Getting started
What you manage, how a season runs and what to do in your first week as manager.
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Your club
You manage one ice hockey club: its squad, its lineup, its money and its arena. Your team plays in a league series against other managers' teams and computer-controlled clubs, and in the cup against teams from every division.
The game runs on its own clock. Games are played on fixed days whether you are logged in or not, money comes and goes every week, and the transfer market never closes completely. You decide how the club is run; the game makes sure nothing stops when you are away.
A season at a glance
A season lasts 15 game weeks:
- Weeks 1–9: the league, 22 rounds where every team meets every other team twice, and the first cup rounds.
- The weeks after: the playoffs at the top of the table, the relegation playoffs at the bottom and the last cup rounds.
- Week 15: no games. The season is wrapped up, teams move up and down, and the next season is drawn.
Games are played on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, sometimes on a Sunday.
Your first week
A good order to learn the club in:
- Open your squad and get to know your players: positions, ratings and ages.
- Make a game plan with your lines, or let the game pick the lineup for now.
- Look at your finances: what comes in, what goes out and what the board thinks.
- Watch one of your games live and read the match report afterwards.
- Visit the market to see what players cost.
The game never waits for you
Everything you can decide also has an automatic answer. If you have no game plan, the game picks your lineup. If a player in your plan is sold or can't play, the game puts the next best player in his place and tells you what it changed. Renewals you don't answer run out, and the weekly money is booked whether you look or not.
That means you can manage as much or as little as you like, and your team always takes the ice.
Questions and answers
No. Every game is played in advance with the lineup you set before it, then broadcast at its starting time. Watch it live, catch up later or just read the report.
Some are run by other managers, the rest by the computer. Both play by the same rules, sign players on the same market and have the same kind of finances.
Your team keeps playing with your default game plan, or with the game's own lineup if you have none. Salaries and incomes are booked as usual. Keep an eye on renewals and on the board when you come back.