Week 1 Summary

Ahh, a new season GM's!  It's with great pleasure that I bring this first Sudden Death 3.0 summary via our new website.   Before I get into the summary I just want to let you all know that we have a little rule change that went into effect  on Sunday.  We have eliminated the game cap per player category as it seemed redundant.  Because we are keeping the weekly transaction limit it should effectively allow all teams to have an even chance of maxing out how many games they play per week without that rule.

Now.... onto the write-ups!

If I could sum up last weeks performances I would have to start with... HOLY GOALIE!? Yeah, I know... cheesy, but in all honesty out of 12 start players (one per team) 9 of those stars were goalies... that's 75%!  That can mean one of two things, either we: 1) had some amazing shutouts last week, or 2) we may have weighed the points category in favor of goalies just a bit too much.  If it's the 2nd option... maybe think about getting another goalie!

Speaking of goalies... Streit Outta Compton found himself a new name, "Stepan Into Last Place", after losing to Fresh Prince of Briere who refused to make a move the whole week.  Hopefully he will be able to "Dubnyk" the mystery of the black hole that sucked away all his points.... HINT.... it's real, and it was chosen as the single worst draft pick in this league (read last weeks draft recap post).... I'm dropping some serious hints for you there Striet!
Don't Toews Me Bro lights up offense and defense to crush Team Pastorella.  Don't Toews Me Bro his, near flawless, goalies who combined for 157 shots on goal and only 9 goals against!  Combine that with his 16 assists in 30 games and you have one terrifying team to go up against.  It's no surprise that he was awarded the Victory Dance trophy for most points scored this week during his smack-down'athon on Team Pastorella!
The league wide arch nemesis, St. Pappys, looks like he's in mid-season form as he trucked over Team Burd with ease.  He can thank Radim Vrbata for that big hatrick... not that he needed it to beat Team Burd though.
Keep Calm and Bergeron, the scoring machine, easily sprinted past 18 Wheeler by a huge margin.  Hopefully teaching 18 Wheeler the valuable lesson to not have 33% of your fantasy team comprised of one NHL team... especially when it's the Flyers!  That 33% dragged 18 Wheeler down big time!
 Mötley Krüg nearly shat themselves after taking a commanding lead in the first half of the week only to watch it disappear to within 5 points.  A loss from the inactive Moulson ICE would be too painful... just ask Streit!
Legion-d'Emery of Doom looked like he had a loss coming at the hands of Legen...Wait For It...Dary in a battle of attempting team nicknames with "legendary" in it.  He had a surge of 30+ points on Saturday and was lead by Rask who bailed him for a monsterous win that was actually a lot closer than the score looks!

Now come the GIF highlights... Those of you that remember the write-ups from last season know I pick a few teams to highlight here... those of you that don't know, you'll catch on quick.

Streit... you knew this was coming... well to be fair Streit's outlook was bright, he had some solid picks in the draft and assembled a great squad... the out look was soo bright... BUT once we that bright light dimmed we finally saw that it wasn't his all-star's shining... it was the goal lamp siting behind Dubnyk... 10 times!!!  Streit made, what I called, the single worst pick of the entire draft with Devin Dubynk, and it drug him down with some wonderfully negative points!  Now, Streit, I only do this for your own good... if labeling Dubnyk as the worst draft pick wasn't a big enough hint for you to drop him and his 6.53 goals against average didn't convince you either, then I assmebled some highlights to help make it a bit more clear.... and if this causes flashbacks of your loss to the "No Show Prince of Briere", I apologize.

Dubnyk at his finest

Dubynk, long-range WIN

Dubnyk waving goodbye.... hopefully to Streit's team after this!

 Don't Toews Me Bro lit up the league last week for more points than any other team.  Whenever you can accomplish that and have such a spread of points that it makes your whole team look like all-stars then you can count on getting some love in the highlights!  Believe it or not, finding the right images for this was not easy... what could possibly visually represent how hard Don't Toews Me Bro took down the whole league.... well for starters.... you have some serious talent!

Take that league!

Talent + Style = WIN

Great start to week 1 GM's!