CFFL Week 12

CFFL Week 12 action:  Crew survive Crush and 17 points from Big Ben...Titans roll Juggs behind 16 from Brady and 12 from Julio Jones...Dragons and Cocktails battle in a game of super stiff QBs...Roulette win behind Kizer and Robby Anderson, wait what?...Krauts lose but look to win the East...Bums beat Ferrets...Killers beat Animals in an almost must win game for both teams...Chislers win a shoot out vs the Sinistars and have taken control of the North.  Winter is Coming...

Wrecking Crew 30  Crush 28 - Crew survive not only 17 points from Big Ben, but 5 from Boswell as the Crush just fell short by 2 points.  The loss could have squashed the Crush's playoff hopes...

Titans 42  Juggernauts 32 - Titans rack up 42 points behind 16 from Good Old Tom and 12 from Julio Jones.  The win keeps Titans in that three way tie for first in the South...

Good Old Tom threw for 16 points

Dragons 24  Cocktails 18 - Dak Prescott vs. Eli Manning.  Sure to be a great battle right?  Wrong!  Both came up empty and both will likely be benched next week.  Jared Goff and Matt Moore next week? Eh Boy...

Cue the circus music for both of these guys

Roulette 27  Killer Bees 15 - Roulette are depending on Kizer and Robby Anderson to win games?  How far the once Aaron Rodgers led Roulette team has fallen.  The win keeps the Roulette's slim playoff hopes alive.  And if Rodgers returns?  Hmmm....

Mayhem 33 Krauts 14 - Mayhem had to win to keep pace with the Dragons and Titans doing it with a solid running game behind Murray and Coleman (total 18 points).  The Krauts lost but still have a 2 game lead with 2 games to go in the East.

Bums 25  Ferrets 21 - The loss by the Ferrets have eliminated their slim slim playoff hopes.  Bums win has them tied with the Sinistars in the West.  Not bad for a team that half the time doesn't have a clue who they have in their lineup.

Rivers looking to lead the Chislers to the playoffs yet again

Killers 30  Animals 22 - Killers stay alive in the playoff hunt winning on a Lamar miller TD run late in the game and surviving Alex Collins on Monday night.  Both teams are now 6-6 one game behind their respective division leaders.

Chislers 50  Sinistars 40 - Chislers had to put up a lot of points to survive the Wilson and Graham show of the Sinistars (total of 20 points).  And Kamara who had 12 points.  Rivers (12), Brown (14) and Zuerlein (14) led the way and have the Chislers peaking at just the right time.

Playoff Outlook:

Division Leaders:                            Wild Card                           In the Hunt
Cherry's Chislers (7-5)                     Michigan Mayhem (7-5)    Russian Roulette (6-6)
Toledo Titans (7-5)                          Monclova Dragons (7-5)    Molotov Cocktails (6-6)
Kretz Krauts (8-4)                            Bacardi Bums (7-5)           Cam's Killers (6-6)
Stamm's Sinistars (7-5)                    Alex Animals (6-6)            Cabucki Crush (5-7)
                                                                                                     Killer Bees (5-7)

Could be a year with the most parity in a long time.  10 teams within one game of each other.  Anything can happen as we head into the final 2 week of the season with divisional games to wrap up the season.

Biggest Game next week:  Mayhem at Dragons - Both teams at 7-5 tied for first in the South.  Winner have a decidable advantage to win the division.  Last time they met in week 2 Dragons defeated them easily 38-20 led by 18 points from Crabtree.  Well this week they will have to do it with out Crabtree, suspended 1 game for his brawl inducing fight last week. 

CFHL Week 7

Here was last weeks action from the CFHL...Season of the Krampus...

Krampus 4  Checkers 3

Seguin scored a hat trick last week!

Krampus are definitely in full Krampus season even if they have been starting a goalie that is on IR and hasn't played in weeks.  They didn't need the net play considering they beat the Checkers by 10 goals and had an incredible +21.  Leading the way was Seguin who had 4 goals and a +6.  Wasted in the loss was Checker goalie Rinne who had 3 wins and a .949 SV%.  Krampus are now tied for best record in the league, leading the Smythe Division.

AshBusters 4 Mayhem on Ice 2
The defending champs got back to winning, beating the Mayhem.  Ovechkin led the AshBusters with 5 goals and 7 hits.  They only managed 2 goalie wins but that was enough to tie the Mayhem, but thankfully for them, Mayhem goalie Gibson couldn't manage a win last week.

USSR 3 Goon Crew 2
The USSR got their 2nd win in a row defeating the Goon Crew 3-2.  Goon Crew have cooled off some from the beginning of the year, hampered by injuries and lack of production from some of their top performers (Matthews, Scheifele, and Wheeler, no goals and only 3 assist between the three of them).  USSR played the match up game, gooning up to play the Crew.  They had 3 players in double digit hits. 

Are the Soviets marching their way back?

White Mambas 3  La Femme Nikita 3
La Femme Nikita and Mambas skated to their second tie of the season.  Schwartz was the leader for the Nikita scroing 3 goals, 3 assists, +4, 1 PPP and 3 hits.  White Mambas still only have one win, but with the long season, they are certainly not out of any chance of playoffs yet. 

Who Gives a Puck 5 Assassins 2
Who Gives a Puck  rolled versus the Assassins winning all but the two goalie categories.  Crosby had 3 goals and 3 assists, while Hall, Tarasenko and Subban had 4 assists each.  Add 14 hits by Byfuglien and you have a beating put on by the Puck.

Byfuglien says "What you want from me?"

Number One Star of the Week:  Alex Ovechkin, AshBusters, 5 goals, +3, 1 PPP and 7 hits

Number Two Star of the Week:  Sergei Bobrovsky, Assassins, 3 wins in 3 games,  .950 SV%

Number Three Star of the Week:  Jaden Schwartz, La Femme Nikita, 3 goals, 3 assists, +4, 

1 PPP and 3 hits

CFFL Week 11

CFFL Salute to Service

This week in the CFFL...A turn of events, and then another turn of events between the father/son battle of Crew and Killers...The Titans tell the Cocktails to shut their mouth....Crush lay a 50-burger on the Ferrets...Dragons come from behind thanks to replay...and Bees and Krauts have a kicker dual...

Killers 28  Wrecking Crew 25
The Crew's season finally officially and mercifully comes to an end.  This after quite a turn of events.  It appeared the Killers had the game won after Agholor caught a TD pass to put the game away, but after further review his knee was down, basically on the next play it was  Jeffery with the TD catch instead plus a 2 point conversion to put the Crew up 25-22 with only the Falcons D left for Killers.  But then another turn of events, the Falcon D pick up a fumble on Monday night and return it for a TD and the Killers win!  This keeps the Killers playoff hopes alive and for all intent and purposes crushes the Crew's hopes, not that they had any...

Clayborn scoop and score for the win

Titans 38  Cocktails 13
After bad mouthing the Cocktails last week for their lack of line up changes, not putting in a starting defense and not knowing about Gillislee being benched the Titans told the Cocktails to shut their mouth and fear the orange shorts giving them a beat down 38-13.  Good old Tom had 12 points and Lutz had 14 for the Titans.  The super stars of the Cocktails were held scoreless (Prescott, Woods, Gronkowski, and Witten). 

Good old Tom

Crush 50  Ferrets 39
The Crush laid a 50-burger on the Ferrets after taking a quick 32 point lead on Thursday night from Roethlisberger and Boswell who both scored 16.  The Ferrets didn't go away quietly scoring 39 points that would have beat most teams, led by 2 big TDs from Allen.  But the 2 McCoy scores were the nails in the coffin for the Ferrets who's playoff hopes are slipping away. 

Ben sporting tuuk without a ball on top, what the heck...

Dragons 30  Roulette 28
What happened to when a TD was a TD?  The Roulette are wondering that exact same thing after a replay basically cost them the game vs. the Dragons.  The Roulette led the game 28-20 going into the Monday night game thanks to 18 absolutely huge points from Nick Novak "Disease".  Dragons had to rely on their kicker Matt Bryant and he had pulled them to with in one point 28-27.  It was looking like it wasn't going to be enough when late in the game the Falcons scored a TD run from Coleman, but upon further review, which seems to always be the case, it was overturned and they had to settle for a chip shot FG from Bryant.  Kick good!  Game, set, match for Dragons who remain in a 3 way tie for first in the South with the Mayhem and Titans. 

Nice dome...

Killer Bees 23  Krauts 21

Walsh sick, knowing he may be hitting the showers...

It appeared for a while that neither team wanted to score any points.  But as the four o'clock games rolled around Gostkowski got things hopping kicking 15 points for the Killer Bees including a 62 yarder! (and none of that bonus points for long FG crap in this league).  The score was 15-0 after the Sunday day games...brutal.  Wentz was able to bring the Krauts to within 5 points 15-10 going into Monday night.  Matt Ryan would battle the Blair Walsh Project 8-11 making the game 23-21 with one last chance for Blair Walsh to win the game with a 52 yard FG with no time left.  Surely he would make it.  He was known for his 50 yard accuracy.  He lined up, booted it, right down the middle....but came up just a few inches short.  Game over and the Bees survive.  Don't be surprised if Walsh is found in some remote camp, taking a shower...

Around the league...Chislers defeat the kicker-less Bums 45-22 and league is investigating for possible collusion between the Bums and Chislers.  Or maybe Bums just don't give a shit anymore, in either case the Bums days are numbered.  And might I say that the Chislers have returned to the top of the North and may be a team to watch...This thanks to the Sinistars hammering the Animals 42-18 led by Wilson's 15 points including TD passes and 2 point toss to Graham.  This connection is getting hot, look out for Sinistars as well...Mayhem had little trouble with the Juggernauts getting 12 points from Murray, 8 from Brees, and 6 each from Coleman and Jones...

Player of the Week:  Antonio Brown, Chislers, 18 points

CFHL Week 6

Here is yet another re cap of the CFHL action last week. 

Goon Crew 4  Assassins 1
Crew get back on the winning track defeating the Assassins 4-1 led by Hornqvist 2 goals, 2 assists, +3, 1 PPP and 10 hits.  These 10 hits paired with McAvoy's 12 helped the Crew rack up 47 hits. 

One of  McAvoy's 12 hits...

Checkers 3 Mayhem 3

Go Checkers

Checkers pull of an upset of sorts tying the Mayhem and getting a point out of the match up with the one loss Mayhem on Ice.  Both teams only scored 5 goals each.  McDavid had 3 for the Checkers and Schenn had 3 for the Mayhem.  To say the least many players on both teams came up empty in the goals department. 

La Femme Nikita 4  AshBusters 3
The defending champs go down to the new upstart and wife of AshBusters La Femme Nikita.  Two big stars for Nikita was Gaudreau and Andersen.  Gaudreau had 3 goals and 4 assists, including 4 PPP.  Andersen had 2 wins and both were shutouts!

USSR 5  White Mambas 1
The Soviets were able to snake charm the Mambas 5-1 in a game that was closer than the 5-1 score.  Oshie had 3 goals for USSR leading them to a 2 goal win in goals.  They won assists by only 1 but tallied 9 PPPs.  Dubnyk got 2 wins and a SV% of .933...but not quiet enough for Star honors of the week...

Krampus Carols 4  Who Gives a Puck 3
The season is upon us.  Grab your kids before the Krampus puts those brats into his sack.  After putting the Crew in his sack last week it was the Pucks turn.  They were able to do it with scoring only 3 goals.  Wait, what?  And with no goalie wins...It helped when their goalie Craig Anderson managed SV% of .926, but had no wins?  Wait what?

Krampus shoving the Puck into their sack..Checkers next?

Number One Star of the Week:  Johnny Gaudreau, La Femme Nikita, 3 goals, 4 assists, 4 PPP

Number Two Star of the Week:  T.J. Oshie, USSR, 3 goals, 2 assists, 3 PPP and 9 hits

Number Three Star of the Week: Frederik Andersen, La Femme Nikita, 2 wins, 1.000 SV%.

CFFL Week 10

Week 10 is behind us.  Four weeks to go.  And still everyone is alive for the playoffs, albeit some with a very very slim chance and would have to win out (read; Wrecking Crew)...

Sinistars 40  Wrecking Crew 17

Wilson and Graham hooked up 2 times

Sinistars had little trouble handling the hapless Crew.  It was over before the weekend even started when the Sinistars QB Wilson hit Graham for 2 10 point connections.  Sinistars are now tied for first with the Bums at 6-4 in the west.

Titans 35  Roulette 27
The Titans came back after being down when Tom Brady scored 12 points on Sunday night and then Funchess caught 2 TDs on Monday night to seal the deal and put the Titans back in the win column. Who needs to worry about Defenses on byes or players that got benched still starting?  They are now in a three way tie in the South at 5-5.

Krauts 29  Dragons 23
Krauts move to a league best 8-2 after holding on to defeat the Dragons 29-23. The Dragons just needed Stills to score one TD on Monday night but he couldn't find the endzone despite Randy yelling that he was open in the endzone all game long... Cousins led all players with 16 big points in the win for the Krauts.  Dragons are in that three way tie at 5-5 in the South after their loss.

Kraut General Cousins

Killer Bees 43  Juggernauts 28
The Bees survived the Juggs QB Case Keenum's 16 points for the Juggs.  This was in large part to 23 points that were scored Sunday night and Monday night between  McCaffrey and Gostkowski.  The Bees victory keeps them only 1 game behind the three Sad Sack South leaders.

Cocktails 24  Mayhem 20
Cocktails held off the Mayhem to keep their wild card hopes alive and their hopes to catch the Krauts who have a 2 game lead in the East.  Robert "Ice Bucket" Woods came up huge catching 2 TD passes, one a 94 yard bomb! Goff may get in the Cocktail starting lineup yet!

Ferrets 46  Killers 19
The Ferrets had a rare offensive explosion scoring 46 points and kept their playoff hopes alive.  Stafford had 12 points including a TD pass to Golden "Taint" Tate for a 10 point connection.  Every player for the Ferrets scored expect for Deonte Thompson "Twins". 

Animals 46  Bums 13

Don't you just love his antics???

Animals remained in the front of the North beating the lifeless Bums.  16 points from Newton on Monday night was just salt in the wound after the game was already over.  Mark Ingram ran for 3 TDs earning player of the week honors.

Chislers 23  Crush 17
Chislers handed the Crush their 3rd defeat in a row to keep pace with the Animals, remaining only 1 game behind.  Key to this game was Chisler kicker Greg "The Leg" Zuerlein's 15 points!  Crush have now fallen to 2 games from division leaders Sinsitars and Bums in the West. 

Player of the Week:  Mark Ingram, Animals, 18 points.

CFHL Week 5

Well here is re-cap of last weeks action as we finished up the 5th week of a very very long season...

Game of the Week:  AshBusters 4  Checkers 3

In a game that was closer than it appeared if you stayed up to the wee hours of Monday morning / Sunday Night.  The Checkers were looking like they were on their way to a come from behind victory as Quick and the Kings were heading to victory holding a shut out through nearly 2 and half periods.  Quick however would then give up 2 goals late in the 3rd period preventing the Checkers form winning the SV% and the game!

Around the league...

Kane out on the town after the victory...

Mayhem on Ice 4  Who Gives a Puck 2:  Apparently the Puck wasn't happy with Vasilevskiy's 2 win, .968% performance and dealt him away the next day to the AshBusters.  Evander Kane had 2 goals, 2 assists and 6 hits for the Mayhem in the win.

Krampus Carols 4 Goon Crew 2:  The Goon Crew's goalies who were number one and three stars last week ended with just 1 win and .865% SV% as the Krampus handed them their first loss of the season.  Phil Kessel led the Krampus with 3 goals, 3 assists, and a +4 on the week.

Assassins 5 White Mambas 2:  The Assassins held on versus the Mamba led by strong net play from Murray and Talbot surprisingly (3 wins .937 SV%)

La Femme Nikita 4 USSR 2:  The USSR finally got the goalie play they have been waiting all season for from Dubnyk and Holtby.  They combined for 5 wins and .945 SV% but it wasn't enough.  The +20 by Nikita was tough to overcome.

Number One Star:  Nikita Kucherov, La Femme Nikita, 2 goals, 5 assists, +4, 3 PPP, 2 hits

Number Two Star:  Braden Holtby, USSR, 3 Wins, .952 SV%

Number Three Star :  Phil Kessel, Krampus Carols, 3 Goals, 3 assists, +4, 1 PPP

Goon of the Week:  Ekman-Larson and Ovechkin, Crew and AshBusters, 12 hits each

CFFL 2017 Update Week 9

After the home and homes have done their damage here are two outstanding games from last week:

Killer Bees 37  Cocktails 36

The Cocktails spotted them a 37-18 lead after the early games as the Bees got 8 from Ryan and 17 points from their special teams Broncos and kicker.  Could the Cocktails come back with Prescott, Witten, Nugent and Lockett.  Prescott got things going running one in.  He would end up with 14 points, but no TD passes to Witten.  Nugent had only 4 points.  If only they would have got a FG or a pass to Witten instead of Beasley, or anything!  But no, short by one point and the Bees hang on. 

Dak runs it in for the Cocktails but wasn't enough

Mayhem 44  Roulette 36

After it appeared that the Roulette had forgotten all about their troubles of Rodgers going down the Mayhem mounted a huge comeback on Monday night.  They needed 17 points to comeback and win vs the Roulette and have Adams not score.  Normally you would think no way that's gonna happen.  But the Packers have become a shit show with out Rodgers and the Roulette soon to follow.  Marvin Jones scored 2 TDs for Mayhem and Prater kicked 12 for good measure to complete the comeback.  Adams didn't even sniff the endzone. 

Jones catches one of his 2 TDs for the Mayhem

Great White North outlook: 

  While no one is out of this division yet, it is becoming more clear that it may be a 2 team race.  Animals have been in first place for most of the year at 5-4.  Animals will probably be riding the shoulders of Alex Smith rest of the way.  The Chislers have the number 2 ranked offense with 294 points scored but are 4-5.  Give it time and Gurely and Chisler luck may put them in the division lead.  The Ferrets and Crew are a dumpster fire.  Well at least the Crew are with Carr and Cooper just not producing and their trio of Packers a complete disaster since Rodgers went down.  Ferrets don't have a single player outside of kicker and QB that has scored more than 18 points this season.

Sad Sack South:

This division at one time looked like it was all Titans.  Titans started 3-0 and are now 4-5.  What happened to the Titans.  Well apparently its baby steps for the Titans.  They finally figured out how to draft, but now they need to figure out how to manage their team.  Last week they failed to pick up a QB that was actually playing and also were not savy enough to pay attention that Ertz was inactive last week.  So he opened the door wide open for the Mayhem and Dragons to take the lead in the South.  Dragons will be just fine if they stay away from those damn Dolphin players.   But then again they have Eli Manning as another option and it appears he is having a circus music Manning year.  Mayhem are living dangerously riding the Saint Train with Brees, Thomas and Ginn.  So far so good, but how long will it last?  The Bees at 3-6 may not be out of it, but perhaps next year they won't take Gostkowski so early in the draft.

Que the circus music

Eastern Bloc

Wentz for MVP

The Fourth Reich seem to have control of the East once again, as in days past.  They have the number one offense led by MVP candidate Carson Wentz and rookie Fournette.  He could ride both of them right to the Fantasy Bowl.  The Cocktails seem to be the only one that might be a viable threat at 5-4 but have their own issues.  They rely heavily on the Cowboys and seem to be more concerned with picking up the latest person that was dropped on waivers...The Roulette almost seemed to have put the injury of Rodgers behind them.  But if they are going to hitch their wagon to Osweiler they might as well pack it up.  You can't rely on winning games with Fat Rob, Buck "Naked" Allen, and MMA fighter AJ Green this year.  The Juggs always quiet, sit at the bottom and instead of figuring out which Tennessee RB will score finally is starting both of them.  Don't think it will be enough with Hundley at the helm.

Wild Wild West

Wait what?  I got traded?

In this division no one is out of it yet.  All teams are 2-2 in the division and separated by only 2 games.  Surprisingly the Bums are in first at 6-3.  I wonder if he even knows it, since on more than one occasion he had a player that had a bye in his line up.  There has been whispers that they were going to get kicked out of the league or they may retire, but at 6-3 they better start paying attention.  The Sinistars managed  a sinister trade getting Russel Wilson away from the Crush who thought they had their key to a championship in Watson.  Well almost on the day of the Trade the Sinistars put a hit out on Watson, and he tore his ACL.  But hey the Crush got their favorite team QB Big Ben in the deal so not all is lost.  I mean Ben has 40 points! (Wilson has 75).  The upstart Killers who started with no protected player (which for some of us that player is a stiff) is right in the thick of things despite his allegiance to the Buccaneers.  It may be time to start Cole Beasley and leave him in, concussions be damned.

Happy Halloween