MOTW, Week 22: Dual Wielding

-So many good matchups to choose from for once.

-Bone vs. D+C and Molly vs. Mario, not to mention good ol’ Reed vs. Halfhill.

-Why not have more than one MOTW for a change?

-I’ll see what I can do.

MOTW 1A = #1 Bone Corporation vs. #4 Mario’s Militia

-Bone Corp was embarrassed last week by BHM, they’re looking for a little redemption.

-Bone Corp has played great for the most part in the second half, having only lost outright twice since week 10.

-Militia has been rolling with 7 wins in their last 8 games. The only loss was to the Regime, who has also been red hot of late.

-Two teams playing well and looking to get the best possible playoff seed for their respective clubs.

-Offensively these teams almost mirror eachother in everything except +/-, FW’s and PIM’s, all should go to Bone, everything else is a wash.

-Mario’s Militia has better goalie #’s when compared to Bone’s, I think MM will win wins, s%, gaa, and ga, big week for Mario’s goalies.

-This translates to my prediction of a Militia victory by the score of 9-8-1.

MOTW 1B = #3 Barclay Hill Mollies vs. #5 Dump and Chasers

-Marko’s D+C club never made it to a motw since the blog went up. Conversely, the Mollies can’t avoid the motw even if they formally requested never be in it ever again.

-Marko’s had a quiet team this year; they’ve been up and down, then way down and now hanging in a relatively safe playoff position.

-The Mollies are en fuego.

-6 straight wins and for Molly and co.

-Meanwhile D+C has lost 3 of their last 5.

-Fleury is back for BHM, will he continue the hot goalie play of the Mollies or lower their numbers?

-D+C has the greatest +/- team of all-time, that category is there’s forever.

-D+C is the only team that can hang with the Mollies faceoff wise, but I still think the Mollies will take it based on their 231 performance last week.

-Mollies own the offensive stats in this matchup.

-D+C has the slight edge in the specialties.

-Goaltending is the key, but I’m giving BHM the edge because Nabokov is insane right now.

-That should cover it…

-I predict the Mollies will win 11-5-2.

-I have no idea how the RECAP will work with 2 motw’s, but it will be a different format.


LEMIEUX’S LEAGUE NEWS:

-LP and Mario hooked up on a trade. LP sends Zherdev and a 10th to Mario fro Nylander and a 5th. Thoughts on the deal?
-The league trade deadline for the league is this Thursday, I think it lasts until about 2:30 am early on Friday.

-I’m guessing we’ll see most of the trades in the offseason, but maybe one of the top teams will take a run at someone before the deadline to go for the cup.
-The Mollies are still en fuego.
-Steve Ott takes advantage of his starts w/Regime by grabbing a shp.

-Reed vs. Halfhill VII. Reed is probably out of it, here's there chance to end the season with some dignity.
-Bert "Don't call me Brett" Maclean is once again a Regime-er.
-A few teams took runs at records last week. Hoquet got a +17, Winging IT had 70 pims, Farls and BHM had 22 goals, BHM had 22 ppp’s, and the Mollies finished with 231 faceoffs won. All of these numbers were close but not quite.
-Bone Corp, Hoquet Icedogs and Reed Dynasty each put up a record 4 gwg’s in one week.
-Halfhill Crusade set a record for goaltending wins in one week with 7, breaking his own record…
-Farls Regime somehow got this ship in good shape:

-That’s all for me

-Someone kill Ben Roethlisberger for me:

(He should have lit it on fire right in front of Umberger...)

-Any predictions/comments?