Week Three - September 26th

Emaan vs Taqwa

10PM

Emaan will face the monster they helped create due to the major trade the two teams consummated during the draft. By lending Taqwa the 2nd overall pick, Emaan allowed the Black Squad to grab Farooq Khan and Ibad Khan to their already star arsenal.

Last year, Emaan found a good deal of success against Taqwa. Taqwa, a team that loves to create high-level skill plays, can get extremely frustrated with Emaan's high-intensity and relentless fore-check game.

They'll need to hope it works again this year as Emaan tries to register their first win.

Player To Watch: Razi Ahmed is emerging as a top defender who is extremely dangerous on the rush. He scored a great short-handed goal last week...look for him to build on that.

Who's Hot: Shaukat Khan has 4 points in the first two game and only really played half of the last game. He turned the game on it's head the moment he arrived.

Sabr vs Ihsan

11PM

The defending champions certainly didn't expect this coming into this season: Searching for their first win of the season in Week 3. Enter Ihsan, a team that Sabr has shown thinly veiled enmity towards. 

After losing their last game of the season last year to Emaan, Sabr GM Yousuf Sowdagar noted his pleasure that the loss contributed to Ihsan's elimination from the playoffs. There's no love lost between these two teams and expect a battle up and down the floor.

One subtext for this game: Sabr felt extremely paranoid that Ihsan would draft goaltender Kaz Akbar and also felt that Akbar was far  superior player to Ali Khwaja, so much so that they passed on some high-skill forwards to draft Akbar 4th overall. Expect Khwaja to try to prove his naysayers wrong.

Player to Watch: Mustafa Alam is another player who feels slighted with the Sabr brass, after being traded from the squad last season. Expect him to bring a high level of energy to the match.

Who's Hot: Omar Sabri's 4 assists (all primary) in his first 2 games is tough to ignore.