


Tarasenko finished with 3 goals and 3 assists in three games this week, picking up an assist against Chicago on Wednesday, 2 goal and an assist against Anaheim on Friday and then a goal and an assist against the Stars on Saturday.
The top week in the pool brought Tarasenko's numbers up to 33 goals and 61 points on the year, which is good enough for 26th overall in pool scoring, a bottom end 1st round pick in a redraft right now. That's a very good year.
For Tony, he picked up Tarasenko in the 1st round, but 11th overall, so the return hasn't been quite as good as initially hoped, but at least his 1st round pick is still considered a 1st round pick at this point in the year.
In the week, the 24-year old Russian helped Tony's team to a pretty good week, but was it good enough for the Mover & Shaker of the week?


Besides Tarasenko, Tony's team was guided by Jonathan Huberdeau of the Panthers and Jason Spezza of the Stars, who each had 5 points in the week, while Ondrej Palat of the Lightning and Petr Mrazek of the Red Wings were chipping in with 4 points each as well.
Four players on his side finished with zero points, which meant that he needed a really good effort from the rest of his players and they certainly came through for him.
The third segment has been a bright spot in a seemingly dreary and unlucky year for Tony's team, which has spent the better part of the year in the bottom-third of the standings. At the end of Week Eighteen, his team was ranked 24th and with this hot streak his team has been on, they have shot up to 16th, looking for a top half finish. Starting Week Twenty-Four, his team is only 5 points back of 13th, which would give him that desired finish. Once his team gets there, then he can look forward to something even better.

All three teams finished with 3 goals scored in the week, but they weren't the worst in the category, as Stacey C. only had 2 goals on the week, but that doesn't decide anything. Next up is wins... where Wes had one win and thus removed himself from the competition, as Mike and Stacey M. each were winless.
Well, that brings us to the third tie-breaker, which in my scoring ranks is skater games played... the least amount of games played will be our Basement Dweller. Mike finished with 28 games played from his skaters and then Stacey finished with... (drum roll)... 27 games! Congratulations Stacey, this is your 5th Basement Dweller nod this season.
The free fall continues for Stacey's team, which finished 17th at the end of Week Fourteen, her team's first nod and has now gone all the way down to 25th this week, only 6 points from the bottom. With James van Riemsdyk, Kyle Turris and Jeff Petry already out for the year, not to mention another couple misses from Lars Eller, her team has lost their buckets and can't save this sinking ship.

The race for 3rd place is also staying quite hot, as Brian remained in the spot, but is still looking over his shoulder, with John P. and Neil only 3 points back. All three teams were scoring near the same pace in the week, so this race has lots of legs left for the last four weeks of the season.

Wes' goons are falling off the map quickly, as his team has two major injuries, one player suspended for the better part of this coming week, another player in the minors (and suspended) and then another minor injury to contend with. Things are not looking up for his side.

STATISTICALLY SPEAKING
It wasn't a great week the pool, as injuries were really starting to wear on the rosters, in a less-than-busy week. Scoring was down slightly, as the games played went down a little bit more as well. The penalty minutes were also below 10 minutes per game,
Let's all hope that our pool players were saving their energy for this coming week, the busiest on the schedule this season, with 52 games on the docket.
NEWS AND NOTES

For Derek W., he gets a Waiver Draft pick back into his lineup, trying to get back to being a positive pick in the pool. Grabovski is a -3, compared to Troy Brouwer, who Derek dropped to get Grabovski.
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