


If Matt Duchene is going to score a weekly high in points amidst all of these rumours, the Avalanche would be wise to keep him under these rumours for the rest of the season, as they are running fairly hot, finally.
In Week Six, Duchene was good for 4 goals and 4 assists in three games during the week, taking top spot in the conversation from Henrik Lundqvist of the Rangers, who wasn't able to score any goals from the crease.
Duchene opened the week with 2 goals and an assist against Philadelphia on Tuesday, added a goal and an assist against Boston on Thursday and then a goal and 2 assists in Montreal on Saturday. That's a pretty solid output on the week.
His 8-point week lifted his season total to 14 points in 17 games, situating him 51st overall in pool scoring, making him a solid 2nd round pick, according to the number of teams in the pool. That's a bit closer to the expectation levels that Duchene had going into the year, although Jeremy picked him 102nd overall in the 4th round, so there wasn't nearly those kind of expectations among the 27 of us.

By an 11-10 margin, Eric takes the goal scoring tie-breaker and earns his first Mover & Shaker nod of his new pool career.

Eric also saw 4-point contributions from Ryan Johansen in Columbus, Oliver Ekman-Larsson in Arizona and Thomas Greiss on Long Island, followed by John Tavares' 3 points as well.
For squad that was leading the pool in PIM for a few weeks, it's now scoring at a pretty good click and now begs the question at the Waiver Draft, who will Eric take and in which direction will he want to go in? Of course, the big money is where he should be going, but being the new guy... who really knows?
At the end of the week, Eric's team sits in 14th place in the standings, making him the lowest-ranked Mover & Shaker of the season, to date, but his team moved up from 17th, so that's a good indication that things are now falling into place for him, making his potential Waiver Draft pick, that much worse.

Rick Nash finished with 4 points and Antti Raanta finished with 2 points, so his Rangers were at least doing something for him, but they accounted for 60% of his scoring in the week. In total, Benson had nine players with zeroes in the week, one due to injury in Zach Parise, but the rest were just naught.
This poor result dropped his team down to 25th overall in the standings, now good for the 3rd pick in the Waiver Draft, if it were to start today (it doesn't). In terms of mini-games, his team was eliminated from the survivor pool off the hop, he doesn't have any rookies and his team is mediocre for time in the penalty box. Either his team will have to bounce back with a vengeance or he'll really have to goon it up in a couple weeks, for any chance at money this year.

Ryan, Troy and Jeremy are all within 3 points of 3rd place and their teams have all been running hot over the last couple of weeks, so Week Seven may be the time for change, if trends continue to unravel.

Troy is also trying to keep pace in his mini-game as well, as his rookie, Max Domi, was good for 4 points all on his own.

For Mike, neither Michael Hutchinson in Winnipeg or Andrei Vasilevskiy in Tampa Bay could get enough minutes to help pick up a win, let alone get the win itself. When Hutchinson stepped in for his last gasp on Saturday night, he was yanked early, after giving up four goals to the Nashville Predators.
Stacey didn't get much luck from Jimmy Howard in Detroit and didn't get many starts from Antti Niemi in Dallas, who has fallen behind Kari Lehtonen in recent days, as they both vie for the number one job.
We're now left with eight teams in the pool now, as we draw closer to the Waiver Draft, some of these teams may need a little bit of help and some of them might not even know it yet. Scott, Derek W., Stuart, Dale B., Jeremy, John P., Ryan and Allan, in order of goalie wins, are the teams now remaining in the pool.

What a week it was! The pool collected a season-high 498 PIM in Week Six, Brian's team saw a spike of 31 PIM to lead the charge and jump into the top five in the pool. His team's 130 PIMs ranks him 3rd in the pool, but he's a minor and two misconducts away from top spot, where Wes, the preseason favourite, sits on his lonesome.
STATISTICALLY SPEAKING
This week was a good week for the numbers. The pool averaged 13 points per NHL game this week, we saw a few more goalie minutes, even though the skaters didn't play as much and the pool also averaged 10 PIM per NHL game as well, a new high for the year. A big thumbs up to our teams this week, they really nailed it.
Weeks Seven, Eight and Nine are going to ramp up a little bit, as we head into the first Waiver Draft at the end of the month. Now is a good time to have a healthy team, because Week Nine will have 50 NHL games on the schedule, so be sure to call up your players and tell them how important it is to be in their team's lineups in these weeks. You should be able to find their cell phone numbers around here somewhere.
NEWS AND NOTES

Kristy & Don finished the week in 21st place, now 34 points out of the money. Losing their best goaltender for an uncertain amount of time is not what the doctor ordered for their recovery, so they'll be leaning heavily on Roberto Luongo, until Varlamov is healthy.

Wes' wins leader on his team is Hammond, but he only has 2 wins and 4 points, outlining how poor of a start his team has had in the crease. His team sits in 23rd and would have the 5th pick in the Waiver Draft, so you'll know where he'll be looking first.

Scott's team has been getting along okay this year, finishing the week in 10th place, 11 points out of the money. I'm thinking that Boyle won't have a huge effect on whether he hits the money or not, if the Rangers are going to rest him from time to time. Even with only 3 points, Scott may have some more pressing concerns in his lineup to address at the Waiver Draft, more so than Boyle.
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