


Marchand and the Bruins played in four games this week and he was shut out in the opening game of the week, Monday against the Stars, but after that, he caught fire again. A goal and an assist against Montreal on Wednesday, a goal and a pair of assists against Long Island on Thursday and then another pair of assists against Montreal on Saturday.
This week brings Marchand's totals up to 20 goals and 48 points in only 37 games this season, having missed time to a couple of minor injuries this year. If he hadn't missed that time, it would be interesting to see where he would rank among the rest of the league, but for now, he currently ranks 23rd among all players, just inside of the 1st round consideration, if we were to redraft today.
For Cam, the Bruins forward is his best player this season and he is getting roughly the value he was expecting, taking him with the 32nd overall pick this year. Unfortunately, the rest of the team hasn't exactly been giving him that sort of value, as his side still sits below the equator in 16th place in the standings after 16 weeks.


It was quite the effort from their forwards this week, as seven of eight of them were able to register points, a minimum of 2 points for those seven players, which is a mighty fine start. Patrice Bergeron of the Bruins led the way with 6 points, while Alexander Radulov of the Stars and Joe Thornton of the Sharks each had 5 points. It's probably worth noting as well, that Alexander Steen of the Blues and Kari Lehtonen of the Stars found 4 points, rounding out their top players.
This week now brings their second segment total up to 180 points, from the start of Week Ten until now, and now there are only two more weeks left in the segment, before the next Waiver Draft players are drafted and activated for the stretch run. There are not very many holes in the duo's team, heading into the last player swap of the season, so it will be interesting to see if they make any moves or stay with the status quo, just to keep a good thing going... into the money.

Only four players were able to find the scoresheet and they all shared the lead for scoring on his team with 2 points a piece: Connor Brown of the Maple Leafs, Jonathan Drouin of the Canadiens, Wayne Simmonds of the Flyers and Steven Stamkos of the Lightning.
Now that the bye week nonsense is over with, the schedule should start to flatten out for everyone, but not before the All-Star break, which begins this week, starting after Thursday night's games. Still, Derek's team has 9 points to make up, just to jump back into the top 10 and the shortened week might make that a little more difficult. Week Eighteen might be where his team starts to shine again.

Wilton's team really fell off this week, picking up only 14 points and now it sits in 4th place, 10 points back of Benson's team in 3rd. Kristy & Don's team didn't have a good week either, having only 11 points and they're 12 points back of Wilton's team. The gaps are getting bigger and bigger and the money teams are starting to run away.


Stacey M.'s team was the best in Week Sixteen, finishing with a +16 rating, but Steve's team was in 2nd place, with a +12 rating in the week, another 4 points better than Cam's team. It will be interesting to see if Steve can shore up his side for this mini-game in the next Waiver Draft.

STATISTICALLY SPEAKING
It was a very poor week for scoring overall, as the pool only collected an average of 11.5 points per NHL game on the calendar this week, way down from the 14.3 we saw last week, which was near the Week One best, when almost everyone had a healthy team.
This week, the league will be shoving in 35 games between Monday and Thursday, ramping up for the All-Star Game festivities on Saturday and Sunday, so we'll be all tallied up and likely to start the Waiver Draft proceedings as soon as the audit is completed on Friday morning. There will be more info on that in the coming days.
NEWS AND NOTES

For Jeremy, this is his forward coming back and his defenseman making room, which is awfully disappointing. Jeremy picked up Forsling in the first Waiver Draft, collecting 5 points in 17 games, but there was no indication if he would be back any time soon.

Donskoi is another Waiver Draft pickup this season, this time for Eric's team and he has been just okay since being activated, collecting 8 points in 16 games, to date. Eric's team was really good in Week Sixteen, collecting 30 points and moved up to 21st. Maybe there's more movement left in his side yet.
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