Hockey Arena is on-line hockey manager, where you lead your own team, you’re fighting for the promotion to the 1st League and you represent your country in the World League. You have the chance to win the election, become a national team manager and play with the national team on the World Championship. Your oponnent is not the computer intelligence, as in other games, but thousands of another vital people of more then 50 countries of the World. The game tries to simulate real process of hockey seasons, the teams could promote or demote, new players are coming to the team from junior academies, the players are getting older and their abilites, influenced by the age, are decreasing. The new countries are created on a regular basis and with the growing diversity of the manager community, translation of the game to new languages takes place.

Guide:

Game System

Hockey Arena (HA) is a hockey game in which you manage a hockey team in competition with other managers from all over the world . You play the role of the manager and also serve partially as coach (but not owner!!). You buy and sell players, improve your stadium, develop young prospectss, set your team’s line-up for matches, along with other duties.

You perform all team management tasks through the game pages – you view recent events in the team, you set your line-up for your next match, you acquire players on the market etc.

The so-called “night update” runs automatically every day at 00:30. During the night update, the following activities take place, in order :
-termination and automatic extension of the players’ contracts
-thorough player scouting
-payment of costs from the team’s cash
-calculation of building progress
-processing of transactions on the transfer market
-team assignments to new managers
-matches
-training/recovery of the players
-players’ night recovery

Night update lasts from 60 to 90 minutes and the game is closed during that time.

Leagues and matches system

The number of leagues in each country varies and new leagues are generally established based on the number of managers in that country. Each league consists of 16 teams. During the regular season, every team plays its 30 matches. Points are distributed during the regular season as follows :
-Win during regulation – 3 points
-Overtime win – 2 points
-Loss during regulation – 0 points
-Overtime loss – 1 point
-Draw – 1 point

Position of a team is determined based on the total number of points from regular season. Tie-breakers are goal difference followed by goals for.

Playoffs follow the regular season and the top 8 teams from the regular season qualify for the playoffs. There are three rounds in the playoffs (quarterfinals, semifinals, finals). Team which wins 2 out of three games advances to the next round. Higher seeded teams during the regular season have home ice advantage in the series, opening home. Wtih each game of the series home ice alternates.

2, or 4 teams are relegated to lower league (based on regular season standings) depending on the number of leagues on the lower level. Playoff finalists are promoted to the next higher league. The entire season lasts 70 days (10 weeks).

Generation of a new season, aging of the players, reseting of fans tendency and team spirit to default values, promotion and relegation of teams will be executed automatically in last Saturdays’s game update (Saturday of the 10. week).