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Ice Hockey Themed Online Slots Games

January 18, 2013

Ice hockey is not a very popular sport globally, but it is the national sport of Canada. This article reviews two ice hockey themed online slots from the portfolio of leading software providers for the benefit of players at Canada online casinos.

The slot game from Playtech is titled Ice Hockey. The players choose the two national teams that will be competing and their flags appear on the various symbols on the reels. In a unique game structure, the symbols of one team pay left to right and the symbols of the other team pay right to left. Players from the same team pay in like and mixed combinations. The high value card symbols pay in both directions. The goal is the wild symbol, which also offers the largest line payout of 10,000 coins. The Ice Hockey logo is a scatter symbol. The team flags are the free spins symbols. 12 free spins are awarded when the same flag appears at the same time on reels 1 and 5. Players from only one team appear on the reels during the free spins. All combinations pay out left to right and also right to left. The free spins cannot be retriggered.

The ice hockey puck is the bonus symbol and triggers the bonus game when it appears anywhere on reel 2 and a left side team member on reel 1 or when it appears anywhere on reel 4 and a right side team member on reel 5. The puck passes between all players from the triggering team appearing on the reels. The payout is three times the total bet for every player that touches the puck. This feature is not available in the free spins. Ice Hockey is a 15 payline video slot game with the maximum bet per spin of 75 credits.

The Microgaming ice hockey themed online slot game is titled Break Away. The players and the referee are the high paying symbols. Break Away uses thematic symbols such as hockey rink, mask, skates and ice maker for the low paying symbols instead of the playing card icons. The animations and detailed graphics recreate the fast paced action of the ice hockey game. Break Away is a 243 ways to win online slot. Winning combinations are first paid and the symbols break away. New symbols appear in the empty spaces and if new winning combinations are formed the process is repeated. The Break Away logo is the wild symbol and it can appear in stacks on reels 3, 4 and 5. In the Smashing Wild feature two ice hockey players may randomly crash into each other and turn one of the three middle reels into wild.

The ice hockey puck plays an important role in this slot game as well. It is the scatter symbol and awards scatters payouts and triggers the free spins bonus. Three scatter symbols award 15 free spins, four scatter symbols award 20 free spins and five scatter symbols award 25 free spins. The free spins incorporate the Microgaming Rolling Reels feature. Consecutive wins in the same free spin as a result of the break away feature are paid with increasing multipliers as follows: x1, x2, x3, x4, x5 and x10. The free spins cannot be retriggered. Because Break Away is a 243 ways to win slot game the total bet is 50 times the line bet. Players can wager up to 10 coins per payline.

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