
Welcome to the second segment of the hockey pool season. Week Nine is complete and we have 2+ rounds worth of players shifting in and out of the rosters, starting today. I know for some, players have been already been teasing some of you with some good performances, but now they count for good.
But first, we have to look at how our old and less exciting players had done the week previous.


In four games this week, the 33-year old veteran finished with 4 goals and 3 assists, which now brings his totals up to 11 goals and 30 points in 27 games, which now ranks him 8th overall in pool scoring this year. Who saw that coming?
After being shutout against the Avalanche on Tuesday, Cammalleri put together a 3-game points streak, scoring a pair and adding an assist against the Hurricanes on Thursday, a goal and an assist against the Flyers on Friday and then another goal and an assist on Sunday.
In the pool, Cammalleri is one of the best bargains taken in the draft this year, as Neil took him in the 10th round, 263rd overall, a +255 pick improvement, which now ranks 3rd in the pool in that category. Neil has taken this pick, among some of his other good picks this year, and found his way into the money ranks all year long.


Jonathan Quick of the Kings led the way for the pool's second duo, picking up 6 points in Week Nine, while both Derrick Brassard of the Rangers and Predators forward Filip Forsberg picked up 5 points a piece and they were followed quickly by Adam Henrique of the Devils, Zdeno Chara of the Bruins and Karri Ramo of the Flames, who each had 4 points.
You can tell that they are very confident in their team moving forward, as they had only swapped out one defenseman at the Waiver Draft, acknowledging that they don't have a lot of gaps in their side and with only a short gap to the money, they'll be an interesting team to watch moving forward.
The big money is all that Brenda & Seward really have to look forward to, as their team hasn't been a factor in the mini-games, failing to get off the ground in the goalie survivor pool, no rookies (until this week) and their team is only slightly goonish, now 99 PIM out of the lead in the PIM pool.

Mikael Granlund of the Wild tried to keep him afloat in the week, leading his team with 3 points, but seven players on his side failed to pick up a point in the week, which was the biggest reason why his team couldn't float his way through a poor scoring week.
Maybe the most glaring mention in here is that this is a first-to-worst situation, something that is also quite the rarity in the pool, but the past has shown that it isn't quite impossible. In Week Eight, Jeremy had a Mover & Shaker week, followed up by a Basement Dweller week... maybe his team just wants some constant attention.

As we touched on in the Mover & Shaker, only 2 points separates 3rd from 6th place, so this section of the Newsletter has a lot of play in it and with Mover & Shakers moving quickly into this conversation every week, everything still remains fresh and exciting.

The Waiver Draft did make the rookie race a little bit more interesting, as there were 10 more rookies taken and they'll be made active today. Ryan swapped out his rookie goaltender for another, while Troy was able to add a rookie defenseman to his roster, hopefully adding someone to close the gap.
No team added a pair of rookies in the Waiver Draft, so there is no real immediate threat to Ryan's lead, that I can see anyways.

With that being said, Week Ten now begins with six teams remaining and a fairly low, 43 games on the NHL schedule. Allan, Dale B., Derek W., Jeremy, John P. and Stuart are the only teams left who can come away with the $60 at the end of this contest.
Two of the remaining six made goaltending changes to help increase their chances at success in the pool, as Allan welcomes Connor Hellebuyck of the Jets to his lineup, while Jeremy added Al Montoya of the Panthers to his. Will those moves pay off?

Starting Week Ten, these two were the top two in the pool, before adding their muscle, Wes leading the duo, 245-193 to start the week. That's a 52 PIM lead, but one could argue that the duo's pair has a bit more of a mean streak to it, so that lead may not be safe.
STATISTICALLY SPEAKING
Wow, this was a bad week and I don't think I could stress that enough. We had a season high of 50 NHL games this week, but the pool could only muster 10.5 points in each game, our lowest average that we've seen this season.
Leading up to that, we had also seen some season-lows in skater and goalie participation in the pool, as the pool averaged less than 19 skater games per NHL game and less than 100 minutes in the creases across the schedule as well.
We'll be knocking off a lot of names from the news page with the Waiver Draft change-over, which should immediate give us all a boost in both games played and goalie minutes.
NEWS AND NOTES

This is the last week that Stacey C. has to worry about this, as Khudobin was one of his drops at the Waiver Draft, as he picked up Linus Ullmark of the Sabres to take his place, opting to find more minutes played for his side, but who knows how many wins that will translate to.

Now that the Waiver Draft is over, Cindy should be hoping for some good news for her team. Her side has started to make some strides up the standings and her team could use the two picks that she made to see some more improvements and back into some respectable finish potential.
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