CFHL Week 17

Hello everyone I'm back.  Well for the moment.  Not sure why I want to write this anymore as my team has tanked the past 7 weeks going 2-7 as suspensions and injuries have plagued my team.  But oh well, I guess this leagues isn't all about me...

Checkers 7  Assassins 0
In a rare shut out it appears that the Checkers might have found their groove as they are now in first place in the Norris Division.  McDavid scored 5 goals for the Checkers and his teammate Draisaitl tallied 3 goals as well.  The two Oilers combined for 8 goals, 6 assists and 5 PPP.  Not bad.  Pavelski had 4 goals, 2 assists and 1 PPP with a +3 in the losing effort for the Assassins.

Draisaitl and MdDavid were huge for the Checkers

AshBusters 4  Krampus Carols 1
Who needs to score goals in this league to win anyway?  AshBusters only had 4 goals but had an incredible 34 assists!  6 from Brazal, 6 from Gostisbehere, 5 from Couturier led the way.  It was quite a goalie dual tho as they tied with 3 wins each but the AshBusters edged them in SV% .899 to .855 behind net minders Hellebuyck and Vasilevskiy.   Despite the loss with Seguin, Toews, Kane and Kessel, the Krampus Carols still a dangerous team.

Gosti had 6 assists for the AshBusters

Mayhem on Ice 4 La Femme Nikita 2
Mayhem on Ice are the top team in the CFHL defeating Nikita.  Giroux and Monahan each had 3 goals and Gibson was solid in net with a SV% of .944.  La Femme Nikita got 4 goalie wins between Andersen and Smith in the loss.  Gaudreau for Nikita had 2 goals, 5 assists and a +6.  Flames were hot in this game...

Giroux had a big week for Mayhem with 3 goals and 3 assists

White Mambas 4 Goon Crew 3
The Goon Crew have fallen on hard times after being one of the hottest teams earlier in the season.  Its pretty bad they couldn't even beat a Mamba team that was starting 2 players that were out with injuries (Kreider and Trouba).  They also only had 8 hits the entire week.  How is that even possible?  Bright spot? Matthews and Rakell scored 6 goals?  Marchand and Scheifele are back (but were still on bench)

No real reason...

USSR 4  Who Gives a Puck 3
The Soviets edged the Puck thanks to a loss by the Islanders on Sunday that would have at least tied the game at 3, but instead the USSR hung onto the goalie wins 4-3 behind Dubnyk and Holtby.  Dubnyk had 2 wins and an impressive .950 SV%.  Who Gives a Puck had a nice distribution of goal scorers with 4 players scoing 2 a piece and 3 from Taylor Hall.

Reilly Smith had 5 assists for USSR, and oh
he dates former Ms. Mass. Caroline Lunny...

Three Stars of the Week:

Number One Star:  Connor McDavid, Checkers - 5 goals, 2 assists, +0, 3 PPP and 1 hit

Number Two Star:   Johnny Gaudreau, Nikitia - 2 goals, 5 assists, +6, 1 PPP and 1 hit

Number Three Star:  Devan Dubnyk, USSR - 2 wins, .950 SV% including a shutout Saturday