


Gibson finished the week with a 3-0-0 record, with a pair of shutouts and that helper for his 11-point week. He swept through Alberta, just before New Year's, shutting out both Edmonton and Calgary in 1-0 games and then on Sunday, he picked up another win against the Jets at home and that's where he added an assist to his totals.
Since his mid-season recall, Gibson has shot up the overall scoring rankings, already with 25 points this season and he has only appeared in 15 games for the Ducks. In the pool, however, he was a Waiver Draft pick by Clayton, his only pick in the 1st round, and he now leads all picks in the draft with 13 points since the start of Week Ten.


They also enjoyed a big week from Long Island's Frans Nielsen, who had a 5-point week and then there were 4-point weeks from Marcus Johansson in Washington, Nino Niederreiter in Minnesota and Karri Ramo in Calgary.
The production from some of these guys was so great, that they probably didn't even notice that four of their active skaters on their team didn't even register a point in the week. That's just how good the big scorers were.
With the huge run of weeks, they have now usurped top spot in the pool standings, six weeks from them sitting in 9th place, as they have shown quite a rise through the standings in those weeks. Their team currently ranks 2nd in skater games played this year and 2nd in goalie minutes registered, which means their team has been healthy all year and now the scoring rates are starting to catch up to their health, which would be the number one reason why they have been doing so well.
Can this streak continue?

Only six of his active 14 players picked up points for his side in the week, led by Alex Tanguay of the Avalanche and Dmitry Kulikov of the Panthers, each picking up 3 points and making up more than half of his weekly total.
Grant's goaltending may be one of the biggest issues, as he lost a couple of gambles on goalies, as they were both in situations where the goaltending situation wasn't quite concrete in both cities and they both worked against him. He was getting minutes to start the year, now he has two goalies that are barely getting back-up minutes.
If things were to hold out for him, he would be the first team to be able to make a swap in the Week Eighteen Waiver Draft, as his side now ranks 27th, last place, in the standings and is falling behind quite quickly, already 15 points back of 26th.

Jeremy's team moved up from 3rd to 2nd, while John P. was jumped by both teams, dropping down to 3rd place this past week. The three money teams are the only ones above 300 points this week and the gap to 4th & 5th place is now 11 points, as Troy and Neil fell a bit further behind. We're now starting to see a little bit of separation in the standings and we're still a month away from the next Waiver Draft.

Cindy's team was actually the top rookie scoring team in the week, as Jack Eichel had another good week in Buffalo, picking up 5 points. Cindy's rookie is now only 4 points back of Troy's rookie, so there could be a couple of teams wishing they could catch Ryan's four rookies.

It is only Allan and Jeremy left in the pool and these two could be trading punches for the rest of the season. Allan has Ben Bishop of the Lightning and Connor Hellebuyck of the Jets, while Jeremy has Braden Holtby of the Capitals and Al Montoya of the Panthers. Each has a bonafide starter, playing for some pretty good teams in the East, while they each have some quality back-up.
It's hard to pick between the two teams, but the All-Star break could be the killer in this one, which is only a month away.

Wes still owns a 30-minute lead after Week Thirteen, as his side managed to open up the gap between themselves and Dale B. in the week, but Derek & Dan clawed back a tiny bit of ground, bettering Wes' team by 4 minutes and moved into 3rd place.
Finally, we saw a record number of minutes in the pool this week, as all the teams combined for a season-high, 536 minutes in penalties, which means we're finally getting into the nitty-gritty and/or crunch time in the schedule. Let's hope for even more minutes!
STATISTICALLY SPEAKING
We were a fraction of a point per game off the season-high this season, as the pool was hitting on all cylinders in Week Thirteen. We saw 641 points in 48 NHL games, which was almost a season-high total, despite being three games short of the busiest week in the year. More points and more PIM make this pool more interesting, it only stands to reason.
Week Fourteen will have 47 games on the schedule, but that's no reason why this pool couldn't hit some big numbers again. Keep cheering on your side, you just never know what could happen, if your team goes on a big run.
NEWS AND NOTES

This shouldn't be a big concern for Derek & Dan, who have him in the pool, as he won't likely be missing any scheduled starts, while he is away. At worst, he'll miss some possible relief appearances behind Martin Jones, but that would be about it.
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