CFHL Week 13

Here is the action from Week 13 in the Cherry Fantasy Hockey League:

Goon Crew vs. Who Gives a Puck 4-2
In a game that the Puck finally get some good net minding play, they end up facing the Crew who have one of the best goaltender duos in the league.  The Puck ended up with 4 wins and a SV% of .940.  A solid week and good for 2 wins typically.  However the Crew raised him 2 wins to 6 and ended up with a SV% of .971.  Crawford had 2 wins and Varlamov had 4 for the Crew!  However the Crew will be without Varlamov for at least two games next week as he handles a civil lawsuit filed by his ex girlfriend.  Bitches be crazy...

USSR vs. Mayhem On Ice 3-3
The Soviets and the Mayhem skated to a split this week.  Dion Phaneuf for the Mayhem led all players with 11 PIM, which is pretty typical.  However as we all know its nice when Phaneuf is mentioned in the news letter...USSR had only one player to score more than one goal, Hoffman had 2 goals.  That was the total of the goals scored by the entire Mayhem team this week!  The Red Army got a nice number of wins from their goalies Schneider and Anderson, 5.  Bitches be hot...

Assassins vs. Checkers 4-2
The Assassins finally get on the winning side of a matchup after falling to last place in the league.  Malkin and Ryan did what they could to help their team with 4 and 3 goals respectively, including a hat trick by Malkin.  However the Assassins would dominate in most other categories.  Their Number One Star was the mouth breather Pavelski who had 2 goals, 3 assists a +4 for the Assassins.  And as goes the Kings goes the Checkers as their Kings players combined for a -7. Bitches be fetching hats..

Krampus Carols vs. AshBusters 4-2
Going into this week, the Krampus Carols and the AshBusters were tied for the Smythe Division lead both with 78 points.  This was for the lead in the division.  The Krampus would come out on top remaining the top team in the division.  Pairs of goals from Crosby, Hall, Perry, and Kucherov didn't hurt for the Krampus.  To go along with his pair of goals, Hall had 4 assists to match team captain Karlsson 4 assist.  Ekman-Larsson for the AshBusters earned Goon of the Game with 12 PIM. Bitches be random...

CFHL Week 12

Close games this  week in the CFHL and a Sunday that saw leads change...

Goon Crew vs. USSR 3-2-1
This was one of the games that saw a Sunday change in the score.  The USSR certainly had the Crew on the ropes most of the week, specially that the 3 top players for the Crew from the Stars were only playing 2 times this week.  The Soviets had no problem winning goals thanks in large part to Kane's hat trick to start out the week and a total of 4 goals.  The game was tied in +/- at 0 and USSR had lead in goalie wins.  On Sunday The Crew would get a +4 and Crawford would get his 3rd win to tie goalie wins, giving the Crew the win.

Crawford big part of the Crew victory

AshBusters vs. Who Gives a Puck 4-2
AshBusters continue to roll and have caught the Krampus Carols for first place in the Smythe.  Their win comes at the expense of the defending champs Who Gives a Puck.  The AshBusters racked up the assists getting 3 assists from 5 different skaters. (Thornton, Panarin, Ekman-Larsson, "Cousin" Keith, and Eberle).  Tyler Meyers for the Puck was the Goon of the Game getting 17 minutes in penalties.  Holtby in net for the AshBusters continues to shine getting 2 more wins this week as the Puck' goalie play continues to struggle.  This week no wins and a .851, including a pitiful .722 from Goalie Ramo from the Flames. 

Holtby having fun with his water...

Mayhem on Ice vs. Assassins 3-2-1

Did someone mention Toews?

The Assassins just haven't been able to get things going this year and drop another week, this time to the Mayhem on Ice.  Goals were a premium this week between these two teams as they both tied at only 6 goals each.  Toews led all skaters with 3 goals to go along with his assist and +3.  Kuznetsov for the Assassins was their best player netting 2 goals, 4 assists and +4 on the week.  Mayhem got 3 wins, 2 form Lundqvist and both Henrick and Mrazek had .950 in SV%.  The Mayhem are now only 3 points behind the Smythe leading Krampus Carols and AshBusters as that division gets tight. 

Checkers vs. Krampus Carols 3-2-1
This game swung back and forth several times, only to have the Checkers ultimately on top by the end of the week.  It started out with the Checkers dominating early in the week with a Kings Monday getting 2 goals, 8 assists and a +3....yes that's 8 assists.  The Krampus Carols would come back however and hold a 5-1 lead going into Sunday, including 2 goals from Sidney Crosby.  But once again it was the Kings late that gave the Checkers the win for the week as they scored 2 more goals, 3 assists and a +6 to win goals and +/-, plus Quick got the win in net tying Wins. 

Checker Ice Girls

CFHL Week 11

Just as last week saw blow outs, the teams that were on the winning side of the blow outs got blown out this week...

Mayhem on Ice vs. Goon Crew 5-1
Last week the Goon Crew rolled to a 5-1 victory.  This week the shoe was on the other foot.  The Crew didn't get their usual production from their Stars trio of Spezza, Benn, and Seguin.  They only combined for 2 goals and 3 assists and a brutal -7 combined.  Mayhem center Toews earned Number One Star of the game with 3 goals, 3 assists, a +6 and 6 PIM, a very busy week indeed.  In addition Tyson Barrie had an impressive week for a defenseman scoring 3 goals and 3 assist for the Mayhem.  The Crew continue be strong in net getting 6 wins, 3 wins each from Varlamov and Crawford. 

Toews gonna show her his "O" face... you know what I'm talking about
Ohhh, Ohhhh....

USSR vs. Checkers 5-1
With a chance to gain on the Norris leading Crew, the Checkers did not take advantage of the situation at all and fell to the Soviets.  Neither team got a lot of production out of their players.  Checkers didn't have a single player score more than 1 goal or 2 assists.  Kane had 2 goals and 3 assists while "Stinky" Stamkos had 2 goals and a +4 for the USSR.  Quick for the Checkers after a 4 win week last week could only manage one win. 

Who Gives a Puck vs. Krampus Carols 3-3
This game ended in a tie with the Krampus Carols flexing their offensive power scoring 11 goals and 11 assists.  Matt Duchene lead all players with 4 goals while Karlsson had 4 assists.  Where they failed was their line of Crosby, Hall and Perry who combined for a pitiful -10.  Luongo for the Puck was their only goalie and surprisingly he was enough to beat the Krampus Carols' Bishop and Rask.  Luongo had 2 wins and a .953% SV%

Duchene tallied 4 goals for the Krampus Carols

AshBusters vs. Assassins 4-1-1
The AshBusters cut the Krampus Carols 6 point lead last week in half to 3 points.  Would have been just 2 points had they held onto their lead in assist but the Assassins had a 5 assist day on Sunday, including 3 assists from Backstrom.  The story of the game was the AshBuster's Ovechkin who scored 5 goals and Panarin had 4 goals.  That alone would have been enough to beat the Assassins in goals.  Plus the AshBusters goalies were impressive too as Holtby, who has been hot this year, had 3 wins and .932 while Dubnyk had 2 wins and .931. 

Ovechkin celebrated a 5 goal week!!

CFHL Week 10

Week 10 of the CFHL was a week of blow outs!  Take a look

Goon Crew vs. Krampus Carols 5-1
This was suppose to be the match up of the week between the top two teams in the CFHL.  It looked like it was going to be worse than it actually was until Saturday where the Krampus scored 5 goals, including 2 from Crosby who had been quiet as of late.  He ended up with 4 goals for the week.  Krampus ended up winning goals 12-10.  The rest of the categories belonged to the Crew thanks to a Sunday shut out by Crawford to win both the Wins and SV%.  Spezza had 5 assists for the Crew to earn Number One star of the game.  Both teams remain in first place in their respective divisions, but he lead the Krampus Carols had has been cut to only 6 points.

Spezza tallied 5 assists for the Crew

AshBusters vs. USSR 5-1
That 6 point lead the Krampus hold is over the suddenly surging AshBusters.  They handed the USSR an ass kicking.  They have gone 6-0, 2-3 and 5-1 last three weeks.  AshBusters did it in pretty impressive fashion taking goals 16-8 and Assist 15-11 and the +/- woes of the Soviets continued as they lost that category -13 to +9.  So how did the AshBusters do this?  Well Patrick Sharp scored 3 goals and Ovechkin added 4 more.  Three players had 3 assist each ("Delta Bravo" Subban, Ekman-Larsson "Overdrive", and "Cousin" Keith). Patrick Kane did what he could for the Red Army, scoring 2 goals, 5 assists and a +3.  Give this guy some help!!

Ovechkin loves to stick it to his home country!

Who Gives a Puck vs. Assassins 4-2
The defending champs, clearly suffering from Cherry Cup hang over, finally got a winning week, their first one since Week 2.  It wasn't easy, in fact it might have not been a victory had it not been for the Assassins disastrous Sunday where they went a -4 and lost the +/- category.  Had that not happen this game would have been 3-3.  MacKinnon led all players with 3 goals and while Little for the Puck had 4 assists, Klingberg for the Assassins had 5 to help them claim Assists.  The Puck have a real problem between the pipes right now as they currently only have one healthy goalie, as 3 goalies for the Puck are on IR (Kemper, Miller and Bobrovsky). 

MacKinnon celebrates one of his 3 goals

Checkers vs. Mayhem on Ice 6-0
This was the blow out of the week.  Not only was the final score 6-0 but every category was a blow out.  Checkers beat them by 4 goals, 12 assists, a +25, 18 PIM, 3 wins and a .050 SV%.  It doesn't hurt when you start a week like the Checkers did.  On Monday they posted 5 goals, 8 assists, a +12 and 4 PIM, and they never looked back from there.  This was in large part to the Kings who won 5-0 and Checker center Toffoli had a hat trick and the Zombie Kopitar had 4 assists.  Jonathan Quick was the Number One Star of the game and the entire league, going 4-0 and posting a SV% of .968!


King was a wall this week

Fantasy Bowl XXXI

Fantasy Bowl XXXI:  Cabucki Crush 28 Jakes' Juggernauts 26

In the 31st edition of the Cherry Fantasy Football League's Fantasy Bowl the Crush came from behind in dramatic fashion to defeat the Juggernauts to capture their 2nd Fantasy Bowl title.

Matthews and Bradford hooked up for 20 points!!

This game looked like the Juggernauts would win their first title in their first trip to the Fantasy Bowl.  It would start with a QB dual between Bradford for the Juggernauts vs. Eli "Mouth Breather" Manning.  They would equal in TDs at 2 a piece, each scoring 8 points.  The difference however was that Bradford's 2 TDs went to fellow Juggernaut WR Jordan Matthews for 2 huge 10 point connections!!  Hightower would add another TD  for the Juggernauts. As did McFadden, well at least it looked like it but he fumbled the ball on the one and it went out of the end zone, thus becoming the Crush's ball.   At the "half"( after the 1 o'clock games) it was 26-8.  The Juggernauts looked like they were in command of this game and it would appear that the Crush would be facing back to back losses in the Fantasy Bowl. 


Crush D strip McFadden just before he scored...

The game would turn out to be a tale of two halves as the Crush began to chip away sat the Juggs lead.  Gates would perform an amazing one handed catch for a TD to make the game 26-14, bringing the Crush within striking distance.  The Kicker dual would be between Catanzaro vs. Gano for the Crush.  Catanzaro, apparently overcome with Fantasy Bowl jitters missed an XP, and a FG and ended with a big fat ZERO.  On the other hand Gano would kick in 8 big points making the score 26-22.  TE for the Juggs, Olsen would also disappoint not scoring at all. 

Gates scores a one handed TD for the Crush!

It was the final game of the season as the Vikings and Packers squared off, the Crush's only hope was to have Richard Rodgers catch a TD.  One quarter would go by and nothing.  Second Quarter, still nothing.  3rd quarter... nothing yet.  Not to mention the Packers really looked like they would not be throwing any TD passes.  Well by the 4th quarter Rodgers would catch a pass in the flat and rumble to the end zone leaping for the goal line and barely breaking the plane for the TD!  The officials would review it and the call stands TD FOR THE CRUSH! Game over!  Crush are the Fantasy Bowl XXXI Champions!


Apparently this was a TD, game winning TD!

A couple of keys to this game was the move to bench Bortles in favor of Manning by the Crush.  Bortles had been red hot lately, but the Crush gambled on Manning who was in a more favorable match up.  Bortles ended up being shut out, so the move was the right one, otherwise they would have lost 26-20.


Manning raises the Cherry Trophy for FB XXXI

Another key to the game was out of the control of the Juggernauts.  If either McFadden had held onto the ball and not fumbled for the TD, 32-28 Juggernauts.  Or if Catanzaro could have made his FG, 29-28 Juggernauts.  But as fate would have it, it would be the Crush that would become victorious.  As it was the Redskins (Crush D) were the ones that knocked that ball out of McFadden's hands for the turnover.

Congratulations to the Cabucki's Crush on their second Fantasy Bowl Title!