With the regular season coming to an end this week, here is the schedule for the coming months and a few changes regarding the playoffs for this year.
The TLDR is at the bottom if you don't want to read everything...
PLAYOFF CHANGES
Voting Categories
2 new categories have officially been added after being tested during last year's playoffs, the complete breakdown of all categories and weights is listed here:
~14% each
-Team Offense
-Team Defense
~11% each
-Forwards
-Defensemen
-Starting Goalie
~7% each
-Skater Depth
-Powerplay
-Penalty Kill
-Physicality*
-Experience*
~4% each
Goalie Depth
*=new categories
Playoff Reveals
Last year we introduced animations posted as Youtube premiers to reveal the round results all at once. That was an upgrade from the past but still was missing that feeling of the grind of playoff hockey. We hope to fix that this year by releasing each game on a different day. The new schedule will have voting take place for around 4/5 days followed by a period where the playoffs get simulated using the sim model and then the series replicated using the online hockey manager game
HLM 23. The Monday after the voting week game 1 for all series will be posted on Youtube, then on Tuesday all game 2's and so on.
2023 DRAFT LOTTERY
The 2023 Draft Lottery will be held on Monday, April 17th, and will be run by AK. The reveal process will also be up to AK.
FULL SCHEDULE
Apr 14: Last Day of Regular Season
Apr 17: 2023 Draft Lottery
Apr 22 - 27: Round 1 Voting
May 1 - 7: Round 1 Results
May 8 - 11: Round 2 Voting
May 15 - 21: Round 2 Results
May 22 - 25: Round 3 Voting
May 29 - Jun 4: Round 3 Results
Jun 5 - 7: Stanley Cup Final Voting
Jun 10 - 16: Stanley Cup Final Results
Jun 17: Trading Opens
Jun 20: 2023 Entry Draft Starts
Jun 27: 2023 Entry Draft Ends