


Panarin and the Blackhawks played in three games this week and after getting shutout against the Wild on Tuesday night, the 24-year old Russian had back-to-back games with 4 points a piece, scoring a pair of goals against the Jets on Friday and then another goal against the Bruins on Sunday.
In total, the freshman has now posted 28 goals and 72 points in 77 games this season, which is good enough for 22nd overall in pool scoring, making him into a huge bargain pick for Ryan, both in the overall sense and in the rookie pool, where he is absolutely dominating the latter. Ryan snuck out the Russian phenom in the 9th round of the pool, which is incredible, since he is currently ranked as a 1st round pick after this week.


Also having a big week for Derek's team was David Backes of the Blues, as he finished with 5 points, also taking a pretty significant lead role in the success of the pool team.
Only one player, due to injury, was unable to collect any points for Derek's team this week, which was Mikhail Grabovski of the Islanders, who has been out for some time with an undisclosed injury.
Derek's team has been very up-and-down this season, peaking at 8th place this season, the last time his team was up that high was Week Fourteen, but that high does seem to be somewhat out of reach, as his team is already 9 points back of 9th place and then 15 points back of 8th. He has had a couple of hot goalies this last little while, so it isn't too far out of the question, assuming they both get red-hot in this last week.
In this third segment, his side is tied for 5th, since the start of Week Nineteen, having 207 points in these last eight weeks, still 23 points back of the segment leader, Brian, who has had a great finish to the year. If it wasn't for a 172-point segment (14th) in the middle of the season, Derek's team really could have stayed in the money conversation longer.

In Week Twenty-Six, their elite brand of goons finished the week with only 12 points and there are some injury problems that have led to their lack of scoring. Losing both their Sabres representation and not having their Canadiens rep until Saturday didn't help much either. It also doesn't help when their 1st round pick, Henrik Lundqvist, goes cold for the Rangers in the week and fails to pick up a point either.
Half of their offense came from Jakub Voracek of the Flyers and Mark Giordano of the Flames, who each finished with 3 points each and then it was a bit of a mixed bag among the rest of their healthy players in the week.
For their sake, they have the PIM pool pretty well wrapped up and they've found themselves safe from last place in the overall standings, so this is just a small blemish on their year, as we wind down to the finish this week.

Jeremy opened up another 2 points on his lead, heading into the final week and his team has a significant advantage in the projected games race, as his team has five more games that could be played. It isn't impossible that Brenda & Seward could make up that 9-point gap, but it is seemingly improbable.
In 3rd place, Brian is holding on. His team only really has to worry about two teams behind him, as John P. and Kristy & Don's team are both 7 points back and neither have a chance in the tie-breaker, so they would need outright better weeks to get into that last money spot. Kristy & Don's team have the projected games to be played advantage, 11 games better than Brian and 9 games better than John P., so there's that to consider as well.
We have ourselves some pretty good races to watch!


STATISTICALLY SPEAKING
Remarkably, with skater games continuing to dwindle, goalie minutes falling off a little... average scoring in the NHL schedule has gone up in the pool, if only marginally. There were a few more points to be had in the week, as we had 51 NHL games played and we had some pretty high scoring games, which was great.
It's going to be a busy week to finish off the regular season, with 50 games on the schedule, thanks to some rescheduled games from the Winter storms earlier in the year. Hopefully, this keeps everyone interested.
NEWS AND NOTES

For John R., his team has successfully made its way out of the pool's basement, which is a little better on the pride side of things. With only this week left to go, his team should be considered to be safe from dropping down into the 27th spot.

I'm not too sure that Wes could be any unluckier with his injuries this season. They have cost him so much this year, between both the overall points standings, dropping to last place and not having anyone to help, and then the PIM pool, where his team isn't healthy enough to sit in the box, it has been very disappointing for him.

Stuart's team fell out of the top 10 this week and injury problems may keep him out of the top 10, if they persist. Now, he's going to have to fall back on his side bets for any money this year.

Bad news for Cindy's team, as that's their second player that won't be able to finish out the season at 100% health. Her team is 24 points better than her brother's team, so at least there should be some pride in that.

Pirri belongs to our current Mover & Shaker and Derek earned the honour without the game played last night, so that's something. If Derek's team is going to move up any more in the standings, Pirri will have to get in there and finish the year on a high note.

Clayton's team doesn't have much else to play for, except to possibly finish in the top half of the standings. His team will begin the week in the dead centre, 14th place, 10 points back of 13th.

Scott's team needed a big week in Week Twenty-Six, but didn't quite get there. HIs team is now 26 points out of the money and now iwthout one of his key players, so his season will limp to the finish.
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