


Andersen shutout the Panthers on Tuesday, beat the Islanders in overtime on Thursday and then defeated the Bruins on Saturday for his three wins, stopping 92 of 98 shots in the week to earn the honour, his first nod of the 2018 season.
Despite his team's inconsistencies of being a youthful group, Andersen is stringing together a pretty good season, currently ranking 6th overall in pool scoring, 4th among all goalies, picking up 32 wins, 5 shutouts and an assist for 75 points in 53 appearances. This makes the Maple Leafs buyers at this trade deadline, as they are firmly in the thick of the playoff race.
For Mike, however, his team is right in the middle of the standings, but his 16th overall pick in the draft is not at fault here, as he is getting more than his pick value at the moment. It's just a shame the rest of his team couldn't make those kind of bargains that Andersen has been this season.


Also having a solid week for Dale's team was Mark Stone of the Senators with 7 points, Claude Giroux of the Flyers and Mitch Marner of the Maple Leafs with 5 points each and then Ryan Suter of the Wild had 4 points.
It wasn't the most consistent Mover & Shaker weeks we've seen, as four players on Dale's active roster failed to get points, three of which were due to injury and the last one was just a cold streak.
Dale's team does seem destined for some money this season, as his team has been consistently among the top five teams in each of the segments, so far, not having much of a drop off at all, minus a couple of less-than-stellar weeks.
The most dubious distinction Dale's team actually has this year, is that it ranks last in the pool in games played by his forwards, with only 421 games collected by the eight active players up front this season. His team does rank tied for 1st for defenseman games played, with 248, and that seems to be making up for it.

Ryan's team got an okay week from both Antti Raanta of the Coyotes and T.J. Brodie of the Flames, finishing with 4 and 3 points, respectively, but five of his players finished without a point this week, two of which saw injury troubles in the week.
Out of Ryan's 14 picks at the opening draft, only three of those players have rankings that are better than their pick position and they came from rounds 10, 11 and 12, and of the dud picks, only Mike Smith of the Flames (1st round) and Tanner Pearson of the Kings (8th) have rankings within 50 spots of where they were drafted. Luck was not on Ryan's side this season.

As we saw in the Mover & Shaker nod, Dale B. is closely moving in on Benson for 2nd place, as that gap is now 2 points for the spot, while there is still a pretty big gap between 3rd and 4th place, 35 points, even after Grant's team had consideration for top spot in the week, with 36 points. We might already have our top three teams this season.

STATISTICALLY SPEAKING
With the NHL trade deadline upon us, I wanted to get this post done nice and quick, I am straight into the statistically speaking and I can confidently say that this past week was a slightly-below average week this season. The overall total for points was okay, we managed to collect 631 points as a whole, but it didn't look as good against the 52 NHL games played in the week, maybe thanks to the trade deadline scratches, who knows? Both participation from skaters and goalies were down, so that was slightly disappointing.
After today's trade hooplah, hopefully everyone gets their acts together and we see some real scoring down the stretch. Here we go!
NEWS AND NOTES

This is the sort of news which can start to sink Benson's team, especially if his team falls victim to the injury bug on a regular basis, not unlike what Brian and Jeremy have already seen this season. Benson's team finished the week in the money, but without Matthews, how quickly could his team possibly drop?

Before Sunday night's game against the Anaheim Ducks, Edmonton defenseman Kris Russell was among the list of players scratched, not because of a desire to trade the defender, but rather, because of a hand injury, which he suffered Saturday night in Los Angeles, while blocking a shot. He's considered day-to-day for right now. Oilers forward Zack Kassian left the game in the 2nd period with an undisclosed injury, falling awkwardly on the ice after a collision behind the Ducks' net. It didn't look like too much, when it first happened, but it was obviously enough to knock out the tough guy. There was no word on his condition after the game.
This was a lost skater-game for both Derek B. and for Wes on Sunday, but neither are figuring into the money this season, so this news may not figure too greatly moving forward. Wes already has a handle on the PIM pool, even without Kassian being healthy, which is about the only story line here.

This is another skater-game lost for Benson, as his team is somewhat getting picked apart in this last week. At least with Vanek, he's healthy and should be ready to play, once all the dust settles.
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