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{| class=”wikitable”

|+2002-2003 Standings

!Team

!W

!L

!OL

!PTS

|-

|y-New York

|13

|4

|1

|”’27”’

|-

|x-Vancouver

|12

|6

|0

|”’24”’

|-

|x-Arizona

|10

|5

|3

|”’23”’

|-

|e-Edmonton

|10

|8

|0

|”’20”’

|-

|e-San Jose

|9

|8

|1

|”’19”’

|-

|e-Halifax

|5

|11

|2

|”’12”’

|-

|e-Colorado

|4

|13

|1

|”’9”’

|}

{{3TeamBracket

|RD1-seed1 = ”’2”’

|RD1-team1 = ”’Vancouver”’

|RD1-score1 = ”’8”’

|RD1-seed2 = 3

|RD1-team2 = Arizona

|RD1-score2 = 7

|RD2-seed1 = ”’1”’

|RD2-team1 = ”’New York”’

|RD2-score1 = ”’9”’

|RD2-seed2 = 2

|RD2-team2 = Vancouver

|RD2-score2 = 8

}}The 2003 playoffs were extremely close with no team holding a lead greater than two at any point in either of the games, with New York wining their first championship at home.

{| class=”wikitable”

|+2002-2003 Awards

!Award

!Player

!Team

|-

|Most Valuable Player

|Larry Hammond (G)

|NY

|-

|Rookie of the Year

|George Simonson (LW)

|SJ

|-

|Top Faceoff

|Nicholas Myles (FO)

|VAN

|-

|Top Transitionman

|Neil Kinling (LT)

|COL

|-

|Top Defender

|Liam Pendleton (D)

|NY

|-

|Top Goalie

|Larry Hammond (G)

|NY

|-

|Comeback Player of the Year

|Jacob Venice (RW)

|ARZ

|-

|Championship MVP

|Larry Hammond (G)

|NY

|}

This is a page for testing and practicing editing using fictional sports leagues, this is to be considered in no way shape or form an official page for anything.

The 1999/2000 NHLL season was the first in league history, and was created as part of an agreement of the five professional hand lacrosse leagues at the time to help consolidate one major professional league, the eight teams that were selected were the:

• Halifax Thunderbirds (East Coast Hand Lacrosse League)
• New York Stars (East Coast Hand Lacrosse League)
• Vancouver Storm (Pacific-North West Hand Lacrosse League)
• Edmonton Roughnecks (Pacific-North West Hand Lacrosse League)
• Calgary Evergreens (Pacific-North West Hand Lacrosse League)
• Colorado Ancients (South-West and Texas Hand Lacrosse League)
• Los Angeles Pacifics (South-West and Texas Hand Lacrosse League)
• Arizona Sting (South-West and Texas Hand Lacrosse League)

It should be noted that this left the Central Hand Lacrosse League, which represented the Canadian and US Prairies, as well as the Great American Hand Lacrosse League, which represented the South-East United States, without any representation, this however was caused not out of spite, but an in-depth analysis of the financial situation of the teams in the league. Of the eight teams chosen Halifax, New York, and Vancouver were the only teams who opted to play in the 1999-2000 season. The other five teams all agreed to join the following year wanting to avoid an increase in travel costs.

The regular season would continue to be 18 games, a tradition continued over from the previous seasons of the former Pro-Am leagues. Due to the increased costs of travel to Vancouver, a unique schedule was created where Vancouver would play two games each week, either at both Halifax and New York, or two home games against the same eastern opponent. Each team played each opponent nine times.

1999-2000 NHLL Regular Season

TEAM	W	L	OL	PTS
y-Halifax Thunderbirds	13	3	2	28
x-New York Stars	9	8	1	19
e-Vancouver Storm	5	12	1	11

The 1999-2000 Championship was played as a singular winner-take all championship match. New York travelled to Halifax for the first ever NHLL Championship game. Despite jumping out to an early 3-0 lead, New York would find themselves down 4-3 at half time. The second half would be a back-and-forth affair with Halifax taking an 8-6 lead with 55 seconds to play. New York would pull their goalie for the extra attacker, a move which would backfire as Thunderbirds’ captain Michael Jones (FO) would win the draw and net his second of the season into the empty net to seal a 9-6 Thunderbirds win.

1999-2000 Awards

Award	Player	Team
Most Valuable Player	Nolan Carter (C)	NY
Rookie of the Year	Tanner Botson (G)	HFX
Top Faceoff	Michael Jones (FO)	HFX
Top Transitionman	Jacob Carter (RT)	NY
Top Defender	Victor Stevens (D)	HFX
Championship MVP	Liam Porter (G)	HFX

The 2000-2001 NHLL Season was the second in league history with the league expanding to eight teams to complete the transition from pro-am to a full professional league, while the five new teams had existing rosters the league felt that an expansion draft would be beneficial to increase parity across the league, the rules of the draft were as follows:

• Each existing team could protect no more than 10 runners
  • Maximum of 2 Centremen, 3 Wingers, 3 Transitions, 1 Faceoff, 3 defensemen
• Each existing team had to protect 1 goaltender, however if the team chose to only protect 8 runners they could protect a second goaltender. No team elected this option
• Each expansion franchise would select one player from each of the existing teams, based off lottery. The first round would only be open to players from Vancouver, the second round would be only open to players from New York, the third round would only be players from Halifax. A bonus 16th pick was awarded to the team who picked 15th, and could take any non-protected or non-selected player on New York or Halifax

The 18 game schedule continued over with each team playing six of their seven opponents twice each, with the final six games being against a geographic rival. These geographic rivalry pairings were:

• Halifax-New York
• Calgary-Edmonton
• Vancouver-Los Angeles
• Colorado-Arizona

Prior to the season the league board of representatives voted on the alignment for the season, any member of the board could present an allignment, and the representatives would vote on each one, with the least popular one(s) being eliminated each round untill one got a majority of the votes. Each team had a representative plus the following: NHLLPU representative, NHLL Commissioner, NHLLRA representative, Network representative*, NHLL Public relations rep.* In years with an odd number of teams the Commissioner’s office got two votes. (* indicates that they could vote, but could not propose alignments)

The proposed alignments were:

1. No Divisions, 4 teams make playoffs (Commissioner’s office)
2. No Divisions, 3 teams make playoffs (VAN, NY, NHLLPU)
3. No Divisions, 3 teams make playoffs, no more than 3 head-to-head matchups (ARZ, COL)
4. ARZ,COL,HFX,NY in east, top team in each division makes playoffs (NHLLRA, HFX, CGY, EDM)

2000-2001 alignment voting

Option	1st Round	2nd Round	3rd Round
1	3	4	5
2	6	6	8
3	1	Eliminated
4	3	3	Eliminated

2000-2001 Final Standings

Team	W	L	OL	PTS
y-Halifax Thunderbirds	12	5	1	25
x-Colorado Mammoth	11	5	2	24
x-Vancouver Storm	9	6	3	21
e-Calgary Evergreens	10	8	0	20
e-Los Angeles Pacifics	9	7	2	20
e-Arizona Sting	9	8	1	19
e-Edmonton Rougnecks	9	9	0	18
e-New York Stars	3	13	2	8

The 2001 playoffs came down to the final week, Colorado and Halifax had both clinched the playoffs and the one and two seeds, but who would get a bye to the final was still up in the air as both teams had 23 points, for Colorado to finish with the best record they needed a better or the same result as Halifax, on account of owning the better head-to-head record. For the third and final playoff spot Vancouver sat as the favorites with 20 points, although Calgary, Edmonton, Los Angeles all had 18 points, However Los Angeles could not make the playoffs as they would need both Edmonton and Calgary to lose, despite the two teams playing each other, Arizona (17 points) and New York (8 points) also had nothing to play for. Each team’s clinching scenarios are as follows:

• Vancouver
  • Overtime loss or any win @ Los Angeles
• Calgary
  • Win @ Edmonton AND Vancouver Regulation loss @ Los Angeles
• Edmonton
  • Win V Calgary AND Vancouver Regulation loss @ Los Angeles

The 2001 Playoffs were a three-team bracket with Colorado hosting Vancouver in the Semi-Final with Halifax waiting in the final

	Semifinal					Final
						1	Halifax	10
	2	Colorado	8			3	Vancouver	6
	3	Vancouver	9*

The Semi-Final is still considered to be one of the greatest games of all time with neither team ever holding a multi-goal lead, Colorado struck first, only for Vancouver to tie it up, before Colorado took a 2-1 lead. The Storm came back and netted two quick ones to go up 3-2, only for the Ancients to tie it at three. Vancouver appeared to take a 4-3 lead with 30 seconds to play but the goal was waved off due to a penalty. On the ensuing powerplay Vancouver would get a shorthanded goal, the first and only of the season, before Colorado tied it right back up at 4s with 2.1 seconds left in the first half. The second half would have been a blowout for Colorado if it wasn’t for the superb play of Vancouver’s goaltender Jacob LaMorta who turned aside 29 of 33 shots in the 2nd half alone. Despite never leading in the 2nd half Vancouver’s Trent Paulton would get a breakaway in the first 10 seconds of overtime to send Vancouver to their first championship.

The 2001 championship match was nowhere as exciting as the semi-final. Despite jumping out to an early 2-0 lead, Vancouver would find themselves down 5-4 at halftime, before being outscored 5-2 in the second half as Halifax would cruise to their second championship in as many years

2000-2001 Awards

Award	Player	Team
Most Valuable Player	Eric Branson (LW)	LA
Rookie of the Year	Trent Paulton (C)	VAN
Top Faceoff	Michael Jones (FO)	HFX
Top Transitionman	Neil Kinling (LT)	COL
Top Defender	Adam Palins (D)	HFX
Top Goalie	Liam Porter (G)	HFX
Championship MVP	Victor Smith-Hamilton (C)	HFX

Michael Jones was the only player to win his second award of the same category, although Liam Porter had been named the Championship MVP the year before

The 2001-2002 season was the third in league history, with the same eight teams returning to play in the season. Before the season the league convened to determine the alignment for the season, ultimately dividing the league into two divisions of four teams: the East (New York, Halifax, Colorado, Arizona), and the West (Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Los Angeles). Arizona and Colorado had campaigned for an American-Canadian division alignment to help reduce travel, whilst Halifax and New York wanted an expansion team to Toronto and Boston respectively to create a 3 divisions of 3 alignment. Ultimately the East-West format was chosen, teams played one game against each non-conference opponent, 4 games against 2 of 3 division opponents, and 6 games against their “rival” with the top two teams in each division making the playoffs.

The Regular season standings came down to the final week of action for the second consecutive season. although nowhere near as exciting. The Western Conference had been set the week before with Los Angeles scheduled to host Edmonton. The Eastern Conference on the other hand was much more in the air, both Colorado and Arizona had 18 points and were scheduled to play each other in week 20, the winner of this match would clinch the number 1 seed in the Eastern Conference, while the loser would have to rely on Halifax to determine their fate. For Halifax to finish second they would need to win and have Arizona win in any fashion, OR, lose in overtime and have Arizona win in regulation time, other than that the loser of the Arizona/Colorado matchup would take the final playoff spot.

2001-2002 Standings

Western Conference					Eastern Conference
TEAM	W	L	OL	PTS	TEAM	W	L	OL	PTS
z-Los Angeles	12	5	1	25	y-Arizona	10	8	0	20
x-Edmonton	11	7	0	22	x-Halifax	9	8	1	19
e-Vancouver	8	9	1	17	e-Colorado	9	9	0	18
e-Calgary	6	12	0	12	e-New York	7	10	1	15

	Conference Finals					Finals
	W1	Los Angeles	9
	W2	Edmonton	6
						W1	Los Angeles	7
						E1	Arizona	8
	E1	Arizona	10
	E2	Halifax	5

2001-2002 Awards

Award	Player	Team
Most Valuable Player	Nigel Ashton (LW)	HFX
Rookie of the Year	Marus Smith (C)	CGY
Top Faceoff	Michael Jones (FO)	HFX
Top Transitionman	Jacob Carter (RT)	ARZ
Top Defender	Keith Hunter (D)	LA
Top Goalie	Tanner Botson (G)	EDM
Championship MVP	Kevin Tangan (C)	ARZ

Michael Jones won his third consecutive Top Faceoff award.

The 2002-2003 season saw the Calgary Evergreens and Los Angeles Pacifics fold, leaving the league with just six teams, however two weeks after the league voted 10-1 in favor of adding an expansion team to San Jose, California, bringing the number of teams up to seven. The Blaze, as they would be known, would begin with rosters comprised of player previously under contract for Calgary Los Angeles, the remaining players would be spread out over dispersal draft, which each of the six established franchises selecting one player in a dispersal draft in reverse order of the previous year’s standings. The remaining nine players were granted free agency. With the league shrinking to seven teams, the divisions were abolished and teams played each other three times for their 18-game schedule.

By having one less team in the fold, the number of playoff teams was also reduced by one down to three in the same format that was used in the 2000-2001 season, the final week would yet again determine the playoffs, with New York sitting at 25 points, and Vancouver at 24, the bye to the championship would be determined on the last day of the regular season. By virtue of their 9-6 win @ San Jose the Stars would finish with the best regular-season record

2002-2003 Standings

Team	W	L	OL	PTS
y-New York	13	4	1	27
x-Vancouver	12	6	0	24
x-Arizona	10	5	3	23
e-Edmonton	10	8	0	20
e-San Jose	9	8	1	19
e-Halifax	5	11	2	12
e-Colorado	4	13	1	9

	Semifinal					Final
						1	New York	9
	2	Vancouver	8			2	Vancouver	8
	3	Arizona	7

The 2003 playoffs were extremely close with no team holding a lead greater than two at any point in either of the games, with New York wining their first championship at home.

2002-2003 Awards

Award	Player	Team
Most Valuable Player	Larry Hammond (G)	NY
Rookie of the Year	George Simonson (LW)	SJ
Top Faceoff	Nicholas Myles (FO)	VAN
Top Transitionman	Neil Kinling (LT)	COL
Top Defender	Liam Pendleton (D)	NY
Top Goalie	Larry Hammond (G)	NY
Comeback Player of the Year	Jacob Venice (RW)	ARZ
Championship MVP	Larry Hammond (G)	NY