The Good Life Blog: CFHL Final Regular Season Week!

The final week is here and the playoffs are upon us. 4 teams have pretty much locked down playoff spots. Mayhem on Ice, Ashbusters, Checkers, Krampus Carols will be in the playoffs. This leaves 2 spots left for 3 teams. La Femme Nikita and Who Gives a Puck are in the driver seats at 21 points while the Goon Crew at 19 points will try to tie and hope for tie breakers to help them get in.

AshBusters 4 Goon Crew 3
The Crew drop yet another game after leading the game all the way till Sunday night. After scoring 12 goals, 17 assists and an impressive 15 PPP the Crew had a slight lead in the +/- and hits. When Sunday was over the AshBusters were able to beat the Crew in both of those categories enough to win +/- by 2 and hits just by 1. The Crew have been decimated with injuries that started with Crawford 35 games ago, then Scheifele has been in and out and now out again. Matthews is out. McAvoy went out and probably won't return. Then Sunday Marchand was ruled out of the game after scoring 4 goals, 4 assists and 3 PPP.

La Femme Nikita will need more big production
out of these two

Assassins 4 La Femme Nikita 3
La Femme Nikita didn't solidify their playoff hopes after losing to the Assassins. While their Flames connection of Gaudreau and Giodano combined for 4 goals and 6 assists the loss of Bergeron definitely hurt. In fact the Assassins only had 3 goals all week and haven't been the same team since earlier in the season. But they did enough this week to beat Nikita. 22 assists will do that, led by Panarin, Butcher, and Reilly who all had 4 assists each.

Checkers 4 Who Gives a Puck 2
And another team that is fighting for a playoff spot loses as the Checkers, winner of 5 straight now, defeated the Puck. Pekka Rinne was solid in net for the Checkers getting 2 wins and a SV% of .966. Connor McDavid continues to have a great year, scoring 3 goals to go along with his 2 assists and a rating of +3.

Rinne is getting in Cherry Cup Playoffs form

Playoff Picture:

So there is the three teams fighting for a playoff spot, not looking like any of them want it. Goon Crew will have to take on the red hot Mayhem on Ice and hope for a miracle to beat them. Mayhem on Ice have won 6 in a row and lead the league in goals with 196. They had little trouble taking care of the White Mambas last week 4-2 with the help of Number One star Patrik Laine's 5 goals.

La Femme Nikita has to take on another hot team in the Checkers who have won 5 straight now. La Femme Nikita will have to win this game to make the playoffs if the Crew manage to beat the Mayhem as the Puck and Crew hold the tie breaker advantage over La Femme Nikita based on head to head match ups.

Who Gives a Puck take on the AshBusters, also winners of 5 straight. So its no easy task for the final three teams as they play the best 3 teams in the league. However, the Puck are in based on tie breakers even if they do lose and the Crew win. So if all three teams win, Crew are out and La Femme Nikita and Who Gives a Puck are in. If Crew win and La Femme Nikita lose, then Crew are in.

Three Stars of the Week (it was a week of Mayhem):