NHL Season [Winner: shoop76]

[Serbia]

NHL Season Tournament

IMPORTANT: To join this tournament, you must have premium.
Also, this league will be a long one. You'll be playing an 82 game regular season schedule. Games are handed in blocks of 3 home games a week, meaning you may play between 3 and 9 games a week, for approximately 14 weeks.
IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO COMMIT FOR SUCH A LONG TIME, PLEASE DO NOT SIGN UP. All sign ups must be done in this thread.

TOURNAMENT SETTINGS
All games will be 1v1, sequential, flat rate spoils, chained forts, and sunny. Each player must pick a team to represent and a home map that uses standard gameplay only. No maps with gimmicks or complex/confusing gameplay will be allowed. I reserve the right to veto any map choices. Map and Team choices will be given in order that they arrive. Please look carefully to may sure don't select a team or map that is already taken. A list of approved maps is provided below.

show: Maps Approved for this Tournament

REGULAR SEASON
The regular season will follow the 2008-2009 NHL schedule - meaning each player will play 82 regular season games.

PLAYOFFS
12 teams will make the playoffs from each Conference. The 3 division winners, and the fourth place team will each get a first round bye. The first round matchups will be 5-12, 6-11, 7-10, 8-9. In the second round, the #1 will play the lowest remaining seed, #2 plays the second lowest, and so on. All rounds will feature best-of-7 series, in the 2-2-1-1-1 format. Home ice advantage goes to the team with the better regular season record. In the event of ties, tiebreakers will be determined first via head-to-head, then by conference record.

STANDINGS
Standings will be updated weekly, or as often as I make a new batch of games. The standings will be posted at the bottom of this post.

THE TEAMS
Eastern Conference
Atlantic Division
New Jersey Devils - RedBaron0, South America
New York Islanders - SNARF17WD, Italy
New York Rangers - shoop76, USA Rockies
Philadelphia Flyers - nashlloyd, France
Pittsburgh Penguins - PabloDejaunopi, CCU

Northeast Division
Boston Bruins - pzaviski2003, Middle East
Buffalo Sabres - skepticCS, WWII Eastern Front
Montreal Canadiens - ghirrindin, Montreal
Ottawa Senators - keiths31, Midgard
Toronto Maple Leafs - onu, Classic Shapes

Southeast Division
Atlanta Thrashers - Neoteny, Extreme Global Warming
Carolina Hurricanes - zips5000, Charleston
Florida Panthers - Tripitaka, Alexander's Empire
Tampa Bay Lightning - SuperWang, Classic Art
Washington Capitals - dtellis, USA Great Lakes

Western Conference
Central Division
Chicago Blackhawks - jielking, Canada
Columbus Blue Jackets - mrbang, High Seas
Detroit Red Wings - Serbia, Puget Sound
Nashville Predators - Pixar, USA
St. Louis Blues - herus, Triple Alliance

Northwest Division
Calgary Flames - HighlanderAttack, Ireland
Colorado Avalanche - Big Jon, Soviet Union
Edmonton Oilers - JoJo123, Iberia
Minnesota Wild - vykingsfan64, Germany
Vancouver Canucks - King Tet, Caribbean Islands

Pacific Division
Anaheim Ducks - Bones2484, Chinese Checkers
Dallas Stars - Kinnison, Texan Wars
Los Angeles Kings - unknownhero, British Isles
Phoenix Coyotes - amazzony, Crossword
San Jose Sharks - got tonkaed, BeNeLux

show: Reserves

STANDINGS


PLAYOFF STANDINGS

[gannable]

i'll be the Flyers on Malta

[keiths31]

Ottawa
Midgard

[Big Jon]

I am: Colorado Avalanche on Soviet Union

[unknownhero]

in plz.. british isles.. LA Kings!!! then Ducks, Sharks or any team from the PAC Division

[dtellis]

I'll be the Washington Caps on USA Great Lakes

[RedBaron0]

Ottawa
Midgard

Sounds like you're jinxing yourself keiths...

The Flyers are already taken?! BAH.

Give me the Devils then Serb. I'd prefer South America for a map, but if you don't allow a repeat, I'll take Classic Shapes.

[Bones2484]

Ducks - Chinese Checkers

[ghirrindin]

ill play as montreal on the montreal map

[amazzony]

Crossword and can you please assign me a team?

[jielking]

Chicago in canada ???
Thanks looks like fun to play.
keep up the good work.

[Caymanmew]

in BeNeLox

give me shark if free if not any team
but NO LEAFS

[Serbia]

All in up to this point. Amazzony, I gave you the Phoenix Coyotes.

[Serbia]

Give me the Devils then Serb. I'd prefer South America for a map, but if you don't allow a repeat, I'll take Classic Shapes.

Here, I'll give you South America, and take Puget Sound for myself.

[HighlanderAttack]

Calgary Flames

I will let you know on the map

[PabloDejaunopi]

I'm in as the penguins please CCU

[Kinnison]

In for Dallas Stars, Texan Wars... Since what would have been my first map choice has been ruled out. Ah, well. This is fitting.

[Ziggety]

Count me in
-Oilers
-France

[Optimus Prime]

Ah dang! Someone snagged the Avalanche ahead of me!!!

In that case I'll take the team with my favorite goaltender, the Boston Bruins.

For a map I'll take.... Iceland

[herus]

St. Louis to me.

S.marino map.

Thanks, Herus

[drake_pk7]

I'll take Vancouver Canucks on Discworld please

[zips5000]

Dallas Stars and US Great Lakes please.

[Kinnison]

Dallas Stars and US Great Lakes please.

Ah-ha! Too late! You can't have my team... or my jerseys, car flag, signed pucks, license plate frames, trading ca... (ahem)

Kinda giving myself away there, ain't I? but I did beat ya to 'em, sorry.

[vykingsfan64]

I'll take the MN Wild...map will be Germany

[Serbia]

Dallas Stars and US Great Lakes please.

Yeah, sorry man, both the team and map have been chosen. I'll put you in, if you'd like to pick again.