


In three games this week, Crosby finished with 5 goals and 3 assists, posting a hat-trick and an assist against the Senators on Tuesday, a goal against Tampa Bay on Friday and then a goal and 2 assists against Florida on Saturday.
This brings up his season totals to 22 goals and 49 points in 50 games this year, which is nearly a point-per-game pace, and he now ranks 17th overall in pool scoring, 10th among all skaters in the league. No, it's not 1st overall... yes, he did have a slow start to the year... no, the Penguins are nearly as dominant these days, but the team has more working parts than just Crosby.
Crosby was the 2nd overall pick in the draft this year, taken by Mike, but he hasn't quite been putting up the value that the 2nd overall pick would. Thanks to his slow start, he is now 27 points back of Patrick Kane, who is now ranked 2nd overall in pool scoring through the week and isn't likely to catch him before the end of the year. Still, he could get a good boost and move up sufficiently, where it doesn't look nearly as bad.


Also having a good week for Jeremy's team, Tomas Plekanec of the Habs, Mark Stone of the Senators and Kris Letang of the Penguins, each with 5 poitns in the week, which is a huge victory in itself. After those three, there were another three players with 3 points a piece and then there were a few 2-point and 1-point players and only a couple active players on his roster that failed to pick up points.
In the second segment, which has now just ended, Jeremy's team finished 3rd in the segment, only behind Kristy & Don and Brenda & Seward in a pretty tight race. His 3rd place finish in the first segment was also fairly impressive and he will go into the third segment with a healthy squad and high expectations.
He can thank a pretty healthy team this season, not to mention some good scoring rates, as his skaters rank 5th in the pool in games played, 11th in forward scoring rates, 9 in defensemen scoring rates, 11th in goalie minutes and 2nd in goalie scoring rates. It's a sum of the total though, fairly reasonable across the board.

Cindy's team had been doing some good things, leading up to Week Eighteen, as it finally got healthy and started climbing the ranks, but thanks to a poor week, dropped back down from 15th to 17th in the process. It is definitely still within range of doing some good things in the pool, but it's getting rather unlikely that her side will finish in the money.
In the week, Tyler Seguin of the Stars was her team's top scorer, with 3 points in the week. At the other end of the spectrum, five of her players finished with 0 points, including both goalies, who haven't really paid much for dividends this season.
Cindy opted to remain with the status quo through the Waiver Draft and will open Week Nineteen and the third segment 55 points out of the money.

Brenda & Seward were stationary through the Waiver Draft, Jeremy moved one forward, John P. passed his two picks, Stuart picked up a new forward and defenseman and Neil passed his two picks. How will this all shake out in the final nine weeks of the year?

Clayton chose Mattias Janmark of the Stars, helping his team with his third rookie on it, but the pool itself is way too far out of reach, since he only picked up 43 points through two segments and there's only one left.

His closest competitor, Dale B., did drop a couple of PIM duds on his team, but I believe he was looking for a little more scoring in his replacements. That isn't to say they won't get more minutes, that's just not what they're there for.
Derek & Dan didn't move to goon up too much in their Waiver Draft moves, rather they did try to improve their chances of not finishing last and at the same time, they did pick up Zack Kassian of the Oilers, who should be good for a few more minutes.
John R., who moved back down to 27th in the standings, opted to goon it up in the Waiver Draft, but his team is 131 minutes behind Wes and is somewhat outclassed in the goon department. His best hope is to move into the top five and see what happens from there.
STATISTICALLY SPEAKING
I wouldn't normally expect the last week of a segment to be a record-setting week, but Week Eighteen saw the highest average scoring per NHL game this season, picking up 13.87 points per game in the week and we're only looking to improve on that after the Waiver Draft. That's kind of exciting.
Skater games were up slightly and the goalie minutes were also up from a pretty poor All-Star week, both helping the cause.
It wasn't a record-setting week in the penalty minutes, but it wasn't far off. 12.1 minutes per game ranks second to the All-Star week, so it's getting feisty out there now. With a lot of divisional games being queued up in the final weeks of the season, the fireworks will be going off for sure.
NEWS AND NOTES
It's a busy note day, as I skipped Sunday's posts, thanks to a harsh night of drinking. That was a lot of scotch.

Eric opted not to move out Miller at the Waiver Draft, not that there were many good replacements available. In 17 games since Week Ten, Miller is only good for 1 goal and 5 points, not to mention his 4 PIM.

Allan and Troy, respectively, had a little bit of a shock to their rosters, not getting that extra skater game before the end of the week and Zucker's performance this season has earned him a drop in the Waiver Draft, as Troy moved him out for a home run swing, Joseph Blandisi of the Devils.

Of course, this won't help Cindy's team to try and get out of the Basement Dweller spot for the new week and since she stayed put on her team last week, that won't likely help either. Beaulieu was one of her Week Nine picks and since then, he has picked up 7 assists in 23 games.

Derek W.'s team opens the third segment 42 points out of the money and could really use McDonagh's presence in the Rangers lineup to try and make some ground. Derek was busy, trying to improve his forwards during the Waiver Draft, so let's hope that it's enough to make up for this loss.

More bad news for Allan in this post, as his team was doing some good things in that second segment as well. His team opens the third segment, only 1 point back of Derek W. above and if the Leafs are going to help his team turnaround, Bozak will have to be there.
Click here for the updated injury/news page on the website
No comments:
Post a Comment