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)