CFFL Week 7

We are smack dab in the middle of the season and the home and home series and this week brought some interesting drama.  The Mayhem who haven't won a game, traded their best player, Watson, away and then promptly win their first game.  The Dragons trade for the best player in the league, Watson, and promptly lose.  Cocktails test the water offering Mahomes up for trade and Mahomes promptly gets injured.  And the top scoring player of the week, Aaron Rodgers sat the bench behind Dak Prescott for the Bees.  Wait, what?

As the immortal Vince Lombardi would say..."What the hell is going on out here!"

Beats me Vince, but I'll try to tell you how the week went anyway...

North...

Animals vs. Wrecking Crew and Ferrets vs. Chislers

The Crew just couldn't keep up with the Animals this week, as the Animals got 30 points from their RBs.  Edmonds "Fitzgerald" score 3 times and Murray scored twice late to put the game away despite 16 points from Crew QB Brissett.  Animals win 44-33.

Elliott would score game winner for Ferrets!

A thriller between the Ferrets and the Chislers.  The Chisler Rams finally woke up as Goff had 14 points and Zuerlein had 13.  Dalvin Cook powered in 2 TDs but going late in the game on Sunday night they only had a 5 point lead over Ferrets.  Kirk "One o'clock" Cousins had 16 points to help the cause.  The Chislers put up a goal line stance versus Keenan Allen but would have to survive Cowboys Elliott and Gallup.  He would not survive.  Elliott would dive in for a 1 yard TD and the Ferret game winner 40-39!

After Round one done in the home and home, the North Division has tightened up as the Animals and Ferrets now just one game behind the Crew...

South...

Killer Bees vs. Dragons and Titans vs. Mayhem

After the big trade things didn't turn out quite how the Dragons planned.  Watson would only score 4 points and Will Fuller would leave with a badly injured hamstring.  Maybe they would have a chance since Bees decided to keep Rodgers on the bench...he would score 26 points!  On the Bench!  Well it didn't matter as Marvin Jones would catch 4 TD passes in the Bees 52-20 domination of the Dragons.

Michel scores 3 times giving Mayhem first win!

Another thriller battle in the home and home had the Titans up 26-14 going into Monday Night.  Typically we say, as long as I have more than a 6 point lead and my opponent has one player I feel good.  Well he had a 12 point lead and Mayhem had just a RB left (I'm not even going to count the Jets defense).  But that RB for the Mayhem was Sony "Playstation" Michel.  He would score once, then twice to tie the game and add a third for the game winner 32-26 and the Mayhem's first win.


Bees move into a first place tie in the South with the Dragons with the Titans  a game behind...

East...

Cocktails vs. Juggernauts and Krauts vs. Roulette

Pop goes the knee...

Are the Cocktails in trouble?  The almost pulled off a win scoring only 13 points this week versus the Juggernauts.  Trailing 13-10 going into Sunday Night, the Juggs had Carson Wentz.  In a disaster of a day for Wentz he did manage to throw one TD that would be the game winner 14-13.  However the bigger story is Mahomes knee.  Mahomes injured it on a sneak early in the game and had to have it popped back into place on the field.  He could miss 3-5 weeks.  It will be rookie Kyler Murray's team until he returns.

Roulette seem to be fading dropping their 5th of  year, leaving guys in on bye (OBJ, not that it mattered) and just not getting any luck with David Johnson.  Krauts trying to stay in the hunt with the 46-29 victory.  Darren Waller was a nice pick up scoring twice, but when your options at QB are Flacco or Trubisky don't plan on going very far.

The loss by the Cocktails have made things a little closer and the loss of Mahomes could make things even more interesting in the back half of the season.

West...

Crush vs. Bums and Sinistars vs. Killers

The Crush had little trouble with the Bums, who had several players in that had byes, but as it turned out had little impact on the outcome of the game.  The Crush got 24 points from the Ravens special teams, getting 12 from "Mother" Tucker and 12 from the Ravens D on their way to a 34-10 win.

Lockett scores key TD in the Killer win!

In the upset of the week, and maybe of the year, the Killers upset the previously undefeated Sinistars 32-25!  The Sinistars didn't get the points they got from well known players such as McLaurin and Coleman.  Plus Wilson only had 4 points, his lowest of the season, and his only TD pass went to Killers' Lockett.  Killers were able to take advantage of that adding 10 points from Jason "Michael" Myers and 6 more from one of his Browns (and I'm not talking Cleveland here).

With a Crush win and a Sinistars loss, Crush trail by only 2 now.  Sinistars have shown their is chinks in the Sinistar Armor. 

Player of the Week:  Aaron Rodgers, QB, Bees - 26 points...wait, no he was on the bench...Marvin Jones, WR, Bees - 24 points (same team regardless...)

smh

Bring on Week 8!

CFHL Week 3

USSR and Goon Crew are leading the way after 3 weeks in the CFHL...

Grubauer had a good week for the Crew

Goon Crew vs. Who Gives a Puck 5-0-1 - Goon Crew continue to roll as they shut out the Puck this week.  Only goals were tied at 10, rest of the categories Crew dominated in.  Pastrnak scored 7 goals for the Crew and both Fleury and Grubauer had 2 wins each leading the Crew to the tops in goalie wins for the season.

Assassins vs. California Raisins 5-1 - The Raisins were shriveled up this week in the cross hairs of the Assassins.  Assassins completely dominated all categories besides goals.  Assassins were on a mission hitting the Raisins 49 times, getting three players in double digit hits. (Marchessault, Ristolainen and Trouba).

White Mambas strike again

Cherry's Checkers vs. Mayhem on Ice - 3-1-2 - It was a close one but the Checkers managed to skate by with 3 wins against the Mayhem.  Both teams goalies combined for just one win each in this lackluster game.  Nathan MacKinnon for the Mayhem had 3 goals as did Huberdeau.

White Mambas vs. La Femme Nikita  4-1-1 - Mambas got 4 wins this week to try to keep up with the Goon Crew.  La Femme Nikita having a rough start to the season after lighting it up last year.  They only needed 7 goals to win goal categories and even though John Carlson had 7 assist for Mamba they lost assist to Nikita.

Krampus Carols vs. AshBusters 3-1-2 - As the season gets closer to December, the Krampus starts to get stronger and stronger.  This week they sneaked by the AshBusters in a tight one.  They were tied in assists and PPP and Krampus only beat the AshBusters by 2 goals.  Ovechkin smashed the AshBusters with 17 hits to go along with his 2 goals and 3 assists. 

Krampus fans getting fired up!

USSR vs. The Greek Empire 3-2-1 - The Greek Empire almost pulled off the upset of the USSR.  They needed just one additional goalie win to pull it off.  Blue liner Morgan Rielly for the Greek Empire put up impressive numbers for a D man with 2 goals, 4 assists and 2 PPP.

CFHL stadium series went to Russia for the USSR game.

Three Stars of the Week:

Number one Star:  David Pastrnak, F, Crew - 7 goals, 2 assists, 6 PPP and 2 hits

Number Two Star:  John Carlson, D, White Mambas - 1 goal, 7 assists, 2 PPP and 4 hits

Number Three Star:  Darcy Kuemper, G, AshBusters - 2 Wins, .938 SV%

Goon of the Week:  Alex Ovechkin, F, Krampus Carols - 17 hits

CFFL Week 6

We are almost to the halfway point of the CFFL regular season.  Sinistars remain undefeated at 6-0.  Goon Crew and Cocktails lead divisions at 5-1.  Dragons lead the South at 4-2.  Mayhem still without a win.  And we are at the dreaded home and home weeks!

Cocktails 34  Killers 24 - The Killers almost pulled off the upset but it wasn't in the cards as one play turned this game completely around.  Cocktails seemed to be clicking on all cylinders again with their Chief players getting two 10 point connections from Mahomes to Hill in Hill's first game back from injury.  Game was 28-24 for the Cocktails.  Lockett catches a 16 yard TD pass to give the Killers the lead 30-28!!!  But wait.  Official review of the play reversed the call and put the ball on the one.  Score back to 28-24.  Chris Carson for the Cocktails would plunge it in from one yard out instead to put the game away 34-24.  A 12 point swing in favor of the Cocktails and a heart breaker for the Killers.

Carson gets game winner, instead of Lockett

Ferrets 28  Dragons 27 - Talk about a nail bitter.  After getting rushing TDs from Lamar Jackson, Elliott and Damien "the good" Williams, the Ferrets had to sweat out the Sunday Night game.  Dragons had Rivers and Mike Williams and needed just 9 points.  One 10 point connection would win the game for the Dragons.  Chargers and Rivers looked like shit.  However Rivers did manage to throw 2 TDs to get the Dragons to within one point.  Unfortunately for the Dragons time ran out and the Ferrets held on for the win.

Rivers had a rough night

Wrecking Crew 23  Killer Bees 18 - In another nail bitter, after another double digit performance by McCaffrey, the Crew saw the Bees score 12 points seconds apart as Prescott ran in a TD while the Broncos got the shut out.  Down only 5 points, the Killer Bees had Marvin "Gay" Jones and Jimmy Graham "Craker ass cracker" Monday night.  Both the Packers and the Lions had several red zone drives and chances for both of their WRs to score.  Each time they came up empty, needing only one TD.

McCaffrey scoring at will for Crew

Around the league...

Animals have little trouble with the win less Mayehm 47-22.  Matt "Shark Eyes" Ryan fired in 16 big points and Nick Chubb "Chubb, chubb, chubb" had another nice game scoring 12 points.  Deshaun Watson scored 17 points in the loss for the Mayhem. 

Ryan scores 16 points in the Animal win!

Chislers showing the effects of poor Ram performances, got only 6 points from their 5 Rams (Goff, Brown, Kupp, Woods, and Zuerlein).  Devonta "Colin, Randy" Freeman finally came alive with 2 scores for the Titans and Prater just kept pouring it on with 16 points Monday night.  Final score 38-13 for the Titans

Diggs scores three times for the Krauts!

Krauts get 18 points from Diggs "Dig Dug" on their way to a 35-25 victory over the Bums.  Bums did get 11 from Mayfield but little help from anyone else.  Kamara posted another goose egg and has been a disappointment so far this year scoring only 12 points in 6 weeks (week 3).

Juggernauts unloaded on the Crush 45-25 after the Crush took a 12 point lead from Brady on Thursday night.  Led by 12 points from Curtis Samuel and Slye "and the Family Stone" 13 points the Juggs took back the lead 25-12 lead.  They never looked back.  Crush only got real production from Brady and Justin "Mother" Tucker.

Sinistars remain undefeated beating down the Roulette 52-28.  Is it the year of the Sinistar?  "Run Cowards!"  Wilson had 14 points and is his 4th week out of 6 he has double digit points.  They are not only getting points from people you would expect (Wilson and Conner), but guys like Tevin Coleman and Terry McLaurin "McWho?" are getting points (24 between the 2 of them).

Wilson leading Sinistars to 6-0

Player of the Week:  Stefon Diggs "Dig Dug", WR, Krauts - 18 points

Look ahead at the Home and Home series:

The North:
Animals vs. Wrecking Crew - Crew can put strangle hold on North with a sweep. 
Ferrets vs. Chislers - Both teams 3-3 and need a sweep to keep pace with the Crew.

The South:
Bees vs. Dragons - Dragons want to sweep this series so bad. Bees could gain lead in South with a sweep.
Titans vs. Mayhem - Mayhem just want a win.

The East: 
Cocktails vs. Juggs - Cocktails, up 3 games in the east could further their lead to 4 with the sweep!
Krauts vs. Roulette - Both teams already playing for their playoff lives, both 2-4 teams.

The West: 
Crush vs. Bums - Bums need a sweep to get back in the West race.
Sinistars vs. Killers - Trouble for Killers playoff hopes going up against the red hot Sinistars.  A Sinistar sweep to go to 8-0 almost guarantees a playoff spot.

CFHL Week 2

2 weeks into the CFHL season.  Let's get right into it...

Here comes Nikita...

Goon Crew vs. Assassins 6-0 - The Crew swept the Assassins taking all categories and started out fast getting 3 goals and 11 assists on Tuesday!  The Crew would finish with a week leading 27 assists.  Patrick Laine had 6 helpers and 12 hits to boot!

La Femme Nikita vs. California Raisins 5-1 - Took the new California team a whole 2 weeks to change their name already from the Policia to the California Raisins.  However I do like the new name better...  Didn't help with the game though as they were up against a much more formidable opponent in the Nikita.  Jake Guentzel lead La Femme Nikita with 4 goals.

Mayhem on Ice vs. Krampus Carols 4-2 - One of the league's most bitter rivalry had the Mayhem getting the best of the Krampus.  It was disappointing for the Krampus as they dominated in the goalie categories getting 5 wins and a .953 SV% from Hellebuyck and Rask.

Rask at least did his part for the Krampus...

White Mambas vs. The Greek Empire 3-2-1 - Mambas sneak away with another 3 wins this week, this time against he expansion Greek Empire.  Best players in this match up was Connor McDavid  (2-5-5-3) for the Mambas and Brad Marchand (3-3-2-0) for the Empire.

USSR vs. AshBusters 5-1 - Another big rivalry, this one from the Mother Land, had USSR ready to play!  They dominated almost all categories.  They had a week leading 17 goals, 5 from James Neal and 3 from Mark Stone.  They beat up the AshBusters too getting 54 hits to their 39, including 15 from Brayden McNabb and 13 from Drew Doughty.

Checkers vs. Who Gives a Puck 5-1 - The Checkers got things going in the right direction taking down the defending champs and they did it with 2 players in their starting line up who were injured.  Leon Draisaitl led the Checkers with 3 goals, 3 assists and 2 PPP.

Checkers taking the ice vs. Puck

Week 2 Stars of the Week:

Number 1 Star:  Connor McDavid, C, White Mambas - 2G, 5A, 5PPP and 3 hits

Number 2 Star:  Patrik Laine,  F, Goon Crew - 2G, 6A, 1PPP and 12 hits

Number 3 Star:  Sidney Crosby, C, AshBusters - 2G, 4A, 2PP, and 4 hits

Goon of the Week:  Baryden McNabb, D, USSR - 15 hits

See you next week!

CFFL Week 5

Week 5 is behind us.  Week 6 is upon us.  Only one more week till the dreaded home and home series.  Hard to believe. 

This week we had some shoot outs, one close one score game, and then a number of blow outs once again...

Game of the Week:  Killer Bees 27  Ferrets 24
While this game didn't have lots of fireworks and scoring, it certainly had its share of drama.  Newly acquired kicker Zane Gonzalez got the Ferrets in pretty good position after the first half with 14 points.  With a Lamar Jackson TD pass the score was 18-12. 

Elliott would score for the Ferrets

The second half the Ferrets had to sweat out the Killer Bees 10 point connection of Prescott and Witten, not to mention Jimmy Graham.  Prescott would get 2 TD passes, thankfully not to Witten, but the Ferrets would finally get a TD run from Elliott.  Score now was 24-20.  Could the Ferrets survive the Chief kicker Butker?  You would think so considering the high powered Chiefs would score TDs.  "Not so fast my friend."  It turned into a defensive battle and Butker would end up kicking 2 FGs and finish with 7 points. 

Butker would FG would eventually be game winner

The score was 27-24 but wasn't over as the Ferret owner made sure everyone knew as they had the 49er defense.  And they came out fired up.  It looked like there was a chance they might score!  They had a pick at their own 1 yard line that looked like it might go all the way!  It didn't.  They fielded a punt and sprinted down the sidelines and it looked like it might go all the way!  It didn't.  They pressured the QB deep in his own end zone.  Batted a few passes down that looked like they might pick it off and go all the way!  They didn't.  The defense would end up with 0 points and the final score would remain 27-24.

Wrecking Crew 71 Mayhem 56 - Now this was a shoot out with plenty of fireworks.  It was like two heavyweight fighters trading hey-makers.  The Crew would end up with 5 players scoring double digits.  McCaffrey had 3 TDs! 

Crew was head over heels with 3 McCaffrey TDs

But just when the Crew would score the Mayhem would score, including not one, not two, but THREE 10 point connections from Watson to Fuller!!  It was wild, but in the end the Mayhem couldn't keep up with the Crew.  It helped that one of the 5 that scored double digits was the Crew's Eagle Defense and the Mayhem had no kicker. 

Really sucks getting 3 10 point connections and lose...

Titans 49  Animals 35 - In the other shoot out, this game saw a battle of QBs between Titan's Teddy "Two Golves" and Matt "Shark Eyes" Ryan.  Teddy would score 16, score 16 and Ryan 19.  The Titans would take command in the game late Sunday with 13 points from Vinatieri putting the game pretty much out of reach.  The Animals had Nick Chubb "Chubb, chubb, chubb" Monday night, but with needing 3 scores to win the game, it seemed unlikely.  And it was.  Chubb ended up with a big fat goose egg. 

Around the league...
Chislers got 21 points from their Rams (Goff, Zuerlein, and Kupp) on Thursday night and was pretty much it for them.  The Dragons didn't do much better on Sunday not even getting close to 21 points.  Chislers would add a defensive TD to make the final 27-13...

Wilson threw 4 TDs for the Sinistars

Aaron Jones.  Aaron "Freaking" Jones!  The Roulette could have benched all their players beside Jones and still win, with Jones scoring 4 times!  They went on to win 44-19 over Bums...

Sinistars took advantage of a Cocktail team that suffers from a bad Chief day winning 41-16.  Russell Wilson and Gurley combined for 28 points Thursday.  Cocktails' Chiefs managed only 4 points Sunday night...

The Killers win their second in a row in another defensive battle. This week they win 22-10 vs Juggernauts.  They were led by their Brown cubed wide outs of AJ Brown "House", John "Downtown Julie" Brown and Marquise "Hollywood" Brown.  Only Hollywood would score however...

And finally the Crush had little trouble beating up on the once proud Kraut nation 38-19 getting 12 points from "Good ole Tom" Brady and Michael Thomas and 14 more from Opera Kicker Tucker.  And what is up with the Krauts...

Good Ole Tom being Good Ole Tom...

Player of the Week:  Aaron Jones, RB, Roulette - 24 points

CFHL Week 1

The Cherry Fantasy Hockey League has officially faced off for the 2019-2020 season.  The long grind begins!  This year the league has expanded to 12 teams adding two from the west coast; Policia and The Greek Empire.  Policia is another Cherry, nephew of the Goon Crew and Checkers.

Here is the summary of last weeks action:

Goon Crew vs. La Femme Nikita 3-3 - Goalies shined for the Crew getting 4 wins and a .941 SV % between Fleury and Grubauer.  Zibanejad "Jam" earned top marks for the week getting 4 goals, 4 assists, 3 PPP and 3 hits for La Femme Nikita

Assassins vs. Checkers 4-1-1 - Father and Son battled with son getting the big advantage taking 4 out of 6 categories.  The net minding for the Assassins was strong.  Andersen had 2 wins and a .927 SV%.  And Despite Dillon's 14 hits for the Checkers, the Assassins still won hits 42-34.

White Mambas vs. AshBusters 4-2 - The final score not indicative on how close the game was.  Mambas only won goals by 1, assists by 2, PPP by 1, and lost hits by 1.  Waiting late in the draft to get both goalies showed for the AshBusters not getting a single goalie win.

Gaudreau scored 2 goals for the Policia

Who Gives a Puck vs. Mayhem on Ice 3-2-1 - Past 2 Cherry Cup champions opened up the season squaring of.  The Mayhem had little fire power netting just 1 goal!  Matthews was hot scoring 5 goals on his own!  Rantanen had 3 himself as the Puck scored a total of 14 goals.

Policia vs. Greek Empire 3-2-1 - West coast battle of the expansion teams.  Policia got goals from 8 out of 10 skaters on their way to 10 goals. Johnny Gaudreau tallied 2 goals to go along with his 3 assists and 2 PPP.  Panarin "Bread" also had a good week going 2-2-2 in the skater categories for the Policia.

USSR vs. Krampus Carols 5-0-1 - Soviets start out fast getting 5 wins in the first week.  The Krampus Carols usually don't get going until December anyway.  Neither team looked to be in mid season form. 

This weeks 3 Stars of the Week:

First Star:  Mike Zibanejad, La Femme Nikita, 4 goals, 4 Assists 3 PPP and 3 Hits

Second Star:  Auston Matthews, Puck, 5 goals, 2 PPP and 2 hits

Third Star:  Marc-Andre Fleury, Goon Crew, 2 GW and .965 SV%

Goon of the Week:  Brenden Dillon, D, Checkers, 14 hits