RE-CAP Week 17

Week 17 MOTW = 'the' Halfhill Crusade vs. 'those' Barclay Hill Mollies

-I predicted that the Mollies would win 9-6-3 in a weird pre-all-star weekend motw.

-What’s weird about this week? It’s only 4 days worth of games.

-Should cause a solid amount of randomness, let’s check it out:

(let's do this)

MONDAY:

-Victor Koslov scores a pair for the Mollies…
-…but he scores them on Dany Sabourin, which was the mollies goalie tonight.
-Dany Sabou-tage refuses to stop pucks all night in goal and has a rough time…
-…but Ty Conklin comes in and picks up a few pieces of Sabou’s shattered game.
-Mollies get 6 points, good start.

-After Sabou-tage's performance, Mr. Molly himself wrote: “dany sabourin eat dog shit and buy a plane ticket to tajikistan where you'll hopefully be recruited to run blindfolded over a soviet supplied minefield planted by small schoolchildren.”

-Let me see if I can wrap my head around this concept for a second:

(Dany Sabourin^)

(eat dog shit^)

(buy a plane ticket^)

(to Tajikistan^)

(run blindfolded^)

(through soviet supplied^)

(minefield^)

(planted by small schoolchildren^)

-Good stuff. Dany Sabourin will be a busy man.

-Back to Monday:

-Halfhill gets the first GWG of the week from Cory Stillman, on the pp too.

-Luongo has a ‘meh’ start.
-3 points out of Halfhill tonight, not good.

Conk-Block saves Sam, Mollies win day 1, it’s 1-0

TUESDAY:

-Big night = Mollies, Devils hockey saves them.
-“Coach” Elias gets 3 points and a gwigle, “Pat” Zajac gets 3 assists.
-Zajac is another one of those typical late-bloomer Molly types:

(Zajac/Sajac, same difference)

-All in all the Mollies get 13 points and a 4 star start out of geno nabokov.
-Sam let’s everyone know that Steve Ott has indeed scored a goal:

(Otter! What a human...)

-Halfhill gets a 3 point effort out of Jagr, that’s rare this year I guess.
-Vinny blows up for 2 points BUT 1 was a gwigle and the other was our first shorite of the week (shp that is):

(Yep, that's Marty St. Louis)

(I wish I could have made that, lol)

-Halfhill gets two more meh starts out of his goalies.

Mollies win the day easy, they have a solid 10-6-2 lead going into the final 2 days.

Mollies lead the week 2–0 (days wise)

WEDNESDAY:

-Only a few games

-Mollies have 1 player, Koslov, and he grabs an assist.

-Halfhill has 5 players and a goalie, how did this scheduling advantage slip through my prediction? Because I didn’t look…

(Poor taste? Meh...)

(If you're looking for political correctness...)

(you're in the wrong place, lol...)

-Halfhill gets 3 points, 6 pim’s and a 4**** start out of Little Bobby Luongo.

Halfhill wins the day easy, but it’s still the Mollies in the lead 2-1.

THURSDAY:

-What’s this? Thursday is the last day of the week? I told you the all-star break week is weird. Tonight determines the winner, lets see what went down:

(Thrusday’s are always critical)

-Lecavelier and Jagr are nowhere to be found, Halfhill is stunned:

(stunned)

-Halfhill manages a measly 5 points, but does get a gwigle from knuble. That’s right, it’s a gwigle-knuble, try to say that more than twice.
-To Matt’s credit, he only sat 1 point on the night, his team just didn’t show up.
-Brodeur gets a bad start, serves him right.

-Every Molly did something tonight. 11 points total but even the bench had 10 points.
-Derek Roy, “De-Ro”, gwigles it up for molly, but the Mollies only manage 3 ppp.
-Geno Nabokov gets a critical-killer start, but the Conk-meister messes it up with a sub-par outing.

Mollies win the final day easily, they win the days count 3-1.

Final score of the matchup is: 10-6-2 Mollies win.

-I predicted 9-6-3, not bad eh?

(R.L. Stine Ladies and Gentleman...)

-Bone corp predicted a 9-7-2 win for Halfhill:

(should have done your homework kim, lol, I kid of course)

Observations from the MOTW:

-The Mollies had 31 points after 4 days, they were on pace for 50 points, too bad.
-Matt didn’t sit many points, in fact, it was Sam who sat the most points.
-Goalie #’s were very close, I thought Matt would take most, it was a wash.
-Did you feel something move? It’s the standings:

("I think it moved")

-New MOTW to come Sunday or so…

-I think this was my best Recap so far, your thoughts Eddie?

(He has no idea)

-Leave comments if you would like to discuss the Mollies vs. Halfhill matchup.

-I'll be there until next time, ladies...

MOTW

Week 17

(A couple of 'nancy' teams doing battle this week)

The matchup of the week is #2 Halfhill Crusade vs. #8 Barclay Hill Mollies

-8th place means squat in this matchup, the mollies are 2 points out of 5th place.

-2 points separates all teams from #5 to #8, crazy.

-The standings right now are as crazy as backyard snow hockey:

(Owner and acting G.M. of the B.H. Mollies)

-It’s all star week, Yahoo tells us to not worry about minimum goalie starts, this could prove very advantageous to the mollies if they get an early and stunning goalie start.

-Halfhill’s goalies own; Gordon Bombay himself would have no luck against them:

(I hear he's in the best shape of his life)

-It looks like there is only 4 days of games this week, so make your lineups count.

-The Mollies recent winning serge was thanks in part to the men in the Appollo 13 war-room setting the lineups for him:

(Cheap? Yes. But, you can't make this stuff up)

(Their goal? Get the Mollies into the Post-Season)

-Injury wise, the Crusade has some serious studs out of the lineup; Zubov, Bergeron, Smyth, and Connolly are all out. That’ll be tough to replace.

-The Mollies are actually quite healthy, although they are without all-world-molly Josef Stumpel, no big deal. Advantage Mollies.

-G,A, and P are all very close between these two teams, I’m calling them a wash.

-Crusade should take shots and +/- and at least 3/5 goalie stats.

-Mollies should take FW, PIM’s, and ppa.

-Hmm…this is going to be a close one ladies. I’m guessing this matchup will come down to shrewd lineup setting and solid manipulation:

(like Newman would)

-Anything goes in a short week like this. Good timing, sharp wits, and some solid lineup setting will determine the winner.

-Here’s what it comes down to for me; the theme of season 1: “Matt sits points”.

-Here’s my prediction:

(obligatory Carson shot)

-Mollies win 9-6-3 in a weird pre-all-star weekend motw.

-Got that?

Lemieux’s League news feed:

-After trading for Satan and not telling us why he did it, Dan now makes a trade for…Paul Mara? Zoom gets Campoli. Mer.
-Reed also moves Lupul, T. Ruutu and a 5th over to Hoquet for Harding and Bertuzzi. I like the move for Hoquet, he’s got some building blocks .
-Everyone’s taking a shot at Forsberg, Mario is the latest, why not.
-In a puzzling move Farls trades for Teemu Selanne furthering the destruction of the Regime franchise:

(She's old, but I'll be damned if she doesn't have some fight left in her!)

-Reed and Farls are contemplating team fire sales to ease the pain of disappointing seasons.
-Word is Farls will be sending his team over to Dan in exchange for Dan’s team, it’s traditional, I’m here for you Danny.
-The Mollies are researching possible ways of acquiring the imaginationland villains:

(apparently Kurt Russell is involved somehow...)

3 Bums of the week:

1) Paul Ranger – He tripped Sidney Crosby into the boards.

2) Paul Ranger – He did nothing to help Regime this week.

3) Dan Reed – His team lost 17-1.

-Keeping it real as always. Send us home Conan O’Brien:

(Throw me your best apple, hurler)

-Good luck to all this week.

-Post any predictions in the comments area if you wish. The discussion continues there...

RE-CAP

Week 16

My controversial prediction for this motw was: Bone wins 9-8-1 over Les Pingouins.

Les Pingouins were out to prove something this week; it was their chance to drink the sweet, sweet nectar of the top 6.

Or was it?

Just so you know, I decided that I hate spelling Les Pingoiusafjdisaf, so I will be referring to them as LP from now on, like it or not, too bad.

Let’s check out what happened:

MONDAY:

-Slow monday



Malkin wins day 1, hat trick city.

TUESDAY:

-Kari Lehtonen was supposed to fix Bone’s goalie issues, so Bone sits him…he has a killer night, ouch.
-Bone was eager to point out that Sergei Samsonov had a 3 points night, I'm eager to pull out that strangle photo again...but I'll show a little class for once...

-I am however eager to point out that Bone sits a 3 point night out of Peter Mueller, double ouch. -All in all though, Bone ends up with a damn fine 11 points for the day, but poor goalie stats.

-LP responds to Bone’s 11 point night with…an 11 point night.
-Dustin Brown gets the first gwigle of the week:

-Scott Nieder gets fat on a 3 point burger, but zoom didn’t play Shane Doan, that’s a tough 3 points sat on the bench…

-Everybody is sitting 3 - point night from good players, what gives??

-I'll tell you what gives...

-There’s a rumor floating around the net that Beaker cracked into their yahoo accounts and swiped their lineups!

-Word is, he's on the run:

(I'd believe it, what a specimen)

It’s a draw, screw goalies, it’s too early in the week.

It’s 1-0 Malkin, still.

WEDNESDAY:

-Bone gets 2 goals out of newly acquired Bill Guerin, somewhere chris Nichol is excited:

-Henrik Lundqvist shows up with a killer start, a big bonus to all cats except sho.

-LP isn’t too hot tonight, only 4 points, and decent goalie #’s.
-Ruslan Salei nabs 6 pims (dirt ball).
-Miller gives LP a solid start, but no win. Vokoun layed an egg though.

8 points between the two teams? Duff Man is brewing up dissapointment in the motw so far:

(Heh-ha!)

Back to reality, maybe it isn’t too early for goalies anymore, Bone wins the day.

It’s 1-0 Bone, but the matchup itself is 11-4 LP, so take it all w/a grain of salt.

THURSDAY:

-Bone kills. Zoom = stunned. Bone gets 13 points lead by Nash’s insane goal, which was a gwigle, and his 10 shots. Nash was a monster this week.
-Also ‘Alice’ Hemsky registers 3 assists, and Mueller gets 2 points, both on the pp.
-Lehtonen has another good start, but doesn’t win the game, figures.

-LP falls behind as they only muster 6 points on the night.
-Gerber gets a killer start, AND he wins the game, something Bone never gets,

EVER

Bone wins the day though, it’s 2-0-1 BC.

FRIDAY:

-Eric Staal plays tricks with hats for Bone, and registers one heluva game winner.
-Bone owns GWG this week.
-Kari Lehtonen plays goalie with no pads, and the numbers show it, ouch.

-LP has an 8 point night, the kicker being a shortie from Lombardi, critical point:

(shortie)

-LP sits Ryan Miller, Miller has a killer start, would it come back to haunt zoom’s team?

LP gets this one, but its 2-1-1 BC.

SATURDAY:

-Bone gets another 13 points, is he going after a season point record or what?
-Backstrom gets a 4 assist night, and Rafalski gets a 3 assist night, yikes.
-Backstrom, Bone's #1 overall is looking like a shrewd move:

(franchise)

-Goalie wise Bone gets two good starts but (like the Yankees) can’t buy a win.

(zing)

-LP keeps fighting with a 9 point night, but it looks like it’s too little too late for zoom.
-Goalie wise, zoom needs new goalies…ouch, rough night for Vokoun and Miller time.

-Remember when zoom sat Miller the other day? It’s coming back to bite him in the ass:

(see it? Meh...)

Bone wins easy, 3-1-1 BC.

SUNDAY:

-Bone Corp adds salt to the wound, 9 more points, looks like we have a new season 3 points record here in 66’s League:

(Mario would be proud, maybe)

-Bone for some reason played all of his goalies today? He was getting greedy, and they both blew tires, could this open the door for LP…

-…nope, LP’s Gerber plays worse than Bone’s guys, we’ve got some ugly goaltending in this MOTW. You guys need some niitty…
-LP gets 1 point on the day, it’s over zoom, sorry buddy.

Bone wins the day, he takes the day count 4-1-1.

Tell you what, I’ll give an end-of-year-award out to the team that wins the most days in MOT-dubya’s…

Final score of the matchup:

Bone wins 12-4-2, my prediction sucked. Bone is good:

(...and he's got a new boat)

3 Stars of the Matchup:

1* Eric Staal (BC) – 3G, 2A, a ton of shots, a key gwg.
2** Nicklas Backstrom (BC) - 1G, 4A, 3ppp, 7 shots.
3*** Mats Sundin (LP) – 4 pims, a Bolik load of faceoffs (61) and a few points.

MOTW Observations:

-Bolik had 37 faceoffs this week, it was that kind of a week for LP.
-Bone loses PIM’s, a rarity, but he ties wins, which is also a rarity.
-Bone sets a season 3 points record for the week with 56 points, the previous record was 53 by Dumpy.
-Bone Corp gets their second 50 point week, matching Reed with 2 on the season, the only clubs to do it more than once, slow year…
-LP should be proud that they won PIM’s.
-LP’s dominance of SHP continues, although Bone didn’t put up a fight for it…

New MOTW coming tomorrow, all-star week style.

Any comments on this motw? The discussion continues…