2014 - 15 FHL Season This is the 2014 - 15 Federal Hockey League season . This was the league ' s 5th season . Franchise changes . On April 11 , 2014 the league issued a release announcing a new team in Western Pennsylvania . The league had indicated on its ' website that it was planning on adding a second expansion team for the 2014 - 15 season . originally Connellsville was mentioned for the site of the expansion team , but the Port Huron Fighting Falcons of the North American Hockey League announced they were relocating to Connellsville for the 2014 - 15 season . The league later announced that they were placing an expansion team in the town of Belle Vernon that will be known as the Southwest Pennsylvania Magic or SWPA Magic . The Watertown Privateers folded after the 2013 - 14 season after being unable to locate new local ownership . A new franchise was awarded to local ownership for the 2014 - 15 season . The new ownership did not want to inherit the team ' s debt . The ownership chose the name Watertown Wolves on August 8 , 2014 On July 14 , 2014 , the league announced an expansion team for the 2014 - 15 season to be based out of the Notre Dame Arena in Berlin , New Hampshire . The league was setting up a LLC to own and manage the team until local ownership could be found . This franchise ended up moving to North Adams , Massachusetts and were named the Berkshire Battalion . North Adams was originally supposed to have a franchise in the North Atlantic Professional Hockey League , which was supposed to start with the 2014 - 15 season , but the league pushed back the start up to 2015 - 16 to allow for more stable ownership groups . The ownership of the North Adams Black Bears which were supposed to play in the NAPHL tried to gain entry into the FHL for the 2014 - 15 season but were denied due to the FHL ' s concern over the financial stability of this team . The 2014 - 15 season started with some hope as the league grew to six teams for the season , however ; this did not last long as the SWPA Magic was pulled from the league after playing just one game ( and cancelling a weekend series on October 18th and 19th against the Battalion after playing against the Battion in North Adams the night before . The Berkshire Eagle newspaper reported that the Battalion ' s games in Pennsylvania were cancelled due to " internal issues " within the Magic ownership made it so that the team was not able to host a game in Greensberg . The league had already requested that the other members of the league help out the Berkshire Battalion and the ownership of the Magic could not contribute . However , the Battalion situation may have cause the league management to pull the team out of the league . The Watertown Wolves posted a tweet stating that their home game on October 25th that was originally scheduled against the Magic was still on but it didn ' t state against whom . The league was working on getting a team together to fill out the Magic ' s games on the schedule . As of the morning of October 22 , the Magic ' s team website and facebook pages have been pulled . The league has not posted anything on the situation as of this point . WWNY television in the Watertown , NY area issued a report with much of the previous information on the morning of Ocotber 21st The Watertown Daily Times posted an article on October 22 , 2014 stating that the Magic ' s place in the league had been taken by a team being called Steel City Warriors , which was accepted by the league and will play out of the same arena in Greensburg , PA . The league stated in a release , on the same day , that the team will assume the Magic ' s schedule starting with the game on November 8th . The team will be started from scratch as they are reported to be holding tryouts between the 23rd and their game on the 25th in Watertown . Standings . Team GP W OTW OTL L PTS PCT GF GA PIM Commisioner ' s Cup Playoffs . Format . The top four teams from the regular season ( based on point percentage ) qualify for the the playoffs . The first round is a best - of - three series . The two semifinal winners advance to a best - of - five final series for the Commissioners Cup .