Bastards. My opponents in fantasy pools last night had one each. Luckily, Sullivan's owner didn't start him

kovalev 4g

Dvorak with a hatty...only about 3 days after I picked him up in the Yahoo league.

WOOT. Standings?

GoBears 126-64-18 .649 270 12-2-2 11 31
2. runthemover 114-66-28 .615 256 7-7-2 3 15
3. The Captain 102-78-28 .558 232 6-8-2 9 16
4. Canadian Gothic AAA 102-80-26 .553 230 7-6-3 16 5
5. Newmarket Hurricanes 101-81-26 .548 228 15-1-0 6 12
6. Ottawa Limidonks AAA 97-77-34 .548 228 6-7-3 2 5
7. Corona Ice Kings 99-88-21 .526 219 8-7-1 1 7
8. Broadway 92-82-34 .524 218 10-3-3 14 11
9. Montreal SilverSeven 89-93-26 .490 204 4-7-5 10 18
10. The Lost Cause 87-92-29 .488 203 1-15-0 7 13
11. Fearsome Beavers 85-90-33 .488 203 7-4-5 4 8
12. The Super Friends 84-100-24 .462 192 8-5-3 13 7
13. Point Cannon 81-100-27 .454 189 7-7-2 12 10
14. dEv~s BamFs 78-97-33 .454 189 3-10-3 18 16
15. Crazy Dicers 78-97-33 .454 189 2-12-2 8 10
16. Burnaby Express 77-105-26 .433 180 7-8-1 15 9
17. Gobears 72-102-34 .428 178 8-6-2 5 16
18. Ingmen 54-126-28 .327 136 5-8-3 17 17

wow... 3 through 6 are really tight.

My team is still slump city. I need Khabibulin back. And Hemsky and Selanne.

So, the Mustangs finally got relegated?

I presume that is them at #17...

maybe maybe not..

We have changed our names again..Its up to you to decide who we are

I got the crap kicked out of me this week...dropped all the way from 6th to 10th.

I noticed......

burrows

back to back

Gaborik vs the Avalanche (finally). He has all three of our goals tonight (thus far).

Crosby!

Man, Pittsburgh gets a hat trick on 100% of giveaway nights.

Sid has 37 now, tied with Marleau for the league lead. He may not keep this pace up, but man he's giving me a sweat on my 8-1 bet with Serge.

no kidding..FWIW i dont think its Marleau you have to be worried about..

Some russian from Washington

Like, I think all 3 will be there down the stretch. Marleau has been unstoppable lately too. Ovechkin is obviously out of this world for goal scoring, though. Should be a nice finish.

Sergeo, for the purposes of our Crosby bet, here's a projection for the top 7 goal scorers in the NHL, based on their current goals-per-game of the season, and the max number of games they have remaining.



Hoping Sid can pick it up a little bit, while the others falter.

I love the empty net goals by Ovi..Comes in handy

I have been thinking about this for a few days; is there anywhere that keeps track of empty net goals? I would wager Ovechkin leads the league in empty netters just about every year. Its one of the reasons I actually like someone like Crosby more as a team centerpiece. Ovechkin cheats to get empty netters every chance he gets, a few games back he was already passed the red line when his defenceman had full control of the puck.

nhl.com keeps track..as for cheating thats a stretch..

Crosby has his share as well.

Seeing Ovechkin live you notice that's pretty much how he plays. For the most part the only time he ends up deep in the defensive zone is to take a run at someone. I know that's not all that uncommon for a winger but usually his idea of defense is spending his time cherry picking.

As for Crosby getting empty netters, ya he gets em but I'd say he gets one for every one he passes up. I can remember plenty of times he could have got an easy one only to give it to someone looking for a hatty (Malkin usually) or looking to break a drought (Staal usually)

I do not think that was supposed to be intentionally funny, but I laughed.

yes and no.

I'm not sure if you're leveling me or what, but cheating is hockey terminology.

Also I don't see empty netters listed anywhere on NHL.com, help a guy out?

http://www.nhl.com/ice/playerstats.htm?fet...;viewName=goals

While looking at those stats, I'm surprised to see Ovechkin only has 8 PPGs. Crosby's got 9, and we all know how awful the Pens PP has been.

Edit - Another funny observation. If the season ended now, Crosby would have more goals than Ovechkin, while Ovechkin would have more assists than Crosby. Kinda backwards.

Yea thanks, I found it after I asked ... I am a donk.

BTW Sid has 4 EN goals in his whole career, Ovechkin has 4 this year already.... Its a difference in game philosophy, ovechkin goes out of his way to pad his stats while Crosby just cares about winning.

I didn't say that!

It's not THAT bad. He has the most this year, but its only 1 more than a big group. Last year he had the most too (5), but there were several with 4. Best part - 3 of PJ Axelsson's 6 were empty-nettings.

He had 5 in the three years combined before that.


So...maybe he takes an extra shot or two, but its not making a big difference.

lol..talk about biased comments..

BTW when you lead the league in scoring the last few years, obviously you will lead in EN goals..

I will argue that no one has a love for the game and loves to win more than Ovy..

I don't think the two are related.

Ovechkin certainly will get more chances to get an empty netter than most players though. For one, he's a winger, for two, he DOES float up a bit and cheat a bit on them (with his coach's blessing, I assume), and I would guess the Caps have more 2-goal leads than 1-goal empty net situations too, so he CAN cheat without it being dangerous.

Plus he's a selfish SOB who only cares about his stats and not the teams.

I randomly checked 2003-04 for a non-Ovechkin year, and the guy who led the NHL in EN goals was tied for 55th in total goals. It was Jason Blake, heh.

Isn't that the year he scored 40 for the Islanders (and then was signed by JFJ)?

no thats much later

No, he only had 22. 5 were empty netters. The 3 guys who tied for the league lead in goals (with 41, god bless the lockout), the most they each had was 3.

Every Penguin Empty Netter this year.

Jan 19 (NYI @ Pens) Evgeni Malkin (Brooks Orpik, Sidney Crosby)
Dec 3 (Avs @ Pens) Sidney Crosby (Jordan Staal, Evgeni Malkin)
Nov 30 (Pens @ Rags) Michael Rupp (Sidney Crosby)
Nov 16 (Ducks @ Pens) Matt Cooke (Jordan Staal)
Nov 3 (Pens @ Ducks) Matt Cooke (Jordan Staal)

Looks like NHL.com gave Staal credit for one of Matt Cooke's empty netters as the pens are listed on there with 5 different guys having just 1 ENG.

Glencross!!

Ovechkin!

Ovechkin Baby..

WEEEE

Brooks Laich gets the hatty to complete a caps comeback from a 5-2 deficit to force OT where they lose on a Plekanec goal to end their streak of 14 straight wins.

Semin x3

... but the caps still lost

Jenny Potter...

plus 2 assists

IGGY!!!!!!!!!!!

Blake Comeau

I was gonna start him for the reject cup game in the AHL, but then I remembered I was trying to tank that too.

FACK!

chris stewart

I don't know if it looks good that I was really trying to get Stewart before this season, or bad that I didn't offer more to actually get him!

You were? huh