Week Twenty-Five Newsletter

Two weeks left! Two weeks left!

Dieter is 18 points up on Don... 30 points up on Jeff... but even 30 could be too far. Don could make up 9 points a week in these last 14 days, but where's he gonna get it?

The race for 6th is heating up as well... someone is gonna get their money back and there is only really 3 teams in the race for 6th. Going into Monday's action, Caterina held a slim 2 point lead over Paul and Trevor is only 19 points behind. But have you noticed below, Caterina is one of the hottest teams of late... so there's a great chance she'll end up with her money back.

Hot Teams Over the Last Four Weeks:
Dale B.... 262
Larry..... 249
Scott G... 245
Dale C.... 244
Brydon.... 239
Caterina.. 239

Cold Teams Over the Last Four Weeks
Fred...... 135
Brian..... 155
Mike W.... 163
Gerald ... 167
John B.... 167

Let's see what happened in Week Twenty-Five...

Player of the Week



2-1 win over Pittsburgh on Monday. 5-0 shutout over Philadelphia on Wednesday. 2-1 win in Boston on Saturday. 2-1 win against the Islanders on Sunday. That's 10 points for Henrik Lundqvist (Box 18) of the Rangers. The run for the playoffs is paying dividends for all Lundqvist owners... all NONE OF THEM. Yes, no one has the Player of the Week for this past week.

This isn't the first time no one has had the PotW, but this is more for awareness towards the playoffs. Do you think the Rangers are going all the way? With the likes of Jagr, Nylander and Straka... the Rangers are looking decent in the 6th spot in the East with only two weeks left.

Only 4 points off of the week leader, Scott moved ever-closer to the Top 10 with a great big 61-point week. He's now only 11 points behind Marcus for 10th spot and closing in quite fast. Ten weeks ago, Scott was down in 18th position, battling away, then his team got hot. His Christmas time trades have paid dividends, so much so, that's he's here in the M&S article. How did he get so high up, you ask? Well, let me tell you.

8 points from Joe Thornton, 6 from Miikka Kiprusoff, 5 from Milan Michalek & Thomas Vanek is a pretty good start, don't you think? There wasn't a great deal of scoring this past week, but somehow a few teams made good with what they got. Scott is definitely one of them. Will he make 10th spot?? Only time will tell.

Falling out of the Top 20 this week, Tim L. dropped three spots into 21st. There was a lot of zeros on Tim's page this past week... ten active zeros to be exact. Out of Tim's 38 points, Thornton was 8 of them and Emery was 4... his top two scorers for the week. With two weeks still left in the year, Tim has plenty of time to climb back into the Top 20... he's only 5 points behind 20th place, Dale B. What a race!

Martin Brodeur & Sidney Crosby – 111 points
Martin Brodeur's first assist of the season gives him an odd number of points and was almost enough to take the outright lead in points before Sidney Crosby had 3 points against the Bruins on Sunday afternoon. Overall, it was a pretty quiet week for our high scorers... until the weekend that is. Brodeur had his 3-point night on Saturday and Crosby's on Sunday. Both players, however, are looking over their shoulder as Sharks forward, Joe Thornton, is storming his way up to the top as well. Thornton has had 22 points in the last 3 weeks to bring him up to 104 on the season.

Pool Trades
Still no trades. This section of the newsletter has got about 3 inches of dust on it. Anyone care to dust it off? C'mon... one trade. Just one... that's all I ask.

Trades Remaining in the Top 10:
Dieter... 0 Paul..... 1
Don...... 0 Marcus... 0
Jeff..... 0 Trevor... 4
Dale C... 0 Caterina. 0
Larry.... 0 Brydon... 0

Injuries
Box 5 defenseman, Steve Staios has shut himself down for the rest of the season. The season is lost for the Oilers and by now, I would think that John would have given up on him anyways. Granted, John probably gave up on the year ages ago... heh heh. Knee surgery will keep Staios from returning this year and he will need 4 months for a full recovery... doesn't sound like too much golf this summer, does it?

Hockey Night In Canada this week...




The second-to-last regular season Hockey Night In Canada should be a gooder. Sidney Crosby (Box 14), before going to regular playoff coverage, will show a little flair in Toronto and will give us all a preview of what to expect in the first round of the playoffs. In the second game, the Flames will try to burn Roberto Luongo (Box 6) in his own house.

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