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
	Qualified to MCHL

Club	Conf.	GP	RW	OW	OL	RL	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Bisminster Battalion	NOR	61	47	1	3	10	288	171	+117	146
Nafferton Panthers	CEN	61	42	7	2	10	267	155	+112	142
Mercury Hornets	CEN	61	43	2	5	11	245	164	+81	138
Dyas Stiks	INT	61	40	5	5	11	247	159	+88	135
Hanseong Stingrays	NOR	61	32	7	5	17	227	183	+44	115
Kuiper Jets	CEN	61	33	6	1	21	227	192	+35	112
Craitish Cosmos	INT	61	32	4	3	22	213	185	+28	107
Kincester Kraken	SOU	61	31	3	3	24	187	193	−6	102
Newcastle Leopards	INT	61	27	6	4	24	220	206	+14	97
Tow Law Bears	SOU	61	28	3	4	26	206	185	+21	94
Castleton Vikings	CEN	61	27	4	4	26	207	205	+2	93
Savona Sport	INT	61	29	0	4	28	180	189	−9	91
Longstoke Lions	SOU	61	23	8	4	26	184	200	−16	89
Whitby Warriors	NOR	61	23	6	6	26	190	184	+6	87
PB Polar Bears	NOR	61	25	3	6	27	202	218	−16	87
Taylor Torpedoes	CEN	61	25	4	2	30	186	222	−36	85
Clarkson Pirates	NOR	61	23	5	3	30	186	216	−30	82
Harlby Hawks	SOU	61	21	4	5	31	185	208	−23	76
Pelmanby Penguins	NOR	61	21	3	3	34	207	211	−4	72
Deacon Thunder	SOU	61	17	5	5	34	193	212	−19	66
NV Devils	INT	61	15	4	5	37	159	256	−97	58
West Grinstead Wasps	SOU	61	10	7	9	35	179	246	−67	53
Plennomorets Chetgavan	INT	61	10	3	2	46	157	280	−123	38
Eastmoor Archers	CEN	61	10	0	6	45	150	246	−96	36

Conference standings

Northern Conference

Club	GP	RW	OW	OL	RL	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Bisminster Battalion	27	22	1	0	4	133	78	+55	68
Hanseong Stingrays	27	13	3	3	8	97	86	+11	48
Whitby Warriors	27	11	4	3	9	83	90	−7	44
Pelmanby Penguins	27	8	2	3	14	89	98	−9	31
Clarkson Pirates	27	9	1	1	16	79	105	−26	30
PB Polar Bears	27	7	1	1	15	77	91	−14	24

Central Conference

Club	GP	RW	OW	OL	RL	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Nafferton Panthers	27	20	4	0	3	113	59	+54	68
Mercury Hornets	27	17	0	5	5	98	74	+24	56
Castleton Vikings	27	12	0	2	13	82	85	−3	38
Kuiper Jets	27	10	3	1	13	88	94	−6	37
Taylor Torpedoes	27	11	1	0	15	78	96	−18	35
Eastmoor Archers	27	3	0	0	24	57	108	−51	9

Southern Conference

Club	GP	RW	OW	OL	RL	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Kincester Kraken	27	17	2	0	8	97	74	+23	55
Tow Law Bears	27	15	2	3	7	89	72	+17	52
Longstoke Lions	27	11	7	1	8	90	82	+8	48
Harlby Hawks	27	9	2	4	12	84	100	−16	35
Deacon Thunder	27	8	2	3	14	75	81	−6	31
West Grinstead Wasps	27	3	3	7	14	78	104	−26	22

International Conference

Club	GP	RW	OW	OL	RL	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Dyas Stiks	27	19	1	1	6	107	61	+46	60
Craitish Cosmos	27	18	2	1	6	103	72	+31	59
Savona Sport	27	15	0	2	10	83	79	+4	47
Newcastle Leopards	27	10	3	3	11	102	87	+15	39
NV Devils	27	6	2	1	17	69	110	−41	23
Plennomorets Chetgavan	27	5	0	0	22	61	116	−55	15

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.

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Quarter-finals

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

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Semi-finals

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

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Final

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