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Championship Weekend, August 14-16

By Matthew Preston, 07/22/15, 3:00PM EDT

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New playoff format for 2015.

PEMBROKE – The All-Star break is behind us. The season is three-quarters complete. The playoffs are all but here.

The New England Future Stars 2015 Championship Weekend begins on Friday, August 14.

The playoffs may be in sight, but the playoff picture is still far from clear, not a single one of the league’s 50 teams yet to lock in a playoff position. With parity improving across the league, the Gold Cup Championship field has been expanded this season to five teams at the Squirt, Peewee and Bantam levels.

In the younger divisions, the top five teams will now play for Gold. The top three teams will earn byes into Saturday’s semifinal round, while no. 4 will face no. 5 on Play-In Friday. The bottom five will feature a similar set in their respective Silver Cup Championships. No. 9 and 10 will start the hunt with a game on Friday night. The winner advances to Semifinal Saturday to face no. 6 while fourth and fifth place will play in the other semifinal matchup.

The two girls divisions – Girls U14 and Girls Varsity – will also feature games on Play-In Friday. In both divisions, no. 3 plays no. 6 and no. 4 plays no. 5 with first and second place earning automatic byes into the semifinal round.

With eight teams this season, no Friday games for the Varsity Division in 2015, all eight teams advancing to Semifinal Saturday. The Gold Cup Semis feature no. 1 versus no. 4 and no. 2 versus no. 3 matchups and the Silver Cup will have no. 5 facing no. 8 and no. 6 playing no. 7 for the right to advance to the finals.

Semifinal Saturday winners advance to Championship Sunday, to be hosted at two Future Stars locations on August 16. The six Gold Cup Championship contests will be held at the Raynham IcePlex, while the Silver Cup Semifinals winners will head to the Cronin Skating Rink in Revere for their final game of the season.

Dates, times and locations for all Championship Weekend matchups will be announced in the coming weeks.