Week 11 Summary

Welcome to the midway point of our regular season GM's! If I could sum up the entire week I would simply say "the strong get stronger and the weak get weaker".  Legion of Doom continues to bounce back from his first loss by dealing a hefty defeat to Team burd.  St. Pappys falls to an Eastern powerhouse, Mötley Krüg.  She'll be racking up the wins soon now that she has Stamkos!  Legen...Wait For It...Dary puts up another win to bring her streak to 9 straight by cruising past Team Pastorella.  Jesus Krejci, My Team Sucks! finally pulls a win from Moulson ICE.  Keep Calm And Bergeron starts his first winning streak in some weeks after defeating Fresh Prince of Briere.  Don't Toews Me Bro slips past 18 Wheeler to tie St. Pappys for the lead in the West again!


This week we have one epic match coming our way!  Our number one and number two teams will face off!  Legion of Doom looks to continue his league domination, but has the seemingly endless winning streak of Legen...Wait For It...Dary standing in his path.  This is sure to put both teams to the test, and if Legen...Wait For It...Dary comes out on top, she'll have Legion of Doom all tied up for the lead in the East!  Both teams refuse to let the other pass their amazing records, but one must fall!

1st Place Legion of Doom vs. 2nd Place Legen...Wait For It...Dary

Now onto our highlights!


(W) Legion of Doom: 149.5
(L)  Team burd:  103.7

As the first half of our season drew closer Legion of Doom had but one name left on his list to cross off before our schedules recycle.  Team burd was that name, and it's never a good week to be "that" name on Legion of Doom's list.  Although Team burd got off to a nice start taking a 12.1 point lead at the end of the first night it just wouldn't be nearly enough to challenge the tyrant, Legion of Doom.  Both teams furiously picked up players to fill out the roster spots, but team burd was continuously tripped up by his lackluster goalie's performances.  With 5 starts and just 1 win they never gave him a chance to compete against Legion of Doom's 7 starts and 6 wins.  This loss comes as a crushing blow to Team burd who has struggled in the beginning of the season with an injury plagued team, and once they became healthy he was staring down the barrel of two dominant Eastern teams (Mötley Krüg and Legion of Doom).  Both teams dealing devastatingly lopsided victories to end Team burd's 3 game win streak.  There's only one way to sum up the feelings of a double loss like this.

Team burd takes 2 hard losses to the face, but what a champ for getting back up!

There you have it Team burd, your anguish of these two consecutive defeats in one animated picture.  You're the reason why there's a sportsmanship award at the end of the season!  Getting out there and sacrificing your body relentlessly for the greater good.  Pat yourself on the back when you see that big red mark on your forehead and a black eye because those were earned, but next time.... let the goalie save at least the 2nd kick!



(W) Mötley Krüg:  144.6
(L) St. Pappys:  124.9

If there was ever a stunning defeat to define all others, this would be it!  Mötley Krüg simply put her head down and trucked right over St. Pappys despite his relentless charge towards her.  That's just raw power and talent that ran you over buddy!  Mötley Krüg took a small lead after the first night, but saw it quickly erased over the next two nights by a rather healthy 9.8 points.  With St. Pappys in the lead Mötley Krüg kicked it into high gear and absolutely demolished St. Pappys.  

St. Pappys run down after taking the lead, and she came back to add insult to that injury!

Just like the picture says, St. Pappys was looking towards a runaway victory after two strong nights to take back the lead, but Mötley Krüg chased his ass down and bundled him.  But she wasn't satisfied with simply taking the lead, she had to let St. Pappy's have it a second time as well.  Now let me explain here a bit... St. Pappys played 8 more games than Mötley Krüg in the skater categories (which is the equivalent to playing a full roster more than Mötley Krüg!)  AND he had double the amount of starts for his goalies as well (10 starts)!  Despite being on the wrong side of that equation Mötley Krüg not only walked away with the win.  She did it by almost 20 points!  It appears that grabbing Stamkos last week has her firing on all cylinders!  This loss also threw St. Pappys into another tie for the lead in the West.  You know what... just 1 picture does not describe this enough.... we need some reaction shots from both teams!  

Mötley Krüg crypt walking for her winning dance

St. Pappys not taking the loss too lightly!

(W) Legen...Wait For It...Dary:  115.1
(L) Team Pastorella:  90


Another day as Queen of the league, and another victory to put on her overstocked winning shelf.  The Legen...Wait For It...Dary Queen of our league has stretched her winning streak to 9 games with a rather easy defeat to Team Pastorella.  Despite her awful goalie performance she dominated the skating categories and easily made up for that disadvantage.  However, I'm not highlighting her win this week rather I'm highlighting all 9 of her wins to date.  As I covered last week, the majority of her wins have come within small marginal victories over and over.  Each time rising to the challenge and gleefully handing out the defeat.  I think this picture will perfectly describe her climb to the legendary title of "Longest Wining Streak".

Legen...Wait For It...Dary quietly took out the entire league

Ah, there's our league represented by that little kid gawking at a sea of pumpkins... which one to choose?  Innocently playing in a fun fantasy hockey league you never hear the quiet rumble of that pumpkin rolling towards your face with a payload of defeat, nicknamed Legen...Wait For It...Dary.  Maybe a slight breeze knocked it ajar, or maybe a bird shat on the other side of that pumpkin with enough velocity to knock it loose, I don't know that shit was crazy.  More than likely it was strokes of luck mixed in with a talented group of scorers, but nonetheless our entire league was caught off guard and simply crushed by the Legen...Wait For It...Dary Queen.  Well, all but 2 of us have been crushed.... Legion of Doom and Keep Calm and Bergeron avoided defeat at her hands in the first 2 weeks of the season, and now they square off against here back to back.  First Legen...Wait For It...Dary will have to get through the tyrant Legion of Doom to reach the fabled double digit win streak, and IF she succeeds she'll have a warming up Keep Calm and Bergeron to deal with for win number 11.  Her first hurdle will be a mighty one, but you'd be a statistical fool to count her down just yet.  If she can topple the tyrant King Legion of Doom she'll tie him for the lead in the East and for the number 1 spot in the league.  If she fails she'll miss the double digit win streak and she'll be in a tie for 2nd place in the East with a surging powerhouse, Mötley Krüg.


Well GM's with half of this season almost behind us we are getting a good luck at what certain teams have to offer.  The Eastern Conference has shaped up into a 3 headed monster with Legion of Doom, Legen...Wait For It...Dary, and Mötley Krüg being those heads.  All 3 teams are 1, 2, and 3 in the entire league.  In fact the 4th place team in the East would qualify as a 2nd place team in the West!  Meanwhile the Western Conference has been a blood bath brawl between 5 teams for the top 3 slots.  We've seen up to a 4 way tie for first place, and currently they are sitting in a tie for first between St. Pappys and Don't Toews Me Bro and another tie for 2nd place between the father-son duo of Team Pastorella and Fresh Prince of Briere.  All of those ties come with Team Burd nipping at their tales with just 1 win between his current 5th place standing and 2nd place in the West.  Keep in mind that the last two teams from each division do not make the playoffs at the end of the season.  This little fact should put Team burd on high alert to start making those wins at any costs!  The last two teams in the East need a lot more climbing to get off that bottom rung in the next 11 weeks if they have any hopes to make it to the playoffs.  In the event of a tie between teams that will make the playoffs and teams that will not I believe the total "points for" (which is the sum of all your weekly scores) will be used as a tie breaker.  Teams that do not make the playoffs still compete with others that did not as well during the playoff time.  With these notes on the halfway point of our season I can offer only one piece of advice for you all...

1 Half down, 1 Half to go till the playoffs!

One more quick note.  I will be traveling abroad with my wife over the next two weeks and thus will likely not be available to do the weekly write-ups.  If available I'll do what I can, but if not I'll do a massive update when we are back in the US.  Until then we may see a write-up or two from our 1st League Manager (Keep Calm and Bergeron)... for those of you that didn't know I'm the 2nd League Manager (Legion of Doom... and hence the signature "LM (2)"

Week 10 Summary

The West finally has a winner, and it looks like he's getting ready to run away with it!  St. Pappys gave an epic beat down to 18 Wheeler last week earning himself the "Victory Dance" trophy for scoring the most points in a single week, and grabbing the lead in the West (as I predicted!) from the three-way tie we saw after last week.  This forces Don't Toews Me Bro, who lost to Keep Calm and Bergeron last week, to take the Time to get back up! award for losing his grasp on the lead in the West.  Legen...Wait For It...Dary easily overtakes Jesus Krejci, My Team Sucks! to stretch her winning streak to 8 games now!  She now holds the longest winning streak this season!  Fresh Prince of Briere takes out Moulson ICE and is now in a three-way tie for second place in the West.  Mötley Krüg, who we will all loath playing against next season, picks up her 4th straight win after putting the smack down on Team burd.  Finally, Legion of Doom is back on a wining streak with his 2nd straight win against Team Pasorella.

This week Legen...Wait For It...Dary will try and add a 9th straight win as she faces off against Team Pasorella.  St. Pappys will find a true test against Mötley Krüg.  All while Don't Toews Me Bro, Team Pastorella, and now Fresh Prince of Briere will be eyeing St. Pappy's heels if he loses!

Team Pastorella drops Stamkos

Before we start with the highlights I need to address what I think is a lack of understanding, or lack of even attempting to understand, of one of our rules.  Since the beginning of this season we are officially in a KEEPERS league.  This means that at the end of the season we each get to pick 3 players from our current rosters to carry over to next season.  That means the 3 people everyone choose from their teams will NOT be in the draft next season, instead they will automatically be on your new roster.  I covered this new rule in a previous post, which I emailed out to the league as well (League Rules Explained).  Now, as some of you have noticed, Team Pastorella DROPPED Steven Stamkos on December 5th.  Most likely Team Pasorella did this because Stamkos is injured right now and may not return this season.... BUT we are in a KEEPER LEAGUE , dropping the number 1 draft pick for any reason other than he's dead is a BONE HEAD MOVE!  Granted I understand that he just wanted to free up some room on his injury plagued team, but dropping literally anyone else besides the guy that averages an astounding 4.2 points per game when healthy is plain and simple... dumb.... There is one person happy about this news, and that is Mötley Krüg who picked Stamkos up for a steal!  All she had to do was drop Michael Ryder and pick up Stamkos from waivers.  So just as a friendly reminder WE ARE IN A KEEPERS LEAGUE.... so Team Pastorella... you lost the number 1 draft pick forever because Mötley Krüg is sure to never let him go. 

Mötley Krüg will never letting Stamkos go

My reaction at Team Pastorella Dropping Stamkos... and realizing I'm never going to be able to pick him up

Now onto the highlights (get ready to kneel before the Legen...Wait For It...Dary QUEEN of our league)!

Legen...Wait For It...Dary Breaks the longest winning streak record!

Legen...Wait For It...Dary counted down the final minutes of Sunday's game as she was sure to win against the redheaded stepchild of the league, Jesus Krejci, My Team Sucks! and when that clock hit zero you bet your ass Legen...Wait For It...Dary celebrated!  The new Queen of our league deserves that celebration too.  She started out with a face plant this season, losing both of her season openers in lopsided victories.  Since then she's bounced back to become an absolute force in our league.  She doesn't find her way to the top of any category, except the one that counts the most... WINS.  Out of her 8 wins 63% of them were absolute nail biters where she won by less than 10 points!  The other 37% of her wins were dominating blowouts.  She simply brings the heat day in and day out, and like I said it doesn't get her to the top of goals, assists, or +/-.  It simply gets her to the top of the wins category, and everyone can agree that is the most important.  I'd typically try to put a spin on something like this to turn the league against such an astounding winner, but she EARNED this pure and simple.  If you ever find yourself loving underdogs, then you will join me in hailing in the Queen of our league who lives up to her team name... Legen...Wait For It...Dary!  Now prepare for her to make this league her bitch!

The Legen...Wait For It...Dary Queen officially made this league her BITCH

Now I didn't post that image with just Legen...Wait For It...Dary in mind.  We have another female who has been dominating in our league, Mötley Krüg!  Mötley Krüg brought Team burd to his knees last week with a winning deficit of 66.1 points.  She took t he lead on day 1 and from then on she wouldn't have seen Team burd even if she turned around to look.  She only has 3 blemishes on her record so far.  Her 1st blemish came from The Legen... Wait For It...Dary Queen of our league, the 2nd was from the tyrant Legion of Doom, and the 3rd was to Don't Toews Me Bro!  All 3 losses were to high powered teams that most of us have lost to as well.  But Mötley Krüg now has a secret ace up her sleeve!  She was the lucky attentive person who saw Team Pastorella drop Stamkos... and she was lucky enough that the 4 people ahead of her in the waivers never...saw...it...happen!  This powerhouse of a team now has the number draft pick PERMANENTLY in her back pocket!  She's sure to be a dynasty for many seasons to come due to that move.  Oh, and as for Team burd on this loss, well... the whole match could be summed up as this...

Mötley Krüg SLAMMING it down on Team burd for the win

As predicted here, St. Pappys has taken the lead of the West!  Humbled from a series of devastating losses, but still as talented as ever, St. Pappys has been quietly rising the ranks all the way to the tippy-top of the Western division!  He now has 3 straight wins after taking down 18 Wheeler with no mercy what so ever.  And it was the perfect scenario as Team Pastorella and Don't Toews Me Bro! both lost their games ending the three-way tie for the lead in the West.  With this comes a series of accolades for St. Pappys.  He earned the highest points for the week award and the Stocky! award for blowing past the Western competition to take the lead.  St. Pappys will be looking to whip the Western division into shape with his overwhelming tactics of good strategic pickups making it feel like he has a full roster ever night.  And I do mean strategic... St. Pappys does his homework and is almost always ahead of the curve.  Something tells me that St. Pappys, the St. Pappys we all know from previous seasons, is back... and he's not going away any time soon again!

St. Pappys leapfrogs and face-plants Don't Toews Me Bro! for the lead in the West!

Before we wrap this up I just wanted to give you guys a live feed of The Legen...Wait For It...Dary Queen's parade down Sudden Death 3.0's roads!  She's sure is humble with her new title!

The Legen...Wait For It...Dary Queen's humble arrival... wait till her acceptance speech!

Good luck in the halfway point of the season this week GM's!

LM (2)

Week 9 Summary

Before we begin I just want to apologize for this late post.
From the looks of it about half of the league took Thanksgiving off because we had almost nothing but landslide victories!  Legion of Doom bounced back from his first loss and took out Jesus Krejci, My Team Sucks! by 12.8 points and scored the most points in the week!  It looks like the tyrant didn't take losing lightly.  St. Pappys is officially back on the winning track with a 35.1 point victory over Keep Calm and Bergeron who is now on a 4 game losing streak.  Team Burd continues to bounce back from his early season injuries by beating 18 Wheeler by 53.7.  Mötley Krüg prevented Team Pastorella from taking the lead in the West by delivering a 23.7 point loss to him.  Moulson ICE also prevented Don't Toews Me Bro from taking the lead in the west by defeating him by 34.4 points.  Finally the only person who had to work hard for a victory last week, Legen...Wait For It...Dary struggled mightily with Fresh Prince of Briere, but came out on top by just 6.7 points.  This gives Legen...Wait For It...Dary a winning streak of 7 games which now ties her with Legion of Doom for the longest winning streak this season.

This week our highlight games come from Legen...Wait For It...Dary who will almost undoubtedly surpass Legion of Doom for the longest winning streak by defeating Jesus Krejci, My Team Sucks (who hasn't made a move on his team for some weeks now).  There are three other matches we'll keep our eyes on and they come from the three way tie for the lead in the west between Don't Toews Me Bro, St. Pappys, and Team Pastorella.  Each of them will be facing formidable opponents and we may see a definitive leader in the West emerge before 2014!


The league just might have a new ruler!

Legen...Wait For It...Dary's response to that line

Sure Legion of Doom currently sits atop the standings, but he's had Legen...Wait For It...Dary nipping at his heels ever since week 3.  She suffered losses the first two weeks of the season, but she's been on a red hot winning streak!  She's actually tied with Legion of Doom for the lonest winning streak this season (7 games), and this week she faces off against a team that hasn't made a roster move for weeks.  So it looks like she will easily turn in a big W to turn that streak into 8 leaving Legion of Doom in the dust.  If that doesn't convince you enough then she also just took out the same team that delivered Legion of Doom's undefeated streak as well!  It's sure starting to sound like she may overthrow the tyrant and run away as the Queen Boss of the league.

Legen...Wait For It...Dary being soo modest with her new "Queen of the league" title

Lets take a dive into her latest victory over Fresh Prince of Briere, who once again just ran out of Febreze to freshen up the end of the week, but that's no surprise because what's a simple Prince to a Queen of the league?  In the beginning of the week it looked like Fresh Prince of Briere was ready to dominate as he took a commanding 22.6 point lead going into Friday night.  But like I said, that Febreze bottle keeping him fresh ran out.  The queen, Legen...Wait For It...Dary, started to show up on the scoreboard Friday night and took the lead from Fresh Prince of Briere by Saturday night.  You have to learn at some point, the Queen is never late, the peasants just arrive early! With just 2 winning nights during the entire week Legen...Wait For It...Dary overtook Fresh Prince of Briere by a slim margin, but none the less it earned her a spot in the legendary column for she's going to have one unbeatable winning streak after this week's easy win! 

Legen...Wait For It...Dary's catch phrase after she beats Fresh Prince of Briere

Next up on our highlights is the former legend, St. Pappys return from the dead!  After falling in the standings from his losing streak he's now sitting pretty in a three way tie for first in the West, and I'm betting he might just take that lead position by the end of this week.  He's tied with Team Pastorella, who is in an unfavorable match against the Tyrant Legion of Doom, and Don't Toews Me Bro, who is suffering from some injuries on his team.  Meanwhile St. Pappys has a healthy team, and is facing off against 18 Wheeler who despite showing some glimmers of super-stardom is still struggling to keep up with the real monsters in the league.  It's starting to look like his falling in the standings wasn't as violent as previously indicated.

St. Pappys hits his low point ever so gently to only land on his feet

St. Pappys grabbed a hold of this win over Keep Calm and Bergeron one small nightly victory after another.  He led by small margins in many of the skating categories over Keep Calm and Bergeron, but absolutely blew it out when it came to his goalies.  He had 8 starts and 4 wins, but don't let that 500 record fool you... out of those 8 starts his goalies combined for just 11 goals against and very pretty .946 save percentage.  That only included 1 shutout which leads me to believe that there's nothing artificially bumping up those stats.  Now match that to Keep Calm and Bergeron's 6 starts with only 1 win and a save percentage of .906 which includes a shutout win.  It's clear how St. Pappys rolled over Keep Calm and Bergeron. Sometimes the old saying is true, the best offense is a good defense, so stand tall and let those brickwalls do their thing!

St. Pappy's passive defense takes out Keep Calm and Bergeron

Our final highlight isn't exactly a "highlight" but more of a reminder to all GM's.  It's simple, if you don't watch your roster and at least put your guys in for the week then you'll lose.  So to emphasize my point I want to bring up our old punching bag.... cough..um.... I mean.... friend Jesus Krejci, My Team Sucks!  He has failed to make any moves for the past few weeks and is currently truly living up to his team's name because of that.  If you take a look at his team you'll see some great talent, and hell some awesome averages for points too!  Sure it could use some sprucing up, but he should have a better record than 2 - 7.  This is the once highly praised hero who started St. Pappy's fall!  Now take his lack of roster moves and put a hungry tyrant at the other end,  Legion of Doom, and you've got yourself one brutal beating coming along.  That showed to be more than true as Legion of Doom took a 39.1 point lead at the end of DAY ONE!  It was so embarrassing for Jesus Krejci, My Team Sucks! that Jesus didn't even want his name on that team!

Jesus abandons Jesus Krejci, My Team Sucks!

It's alright though Jesus Krejci, My Team Sucks! we all forget to put some people in from time to time. Just know where your team is heading if you don't start making those moves!

Jesus Krejci, My Team Sucks! current path

Well GM's it was a blowout turkey week we had!  For those of you that found yourselves on the right side of score, congratulations!  For those that found themselves on the bad side of it... grab your plastic plate and go sit at the kids table this year!

LM (2)