-That’s right, these matchups are 2 weeks long.
-3 matchups are going on that matter, one that doesn’t.
-Reed plays Finally Adopted in the great ‘Best-Worst’ team final.
-The Dump meet the Mollies in what should be an intense bronze trophy matchup.
-But there is one matchup to rule them all, and you didn’t need me to tell you that.
-The Lemieux’s League 2008 (Season 3) Cup Finals:
-Bone Corporation vs Farls Regime.
-Bone Corp was Stone Ponies last year and Stuckdizzle the year before. It was a laughing stock of a franchise until a certain Mr. Justin Kim took over in the summer of 2007.
-Since then ‘Dry Bones’ and ‘Bone Corporation’ has been terrorizing teams each week on their way to the fantasy Presidents trophy for the best record in season 3.
-This franchise is well on their way now, and what better way to celebrate that than to add some gold hardware.
-Farls Regime has made the finals again, lol. It’s hard to believe that there has been no Lemieux’s League Cup Final without the little team that could:
-I’m honestly not sure how my team got here. I thought I had a playoff team, and we squeaked in as the 6th seed, but I didn’t think we had a championship caliber team. Apparently I was wrong.
-Regime played so-so all year and thanks to a few swift moves late in the year they wound themselves peaking out late in the year and it continued just enough to get them past the Crusade and the Mollies.
-Teemu Selanne, Sam Gagner, Andrew Ladd, Andrei Kostitsyn, Sergei Kostitsyn, Bert MacLean, Erik Ersberg and Dick Tarnstrom were all late additions that had been HUGE for the Regime.
-What might be the most interested part of this matchup is the season long joke/observation that Bone Corp has a surprisingly large number of ex-Reg-ies on his team. Because I want to, we’re going through them all (or most of them):
-Rick Nash – The First player ever drafted by the Regime and also the first player the Regime ever had, Rick Nash was a disappointment for Farls. Expectations were high and he was injured early and often. Nash was traded when he was on IR but was somehow obtained later in the season on another trade right before he came off IR. Nash was a key ingredient from then on as the Regime captured the Lemieux’s Cup in season one. He has yet to wear the Regime sweater since.
-Ales Hemsky – Drafted by Regime late in season one, but dropped after a slow start ala Peter Mueller. He returned to the Regime finally last year for Tomas Vokoun and he helped Farls make it to the finals in season two. He was traded last summer in the offseason for Justin Williams. Ouch.
-Eric Staal – Drafted in the LAST ROUND by the Regime in season one, what a player he was that year. Too bad I traded him mid season to Reed for something…BUT I drafted him in round 2 in season two, and then I traded him last summer to Bone Corp for a 2nd and 7th in order to keep Jordan Staal. Double ouch. Serenity now!
-Matt Carle – Drafted late in season two by Farls, had one heluva rookie year, then he fell apart this year. Farls kept him through the summer but then traded him to Bone for Hainsey early this year. Hainsey was a big Regime-er from before and has been welcomed back with open arms. Good luck with that one, Bone.
-Brendan Morrow – Regime’s secret weapon from last year. He was a trade deadline acquisition for Marek Zidlicky last year and was incredible in the postseason as he lead Farls to the runner-up silver trophy. He was not kept by the Regime, but damnit I wish I would have kept him over Tanguay. Another ouch.
-Chris Clark – An important bench and specialty stat player for the Regime in season one’s cup run, he was drafted back to the Regime last year but was traded to Reed for Milan Hedjuk. Clark had a cup of tea with Farls this year but…meh.
-Peter Mueller – Ouch.
-Jaret Stoll, Wade Redden, Kevin Bieksa, and Sergei Federov make the honorable mention, but they were never HUGE parts of the Regime franchise.
-So that’s that, and that’s the story of these 2 franchises.
-But, who’s going to win the Cup?
-Bone Corp still got it:
-Regime is still a well-oiled Machine:
-Corporation headquarters are ready:
-Regime seems to have figured out some sort of playoff winning formula. They are now 6-1 all-time in the postseason, but they are 1-1 in the finals so whatev.
-I’m going to wimp out and save a prediction for next weeks motw post. Mostly because I need something to ramble on about for the second week of the finals but also because I can’t yet wrap my head around the fact that my team is actually in the finals again, lol.
-But really, the prediction is meaningless. Lets just watch the teams put up #’s and see what happens.
-What else is going on? How about the Bronze trophy matchup?
-No Reed Dynasty, but the Mollies are in their second straight 3rd place game.
-The Dump won’t make it easy on them though.
-Last year the Mollies were so distraught about not making the finals that they pissed away the bronze trophy, will they seize it this year?
-D+C are excited to still be playing meaningful fantasy hockey, they’ll put up a fight as they look to begin putting hardware in their trophy case.
-In other news, Reed is playing Capretto in the Best-Worst championship. Good luck you too, and good show.
-It’s been a great Best-Worst tourney, lots of competing and more than 2 teams going for the Best-Worst crown, which is a first. Hats off to you guys.
-I think I’ve mentioned everything I wanted to put out there. I’ll be back in a week to check out where week 2 will take these mathups.
-Rick Moranis:
(What an actor.)
2 comments:
Great post! Those players were definitely key parts for my success this year. I took a bit of a game on Carle but I still stick by my decision. Regardless I have too many solid defenceman to keep so I'll be moving a few more in the offseason. I totally forgot championship round was 2 weeks! This is going to be one helluva ride!!! Regardless how this ends up, I feel like I have definitely turned around this team lol.
Can't blame you with Carle at all, he seems like he's got it all, but the Sharks have been such an enigma this year. It can't be Carle's fault when guys like Marleau, Cheechoo, Bernier and others aren't/weren't putting up numbers like they were the last year or two with SJ.
Your team is in great shape now obviously but you have a great opportunity to make some deals in the offseason to bolster your draft position since you will no doubt be letting go of some keeper players simply because you have no room. Not to mention your core of keepers is both young and top-of-the-line.
Stone Ponies never looked so good, lol.
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