


This week, Tavares started a brand new 4-game points streak, picking up a goal against the Capitals on Monday, a pair of assists against Dallas on Wednesday, a trio of assists against Columbus on Thursday and then a goal and a pair of assists against the Kings on Saturday. It was a busy, yet fruitful week for the soon-to-be-free agent captain.
This brings the Islanders captain up to 19 goals and 40 points in his first 33 games this season, ranking him 7th overall in pool scoring, now 9 points back of the overall leader.
Certainly, with all of the rushes on goaltending in the opening round of the draft, it should come as no surprise that Tavares fell down to the 2nd round, as Wilton snapped him up with the 34th overall selection. Now, with top 10 scoring numbers this season, Tavares has certainly emerged as one of the better bargain picks in the draft.


Pekka Rinne of the Predators was his top player in the week, finishing with 6 points, while seven more players on his team finished with 3 points each. That is some fine consistency through his lineup.
Only one zero in his lineup this week and he has yet to receive a point from one of his Waiver Draft pickups, Los Angeles forward Trevor Lewis, who has played in six games since activation.
Dale's biggest contributions are coming from the back end this season, as his team is currently tied for 1st in points among defensemen and is also 3rd in points from his goaltending, while his forwards are only just getting by, tied for 12th in the pool through Week Eleven. His team is also making the most out of some limited action, as it only ranks 18th in skater games played and 10th in goalie minutes played.
He'll probably need to find some more skater games and goalie starts here soon, if he is going to want to maintain a position, not just in 1st place, but in the money, in general.

After 13-point week, the gap between his team and the group below has shrunk from 15 points to 8 points and if his team doesn't get their act together, some of those bottom teams may have improved enough at the Waiver Draft to leap frog his in the coming weeks.
Flames forward Mark Jankowski and Blackhawks rookie forward Nick Schmaltz did what they could to keep him afloat, each finishing with 3 points a piece in the week, but seven active players with no points, including both goalies, were of no help to him.
Statistically, Ryan's forwards are his Achilles heel, ranking last in the pool with only 131 points, something that his 6th place defense and 18th place goaltending can't quite save this year.

We're starting to see some larger gaps form between groups now, but one great week for a pool team, finding their way to a convincing Mover & Shaker could sort some of those issues out.

This now leaves Grant, Jeremy and Wilton to duke it out for their money back. Both Jeremy and Wilton have five projected games for the coming week, while the Washington Capitals only play three games for Grant. Still a lot of opportunity, but anything can happen!

Three teams were tops in the weekly rating, as Dale B., Jeremy and Kristy & Don's team were all a +14 in Week Eleven, but none of those teams are currently in the top three overall, as Dale C. continues to lead everyone with a +50 rating through Week Eleven.

Don't forget to cast your 10 votes per day for your hockey pool players, we don't want to let Derek B., Benson, Tony or Steve get away with the All-Star Game money, do we?

STATISTICALLY SPEAKING
The only good statistics to come out of Week Eleven was the participation we saw, thanks to the Waiver Draft and a lot of returning players from injury. We were averaging 18 skater games per NHL contest, setting a new season-high in skater games played in the week with 919. We also saw a season-high in minutes played by our goaltenders, with 5,477 in the books.
You would think with all of that ice-time, scoring would follow suit, right? Nope! We saw our 2nd-worst week in average scoring per NHL game, down at 11.24 points in 51 games on the schedule and we only collected 573 points. Our season-low average is 11.19 points, which is almost too close not to call the same.
NEWS AND NOTES

This could be a huge loss for our current pool leader, Dale B., who was really enjoying some top end production from Boeser. If this is a long-term issue, we'll revisit it on the blog, but for now, I'm sure Dale will be keeping his fingers crossed for only a bruise or something minor.

Steve's team has found some scoring since the activation of the Waiver Draft players, as his team did well in Week Eleven, finishing with 29 points, a season-high for his team, possibly signalling that good things are yet to come for his side.

There were some good gains from Tony's team in Week Eleven, so a loss of a scorer like Couture from his team to start Week Twelve is somewhat disheartening. Tony's team went up from 17th to 15th in the standings, thanks to a 31-point week, but Couture only had 1 point, so it might not be too bad, if everyone else keeps it up.
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