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Ice Hockey Themed Online Slots

Added: June 12, 2013

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The finals for the 2013 NHL ice hockey season begin on June 12. The winner will lift the coveted Stanley Cup. On one side are the Eastern Conference winners Boston Bruins and on the other are the Chicago Blackhawks, the Western Conference winners. The finals could stretch up to June 26 and therefore fans have an absorbing two weeks of ice hockey. Players at online casinos could supplement the action on the rink with some exciting ice hockey themed online slots. This article reviews some of them.

Hockey Hero is the ice hockey themed slot game from Realtime Gaming. The symbols on the reels depict various aspects of this sport. The ice hockey player is the wild symbol and doubles payouts when substituting in winning combinations. The penalty box awards scatter payouts. The rhino mask awards the highest line payout. The other thematic symbols include goalkeeper, referee, trophy, puck, skates, mask, peanuts and beer. Hockey Hero is from the Real Series slot games and offers the typical two-tier randomly triggered progressive jackpot. This slot game has an innovative free spins game. 18 free spins are initially awarded. After every three free spins a symbol is completely removed from all the reels and replaced by a clock symbol. When two or more clock symbols appear simultaneously on the reels the free spins will prematurely end. Hockey Hero also has the Realtime Gaming Win Win Feature. If the player has a poor free spins round, he is awarded a compensatory payout.

The Microgaming ice hockey themed slot machine titled Break Away captures all the action of this fast paced game through some fantastic animations. The symbols include players, referee, hockey rink, mask, skates and ice maker. Break Away has the popular Microgaming 243 ways to win structure. In each spin, after the payouts are awarded the symbols in the winning combinations break away and are replaced by new symbols. If new winning combinations appear on the reels then the process repeats itself. The Break Away logo is the wild symbol and it can appear in stacks of three. In the new Smashing Wild feature two ice hockey players may crash and turn one of the central three reels into wild for that spin. The flaming puck scatter symbol awards up to 25 free spins. The free spins come with the Microgaming Rolling Reels feature. Consecutive wins in the same free spin due to the Break Away feature are paid out with increasing multipliers. The free spins cannot be retriggered.

The Playtech video slot is titled Ice Hockey. The player chooses two teams. The flags of these teams will appear on the symbols. The players of one team pay left to right and the players of the other team pay right to left. Payouts are made for both like and mixed symbols. The high value card symbols with ice hockey accessories pay out in both directions. The wild symbol is the goal. It also awards the largest line payout. 12 free spins are triggered when the flag of the same team appears simultaneously on reels 1 and 5. The ice hockey puck is the bonus symbol. In the bonus game, the puck is passed between all the players. The payout is three times the total bet for every player that touches the puck.