2018–19 Mercury Elite Hockey League

The 2018–19 Mercury Elite Hockey League is the third season of the Mercury Elite Hockey League, the premier ice hockey league in Mercury. The league will expand from 12 teams to 24, with 6 new Mercurian clubs joining, as well as 6 international clubs.

Qualification

Qualification for the MCHL will be determined according to the following criteria:

• Craitish Cosmos and Dyas Stiks qualify automatically
• Regular season champions
• Play-off champions
• Northern, Central and Southern Conference champions, next two best teams from the International Conference, barring Craitish Cosmos and Dyas Stiks.
• If any team qualifies through more than one of the above criteria, then the remaining berths will be allocated to the highest-placed teams in the overall standings.

Regular season

The league's 24 teams play a 66-game schedule from August 2018 to March 2019. Each team plays every other team in the league twice, and each team in their conference a further four times. At the end of the season, the four conference winners advance to the play-offs in addition to the eight next-highest ranked teams in the overall standings.

Legend
	Qualified to play-offs and MCHL
	Qualified to play-offs

Club	Conf.	GP	RW	OW	OL	RL	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Bisminster Battalion	NOR	66	51	1	3	11	308	181	+127	158
Nafferton Panthers	CEN	66	47	7	2	10	282	164	+118	157
Mercury Hornets	CEN	66	46	2	5	13	265	176	+89	147
Dyas Stiks	INT	66	41	6	5	14	260	174	+86	140
Kuiper Jets	CEN	66	38	6	1	21	242	199	+43	127
Hanseong Stingrays	NOR	66	33	8	6	19	245	199	+46	121
Craitish Cosmos	INT	66	33	4	3	26	224	202	+22	110
Newcastle Leopards	INT	66	31	6	4	25	245	216	+29	109
Tow Law Bears	SOU	66	33	3	4	26	231	194	+37	109
Kincester Kraken	SOU	66	33	3	3	27	203	209	−6	108
Castleton Vikings	CEN	66	30	4	4	28	224	221	+3	102
Savona Sport	INT	66	31	1	4	30	198	208	−10	99
Longstoke Lions	SOU	66	25	9	4	28	203	219	−16	97
PB Polar Bears	NOR	66	27	3	7	29	219	238	−19	94
Whitby Warriors	NOR	66	24	7	6	29	202	201	+1	92
Taylor Torpedoes	CEN	66	27	4	2	33	197	233	−36	91
Clarkson Pirates	NOR	66	26	5	3	32	202	235	−33	91
Pelmanby Penguins	NOR	66	24	3	3	36	223	220	+3	81
Harlby Hawks	SOU	66	22	4	6	34	199	229	−30	80
Deacon Thunder	SOU	66	19	6	5	36	207	228	−21	74
NV Devils	INT	66	15	4	6	41	169	282	−113	59
West Grinstead Wasps	SOU	66	10	7	10	39	187	269	−82	54
Eastmoor Archers	CEN	66	12	0	6	48	164	261	−97	42
Plennomorets Chetgavan	INT	66	10	3	3	50	166	301	−135	39

• After finishing with identical points, Newcastle Leopards and Tow Law Bears faced tie-breaking criteria. They were split by their head to head record, with Newcastle's 6 points from their shared matches beating Tow Law's 0 points.
• After finishing with identical points, Clarkson Pirates and Taylor Torpedoes faced tie-breaking criteria. As both teams gained 3 points each from their shared matches, they were split by the higher number of regulation wins, with Taylor's 27 beating Clarkson's 26.

Conference standings

Northern Conference

Club	GP	RW	OW	OL	RL	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Bisminster Battalion	30	25	1	0	4	144	81	+63	77
Hanseong Stingrays	30	14	3	3	10	106	93	+13	51
Whitby Warriors	30	12	5	3	10	90	98	−8	49
Pelmanby Penguins	30	9	2	4	15	99	110	−11	35
Clarkson Pirates	30	10	1	1	18	87	119	−32	33
PB Polar Bears	30	8	1	2	19	89	112	−23	28

Central Conference

Club	GP	RW	OW	OL	RL	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Nafferton Panthers	30	23	4	0	3	122	64	+58	77
Mercury Hornets	30	18	0	5	7	104	81	+23	59
Kuiper Jets	30	13	3	1	13	96	97	−1	46
Castleton Vikings	30	13	0	2	15	87	94	−7	41
Taylor Torpedoes	30	11	1	0	18	81	103	−22	35
Eastmoor Archers	30	4	0	0	26	64	115	−51	12

Southern Conference

Club	GP	RW	OW	OL	RL	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Tow Law Bears	30	18	2	3	7	103	75	+28	61
Kincester Kraken	30	19	2	0	9	110	81	+29	61
Longstoke Lions	30	12	8	1	9	102	94	+8	53
Deacon Thunder	30	10	2	3	15	82	89	−7	37
Harlby Hawks	30	9	2	4	15	90	114	−24	35
West Grinstead Wasps	30	3	3	7	16	82	116	−34	23

• After finishing with identical points, Kincester Kraken and Tow Law Bears faced tie-breaking criteria. They were split by their head to head record, with Tow Law's 12 points from their shared matches beating Kincester's 6 points.

International Conference

Club	GP	RW	OW	OL	RL	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Dyas Stiks	30	20	2	1	7	115	69	+44	65
Craitish Cosmos	30	19	2	1	8	110	82	+28	62
Savona Sport	30	17	1	2	10	97	85	+12	55
Newcastle Leopards	30	13	3	3	11	117	91	+26	48
NV Devils	30	6	2	2	20	75	125	−50	24
Plennomorets Chetgavan	30	5	0	1	24	65	127	−62	16

Play-offs

Qualifying play-offs

The qualifying play-offs will be played over two legs in March 2019. The four conference winners will advance directly to the quarter-finals.

Savona Sport v Mercury Hornets

19 March 2019

Savona Sport	5 – 6 (0–3, 2–2, 3–1)	Mercury Hornets

Mercury Hornets v Savona Sport

21 March 2019

Mercury Hornets	8 – 2 (3–1, 2–1, 3–0)	Savona Sport

Mercury Hornets win 14–7 on aggregate

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Castleton Vikings v Kuiper Jets

19 March 2019

Castleton Vikings	2 – 4 (0–3, 2–1, 0–0)	Kuiper Jets

Kuiper Jets v Castleton Vikings

21 March 2019

Kuiper Jets	5 – 0 (2–0, 3–0, 0–0)	Castleton Vikings

Kuiper Jets win 9–2 on aggregate

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Kincester Kraken v Hanseong Stingrays

19 March 2019

Kincester Kraken	6 – 2 (1–1, 2–1, 3–0)	Hanseong Stingrays

Hanseong Stingrays v Kincester Kraken

21 March 2019

Hanseong Stingrays	3 – 3 (1–1, 1–1, 1–1)	Kincester Kraken

Kincester Kraken win 9–5 on aggregate

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Newcastle Leopards v Craitish Cosmos

19 March 2019

Newcastle Leopards	3 – 7 (2–3, 0–1, 1–3)	Craitish Cosmos

Craitish Cosmos v Newcastle Leopards

21 March 2019

Craitish Cosmos	5 – 5 (1–1, 2–0, 2–4)	Newcastle Leopards

Craitish Cosmos win 12–8 on aggregate

Quarter-finals

The quarter-finals will be played over two legs in March 2019.

Kincester Kraken v Bisminster Battalion

23 March 2019

Kincester Kraken	3 – 5 (0–1, 3–4, 0–0)	Bisminster Battalion

Bisminster Battalion v Kincester Kraken

24 March 2019

Bisminster Battalion	7 – 5 (4–1, 1–2, 2–2)	Kincester Kraken

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Craitish Cosmos v Nafferton Panthers

23 March 2019

Craitish Cosmos	2 – 1 (1–0, 1–0, 0–1)	Nafferton Panthers

Nafferton Panthers v Craitish Cosmos

24 March 2019

Nafferton Panthers	6 – 2 (3–0, 3–2, 0–0)	Craitish Cosmos

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Kuiper Jets v Dyas Stiks

23 March 2019

Kuiper Jets	7 – 1 (3–1, 2–0, 2–0)	Dyas Stiks

Dyas Stiks v Kuiper Jets

24 March 2019

Dyas Stiks	5 – 6 (1–3, 3–3, 1–0)	Kuiper Jets

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Mercury Hornets v Tow Law Bears

23 March 2019

Mercury Hornets	5 – 1 (3–0, 1–1, 1–0)	Tow Law Bears

Tow Law Bears v Mercury Hornets

24 March 2019

Tow Law Bears	2 – 4 (0–4, 2–0, 0–0)	Mercury Hornets

Semi-finals

The semi-finals will be played on the 30th March 2019 at the Mercury Ice Arena in Mercury.

Bisminster Battalion v Kuiper Jets

30 March 2019

Bisminster Battalion	5 – 4 (2–1, 1–2, 2–1)	Kuiper Jets
Callum Brooks Watts (Shaw) PPG – 05:56 Shaw (Jordan, Booth) – 17:33 Perry (Shaw, Travis) – 21:02 Watts (Sharpe, Richardson) PPG – 54:10 Perry (McCullough) GWG – 56:57 6 min 28	Goalies 1–0 1–1 2–1 3–1 3–2 3–3 3–4 4–4 5–4 Penalties Shots on goal	Davis Battle 12:45 – Barnes (Burton, Curry) 24:25 – Wise (King, Lane) 33:01 – Ball 41:12 – PPG Lane (Barnes, King) 21 min 24

Mercury Ice Arena, Mercury

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Nafferton Panthers v Mercury Hornets

30 March 2019

Nafferton Panthers	6 – 5 OT (3–2, 2–1, 0–2) (OT: 1–0)	Mercury Hornets
Thomas Garnett Davidsen (Chambers, Poole) – 03:21 Vance (Stanley, Dean) PPG – 06:22 Fraser (Compton, Stone) PPG – 10:13 Fraser (Kirkland, Hall) PPG – 27:13 Hall SHG – 38:06 Davidsen (Vance, Kirkland) GWG 23 min 35	Goalies 1–0 2–0 2–1 3–1 3–2 3–3 4–3 5–3 5–4 5–5 6–5 Penalties Shots on goal	Zack Cooke 09:17 – Gilbert (Thøgersen) 15:47 – Duncan (Thøgersen, Haagensen) 24:15 – PPG Kennedy (Reynolds) 43:59 – PPG Haagensen (Gardiner) 56:33 – PS Reynolds 17 min 36

Mercury Ice Arena, Mercury

Final

Bisminster Battalion v Nafferton Panthers

31 March 2019

Bisminster Battalion	6 – 1 (2–0, 3–1, 1–0)	Nafferton Panthers
Callum Brooks 4 min 38	Goalies 1–0 2–0 3–0 4–0 5–0 5–1 6–1 Penalties Shots on goal	Thomas Garnett 40 min 10

Mercury Ice Arena, Mercury