CFHL Week 7

 This week we saw new teams move to the top of the divisions.  Space Monkey Mafia have taken a 3 point lead in the Smythe over Slapshots.  Checkers have moved to first in the Cherry Division tied now with the Goon Crew both with 44 points.  Krampus Carols actually third best team in league with 45 points!

Week 7 action...

Goon Crew win a close one against the Raisins 3-2-1 behind 4 goals from Draisaitl and 13 hits from Olivier...Mafia beat the Assassins 4-2 getting 8 assists from the blue line (Fox, Hanifin, Karlsson, and Rielly)...

Draisaitl celebrates one of his 4 goals for the Crew

Checkers had a big game against the defending champion Greek Empire beating them 4-2 taking over the lead in the Cherry Division.  Nathan MacKinnon led the Checkers with 6 assists while in net, Andrei Vasilevskiy had an amazing week getting 4 wins!  

MacKinnon with 6 helpers!!

Krampus Carols continue to be in the playoff hunt beating the Slapshots 4-1-1.  Defenseman phenom Cale Makar had 3 goals to go along with 2 assists and 2 PPP in the win for the Krampus...The White Mambas upset the struggling Puck 3-2-1.  They had 39 hits in the affair with Filip Forsberg getting 13 of them for the Mambas..

Makar playing well for the Krampus

Week 8 we have the 4 Nation Face Off so no games going on.  Every team gets 3 points each in ties....Play resumes in Week 9 but not until Saturday 2/22.  So Week 9 is a quick week, games only Saturday and Sunday!  

Goalie of the Week:  Andrei Vasilevskiy, Checkers, 4 wins .922 SV%

Goon of the Week:  Mathieu Olivier, F, Crew and Filip Forsberg, F, Mambas - both with 13 hits

Skater of the Week:  Matthew Tkachuk, F, Empire - 4 goals, 3 assists, 2 PPP, and 7 hits

CFHL Week 6

 In the Cherry division, things are getting pretty tight.  Only 2 points separates first from 4th with the Greek Empire in first with 38 points.  A slightly different story in the Smythe division as two teams have a 5 point lead over 3rd.  The Slapshots and Mafia lead the way with 43 and 41 points respectively.

Week 6 action...

The Crew and the Checkers staked to a 3-3 tie.  The Crew made sure to beat the Checkers on the boards and finished with 57 hits to the Checkers 35.  However the Checkers had some incredible play between the pipes getting 4 wins and .932 SV%.  Connor "What the" Hellebuyck had 3 of the 4 wins for the Week!

Hellebuyck continues his MVP play

The Slapshots got past the Assassins 4-1-1.  Tage Thompson had a huge week with 4 goals and 4 assists, while Marchand and Ovechkin combined for 4 goals, 4 assists, 5 PPP and 13 hits.  J.T. Miller for the Assassins had 13 hits on his own!

Tage with a big week for the Slapshots

 Krampus Carols had a good day on the ice scoring 12 goals, getting 18 assists and 12 PPP.  Leading the way was Wyatt "Earp" Johnston who had 4 goal, 2 assists and 2 PPP.  The Krampus didn't get a single goalie win, but did edge the Raisins in SV% .916 to .906.

Wyatt had  a hattrick in the win for the Krampus!

Space Monkey Mafia dominated the White Mambas specially in net.  Blackwood and Sorokin combined for 5 wins and a SV% of .948!!  

Blackwood of the Mafia

Who Gives a Puck couldn't even come away with a single win as they lost to the Greek Empire 0-4-2.  The defending champ Empire seem to be shaking off the Cherry Cup hangover with this performance and moving into first place in the Cherry Division.  Matthew Tkachuck led the way for the Empire with 3 goals, 3 assists, and 2 PPP.

Always chewing on that mouth piece!

Goalie of the Week:  Ilya Sorokin, Mafia - 3 wins, .953 SV%

Goon of the Week:  Radko Gudas, D, Goon Crew - 16 hits

Skater of the Week:  J.T. Miller, C, Assassins - 3 goals, 3 assists, 5 PPP and 13 hits

CFHL Week 5

 Since we last met, we have two new teams in first place.  The Raisins have over taken the Crew, who struggled the past two weeks, to take the lead in the Cherry Division by 1 point.  Slapshots now lead the Smythe division after two winning weeks.  They lead the Puck by 2 points.

The Crew finished two consecutive 2-3-1 weeks versus the Puck and the Greek Empire.  A 2-3-1 finish against the defending champs Empire was pretty good considering they were down 5-0-1 at one point.  Aho "A-hole" had a good week for the Empire with 3 goals and 3 assists while "Merlin" Merzlikins" was good between the pipes.

"Merlin" Merzlikins was Marvelous!

The Raisins' charge to the top of the standings was helped by two consecutive 4-2 weeks.  Their recent victim was the Assassins, despite Assassins' foward Clayton Keller's play.  He had 3 goals, 3 assists and 2 PPP.  Shea Theodore "Roosevelt" had 4 assists from the blue line for the Raisins. 

Theodore "Roosevelt"

Are the Checkers hitting their stride?  They took care of the Krampus 5-0-1 behind a huge game from Gabriel "Gabe" Vilardi.  He had 3 goals, 3 assists and 3 PPP.  Threes were wild for Vilardi!  2 wins from Connor "What the.." Hellebuyck helped in the cause.

GABE!

After defeating the Crew 3-2-1 the prior week, the Puck drop one to the Mafia 4-2 this week.  And this was with Martin Necas' 6 helpers and 6 hits!  Jack Eichel had 4 goals for the Mafia and Sorokin had 3 wins and a SV % of .965!

Jack "In the Box" Eichel

And finally the Buffalo Slapshots finished off the White Mambas 3-2-1.  Tage Thompson had 3 goals and Rasmus "Dealing" Dahlin had 3 assists to go along with his 5 hits in the win for the Slapshots.  Neither team did that great between the pipes and need some lineup help...

Dahlin was Dealing for the Slapshots!

Goalie of the Week:  Ilya Sorokin, Mafia - 3 wins, .965 SV%

Goon of the Week:  Brady Tkachuk, F, Assassins - 13 hits

Skater of the Week:  Filip Forsberg, F, Mambas - 3 goals, 4 assists, 1 PPP, 4 hits

CFHL Week 3 - Hockey Wife Edition

 Week 3 action on the ice...

The Goon Crew move into first place after the 4-2 victory over the Krampus Carols.  Goal tending was key as they got 3 wins and a .903 from "King of the" Hill and Oettinger.  Tom Wilson continues his stellar play with 3 goals and 9 hits!

Taylor Pischke Tom Wilson's wife and
Canadian Volleyball star

The Slapshots took down Who Gives a Puck 3-2-1.  Dahlin had 3 helpers , 2 PPP and 3 hits from the blue line for the Slapshots.  Vincent Trocheck for the Puck had a huge week in the loss scoring 3 times, 2 assists, 3 PPP and 8 hits!

Hillary Trocheck, Vincent's wife

The defending champs go down to the Assassins 3-2-1 as well. They managed to only score 2 goals the entire week.  J. T. Miller led the Assassins with 2 goals, 2 helpers and 12 hits!

California Raisins had a good week beating the Space Monkey Mafia 4-1-1 behind a big week from Konecny.  He had 2 goals, 5 assists and 6 hits!  Both teams did well between the pipes tying with 3 wins and the Mafia had .964 SV%. (Blackwood and Sorokin)

Checkers continue to struggle some to start the year, this week skating to a 3-3 tie with the White Mambas.  They lost all offensive categories but then won both goalie and hits of course.  The Checkers goalies were stellar getting 4 wins and .941% between  Hellebuyck and Vasilevskiy.  

Goalie of the Week:  Connor Hellebuyck, Checkers - 2 wins, .960 SV%

Connor Hellebuyck and wife Andrea

Goon of the Week:  Nikita Zadorov, D, Checkers - 16 hits

Alexsandra Zadorov, Nikita's wife 
(oh those Russians...)

Skater of the Week:  Travis Konecny, F, Raisins - 2 goals, 5 assists, 2 PPP, 6 hits

Karly Konecny, Travis' wife

CFFL40 Memorial Cup and Awards

The season is complete.  The Krauts earned their 4th title and the Memorial Cup was won by the Great White North.  Winter is truly coming!

The Memorial Cup, honoring franchise owners that have passed on, is a free for all with the most points earned by a division winning the Cup.  Plus the most points by a team earns a free entry next year.  

 Honoring:

Jennifer Cherry - Jennifer's Jewels

Steve Machcinski - Steve's Stooges

Burt Carlson - Bacardi's Bums

Rich Johnston - Russian Roulette

Memorial Cup Results:

1. North - 146 points

    Wrecking Crew - 58 (where was this all year...?)

Geno Smith scored 16 points for the Crew in 
Memorial Cup

    Ferrets - 33

    Animals - 32

    Chislers - 23

2. East - 117 points

    Krauts - 44

    Cocktails - 32

    Sinistars - 23

    Juggernauts - 18

3. South - 115 points

    Killer Bees - 45

    Dragons - 28

    Warbirds - 24

    Titans - 24

4. West - 99 points

    Legion - 33

    Crush - 30

    Whales - 21

    Killers - 15

CFFL Awards

2024 CFFL MVP - Josh Allen, QB, Chilsers - 191 points 

(runner up was Lamar Jackson with 190 points!)

Josh Allen becomes the first ever back to back MVP in the CFFL!  This is his third MVP and trails only Aaron Rodgers' 4 MVPs.  Players with 2: Manning, Favre, Mahomes, Brady, and Brees.

All CFFL Team

QB - Josh Allen, Chislers - 191

RB  - Jahmyr Gibbs, Ferrets - 108

RB - James Cook, Chislers - 102

WR - Ja'Marr Chase, Chislers - 102

WR - Terry McLaurin, Killers - 78

K - Chris Boswell, Ferrets - 158

DEF - Broncos, Bees - 40

Gibbs finshed the season with 24 points in the Memorial Cup!

All CFFL Nickname Team

QB - Sam "Blockhead, I'm seeing ghost" Darnold, Legion

RB - Josh Jacobs "Jingleheimerschmidt", Legion

RB - Zach Charbonnet "I like Charbonnet", Animals

WR - Terry "Midichlorian" McLaurin, Killers

WR - Tee "Mrs. Sue" Higgins, Wrecking Crew

WR - Jalen McMillian "and Wife", Killers

WR - Alec "Hawkeye" Pierce, Warbirds

K - Jake "Master" Bates, Juggs

showing our age:

Mrs. Sue Wiggins (Tee Higgins)

Jalen McMillan "and Wife"

Alec "Hawkeye" Pierce

What a 40th year in the CFFL that started in Fabulous Las Vegas for the Draft!  If it was up to me we would have the draft in Vegas every year!  But I would settle for every other year...Just sayin...

CFHL Week 2

 Week 2 Action...

Goon Crew get a better showing this week against the Assassins winning 4-2 despite Assassins' forward Pastrnak's 4 goals.  Tom Wilson led the way for the Crew with 2 goals, 3 assists and 9 hits and they were strong in the net between "King of the" Hill and Jake "the snake" Oettinger. 

Slapshots and Raisins skated to a 3-3 tie, second tie for the Slapshots.  Slapshot netminder Darcy Kuemper had two wins with 1 shutout and a .985 SV% in the win.  Slapshots also got 24 assists, 5 from Mitch Marner!

Checkers brought the heat on the boards after losing last week to hits, by getting 55 hits this week!  Unfortunately for them that was the only category they would win against the Space Monkey Mafia.  

The White Mambas came down to earth as they faced the defending cup champs Greek Empire.  The Empire prevailed 4-2 in a game that only saw 1 goalie win between the two teams.  ("What about" Bobrovsky had the one win for the Empire)

And finally the Krampus Carols get the win against Who Gives a Puck 3-2-1 in a tight one.  While the Mambas and Empire had no goaltending, this game had all goal tending with both teams notching 3 wins each, with the Krampus beating the Puck in SV% .946 vs .937! 

Goalie of the Week:  Darcy Kuemper, Slapshots, 2 wins .985 SV%

Goon of the Week:  Will Cuylle, F, Checkers, 17 hits

Skater of the Week:  Alex DeBrincat, F, Raisins, 2 goals, 3 assists, 3 PPP, 2 hits