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Hello Hockey Pool Fans!
UPDATE: I've reposted this from my previous post in July as we are now at the start of the Challenge Cup season! Remember that the first week is a very short 3-day week of games from Thursday thru Saturday. Game on and drop the puck!
Yes, the dark days of the offseason are now upon us and the puck will not officially drop for another 2 months but that doesn't mean that we can't get geared up for the season to come.
Yes, the dark days of the offseason are now upon us and the puck will not officially drop for another 2 months but that doesn't mean that we can't get geared up for the season to come.
The NHL released their schedule a few weeks ago and I have now had a chance to create ours.
As usual, everyone plays nine of the other teams in a series of home-and-away games, and two neutral-site games against the remaining two teams. Neutral site games are against teams that have only played each other in one previous neutral site match-up in previous seasons. The home-and-away series against the non-neutral site teams are expanding on a twist I introduced last season: back-to-back home-and-home games all season long against all nine other teams. The hope is that teams will really be able to make ground on their rivals in the standings, or fall further behind, with this format.
As usual, everyone plays nine of the other teams in a series of home-and-away games, and two neutral-site games against the remaining two teams. Neutral site games are against teams that have only played each other in one previous neutral site match-up in previous seasons. The home-and-away series against the non-neutral site teams are expanding on a twist I introduced last season: back-to-back home-and-home games all season long against all nine other teams. The hope is that teams will really be able to make ground on their rivals in the standings, or fall further behind, with this format.
Week one opens on Thursday October 1st until Sunday October 3rd and will be a neutral-site game as the Challenge Cup, and Predator Cup, Champion Personal Vendetta take on the Ramapithicines. Games continue starting every Monday thru Sunday until the conclusion of the FunHL regular season in week 20 on Sunday February 14th with the top four teams in the regular season making the playoffs. Two pts for a win, one pt for a tie (within one pt for the teams' FunHL stats for that week). Tie breakers are based on most wins, head-to-head record, pts scored in head-to-head games, FunHL Predator Cup standings.
With the Olympic break, the NHL's season is only 26 weeks long as opposed to 27 weeks last season so there will be no All-Star Game this year - just as in the NHL. The Olympic break also fits nicely into our schedule such that the FunHL playoffs get underway on Monday March 1st with semi-final action between the first and second placed teams hosting the fourth and third placed teams, respectively. The winners of these series go on to play for the Challenge Cup.
The schedule is above (if you have trouble reading the microfiche, let me know and I can e-mail it out to you).
2 comments:
Severed Heads are lobbying the league for the neutral site game to be played at the Mettalurgorsk arena in Russia.
SH mgt has announced that the highly successful The 'Squish the Fish' campaign will be going forward regardless of the actual game location.
Well Highlander, "A Neutral Site" match -> ducking me on holy ground???
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