Week 8 Summary

Week 8 brought the downfall of the FORMERLY undefeated Legion of Doom!  Fresh Prince of Briere stunned the tyrant, and the league, as he overpowered Legion of Doom to deliver his first loss of the season. 

Fresh Prince of Briere Shocked to Beat Legion of Doom

St. Pappys snapped his losing streak by crushing Moulson ICE.  Team Burd continues to rebound from his early season skid by beating Keep Calm and Bergeron for his 2nd straight win.  Team Pastorella put an end to 18 Wheeler's win streak and is now tied with Don't Toews Me Bro for the lead in the west.  Jesus Krejci, My Team Sucks! (this sentence is self explanatory now) fell to Mötley Krüg.  Legen...Wait For It...Dary chews up and spits out Don't Toews Me Bro to become 2nd in the league and continues her win streak to 6.

After beating the league's number 1, Legion of Doom, Fresh Prince of Briere looks to take on the 2nd best team, Legen...Wait For It...Dary.  Can the titan killer pull it off again?  Don't Toews Me Bro will try and avoid being overtaken in the West by Team Pastorella as each of them face off against Eastern teams.

Everyone take a front row seat for Legion of Doom's first loss

Well GM's it's finally happened....

League Reaction to Seeing Legion of Doom trailing on Sunday Morning

the tyrant that has plagued the league and ran over almost all of the opposition has fallen.  (AND THE LEAGUE GOES WILD)

League Goes Wild Over Legion of Doom First Loss

The whole league can rejoice as the terror from the East plummets from his pedestal becoming humanized after a major loss to an unlikely hero! Legion of Doom has spent the last 7 weeks tormenting the league walking away 4 of 7 Victory Dance trophies (for scoring the most points in a given week) and giving out humiliating losses like their "fun size" candy on Halloween.  On the flip side Fresh Prince of Briere has only won 1 of his last 5 games prior to week 8.  We all knew that Legion of Doom's undefeated streak would end, but no one would have guessed it would be Fresh Prince of Briere!  Because of his awful record Fresh Prince of Briere was mocked for his "un-freshness" in the previous week.  There's no doubt that he doused himself in Febreze and popped some Mentos for this match though because he was fresher than peppermint!

Fresh Prince of Briere FRESHENS UP

In the beginning of the week it looked as if Legion of Doom was about to run away with another victory taking a 16.4 point lead going into Friday night, but then everything changed.  With a handful of games both teams rosters were nearly empty.  In steps Jonas Hiller to single handedly erase the lead of Legion of Doom with a monsterously 31 save shutout earning 16.2 points for the night!  With Legion of Doom's lead erased Fresh Prince of Briere's offense was free to start making a gap between the two.  By the end of the night Fresh Prince of Briere held a 7.8 point lead that Legion of Doom would fail to make up.  Lets rewind for a minute here... this match wasn't JUST won by an amazing outing by Jonas Hiller... it was also lost due to poor judgement on Legion of Doom's behalf!  On Tuesday Legion of Doom left Max Pacioretty on his bench in favor of
starting others.  This would prove to be a major mistake as Max Pacioretty went on to get a hatrick that night worth 16.1 points!  Is the Titan of the league losing his touch, lets all hope so!  Legion of Doom's own hot streak of a start to the season may have also played a role in his demise too.  Before Friday night's desperate attempt of picking up 5 players to make a comeback, Legion of Doom only made 2 roster moves during the week.  An uncharacteristically low for the tyrant.  Perhaps thinking he could poke fun and get away with an easy win plays into this as well... fortunately we have the turning point of the week on film for you all to judge for yourselves....

Legion of Doom (Left) vs. Fresh Prince of Briere (Right)

Legion of Doom will face Jesus Krejci, My Team Sucks! in hopes of a merciful win while he licks his wounds, and the titan killer, Fresh Prince of Briere will take on another giant, Legen...Wait For It...Dary who won all of her past 6 games!

Legion of Doom THOUGHT he could run through this league untouched... Fresh Prince of Briere to the rescue!

Now that we covered the potential beginning of a leader change in our league it's time to take a look at who could be Legion of Doom's replacement!  Going into week 8 we had Legen...Wait For It...Dary and Don't Toews Me Bro tied for 2nd place in the league and facing off to see who would be first in line for the inevitable fall of Legion of Doom.  In the first two days of the week Don't Toews Me Bro sprinted ahead and took a 29.2 point lead, but Legen...Wait For It...Dary came right back to erase that lead on Wednesday and Thursday.  Legen...Wait For It...Dary came out on top by 22.1 points only to be bested the very next day by Don't Toews Me Bro.  He caught back up with Legen...Wait For It...Dary and then took a small 0.5 point lead going into Sunday night.  With only 3 games playing Legen...Wait For It...Dary had just 1 goalie in her lineup while Don't Toews Me Bro started NO ONE. 

Don't Toews Me Bro not starting anyone on Sunday night with only a 0.5 point lead

Needless to say Legen...Wait For It...Dary's lone goalie covered the 0.5 point spread leading her to a last minute heroic victory!  This loss not only knocked Don't Toews Me Bro out of 2nd place in the league but it also gave room for Team Pastorella to tie him for the lead in the West, and also finds himself in a 3 way tie for the league.  He's on a slippery slope right now and there are plenty of hungry teams waiting for him to fall another inch.  Legen...Wait For It...Dary now looks to stretch her winning streak to 7 against Fresh Prince of Briere while Don't Toews Me Bro looks to get back on track with a win against Moulson ICE this week.

Keep Calm And Bergeron

Finally, I think it's about time we talk about Keep Calm And Bergeron's loss to Team burd.  Keep Calm And Bergeron scored the lowest points this week earning him the We're All Laughing At You award.  After a comfy start to the season he's been on a serious decline winning just 1 of his last 6 games.  I've checked out his team and simply could not figure out why he hasn't been winning games... even with red hot Ovechkin on his team!  Well I've found the answer... he had 20 points sitting on his bench last week, some of which came from Mr. Ovechkin himself (you don't sit Ovi).  I'm not writing this to bash on Keep Calm And Bergeron, I'm writing this because I think his team is a sleeping beast and I want to see it woken up!  This week he's facing off against St. Pappys who is making a resurgence after a series of hard losses.  This could be the poke that the beast needs to jump start him back into the standings.  If I were St. Pappys I would tread lightly this week!


GM's it's been another great week, and I hope you all finished up celebrating Legion of Doom's loss in time to start this week strong!  Enjoy the turkey out there!

LM (2)

Week 7 Summary

Week 7 wraps up and we're left with Legion of Doom continuing his undefeated streak after beating the league's 2nd best team, Don't Toews Me Bro by 55 points in a good ol'fashion woopin!  It's starting to look like Legion of Doom may actually be unbeatable (cue evil laugh)...

Legion of Doom THE TYRANT!

18 Wheeler starts a ...GASP... winning streak after beating Jesus Krejci, My Team Sucks! by an astonishing 83.2 points.  That's a monstrous 2nd win to help him to tie for last place in the East with Moulson ICE who was delivered a loss by Team burd who snatched the win from Moulson ICE by a mere 3.1 points.  Team Pastorella took out Keep Calm And Bergeron to leap-frog over St. Pappys for 2nd place in the West.  Mötley Krüg kept Fresh Prince of Briere at bay proving that his Freshness doesn't last forever.  Finally, Legen...Wait For It...Dary extends her win streak to 5, and is now tied for 2nd place in the league, by handing St. Pappys his 3rd straight loss!

This week we have two big matches to keep our eyes on.  Legion of Doom looks to extend his undefeated tyranny over our league against Fresh Prince of Briere.... lets all hope he bought some Febreze to freshen up before this match!  We will have a 2nd place tie breaker match this week as Legen...Wait For It...Dary tries to extend her win streak to 6 over the lead in the West Don't Toews Me Bro.


On to the highlights!

We have to start this off with the underdog blowout win of 18 Wheeler over Jesus Krejci, My Team Sucks! by 83.2 points!  First off, this earned 18 Wheeler the Adding Insult AND Injury award for winning by the largest margin thus far in the season.  That's two monster victories in a row for this formerly win-less team.  Like I said last week, 18 Wheeler came to play, and you know what he opened a big ol'can of whoop ass too!  There was no single day and no single category that 18 Wheeler lost or even tied with Jesus Krejci, My Team Sucks!  This was perhaps the definition of an "ass whooping".  18 Wheeler has clearly grown tired of having that "win-less label" slapped on his team and figured a remedy of opening a can of whoop ass would be just what the doctor ordered!  Only this was no simple ordinary can of whoop ass!  It was the Fat Boy atomic bomb of whoop ass cans!  I imagine Monday morning just as the first puck dropped, 18 Wheeler reached for his can a'la whoop ass and....

18 Wheeler's Atomic Can a'la Whoop Ass!

Jesus Krejci, My Team Sucks! clearly got vaporized once the whoop ass hit him because he didn't make a single move all week!  Now 18 Wheeler is in a 2 way tie for last place in the East, and a 4 way tie for last place in the league... and right now he's looking for that other can of whoop ass... I think it's labeled "Little Boy" (know your atomic bomb history!).  With Team Pastorella in 18 Wheeler's sights this week it's looking like he'll need to open that can up!


After losing 2 games in a row the whole league had to question if the reign of the feared, St. Pappys, may have come to a close this season.  Legen...Wait For It...Dary pitted herself against the legendary team last week to see if this rumor was true.  For the first 4 days St. Pappys extended his lead over Legen...Wait For It...Dary by bits and pieces.  On the 5th day Legen...Wait For It...Dary took some of that ground back and the two went neck and neck every night until the 7th day.  St. Pappys had a small 5.3 point lead but Legen...Wait For It...Dary had almost a full roster ready!  As St. Pappys got two wins from his goalies it looked like an impossibly steep climb for Legen...Wait For It...Dary, but in came Braden Holtby and Patrick Sharp to save the day!  Holtby put up 13.2 point night making 46 of 47 saves while Sharp netted 2 goals and capped off the night with an assist worth 9.4 points.  Legen...Wait For It...Dary would go on that night to barely pull ahead of St. Pappys by the slim margin of 3.4 points.  Leaving St. Pappys in sheer disbelief while he froze up unable to produce words or even sounds to express this loss!

St. Pappys stunned by 3rd straight loss

It's difficult to express defeat after being so dominant in the past seasons.  Just ask the any Russian who recalls the date of February 22nd, 1980.  Sometimes words just don't come to mind quick enough when in that stunned state.  Thankfully in today's world we can express ourselves through other means.  That defeated feeling I'm referring to is a lot like a belly-flop times... 1,000!  You soar so high that falling to the ground seems like an impossible event.  Being in that heat of the moment daze from your seemingly endless wins puts your mind at ease so that you don't notice the ground getting closer at an alarming rate.

St. Pappys fall from his legendary role

Ahhh. who would have though that the winds, fueled by your wins, would turn against you and drive you face first into the ground monster belly-flop style!  I imagine St. Pappys realized what was about to happen in the final hours of Sunday as he saw Legen...Wait For It...Dary's score just barely eclipse his own... and that's when he knew.... this is about to hurt....

St. Pappys realizing how far he's fallen

Legen...Wait For It...Dary was actually speechless too after her last minute victory over St. Pappys, but she knew how to celebrate still!

Legen...Wait For It...Dary fist pumps after her victory

Now that one legendary dynasty is in the midst of falling another is rising into it's place.  Legion of Doom is quickly becoming a hated force from the East.  He stretched his undefeated streak to 7 after bring down the hammer on Don't Toews Me Bro, who was 2nd in the league at the time. 

Legion of Doom bringing down the Hammer!

Once again Legion of Doom exhibited sheer domination beating Don't Toews Me Bro by 55 points and taking home the Victory Dance awarded weekly award for scoring the most total points in the week.  As a matter in fact his goalies ALONE scored as many points as 33% of last week's teams.  Legion of Doom has been simply rolling over the league.  He hasn't played 4 teams in the league yet, but it's looking like he may go undefeated in his first match against each team.  He now has to defend his undefeated title against the arguably easier team, Fresh Prince of Briere.

Who do you think will eventually bring down the tyrant rule of Legion of Doom?

Thank you for another great week GM's!

LM (2)

Week 6 Summary

We've had some major developments during week 6!  First off the results of the poll are in and the majority of you wanted us to increase skater stats.  We've added in 3 new categories to do so.  We all get points for shots on goal, hits, and blocked shots.  Each of these new categories is worth 0.1 points per occurrence.  It turns out that adding in these categories has changed past game totals, but as far as I can tell no one's win / loss record has changed.  If you notice a change in your win / loss and we will do our best to remedy this.

Now on to the summary.  Legion of Doom keeps his undefeated title for one more week after beating St. Pappys senseless with the season's highest score yet of 168.4.  Legen...Wait For It...Dary continues her win streak to 4 in a row after narrowly beating Team Burd.  Moulson ICE pulls a win against Team Pastorella finally breaking his losing streak.  Jesus Krejci, My Team Sucks! gets a big win against Keep Calm And Bergeron proving that he can play with the best of the league!  18 Wheeler finally starts to claw his way out of a win-less start to the season by beating Fresh Prince of Briere.  Don't Toews Me Bro took down Mötley Krüg extending his win streak to 4 and keeping his numer 1 title in the West.

This week we have an epic match between our first place, the undefeated Legion of Doom, and second place in the league Don't Toews Me Bro!  This could be the end of the undefeated streak!

Fresh Prince of Briere not looking so "Fresh" after that loss!

I have to start this week's highlights off with the shocking win from 18 Wheeler!  For those of you that don't check the standings, this is his first win of the season!  He's got a monster of a hole to climb out of still, but he just took the first step, and that step landed right on Fresh Prince of Briere's face...HARD!  As with most people that find themselves matched against 18 Wheeler Fresh Prince of Briere must have though this will be an easy win.... practically a bye week, and things started off just like that!  Day 1 Fresh Prince of Briere took a nice lead and put the team on cruise control for the remainder of the week.  18 Wheeler took a clear advantage of this oversight.  He went on to outscore Fresh Prince of Briere every night after day 1!  Some might call this luck, but I know 18 Wheeler and he's one hell of a poker player.  If he knows one thing it's how to lore you in to an un-win-able situation.  No reason to show everyone that you have a winning hand by betting large in the first round... that's no way to play the game!  And Fresh Prince of Briere took the bait.  Next thing Fresh (maybe "Fresh" isn't the right descriptive for you any more) Prince of Briere logged in on Monday morning expecting his record to improve, but instead found a large "L".  I suggest Fresh Prince of Briere change his name to Saad Prince of Hiller after this one!

18 Wheeler had him just where he wanted.

Mötley Krüg's gonna hate

If you ever wanted to see what last minute heroics look like just visit Don't Toews Me Bro!  Heading into Sunday night of last week Don't Toews Me Bro was desperately trying to just keep up with Mötley Krüg.  The score was 77.5 for Mötley Krüg and 60.4 for Don't Toews Me Bro.  It was do or die time and looking at a 17 point spread this seemed hopeless, but all Don't Toews Me Bro could do is fill up the roster slots and pray for the best.  Turns out that praying for a little miracle worked! Mötley Krüg, for the first time the entire week, forgot to put in two starting goalies and two players on Sunday, and with those points sitting on the bench she could have won!  Don't Toews Me Bro lit up the night with 31.1 points winning by a perfect 10 points over Mötley Krüg (who had 12.3 points sitting on her bench).  There's little doubt that Mötley Krüg must hate Don't Toews Me Bro and herself for this slip up!







Finally, we have to highlight St. Pappys 2nd straight loss and Legion of Doom's 6th straight win!  The undefeated Legion of Doom looked to be struggling in the previous week against Mötley Krüg, but when facing St. Pappys he just threw his foot on the gas and never looked back.  There was no single category that St Pappys was able to beat Legion of Doom in.  This wasn't to say that the match-up one sided at all.  Both teams put up the top and second most points for the week, and what looked like a blowout for Legion of Doom was actually small victories day in and day out during the week all stacked up for a league leading 168.4 points in one single week.  The big question is how long can Legion of Doom keep his undefeated streak, and how long will St. Pappys stay in his slump.  Both will come to an end eventually, but the anger that St. Pappys must have felt to put up a monster score only to still be beaten must be indescribable.... but that's why we have pictures!

St. Pappys putting up a monster score of 123 and still losing.

For anyone that hasn't heard Team Pastorella lost Stamkos due to his broken tibia (your shin bone... cringe....) which was suffered last night (11/11) against the Bruins.  Stamkos is out indefinitely which leaves Team Pastorella without the leagues highest goal scorer.  It's safe to say he has a big void and will surely be looking to fill it soon... commence the trade offers! For anyone that wishes to see the injury visit this link (it's not particularly gruesome, but I don't recommend viewing it if you have a weak stomach.) Stamkos injury GIF

Team Pastorella reaction to Stamkos injury

GM's we wrap up week 6 with 1 astonishing record broken... the win-less 18 Wheeler joins us in week 7 a new man.  Now who will take the only astonishing record left, the undefeated Legion of Doom is due for a loss... but who will deliver it?

LM (2)

Week 5 Summary

After our week 5 matches we now have a number 1 team in the West!  Don't Toews Me Bro wiped the floor with St. Pappys in the 2nd half of the week to take that honor.  Legion of Doom barely made it out with his undefeated streak in tact against Mötley Krüg.  Legen...Wait For It...Dary gets her 3rd straight win against the eternally struggling 18 Wheeler who is still win less this season.  Keep Calm And Bergeron slammed Moulson ICE by 63.7 points!  Fresh Prince of Briere smacked around the still injured Team Burd for a win.  Team Pastorella comes out of week 5 with one more win after barely beating Jesus Krejci, My Team Sucks!

This week Legion of Doom will defend his undefeated streak against  his dad, St. Pappys, who is looking to bounce back from last week's loss.  Don't Toews Me Bro will take on the 2nd place Mötley Krüg from the East to try and stay a game ahead of St. Pappys.

Sometimes you just land on your feet, right Legion of Doom?

We had some amazing close calls and failed last minute heroics from last week!  I will kick off the highlights with our undefeated Legion of Doom making a BIG comeback to take down Mötley Krüg.  3 days into this match and Legion of Doom found himself literally up shit's creek without a paddle.  He lost all three days and was looking at a monstrous deficit of 33 points, but just as he started to freak out there was a glimmer of hope!

  It took him only till Friday to erase that deficit and then hold on for dear life till the end of the week!  Legion of Doom made some key line additions along the tail end of the week to help pull another win.  All in all it was his play-makers that pulled him ahead.  His 25 assists were more than enough to wipe out the fact that he nearly lost in every other category for the week .  Sometimes it doesn't matter that you started out in the worst possible way you just have to make sure you stick the landing!

Moulson ICE never saw Keep Calm's point wave coming

 Now lets talk about Moulson ICE.  He's been swimming around the bottom of the barrel all season.  He's only grabbed 1 win and that was against the win less team of 18 Wheeler.  Now lets look at Keep Calm And Bergeron.  He has a solid team and only lost to the undefeated Legion of Doom and the 2nd place Mötley Krüg, who he is now tied with.  Anyone would predict that this match up between the bottom feeder and one of the elites wouldn't go so well for Moulson ICE, and it sure didn't!  Keep Calm and Bergeron threw heat at Moulson ICE every day last week amassing triple digit point totals.  Moulson ICE spent over 70% of last week not even able to get one day with a double digit score!  I've been saving this picture for a specific moment and boy this Moulson ICE's performance just is perfect for it!  For getting utterly dominated last week here's yours summary picture Moulson...




That first few days Moulson may have thought he could come back and put up a good fight... but good Lord he had no clue what kind of beast Keep Calm and Bergeron was!  You got wiped out there buddy!  It may be time to move that chair back a little further inland and reassess that team of your!

18 Wheeler.... every week

 Following in this wake of failure we must mention the league punching bag, 18 Wheeler.  He looked as if he may pull out a win against the hot streak Legen...Wait For It...Dary as they traded the lead up until Friday night.  That night Legen...Wait For It...Dary outscored 18 Wheeler by 30 points effectively erasing his hopes of any win last week.  If anyone takes a look at his team it becomes immediately obvious what the problem is.  The Philadelphia Flyers.  18 Wheeler owns 5 of them, and they are struggling in the start of this season.  His +/- is -28 and -20 of those come from the 5 Flyers he has.  It may be time to start cutting a couple of those clowns if you want to get on the scoreboard around here!  Fortunately I was able to capture 18 Wheeler's frustration before we dropped this hint for him!

 Finally to wrap up this summary I want to followup on me remarks from last week about the match between St. Pappys (Ronald Regan) and Don't Toews Me Bro (Berlin Wall) for the lead in the West!  I really hope everyone knows enough history to get these two references.... St. Pappys was actually successful in "tearing down that wall".  Don't Toews Me Bro was outscored in goaltending by 15 points!  Winning this battle should be easy seeing as Don't Toews Me Bro has built all of his wins off of his goalies.  So what the hell went wrong?

St Pappys bring down the wall... but still loses!

The biggest problem for St. Pappys was that behind the wall he just tore down was a shit ton of offense.  Regan had an entire army backing him up... St. Pappys only had a team that failed to show up all week.  Don't Toews Me Bro won EVERY skater category but 1... penalty minutes... It turns out that Don't Toews Me Bro doesn't need a wall at all!

Now to be clear... St. Pappys team did show up for the first two nights.  St. Pappys grabbed onto his 20 point lead like a kid getting a gift from Santa Clause himself and just ran with it!  Problem was that the Grinch (Don't Toews Me Bro) parked his cart filled with heavy luggage in aisle 8, and that fake mall Santa gift was just a ruse for St. Pappys!

St. Pappys... Meet Don't Toews Me Bro

 So Christmas isn't coming early for you St. Pappys... no big deal, you'll grind it out for this win... well that wasn't entirely true either!  As the tides turned against you in the middle of the week you tried to resort to drastic measures... fill up your team and watch them overwhelm your opponent!  It's full proof... unless they don't show up!  St. Pappys rolled out a full roster on Saturday as a last ditch effort to come out guns blazing and steal this victory, and all that high powered offense mustered up a grand total of.... 0.1 points!  You read that correctly... a full roster of skaters adding up to zero point one points!  Now in my head I pictured Saturday night to look something like this....

St. Pappys is in the bar with Don't Toews Me Bro watching the games... hell it's all just a friendly fantasy league right?

St. Pappys on the left and Don't Toews Me Bro on the right

Losing is never easy... especially in the high stakes battle for the lead in the West, but St. Pappys.. you didn't come out on top for this one.  Now St, Pappys will face the undefeated team of the East in attempts to recreate his glory days from past seasons!


With week 5 behind us I ask all of you to please vote in our new pole.  The results of this will effect our scoring going forward.  The poll is at this link (http://games.espn.go.com/fhl/leagueoffice?leagueId=5415&seasonId=2014) on the right side of the page.  The poll explains everything, but essentially we are looking to even out the field between skaters and goalies.  Currently goalies are weighed rather heavy in our points categories which makes it difficult to trade for one.  Both LM's (myself included) talked about this and have left it up to you all as GM's to vote on the actions going forward.  This poll will close on November 10th at midnight and the results of it will be carried forth to the following week.  If you have any questions or concerns about this please let us know!

Thanks for another amazing week GM's!

LM (2)