NHL 20: Finnish Liiga playoffs are played virtually

In Corona times, a number of sports associations wrestle with the question of how the current season should end. Ice hockey nation Finland has already found a solution.

Due to the ban on sporting events during the corona pandemic, a number of sports are in trouble and pondering how to end the current season. Some would like to play, even if it ends in ghost games, others just wait and some leagues have already declared the season over. In the ice hockey nation of Finland you go a different way.

The Finnish Liiga has teamed up with the e-sports company Telio and will host the Liiga playoffs virtually, of course in NHL 20, the current part of EA's ice hockey series. The whole thing is called Liiga ePlayoffs and will be broadcast on several video-on-demand platforms from April 8 to April 25, so fans do not have to do without ice hockey.

The organizers have found a solution for the games themselves. Each team will appoint any player who will control their own team in NHL 20 during the playoffs. Joni Tuulola, for example, currently plays in the North American AHL for HPK. For Luuko is Teemu Laurell, a former top player who currently runs a restaurant. So it could be an entertaining thing.

Not the only sport that switches to online variants. Especially in the racing area, some virtual competitions are already underway, including by F1 and NASCAR.

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