New Year's Eve against the Sharks, he opened the week with 2 goals and 2 assists, following that up on Wednesday with another goal and 3 assists against the Red Wings. Thursday, a goal and an assist against the Bruins and finally, only a goal against the Flyers on Saturday afternoon. In total, it was 5 goals and 6 assists in four games to take the weekly title.
The monster week now has the diminutive forward up at 24 goals and 62 points in 43 games this season, good enough for 4th overall in hockey pool scoring, to date. He only finds himself 7 points behind the leader and on a pretty good hot streak at the moment.
Wilton used the opening pick of the 2nd round of the draft to snag Gaudreau this year and he's turning into quite the bargain pick. If anything, the Flames playmaker is keeping whatever slim hopes alive for Wilton's pool team and any overall money, as his team is in 11th, 45 points back of 3rd place.
Craig Smith of the Predators also had a good week with 5 points, while Mark Stone of the Senators and Devan Dubnyk of the Wild each had 4 points, followed closely by another four players with 3 points each.
All of this good fortune was very helpful to Wes' overall standing, seeing his team jump up from 9th place to 5th place and since a number of the teams at the top of the standings didn't exactly have a great week, he made up a lot of ground. His team now sits only 18 points back of 3rd and 20 points back of 1st place, having gained 19 points on top spot in this past week alone.
Wes' team has been running hot in this second segment of the season, now tied for 2nd since the start of Week Ten with 147 points in those five weeks and the results are starting to finally speak for themselves with the jump up to 5th.
It's a Flames sweep of the top-billed players on the Newsletter, as Noah Hanifin was his best player this week, finishing with 5 points, which wasn't enough to inspire the rest of his team to score. There were six players on his active roster, who finished with 0 points, four due to injury and one was at the World Juniors (winning gold).
It's definitely been a tough segment of the season for Brian's team, which now sits 22nd since the start of Week Ten, now with 107 points, 40 points behind Wes' team in the Mover & Shaker spot and that's just five weeks worth of action.
Stacey M. claimed back-to-back weeks now in 3rd place and her team made some serious ground up on the top two, now sitting only 2 points behind and likely making those two guys fairly nervous up there.
Kristy & Don also kept the pace up, but sit 7 points back of Stacey's team in 4th, we know all about Wes' team in 5th and Troy's team, now 6th, is 20 points out of 3rd place. We still have lots of time and another player swap to go this season, so it's not all doom and gloom yet.
Clayton's team still holds a 22-point lead, but now his prized rookie is down for a couple of weeks due to injury and that lead could shrink considerably.
The same four teams continue to share the lead at 6 markers: Jeremy, Grant, Mike and John P. and none of those four teams have seen a goal since Week Eleven.
Stuart's team continues to lead here too, just consistently heading to the box a couple handfuls at a time in each week and his team has a sizable lead here, 294-259 over John P.'s team, which has been better than his in the second segment, but the overall lead out of the first nine weeks was too great to overcome just yet.
STATISTICALLY SPEAKING
Overall, we were just short of the season-high for points collection in Week Fourteen, as the pool managed to snag 681 points out of 53 games this week, only 8 points shy of the mark set in Week Eight. The NHL game average did climb a bit, week over week, by a half a point per game, which is certainly positive.
We've got two more big weeks of action coming up before the All-Star break week hits and fortunately for us this season, the start of the All-Star break coincides with the start of the Week Eighteen Waiver Draft, so it will be extended by a few days! Hooray!
NEWS AND NOTES
Forsling has been a bit of a dud pickup for Neil's team at the Waiver Draft, only posting 1 goal in nine games since being activated, dealing with other injuries as well during this second segment. He might be worth considering for a drop, the next time around.
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