Season 3: In Pictures

-I threw the formatting out the window, but here goes:

Season 3 Records

-This season there was 8 single season records that were broken.

-That’s not including all the single week records that we’ve talked about on here from before.

-Keep in mind that all of these numbers were taken before the playoffs started. These are just regular season totals for regular season records.

-Here are the NEW records:

-Most Goals scored in one season – New Record = 353 by Reed Dynasty

-Most Shots on goal in one season – New Record = 2984 by Reed Dynasty

-Best +/- in one season – New Record = +163 by the Dump and Chasers

-Most Faceoffs won in one season – New Record = 3599 by the Barclay Hill Mollies

-Most GWG’s in one season = 53 by Both Reed Dynasty and Bone Corp (LP had 52)

-Most Shorthanded Points in one season – New Record = 28 by Les Pingouins

-Most Saves by goaltenders in one season – New Record = 4053 by Les Pingouins

-Most Wins by goaltenders in one season – New Record = 80 by Mario’s Militia

-And there you have it, I updated these into the record page on the website before I posted this so now those records consist of 3 years worth of #’s; it’s a solid read.

-The awards are nearing completion and they are epic, like 4 and a half word doc pages. If you have any award ideas, let me know before I post anything.

Glory for the Winners, humiliation for the Losers

-Let me jump right into it:

-The 2007-2008 Lemieux’s League Champion is Justin’s Bone Corporation!

-Congrats, and enjoy it Justin, you’ve earned it!

-Boy, did he ever earn it, that team was in 12th place last year. ..oh yeah, they also didn’t have a manager who cared/set lines.

-Bone got off to a fast start at the beginning of the year. But still no one, not even Justin, thought it would last. I was predicting their demise on a weekly basis:

-But that ship never went down, in fact it never left 1st place in the standings once it got there.

-A Fantasy President’s trophy, 200+ wins and a first round bye later and Bone found themselves in the playoff tourney.

-They blew apart the Dump in the second round, then they found out they were going to play a 6th seed in the finals, life was easy at Corp HQ.

-Regime was that 6th seed, but they didn’t put up too much of a fight…until the last 2 days.

-Showing confidence in his goalie, and maybe a little bit of greed ;p , the Bone Corp played “Lundie” Sunday afternoon, but he wasn’t good enough. Not only did he not win, but he handed Regime GA and Save % and suddenly the matchup was 10-6-2, DRAMA.

-Regime needed just 2 more ppp’s and a few more +’s to take the gold back to Regime nation, but it was not to be.

-Bone’s goaltending gamble didn’t matter, their offense and specialties had it all locked up anyways.

-Final score of the finals = 10-6-2, Bone Corp takes home the Gold trophy and a long summer’s worth of bragging rights.

(Bone’s new trophy case)

-Farls could push as many buttons and flip as many switches as he wanted, but his team ran out of gas weeks ago. Silver Trophy? Sure.

-The Championship Finals were the only close matchup of the week.

-The Bronze matchup was dominated by the Dump, congrats to the D+C on winning the Bronze Trophy for 3rd place!

-The Dump was a very well rounded team; solid at specialties, solid at goaltending but maybe a little streaky on offense. Still it was plenty to bring home some hardware:

-The Mollies finish in 4th for the second straight year, can you say 4th place dynasty next year? That would be a hilarious coincidence for the lovably losing Mollies.

-The Mollies went MIA in the playoffs again:

-Reed Dynasty, as expected, took the Best-Worst Team crown with relative ease. Well they won something, congrats!


-Lemieux’s League news:

-Award ceremony next weekend. What's that, you thought there was a lot of awards last year? I’m looking to double it! Everyone will get a few of them, some will get too many. Send me any award ideas you have to refarls@yahoo.com , I'll take any award idea you got.

-I’m also going to try and update all of the rosters onto the website for the off-season next week.

-On top of rosters and awards, all of the season long records will be revealed, there were a number of new records set.

-I decided against playoff stat records because it was too hard to figure out since there is both 1 week and 2 week playoff rounds. Individual team records might show up though like, ‘1st 6th seed ever to do anything’ or something.

-Oh yeah, you can now TRADE at will, the deadline lock is lifted, have at it.

-Come on, no one wants to sign up at the league forum? I’m telling you guys it makes trading a TON easier plus I’d like to discuss things like possible league/stat changes there since it’s easier. You don’t have to, it isn’t a requirement or anything, but it kind of sucks when there is only 5 of the 12 teams in this league signed in there. Again, I’m not holding a gun to your head with this or anything, but at least check it out:
http://lemieuxsleague.proboards61.com/index.cgi

-Admittedly the Forum is thin right now, but I plan on expanding it as the off-season progresses, so be sure to check it from time to time in the summer.

-I’ll be sending out more info in an email next week, including the annual ‘you’re coming back next year, right?’ routine, so beware.

-With that, Season 3 is officially over.

-Outside of the lavish award ceremony that is coming, Season 4 has essentially begun!