Week 4 Summary

We close week 4 with 1 undefeated team remaining and a tight race in the West for the lead.  Legion of Doom took down 18 Wheeler hard to keep his undefeated streak alive for another week.  Mötley Krüg showed who wears the pants in the relationship by taking down her fiance, Keep Calm And Bergeron with a health margin! Legen...Wait For It...Dary hits her stride defeating Moulson ICE to get her first winning streak of the season.  St. Pappys comes roaring back from his loss last week, and in a blood-lust rage he brutally beat Fresh Prince of Briere by 59 points!

St. Pappys Is Blind With Rage Again!

Don't Toews Me Bro stayed tied with St. Pappys for the lead in the West by taking the hammer to our hero from last week, Jesus Krejci, My Team Sucks! beating him by a season high margin of 71.6 points.... yeah, reality sets in hard sometimes (right Jesus Krejci, My Team Sucks!?).  Finally Team Pastorella takes advantage of the injury plagued Team burd for an easy win.

St. Pappys vs, Don't Toews Me Bro

This week we have a highlight match-up between St. Pappys and Don't Toews Me Bro.  They are currently tied for 1st in the West and as you all should know....(see image for throw back goodness)

Now for the highlights from the week:

First up we have last week's hero, Jesus Krejci, My Team Sucks! suffering a devastating loss to   Don't Toews Me Bro, who is competing for the 1st place spot in the West this week against St. Pappys.  Before I get into this giant loss for Jesus Krejci My Team Sucks! I just want to point out that we have not gone even 1 week without mentioning Jesus Krejci My Team Sucks!.  Even though his team may in fact "suck" he's got the leagues attention every week....

Jesus Krejci My Team Sucks! reaction to being in all of our weekly write ups!

 However, he's been in the headlines as, mostly, a laughing point at how much his team DOES in fact... "suck".

Jesus Krejci's realizing he's in the write up because he lost

There are many reason Jesus Krejci finds himself at the bottom of our league, but when looking at his team it almost comes as a shocker that he's not at least half decent, but don't get too sad Jesus Krejci.  Your loss was to a really good team, and in fact that team is tied for the lead in the West.  He's had a rather relaxed schedule and only suffered one loss in a tight match against the wildcard Fresh Prince of Briere.  His team has been lead by his amazing goalie picks of Niemi and Varlamov who both kicked off the year undefeated for a while!  He's also 2nd in the league for total points, behind the undefeated Legion of Doom, and that's with only 2 moves all season.  Don't Toews Me Bro has been looking like a drafting genius this season!  Now he's looking to take on the legendary St. Pappys.  Everyone dreads the week they face the strength of St. Pappys entire roster, but Don't Toews Me Bro has a trick up his sleeve... a brick wall of goaltending!  So as St. Pappys does his best impersonation of Ronald Regan's famous... "Tear this wall down" speech will you all be hoping it stands up to might Regan, or will you be hoping for something more along the lines of this...

St. Pappys is Regan and the wall is Don't Toews Me Bro

Our final highlight goes to the couples match between Mötley Krüg and Keep Calm And Bergeron.  Both are coming off of losses to the other league couple, Legion of Doom and Legen... Wait For It... Dary, and are looking o assign some blame!  Before the match they did what any couple would do in a competitive situation... exchange insults!

Mötley Krüg's insult to Keep Calm And Bergeron

Keep Calm And Bergeron comeback

Ahh, the finer points of being in a relationship!  Battling for pure bragging rights are some of the unforgettable moments couples have in life.  However, if you plan on exchanging insults maybe be sure that you can back them up... Mötley Krüg knew she could, Keep Calm and Bergeron, not so much. Mötley Krüg took the lead on day 2 by a healthy margin and just never let Keep Calm And Bergeron claw his way back.  We can only imagine what threats Mötley Krüg called upon Keep Calm, but all we know is that they were than enough to hold him at bay to give her the win!

Keep Calm And Bergeron realizing Mötley Krüg's wrath

  Mötley Krüg now sits at 2nd place in the East and is looking to drop the undefeated Legion of Doom down a peg in Week 5!

This is a major week for us GM's!  We will either have a definitive leader in the East or another tie for 1st.  We'll also finally see a clear leader arise from the West as 1st and 2nd place teams face off in each division!  Who are you voting for?

LM (2)

Week 3 Summary

Another great week for the books GM's!  Sorry for this late and shortened post, but I'm closing our books for Q3 at work.  We now only have one undefeated team, Legion of Doom, whom I think has a giant target on his back now.  He flew by Keep Calm and Bergeron to keep his undefeated streak alive for at least one more week.  Moulson ICE threw another loss towards 18 Wheeler to continue his perfect losing streak!  Legen...Wait For It...Dary snaps her win less streak to deal Mötley Krüg her first loss of the season.  Jesus Krejci, My Team Sucks! takes down the dynasty that is St. Pappys in a heated battle for the ages!  Team Pastorella gets an easy win in the father-son match-up against Fresh Prince of Briere.  Don't Toews Me Bro throws some heat late in the match-up against Team burd for his first win of the season.

Now for some highlights!

First, the headline of the week goes to Jesus Krejci, My Team Sucks! for bringing down the titan, the defending champion, the terror from the West, the league's arch nemesis, the dynasty known as St. Pappys!  Thankfully we captured the leagues reaction to this momentous occasion...

League Reaction to St. Pappys First Defeat

Even St. Pappys was applauding Jesus Krejci, My Team Sucks! for his groundbreaking win in this nail biter of a match....

St. Pappys Reaction To His Loss

What great sportsmanship from the defending champion!  We were also able to catch his reaction on Friday night after seeing his 6 players incapable of making up the deficit Jesus Krejci put between them...

St. Pappy's Friday Night Reaction

Now it occurs to me that we have some new comers to our league that may need some explanations to fully capture what this moment meant for all of us.  Since starting a fantasy hockey league 5 seasons ago St. Pappys has won our championship 3 out of 5 times, and the other 2 he lost in the finals for a major upset.  He's notorious for leading the West in just about ever category!  We have even changed league rules multiple times between seasons to try and level the playing field for us all, but day in and day out St. Pappys steam rolls through our league and snatches Lord Stanley from all of our grips.  He's just that damn good, but every now and then he's brought back down to earth by an unlikely hero, and this times our hero's name is.... Jesus Krejci, My Team Sucks But Yours Is S-Oshie-t!  Our hero came Streit Outta Compton! Stepan up to his Edler that is, St. Pappys, to hit him with his Kane right in the Kunitz, and erick-SSON of a B-wiercIo-T-CH it worked!  Jesus Krejci.... it worked!  (it's a lot harder than you think to try and come up with a positive way to use team member's names for this!!!!).  Anyhow, Jesus Krejci must have mentioned the right guy in his team name because he won this match with last minute heroics rallying since Tuesday for this tight victory that sent St. Pappys Chiasson his tail picking up scrubs to make up the deficit on Friday!  (hint there... Chiasson was a -5 TOTAL for St. Pappys this week).  Be prepared Jesus Krejci.... St. Pappys now has an enemy in you!

St. Pappys Looking at Their Re-match (Week of Dec. 30th)

Now our second highlight ropes in two match-ups.  First, a win by the undefeated Legion of Doom against Keep Calm and Bergeron.  Second, a win for Legen...Wait For It... Dary against Mötley Krüg!  I'll need to explain here... My team is Legion of Doom and Legen... Wait For It... Dary is my wife.  Keep Calm and Bergeron is one of my best friends, and former high school roommate, and Mötley Krüg is his soon to be wife!  So this week we had a two way match-up to rule the couples world of our league! 

Legion of Doom and Legen... Wait For It... Dary both took the lead on day 1 and simply never looked back!

(Don't worry Edina... I'm the Dog in this picture! haha)

In an awesome week of domination Legion of Doom and Legen... Wait For It... Dary snapped both Keep Calm and Bergeron and Mötley Krüg undefeated streaks!  Finally in Legion....Wat For It... Dary fashion, the mightiest of high-fives sealed the victories in the couples bout!

Legion of Doom and Legen... Wait For It... Dary Mightiest High-Five

Look for the couples rematch the week of Dec. 30th (apparently that week will be filled with EPIC rematches!)

Amazing week GM's!

LM (2)

Week 2 Summary

St. Pappys had this amazing pick

After Hertl went between he legs Vanek did from St. Pappys team as well!

How about those hatricks last week?  Sadly there's likely only one of us here who really knows the feeling of getting a hatrick, and that's St. Pappys, who collected his 2nd win!  This guy has 3 hatricks and that's just in 2 weeks of play!  He's certainly living up to his "St." (saint) name because he's made.  some dynamite picks to rack up those stats this early on.  Now comes the scary part.... that's not even where he's blowing away the competition!  He had a mind numbing 23 assists last week as well!  Add in his 14 goals and the fact that he played a total of 36 games last week and he's averaging a little over a point per player per game!  So far his only vulnerability comes in the form of his goalies, and they are the reason his match-up with Team Pastorella was even remotely close.  Team Pastorella had a hot streak with his goalies and it kept him alive all week.  Then Stamkos scored him a hatrick to keep St. Pappys on his heels, but it just wasn't enough to overcome the force that is... St. Pappys!


Fresh Prince of Briere moves to 2-0 proving that you can knock out opponents without dropping and picking up players.  To be fair both teams never dropped or picked up anyone, but they went blow for blow all week long until the final two days when Fresh Prince of Briere had a big comeback scoring 16+ points over Don't Toews Me Bro.

Streit's reaction Saturday morning after seeing the score.

Team Burd took clear advantage of Stepan Into Last Place... wait that's not right... Oshie-t I'm in Last Place... wait... still not it... My Record Smells Like Turr-d-is.... damn still wrong...... ahh here it is... Streit Outta Compton!  For anyone that doesn't get those jokes.... he has Derek Stepan, T.J. Oshie, Kyle Turris, and Mark Streit all on his team.  I can already tell that Streit Outta Compton! will be one of my favorite teams in these write-ups this season!  Anyhow Team Burd patiently dangled a carrot called hope in front of Streit's face all week, and why not... everyone

Streit's likely words to Dubnyk... or me... or Team Burd

needs that glimmer of hope to get through the work week... but come Friday night Team Burd took that

Streit after drafting Dubnyk

carrot of hope away and replaced it with Turr-d-is.  He blew Streit out of the water by 33+ points with ease in one night!  Again, Streit Outta Compton was left with nothing but questions... why?....how?... what the F*CK?  Well Streit.... I have the answer to all these questions for you.... Why -- because you drafted Devan Dubnyk!  How -- his stunningly aw-inspiring stats of .829 SV% and 5.43 GAA!  What the F*CK -- well I can't say I didn't tell you so... you should have read my draft recap!  But then again, in every league there has to be that one person that loses... but don't worry we're all routing for you, just not to win...



Mötley Krüg was miraculusly lifted past 18 Wheeler on the final day of their match-up largely in part to a goal and assist from Shane Doan that night, but the true magic happened on Friday night when she made a huge comeback to erase a big deficit!  This kept her in the running for the lead in the East while ensuring 18 Wheeler continues to struggle at the bottom of the barrel.


Keep Calm And Bergeron flips the tables on Legen...Wait For It...Dary on Friday night and erased what small lead Legen had over him.  He continuously put distance between them every night after that despite playing 7 less games than her.  With this win he keeps his name in the running for the lead of the East and looks to break the three-way tie by at lest 1 next week against Legion of Doom.


Legion of Doom won a tight match against Moulson ICE on Saturday night.  Up until then they traded the lead a few times until Legion's offense kicked in 41+ points on Saturday night, lead by some great goal-tending! However, Legion of Doom had to play 16 more games than Moulson to achieve this.  

Good luck racing towards the top of your divisions GM's!

LM (2)