Best-Worst Team Tournament

-Who can suck the least?

-Out of all the non-playoff teams, which is the best? Which should have made it? Which has the brightest future?

-This is not just some conciliation game, the Best-Worst team playoffs mean something.

-2 seasons ago the Barclay Hill Mollies won the Best-Worst team crown, now look at where they are.

-Ask Sam and he’ll tell you that the Mollies would never be where they are today had it not been for winning the Best-Worst team crown from season 1. It was HUGE for the Mollies confidence.

-Last year Capretto’s Finally Adopted won the best-worst team crown and are looking to take it again this year.

-Reed Dynasty in the best-worst playoffs?? They finished the #1 seed in season 1, and the #2 seed in season 2, but now…they’re the 8th seed? That really says a lot about the bump in overall competitive teams that we’ve gained this year. Oh yeah, Dan is the king of injuries too…

-Usually the Best-Worst playoffs are full of teams that quit on us, but we only have 1 of them this year, yay.

-I think all teams except for Cobra have a shot at the crown.

-Reed’s team is dormant but dangerous, if they wake up then they’ll be tough to beat.

-Finally Adopted is a solid team but they have been falling in the standings for over a month now, so I’m not sure if they can do much in this tourney other than escape the first round with their bye week.

-Winging it III has a solid team, but their injuries are many, and their depth can’t make up for it. I think they’ll be an early exit.

-LP was hot last week and I think they will continue their strong play as they romp over a deserted Cobra team. They might be able to take out Reed for a trip to the finals and I think they’ll get 3rd place at worst.

-Hoquet Icedogs have been peaking believe it or not and I actually like them to make the finals and take 2nd place. They should push past Winging it and if they keep peaking I think they can take out the Fin’s.

-That leaves me with the Reed Dynasty. Everything that could go wrong with this team has gone wrong. Here’s where I think they’ll turn around their season.

-I like Reed to squeak by LP then mash through a Hoquet team that gets cold after peaking out during the 2 week final.

-But hey, anything can happen:

It’s up for grabs!

Playoff Bracket

Here are the final standings:

Here is what the playoff bracket should look like:

(Open in a new window to see it better)

Lockdown is imminent:

RECAP Week 23: Puzzle pieces fall into place

-6 teams make the playoffs and 6 other teams form the consolation bracket.

-In the first round #3 plays #6 and #4 plays #5.

-This week’s MOTW was #3 Mario’s Militia vs. #6 Dump and Chasers.
It’s literally a playoff preview.

-It’s almost time to nail down all those playoff seeds.

-But first, there’s a matchup to recap. Both teams sport black helmets, will we find out which one sports it better?

(“Quit stalling and start the recap” - Frank Costanza)

Mario’ Militia = RED vs. Dump and Chasers = Yellow

MONDAY:

-2 points out of Corey Perry for D+C, too bad he tears up his knee a few days later, what?

(It’s all in the foresight…)

-Andrei Markov racks up 14 pims on the night for double M.

TUESDAY:

-Mathieu Garon with a tough start in net. I would normally care less but I predicted that Mario would win goalie #’s and that’s in jeopardy:

(Mario’s goalie #’s are in Jeopardy too)

-Parise scores twice, that’s 30 on the year for him, solid year for D+C.
-Kipper gets a HUGE shutout for ‘the Dump’:

(There’s the Dump, but where are the Chasers?)

WEDNESDAY:

-Erik “I hate Brooks Orpik” Cole grabs 2 points for the Dump.

-‘Mario’s Militia Strikes Back’ with 2 huge goalie performances on the night; one from Hasek and one from Ill-ya Bryzgalov.

THURSDAY:

-Jussi Jokinen is fitting in well w/Tampa; the Militant grabs 2 points for Mario.

-HUGE night at the Dump for the Chasers. Sami Salo grabs 3 assists, Cole gets a gwigle and 19 pims and Nik Antropov scores 2 goals.

-Dump and Chasers are pulling away in this one…

FRIDAY:

-Not much on the day for D+C, although Marleau did grab a gwig-er.

-Garon has a killer 4 star start for Mario, but his skaters are too busy not scoring and watching Blade Runner:

(Can you blame them?)

SATURDAY:

-Kopitar and Stasny refuse to quit on the Militia; 2 points for both on the night.

-Fisher and Parise score 2 goals a piece, Fisher knocks in a shortie:

(Never heard their stuff but they look like they would suck…)

(Pag on Guitar and Pogus on Vocals? LOL...awful)

SUNDAY:

-Shane O’Brien gets another 12 pims for the Dump, huge.

-Malkin. 3 point effort. Ho-hum.
-Mario bum-rushes the offensive cats that D+C still held as they put up 11 points on the day. Even though they lost the week, their big Sunday performance gave them a few more standings points.

-Final score of the last MOTW of the reg. season: 11-4-3, the Dump takes a collective dump on the Militia:

(Dump from the Chasers)

-I predicted a Mario’s Militia win by the score of 9-6-3, not the first time I’ve been way off:

(Cletus ‘the mouth breathing appalachian’ should do the predictions, he can’t do any worse than what I throw out there sometimes, lol)

-I said that I liked Mario to take the offensive cats, and they did.

-I said that I liked D+C to take the specialty cats, and they did.

-Where I was terribly wrong was the goaltending #’s. Mario didn’t take any and I thought he would take them all…ouch.


-Reasons why Marko’s Dump and Chasers won:

-Zach Parise was a mad man: 5 effing goals, a +4 rating and 5 pims.
-Erik Cole was no slouch either: 3 points, 2 goals, 2 gwig-inator’s and 19 pims. 19!
-Jose Theodore was a beast all week, even got a shutout, can’t beat that.
-Kipper was just about as good as Theodore.
-Dump and chasers are usually 3rd or 4th liners, they do the dirty work. This D+C squad did all the dirty work this week as they dominated the specialty cats and the goaltending held them up when the offense wasn’t quite good enough.


-Reasons why Mario’s Militia lost:

-It sure wasn’t the offense’s fault, they put up solid numbers and took most of the cats available.
-Chris Pronger had 0 points, didn’t matter much but still, if you’ve got a chance to rip on Pronger, you take it:

(He wishes his but cut was as well proportioned as Jeff Jimmerson’s)

-Mathieu Garon had a tough week.
-Is there a Colby Armstrong curse? Militia hasn’t won since he went to Atlanta…


Any broken Records this week?:

-LP shocks the world and puts up…let me make sure I read this correctly…8 GWG’s??? That record could stand for a long…long…time, or just until next year or something.
-NEW LEAGUE RECORD = 8 GWG’s in one week by Les Pingouins
-D+C and BHM both had 5 GWG’s, both would have been new record if it was not for Zoom’s LP squad putting up 8.
-One more note on the new Gwig record, the previous record was 4, LP put up 8, they literally doubled the record…yikes.
-BC had 68 pims, close but no cigar.
-Mario and the Dump both had 66 pims and they played each other, that sucks.


-That’s all for the recap, I’m going to work on the playoff bracket, it’ll be up sometime tonight.