It's the holiday week in the NHL, which means there will be a couple of days off for everyone in the league, including myself. I'm kind of looking forward to it, although that means there will be no hockey on the television on Friday or Saturday night.
On the bright side, we'll be counting down to the World Junior Championships, which goes in Buffalo, NY this year. Everything gets started on Sunday and I'm hoping to have a mini-pool going on for that starting this week. I wanted to get something like the Olympics selection sheet pool up and going over the weekend, but didn't find the time to sit down and get that done. Hopefully, on Tuesday I can sit down and hammer one out. I'm sure it will just be a free pool for bragging rights and it will be super easy to join, so stay tuned!
We are starting to see some uniformity in the standings of our regular pools, as both the draft and the selection sheet has now had the same leader for a few weeks now. This has been a regular occurrence in every season we've had on the website. I'm hoping with a possible trade or two in the NHL after the roster freeze (which is now in full effect until next week), some of the details may change and we'll have some movement in the pool again.
Anyways, let's chug right along and see how Week Eleven panned out...
Thanks to plenty of injuries and time away, Anderson has not put up the same sort of numbers in the 2011 season, that he did in the 2010 season. Through 11 weeks, Anderson has only won 10 games and registered a single assist for 21 points, which is only good enough for 113th in pool scoring, 25th among goalies. If the Avalanche continue to roll, you would have to believe that he'll catch quite a few of his rival keepers before too long.
With the high scoring week, it should come as little surprise that our Mover and Shaker hit 40 points, but we may be surprised to know that it was Ryan M.'s team that hit the 40-point plateau on the nose, which is only good enough to be his second-best week this season. Incredible!
Ryan's team was led by Drew Doughty, who had 6 points for the Kings in Week Eleven, followed by Anze Kopitar with 5 points, Troy Brouwer, Niklas Hagman, Miikka Kiprusoff and Mike Smith all had 4 points, while three others had 3 points each. From top to bottom, that was a pretty consistent week throughout his line-up.
Ryan's team currently sits in 4th in the pool for goals scored with 91, only 9 behind the leader. He doesn't have any outstanding positions on his team, rather he has top ten forwards, defense and goalies, but nothing too amazing. Ryan may need something better from one of his positional groups though, if he is going to jump into the money spots in the standings, to which he is only 11 points out of 4th spot at the moment.
In the week, there were eight active players on Dale's roster that failed to pick up a point, but had some bright spots, as Derek Roy finished with 4 points and Rich Peverley and Stephen Weiss had 3 points each as well.
The lack of points in the week also dropped Dale down to last place in the second segment of the season, having only 33 points through th first two weeks of the new segment. He is already 31 points behind the leader, but has a pretty good shot at some good draft picks in the second waiver draft to have a shot at third segment prizes.
Nevertheless, we did have one interesting move, as Scott G. climbed into 3rd place in the standings with a 66-point week, moving past a couple teams to increase his money chances. Mitch F. continues to lead, finishing in 1st place for three straight weeks this season.
There was a tie for the best week in points, as both Dale C. and Roopi D. each finished with 73 points in Week Eleven. Since Roopi is lower down in the standings, I'd like to key on how he found 73 points and start his climb out of the basement for the rest of the season.
A few more trades are ready to be entered in this week, but not very many. I would encourage more trading, if you have any trades left to make. There is still plenty of time to close up some gaps and try and climb up the ladder. Hell, it's worth a shot, no?
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Remarkably, since the schedule takes Friday and Saturday off for the holidays, the number of games during the week doesn't really take a significant hit. On the schedule, we will see 42 games between Monday and Sunday, which is the same number of games we saw in Week Two, the first full week of the season. Of course the average number of games in the week, not including Week One or Week Twelve, is 46.
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