CFHL Week 8

It was a snowy end to the week and even though there is a long way to go in the seasons, the division leaders are beginning to pull away some...

Assassins vs. Checkers 8-0
Assassins continue to keep the pressure on the Crew in the Norris, this week hammering the fading Checkers.  There really wasn't a category that was close, plus the Assassins recorded less than 100 FOW (92) for the first time all year and still won that one by 20.  The Assassins goalies were the story of this game getting 5 wins, a 1.40 GAA and .941 SV% between Bobrovsky and Price.  Not to shabby...

These two were impressive for the Assassins

AshBusters vs. Mayhem on Ice 5-3
The AshBusters defeated the Mayhem to tie them for the division.  It was somewhat close but Mayhem couldn't pull it off even with 4 assists on Sunday.  The AshBusters lead was too much to overcome in Hits, FOW and +/-.  In fact the Mayhem only had one player to take face offs as Mayhem center Galchenyuk injured his knee on Tuesday.  Kadri had 28 FOW for the AshBusters

Kadri helped the AshBusters to victory

Goon Crew vs. Krampus Carols 5-4
Amazingly the Crew pulled off this win despite being behind all week and getting hammered in Goals, Assists and PPG.  Krampus had 11 goals and 17 assists led by Duchene's 3 goals and Stone's 2 goals and 2 assists.  Goon Crew racked up 109 FOW led by Bergeron's 40.  The story of the game was Dubnyk, once again.  He tallied 3 wins, 1.62 GAA and .943 SV% and his game on Sunday basically won the game for the Crew.  Pastrnak had 5 goals for the Crew as well in a great individual effort.

Dubnyk has kept the Crew in first place

White Mambas vs. USSR 5-4
Mambas came on with some scoring this week scoring 12 goals and a crazy 21 assists! Kessel had 5 assists, Tarasenko had 4 asssists while Malkin and Hossa each had 3 goals for the Mamba.   Yet again USSR shined at the face off circle tallying an incredible 220 FOW, every player not playing on the blue line took face offs with Stastny getting 51 wins.  Goalies battled to nearly a draw specially between Murray for Mambas and Holtby for USSR.

Kessel had 5 assists for Mambas

Who Gives a Puck vs. Slow Icin' 6-1
Who Gives a Puck had little trouble with Icin racking up 15 goals, 18 assists and a +13 not to mention 149 FOW!  Number One Star of the game was Claude Giroux who had 2 goals, 4 assist, +5 and 65 FOW!  Sid the Kid had 4 goals for the Puck.  Goalies in this game were something to be desired as they both had GAA over 3.00 and SV% of .890 and .897.