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)