The Good Life Blog: CFHL is back!

The CFHL is back! Hopefully we will be able to complete the season. Last year will be forever known as the "Lost Year". The season got cancelled with only a few weeks to go in the regular season, after weeks of competition and god forsaken blogs!

Here is brief look at the upcoming season and analysis of the two divisions. This year we have 10 teams and only 2 divisions, but should be lots of fun!

The Cherry Division

The Cherry Division is comprised entirely of, you guessed it, Cherry family members. Cherry's Checkers and son Alex's Assassins. R.C. Goon Crew and his son the Skull Crushers, and California Raisins, nephew of the Checkers and Crew.

Two best teams: Checkers (of course) and the surprising Raisins. Both teams have strong goaltending. Raisins have Jarry and Vasilevskiy while the Checkers have Binnington and Samsonov (and Quick as backup, of course). I like the Raisins' Centers and Fowards. Crosby, Wheeler and Landeskog are strong. And you got to love the tandem of Bergeron and Marchand for the Checkers.

Andrei Vsilevskiy

Middle team: Assassins will compete with the top two. Pretty solid front lines with Couture, Lindholm and Voracek. They do have some injury questions at the time, but should work out. Zibanejad is a powerful scorer too. Goaltending might be up and down. Anderson is solid. Blackwood unproven over course of entire season.

Logan Couture

Bottom two: Not liking either the Crew or the Crushers. Crew will need a big year out of David. They probably have the strongest blue line in the division with an all star line up of Burns, Hamilton, Klingberg and Pietrangelo. Goalies, not so good. MacKinnon will anchor the Crushers squad along with Stamkos and Backstrom, but they are not getting any younger. Not a lot of help on the bench for the Crushers. They loaded up on goalies and have 5 to chose from!

Burns looking good as always

The Smythe Division

Okay nobody from the Smythe division with the Smythe name, but an eclectic mix as always. The two most recent champions; Mayhem on Ice and Who Gives a Puck. Krampus Carols are joined by the Soviets USSR and White Mambas.

Two best teams: Looks like it could be USSR or Who Gives a Puck division. I will give the edge to the Soviets. They are real strong on the front end. Eichel and Kuznetsov anchor the center and are flanked with all kinds of goal scoring talent with the likes of Kane and Laine. A little weak on the blue line and in net, but still pretty solid. Who Gives a Puck has a real nasty pair at forward with Ovechkin and Pastrnak. Pastrnak is coming off injury and once he is full strength, Who Gives a Puck can put up some goals. Slight edge to Puck in net with Rask and Hart.

Ovechkin looks ready!

Bottom three: The rest of the division is a hounds breakfast. Krampus has some fire power with Draisaitl, Tavares and Malkin. Time will tell with their blue line defenders. And you thought the Crushers had a lot to chose from in goal? The Krampus has 6 goalies to chose from, so we will see how that plays out. Mayhem not as dangerous on the front line, but are deep. Better at the blue line with Hedman and Krug and slightly better in goal with Hellebuyck and Lehner. White Mambas have lots of Centers and Fowards led by Aho and Matthews. Plus Point and Nugent-Hopkins can put up some points. No depth on the blue line and will have to shore that unit up. Plus they have a goalie that has just quit the game (Corey Crawford).