Week 9 Summary

Before we begin I just want to apologize for this late post.
From the looks of it about half of the league took Thanksgiving off because we had almost nothing but landslide victories!  Legion of Doom bounced back from his first loss and took out Jesus Krejci, My Team Sucks! by 12.8 points and scored the most points in the week!  It looks like the tyrant didn't take losing lightly.  St. Pappys is officially back on the winning track with a 35.1 point victory over Keep Calm and Bergeron who is now on a 4 game losing streak.  Team Burd continues to bounce back from his early season injuries by beating 18 Wheeler by 53.7.  Mötley Krüg prevented Team Pastorella from taking the lead in the West by delivering a 23.7 point loss to him.  Moulson ICE also prevented Don't Toews Me Bro from taking the lead in the west by defeating him by 34.4 points.  Finally the only person who had to work hard for a victory last week, Legen...Wait For It...Dary struggled mightily with Fresh Prince of Briere, but came out on top by just 6.7 points.  This gives Legen...Wait For It...Dary a winning streak of 7 games which now ties her with Legion of Doom for the longest winning streak this season.

This week our highlight games come from Legen...Wait For It...Dary who will almost undoubtedly surpass Legion of Doom for the longest winning streak by defeating Jesus Krejci, My Team Sucks (who hasn't made a move on his team for some weeks now).  There are three other matches we'll keep our eyes on and they come from the three way tie for the lead in the west between Don't Toews Me Bro, St. Pappys, and Team Pastorella.  Each of them will be facing formidable opponents and we may see a definitive leader in the West emerge before 2014!


The league just might have a new ruler!

Legen...Wait For It...Dary's response to that line

Sure Legion of Doom currently sits atop the standings, but he's had Legen...Wait For It...Dary nipping at his heels ever since week 3.  She suffered losses the first two weeks of the season, but she's been on a red hot winning streak!  She's actually tied with Legion of Doom for the lonest winning streak this season (7 games), and this week she faces off against a team that hasn't made a roster move for weeks.  So it looks like she will easily turn in a big W to turn that streak into 8 leaving Legion of Doom in the dust.  If that doesn't convince you enough then she also just took out the same team that delivered Legion of Doom's undefeated streak as well!  It's sure starting to sound like she may overthrow the tyrant and run away as the Queen Boss of the league.

Legen...Wait For It...Dary being soo modest with her new "Queen of the league" title

Lets take a dive into her latest victory over Fresh Prince of Briere, who once again just ran out of Febreze to freshen up the end of the week, but that's no surprise because what's a simple Prince to a Queen of the league?  In the beginning of the week it looked like Fresh Prince of Briere was ready to dominate as he took a commanding 22.6 point lead going into Friday night.  But like I said, that Febreze bottle keeping him fresh ran out.  The queen, Legen...Wait For It...Dary, started to show up on the scoreboard Friday night and took the lead from Fresh Prince of Briere by Saturday night.  You have to learn at some point, the Queen is never late, the peasants just arrive early! With just 2 winning nights during the entire week Legen...Wait For It...Dary overtook Fresh Prince of Briere by a slim margin, but none the less it earned her a spot in the legendary column for she's going to have one unbeatable winning streak after this week's easy win! 

Legen...Wait For It...Dary's catch phrase after she beats Fresh Prince of Briere

Next up on our highlights is the former legend, St. Pappys return from the dead!  After falling in the standings from his losing streak he's now sitting pretty in a three way tie for first in the West, and I'm betting he might just take that lead position by the end of this week.  He's tied with Team Pastorella, who is in an unfavorable match against the Tyrant Legion of Doom, and Don't Toews Me Bro, who is suffering from some injuries on his team.  Meanwhile St. Pappys has a healthy team, and is facing off against 18 Wheeler who despite showing some glimmers of super-stardom is still struggling to keep up with the real monsters in the league.  It's starting to look like his falling in the standings wasn't as violent as previously indicated.

St. Pappys hits his low point ever so gently to only land on his feet

St. Pappys grabbed a hold of this win over Keep Calm and Bergeron one small nightly victory after another.  He led by small margins in many of the skating categories over Keep Calm and Bergeron, but absolutely blew it out when it came to his goalies.  He had 8 starts and 4 wins, but don't let that 500 record fool you... out of those 8 starts his goalies combined for just 11 goals against and very pretty .946 save percentage.  That only included 1 shutout which leads me to believe that there's nothing artificially bumping up those stats.  Now match that to Keep Calm and Bergeron's 6 starts with only 1 win and a save percentage of .906 which includes a shutout win.  It's clear how St. Pappys rolled over Keep Calm and Bergeron. Sometimes the old saying is true, the best offense is a good defense, so stand tall and let those brickwalls do their thing!

St. Pappy's passive defense takes out Keep Calm and Bergeron

Our final highlight isn't exactly a "highlight" but more of a reminder to all GM's.  It's simple, if you don't watch your roster and at least put your guys in for the week then you'll lose.  So to emphasize my point I want to bring up our old punching bag.... cough..um.... I mean.... friend Jesus Krejci, My Team Sucks!  He has failed to make any moves for the past few weeks and is currently truly living up to his team's name because of that.  If you take a look at his team you'll see some great talent, and hell some awesome averages for points too!  Sure it could use some sprucing up, but he should have a better record than 2 - 7.  This is the once highly praised hero who started St. Pappy's fall!  Now take his lack of roster moves and put a hungry tyrant at the other end,  Legion of Doom, and you've got yourself one brutal beating coming along.  That showed to be more than true as Legion of Doom took a 39.1 point lead at the end of DAY ONE!  It was so embarrassing for Jesus Krejci, My Team Sucks! that Jesus didn't even want his name on that team!

Jesus abandons Jesus Krejci, My Team Sucks!

It's alright though Jesus Krejci, My Team Sucks! we all forget to put some people in from time to time. Just know where your team is heading if you don't start making those moves!

Jesus Krejci, My Team Sucks! current path

Well GM's it was a blowout turkey week we had!  For those of you that found yourselves on the right side of score, congratulations!  For those that found themselves on the bad side of it... grab your plastic plate and go sit at the kids table this year!

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