Wildfire Hockey Pool Standings - End of Week 7

Team.......................................Total...This Week
Don's Dinos..................................194..........29
Team Lowes Racing............................183..........20
The Shaving Moes.............................173..........27
Sherpa's Yaks................................165..........27
The Late Impact..............................161..........33
Langdon River Dogs...........................155..........22
The Slim Pickens.............................154..........22
Team EA......................................154..........21
Pull the Goalie..............................152..........28
Taffy's Tyrants..............................150..........26
Team Chevy...................................146..........26
Doug's Deadbeats.............................132..........18
Thanx For Comin' Out.........................125..........19
THE Team.....................................122..........10

A great effort by The Late Impact this week gave them the week's best 31 points. They had three players with a week-high 7 points each to give them an edge against the top teams in the pool. They certainly played a good game of catch-up this week.

It's pretty hard to decide just one Player of the Week since 7 players had 7 points each this week, so we'll share the top spot with the three from The Late Impact; Vaclav Prospal, Pierre Turgeon and Ales Hemsky.

THE Team has become the new cellar-dwellar at the moment as Thanx For Comin' Out has climbed their way out of last place to put a charge on for 12th.

Monday's News:
Keith Tkachuk (THE Team) has been upgraded to being out day-to-day, which could mean that his return to the ice is imminent. Talk about good news for THE Team... they need all the man-games they can get now. Brian Leetch (THE Team) should also return to the ice withing the next 10 days, according to the Hockey News. Eric Brewer (Don's Dinos) will be out until January after separating his shoulder. He won't be missed too much as he hasn't really contributed a great deal to the Dinos' success . Steve Sullvan (Langdon River Dogs) has missed the last couple games with a groin injury. Not very good news for the River Dogs... but he's only day-to-day, so he should be back soon. Sergei Gonchar (Taffy's Tyrants) should return to the Penguins line-up this week after missing games with a groin injury.

Tuesday's News:
A trade! A trade! And it involves a pool guy!! Sergei Fedorov (Pull the Goalie) got dealt to the Columbus Blue Jackets from the the Mighty Ducks... no other big players were involved in the deal, but this will strengthen a weak Jacket team down the middle... and when Rick Nash (Langdon River Dogs) returns... they could be a big scoring team. Maybe.

Returnees:
Dan Cloutier (Sherpa's Yaks) returned to beat the Red Wings on Sunday... hooray!

Injuries:
Mario Lemieux (Doug's Deadbeats) isn't feeling very well... so he'll take Wednesday off. Pierre Turgeon (The Late Impact) will find the press box with a hip injury... out day to day. Alexei Kovalev (Team EA) will be out at least two weeks (up to eight weeks) after undergoing knee surgery... that's a best case scenario too. Sergei Gonchar (Taffy's Tyrants) will be out a few games with a strained groin. Martin St. Louis (The Shaving Moes) will also miss a couple weeks with a broken finger.


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