CFHL Week 8

This week the top two teams flexed their muscles and blew out their opponents to further their dominance as the Number 1 and Number 2 teams in the CFHL...

The L.A. Checkers celebrating!

First the Checkers nearly shut out the Who Gives a Puck 5-1.If it wasn't for Who Gives the Puck's final push at the end scoring 3 goals to the Checkers 2 on Saturday it would have been a shut out. Checkers were dominating with an impressive +19, 23 PIM and 5 goalie wins with a .942 SV%.  Those are all pretty impressive.  Dustin Brown was the Goon of the Game with 17 PIM, 15 coming in one game.  Doughty and Kopitar combined for a +10.  This was certainly the L.A. Checkers this week...

Kunitz celebrating one of his 3 goals

The Second ranked Bunnies had no problem with the AssBusters beating them 5-1 as well.  This game was a little closer than the Checker's vs. Puck game and the real battle was in PIM as the Bunnies edged the AshBusters 28-26.  This wouldn't have been close at all if it wasn't for MacArthur who got 18 PIM for the AshBusters. 14 came in one game.  What is up with these goons?  When they go off they go way off in one game.  Chris Kunitz had a great week for the Bunnies getting 3 goals, 3 assists and a +7!

Both teams now lead their divisions by a wide margin.  Checkers have a 10 point lead over the Assassins and will face them this week.  The Bunnies have a 9 point lead over the Mayhem on Ice and will be facing the reeling Krampus Carols who have had major roster issues.

Stewart earned MVP of Week with 6 goals

Upset of the Week: Mayhem on Ice vs. The Enforcers (4-2)  The Mayhem came into town and were not going to be intimidated by the Enforcers.  The only 2 categories they didn't win was the goalie categories and amazingly beat the Enforcers on the boards and in the "sin bin" 22-16 in PIM.  Getzlaf for the Enforcers continues to be the team MVP as he netted 3 more goals an assist and a +2.  But he Mayhem players were clicking.  Chris Stewart had a career week with 6 goals, an assist and a +5.  They even had a defense man who had 3 goals!  That would be Erik Johnson of the Avalanche who scored a goal in 3 games this week.


Around the league...Goon Crew edged the USSR 3-2 lead by Defenseman Streit who had a goal 3 assists and an impressive +6.  The goalies continue to be keeping the Goon Crew in games as Mason and Niemi combined for 3 wins and got lucky with a .890 as the USSR had .876 (Thank you Holtby)...Assassins beat a banged up Krampus Carol squad 3-2.  Krampus have 4 players on IR.  2 were in the starting lineup.  Surprising Assassins couldn't take more advantage of this and needed to to try to keep pace with the surging Checkers....SLVB and Heisenberg's Ice skated to a 3-3 draw.  Heisenberg's big 3 dealers were Evander Kane (3 goals and 10 PIM), Jakub Voracek (3 goals, 3 assissts)  Sid the Kid with 2 goals and 6 assists to go along with a +7.  Sam Gagner gooned it up for the Ice with 17 PIM.  The Ginger Twins were disappointing for the Killer Smurfs getting only 1 goal and 3 assists and hence both have been benched for this week.

Ginger Twin Powers activate...form of D...form of Bag

Player of the Week:  Chris Stewart, Mayhem On Ice (6 goals, 1 assist, +5, 2 PIM) and Martin Jones, Goalie, Checkers (3 wins, .966 SV%).  
Stewart had a great week helping the Mayhem on Ice beat the Enforcers and Martin Jones, the new L.A. Checker goalie, has been tremendous in net tallying 8 straight wins.

Jones huge in Net