With the NHL announcing its plans to resume the 2019-20 NHL season, the NHL Player Gaming Challenge will be concluding this weekend with a best-of-three final series.

NHL Player Gaming Challenge Final

The sixth and final week of the NHL Player Gaming Challenge will feature a budding star for the Columbus Blue Jackets going up against a former Winnipeg Jet defensemen.

Goaltender Elvis Merszlikins, who went on a torrid 13-5-4 run with Columbus prior to the league’s shutdown, will represent the Blue Jackets. Merzlikins will be opposed by Joe Morrow, who will be representing the Winnipeg Jets

Morrow, a first-round pick in 2011, played two seasons for the Jets from 2017-2019. This past season, Morrow played with Minsk Dynamo of the KHL.

The final matchup of the Player Gaming Challenge will be a best-of-three series, and it will take place on Saturday at 3 PM EST. All three games can be seen on Twitch, YouTube and Twitter.

For more NHL 20 news, be sure to keep checking out the SGO site.

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