth coverage of everything NHL and exclusive content like above. At this time, we are forging plans for the coming months ahead of the NHL 17 launch - and you can help us making it happen by subscribing to our official social media channels:https://www.facebook.com/NHLGamer/https://www.twitter.com/nhlgamerCOMhttps://www.youtube.com/nhlgamerofficialhttps://www.twitch.tv/nhlgamertwitch/Every single 'Like' or subscription helps us grow and get more attention to reach our ambitious goals. We are very dedicated to this project, and we really appreciate the daily input we receive from you guys.Let's see what the future holds in store for us - we are definitely looking forward to it! As a side-note: If you think you've got what it takes to produce content for us, whether it be in the form of text, video or art, please get in touch with me and we'll get in touch. On behalf of the NHLGamer staff,

Exciting news NHL Gamers! EA Sports has released a teaser for their upcoming NHL 17 title. While the short clip is as much a teaser as it can be and doesn't really reveal anything about the game, you'll be excited to learn that we should be seeing the first bits of information about the game early next week; Tuesday the 26th of April, to be exact. We will keep you up to date on the subject, but note that EA also wants you to become an NHL Insider and sign up for their newsletter. I hope you are as excited as we are! Tuesday can't come soon enough!