CFHL Week 16

Yes its week 16.  Almost as many weeks in an NFL season and we still have several week to go before the playoffs.  Right now only the Crew in the Norris division would be making the playoffs, and the rest would be from the Smythe as the Mayhem, Krampus Carols, and AshBusters are all over 100 points.

Mayhem on Ice vs. Krampus Carols 3-3
In the Battle for first in the Smythe division the Krampus Carols got a late goal to avoid the loss and came away with the tie.  Matt Duchene netted his only goal of the week late Sunday night to give the Krampus Carols the win in Goals 8-7 and tie the game.  Kris Letang for the Mayhem was the Number One Star of the Game getting 5 assists, a +4 and 10 PIM, helping the Mayhem win all of those categories.  Bishop and Rask (surprisingly) played well enough to capture 4 wins and a .923 SV% between them.  Mayhem still remain in first place by 4 points.

Letang had 5 assists for Mayhem

AshBusters vs. Goon Crew 3-1-2
The Goon Crew suffered their first loss since Week 11 losing to the AshBusters who dominated Assist and Goalie stats.  It could have been worse since the game was 5-1 going into Sunday afternoon.  Goon Crew were able to get 2 goals (1 each from Getzlaf and Giordano) to AshBusters zero to tie goals at 10 and then beat them in +/- -4 to -7 to tie +/-.  Rookie Panarin was outstanding getting a hat trick and then adding another goal later for 4 goals while Ovechkin continued to be a stud getting 3 goals and an assit.  Gaudreau had 5 assists for the AshBusers as well.  This team has a lot of fire power. 

Panarin had a hat trick!

Assassins vs. USSR 4-1-1
After a brief surge of life in the Mother Land, the USSR fall once again, this time to the Assassins.  This despite Kane, their best player, scoring 2 goals, and 4 assist and Anderson's 3 goalie wins and a .951 SV%.  Unfortunately their other goalie, Schneider, couldn't come up with any wins.  Delta Bravo of the game was USSR's Goligoski who had a -6 on the week. Kuznetsov for the Assassins was team Number One Star with 2 goals, 2 assists and +5, the complete opposite of Goligoski. 

Kuznetsov for the Assassins

Who Gives a Puck vs. Cherry's Checkers 4-2
The defending champs got back on the winning track even thought they lost both offensive categories (goals and assists).  They won all the others instead.  Jason Demers for the Puck was Goon of the Game getting 12 PIM.  And this was done with out a 10 minute misconduct.  4 minutes in 2 games and 2 PIM in 2 others.  So basically in every game he played he was sitting in the Sin Bin.  Checkers' Kings were fairly quiet with only 2 of them getting 1 goal and only one in the positive side of the +/-.  And Quick only had one win. 

One of many penalties by Demers