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)