The Blue Line News

Playoff Prediction League

Announcing: The TBL Playoff Prediction League! Following on from the fun and success of the TBL Prediction League, we’ve started a Playoff version of the game. This is slightly different to the way the Regular Season Prediction League worked in that you don’t predict the scores of the games, you predict the score of the series (i.e. how many games each team will win in each series). Anyone is welcome to join. Simply visit www.ehmtheblueline.com/game. If you had a user account for the previous Prediction League then you can don’t have to register again – just use your login details from...

‘Pledge & Play’ Playoff Challenge!

We at The Blue Line are extremely excited to announce that we will be running a Stanley Cup Playoff game of our own creation through our Forums and new Knowledge Base and we’d love to invite everyone to come check it out and pass the news along! Two great never-before done at TBL aspects of this game is that it will have PRIZES and it will also RAISE MONEY FOR CHARITY!! About our “PLEDGE AND PLAY PLAYOFF CHALLENGE” Game: It will be in the format of a “checkbox draft”; you will have groups of players on a list from which you will...

SEGA buys UK Sports Interactive

LONDON (April 4, 2006) SEGA Holdings Europe Ltd., today announced that the company has acquired the multi award-winning development studio, Sports Interactive. Founded in 1994 by Paul and Oliver Collyer and operating from offices in Islington, North London, the brothers are the talented creators behind the hugely successful Football Manager series – which with only two titles from the franchise released so far, has sold in excess of 1.5 million copies and became the second fastest selling PC game of all time in the UK. The groundbreaking deal sees SEGA acquiring a company that has maintained the heritage and experience...

Introducing the Knowledge Base

The Blue Line is proud to present the Knowledge Base! The KB is a new system for creating and organising guides and articles. This a much better system than our old Guides system as it is much more user friendly and easier to use. To access the KB, click on the ‘Guides’ link in the horizontal menu below the TBL header image. Click on ‘Read more…’ to discover the new features of the system and how to submit your own articles:

Addons Guide

Not sure how to use WinZip to install EHM addons? Don’t know where a particular addon belongs? Want to know how to run multiple databases in EHM? Then read this useful guide in the Forums: http://www.ehmtheblueline.com/forums/vi … .php?t=699Top

Eastside Hockey Manager 2005 Patch 2.1.3 Released

This patch for EHM 2005 can be downloaded HERE. Changes since v2.1.2 News Tweaked NHL All-Star Game news items about roster selectionsFixed Memorial Cup host selection news item to appear properly Screens Fixed last 10 games display on game preview screen when less than 10 games are playedFixed the line matching options to display matched lines in the order explained in the manualAdded a new line matching optionTweaked default sorting rules on draft screens Trades/Transfers/Contracts Tweaked salary cap rules and calculations for NHLTweaked handling of salary cap restrictions and players on injured reserves when human managing but not coachingAllowed NHL...

Smetana Rosters 2.0

Now available on the site is Jan Smetana’s roster update. This is based on the Unfake Patch but it also updates NHL rosters to 10th December 2005. For example, Joe Thornton is at the Sharks. Player positions and attributes have been adjusted by Jan to create a more realistic ‘New NHL’ game experience. Download it here!

Unfake DB version 1

Version one of the Unfake DB Patch is now available at The Blue Line. This patch renames fake player, team, award, competition and arena names to their real life names. This is a must have for any EHM 2005 player! A big thanks to Kidhander, Javs, Icos, Uros, TWolf, and Jan Smetana for creating this. Download it here! Please note: This is a large file and so it may take some time before the “save file as” dialogue box appears after clicking on the download link. Please be patient – it will appear within about 15 seconds.

Team TBL 2005

Announcing this season’s installment of Team TBL! This is a game whereby users sign up to be part of a team which shall compete in the NHL in EHM 2005. The games are simmed and the results and user stats are posted in the Forums. The first installment was great fun and proved highly successful. Anybody can join the team. All you have to do is login (click here to register) to the Forums and post your details in the sign-up thread in the Games & Competitions Forum. The game shall start at the end of this month. You will be...

Image Gallery

The Blue Line is proud to present a new site feature: The Image Gallery. You’ll find the new system to be much easier to use and more flexible due to it’s improved features and interface. To access the new Image Gallery, go to the Main Site and click on the “Image Gallery” link located on the navigation bar below the header. Another benefit of our new site design is that this feature will always be just a click of the navigation bar away. You can also use this URL to go directly to the Gallery: www.ehmtheblueline.com/gallery.