Welcome to week 5 of the Steemit Fantasy Hockey League (SFHL)!

This is the first post from the SFHL's new dedicated account! Please follow us for league updates and SteemSports-style betting opportunities.

For those of you that haven't been following our progress closely, this league is intended as a proof of concept for how the Steem block chain and Steemit posts can be used to fuel fantasy hockey leagues. To provide incentives for participation throughout the season, post rewards are added to the league prize pool, to be distributed at the end of the year.

Nobody has paid to join this league, yet all team managers will get something at the end of the year.

This is an interactive post previewing the upcoming matches.

Here at SFHL, we're huge fans of @steemsports, and the work they've done bringing risk-free sports betting to the platform. We've been inspired to model our weekly posts after their approach. By letting users pick the winners of fantasy league matches, we will be able to give weekly prizes to fantasy team managers while letting the end of year pool continue to grow. And also, we are giving an opportunity for outside observers to engage with the league and earn some Steem along the way!

We welcome the participation of the entire community.

For a look at the prizes awarded so far, see the most recent payout report

How it works:

Upvote the main post, and one winner per match up.

To be an eligible voter, users must have a minimum reputation of 40 (league players are exempt from this requirement, as several are new users).

Voting on more than one team in a single match will void all of your votes for the week.

Only votes cast before the start of the first game will be considered.

SP rewards from the main post will be added to the prize pool to furnish prizes at the end of the year.

Liquid Steem and SBD rewards will be split 50/50 between winning team managers and the voters who chose the correct team.

The liquid Steem rewards will be exchanged for SBD and held as SBD through the week until payout.

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These are the Matchups for Week 5 of the Steemit Fantasy Hockey League:

These head-to-head matchups are scored based on 10 categories. Whoever has the best score in each of these categories, gets a point for that category.

The person with most points wins.

Here are the categories:

Goals
Assists
+/-
Penalty Minutes
Power Play Points
Shots On Goal
Goalie Wins
Goals Against Average (the only category where a low number is better)
Save Percentage
Number of Shutouts

FOLLOWING ARE STATISTICS THAT MIGHT HELP YOU WHEN PICKING WEEK 4 WINNERS

Forwards/Defensemen Team Stats (as of week 3)

_{*By User:Hedavid (SVG conversion) & Parutakupiu (original image) (Own work) [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons}

Goaltenders Team Stats (after Week 1 & 2)

_{*Conrad Poirier [Public domain ou Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons}

[SFHL] Week 5 Interactive Preview