Two Gone... Six To Go...

TEAM ........................... PTS .... REM
Halos .......................... 108 .... 22
Corndogs Rejects ............... 95 ..... 21
Get Bent!! ..................... 93 ..... 20
Dewhirst Destroyers ............ 92 ..... 21
The Shaving Moes ............... 92 ..... 19
Scammer & Z-Dog ................ 91 ..... 22
Team Slim Shady ................ 91 ..... 21
Pony Boy 2 ..................... 90 ..... 21
K-9 Fornicators ................ 88 ..... 22
Sherpa's Yaks .................. 86 ..... 19
NO SHOOTOUTS - REAL HOCKEY! .... 85 ..... 22
Favourites #1 .................. 83 ..... 20
Team Stompin' Tom .............. 83 ..... 20
Bailey's Team .................. 83 ..... 19
Lucky 1 ........................ 82 ..... 21
Zambonies ...................... 82 ..... 20
Wallace ........................ 78 ..... 19
1st Pick ....................... 77 ..... 21
Fourn-Y-A ...................... 77 ..... 20
Pwest .......................... 77 ..... 20
Les Mascouches ................. 77 ..... 20
Big Feet ....................... 75 ..... 22
Bubbs .......................... 75 ..... 20
Favourites #2 .................. 74 ..... 19
Wilson St. Samsquanchs ......... 73 ..... 20
Impact ......................... 72 ..... 21
Team Chevy ..................... 72 ..... 19
Eleven River Dogs .............. 71 ..... 19
Red, White & Blue .............. 68 ..... 18
Rick's Red ..................... 65 ..... 20
Phuck U ........................ 64 ..... 20
It's Not That Bad .............. 63 ..... 17
D-Wall ......................... 62 ..... 20
Little Joe Riders .............. 62 ..... 19
Snipers ........................ 59 ..... 20
Pony Boy 1 ..................... 55 ..... 21
Gilmore ........................ 55 ..... 20
Big Tom ........................ 55 ..... 19
Thanx For Comin' Out ........... 55 ..... 17

After Sunday night's games, all pool teams will now show their points and how many players they have remaing. Teams are starting to get eliminated now, so it's best if you know that you have more (or less) players than your rivals.

Well, there's only one sweep in the first round and it's the New Jersey Devils taking the broom to the New York Rangers after a 4-2 win. Martin Brodeur picked up his 10th point in the win for the Devils making 31 saves. Brian Gionta's shorthanded marker early in the third counted as the winning goal for the Devils, so he finished with two points in the clincher. Patrik Elias scored two and added an assist for three points and Scott Gomez had a goal and an assist as well for the Devils. The Devils may have quite a while to wait to see who they are going to play against in the second round.

For the Rangers today, Steve Rucchin's late third period goal was the only point for the Rangers today. Jaromir Jagr left the game after his first shift after apparently aggrevating his shoulder injury that he picked up in the first game. Combined for the series, the Rangers scored a total of 5 points for the pool.

The eliminated players with points are as follows:
Peter Prucha, 1G
Steve Rucchin, 1G
Jaromir Jagr, 1A
Marek Malik, 1A
Michael Nylander, 1A

The champions have been knocked off! Ray Emery, the first rookie goaltender to win a series since Brian Boucher in 2000, took all four games himself and added an assist in the process to defeat the Lightning in five games. Wade Redden and Dany Heatley each had 2 assists last night, while Peter Schaefer, Andrej Meszaros and Martin Havlat scored for the Sens. Havlat, a non-pool pick, eventually got the winner in the 3-2 decision.

For the Lightning, the lack of picks as a whole was a decent indication that no one had any faith that the champs would do anything again. They weren't really much of a team, I thought, anyways. In the last game of the series, Brad Richards scored a goal and Cory Sarich, Vincent Lecavalier and Dan Boyle all had assists. At least for the Lightning, they actually scored some goals in their series, so a few of the picks actually generated some points for the five games that they were in.

The eliminated players with points are as follows:
Brad Richards, 3G 5A
Martin St. Louis, 4G 1GWG
Dan Boyle, 1G 3A
Vincent Lecavalier, 1G 3A
Pavel Kubina, 1G 1A
Vaclav Prospal, 2A
John Grahame, 1W
Daryl Sydor, 1A
Cory Sarich, 1A

The Edmonton Oilers went into Detroit and stole a game from the Red Wings to take a 3-2 lead in the series Saturday afternoon. Chris Pronger had 3 assists and Dwayne Roloson had the win, as the only two multi-point players in the game. The Oilers will now go home to try and finish the Red Wings off on Monday night. An Oilers series win would be devasting for most pool teams as more often than not, there are teams with at least a pair of Red Wings on their teams and not a lot of Oilers picked.

The Red Wings got goals from Brendan Shanahan and Henrik Zetterberg with assists coming from Pavel Datsyuk and Tomas Holmstrom.

To put the devasatation in perspective, the most popular Red Wings, Nicklas Lidstrom and Brendan Shanahan were picked 23 (out of 39) times in the pool... while the most popular Oiler, Sergei Samsonov, was picked only 3 times.

The Flames decided to outclass the Ducks last night in their 3-2 win in Calgary Saturday night. A flat-footed Anaheim team just couldn't muster any offense until late in the final frame when there were a couple powerplay goals scored. Miikka Kiprusoff made 26 saves in the game last night with his shutout being broken halfway through the third. For Kipper, that his 3rd win of the playoffs. Jarome Iginla scored two goals, including the winner, Tony Amonte scored the other Flames goal, Daymond Langkow had 2 assists and Matthew Lombardi, Kristian Huselius & Roman Hamrlik all had assists as well.

For the Ducks, Rob Niedermayer scored the only pool-counting goal and Teemu Selanne had the only pool-counting assist in the game.

Game 6 will go at the pond in Anaheim on Monday, where the Flames will have the chance to eliminate the Ducks once and for all.

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