DU Fantasy Hockey Week 2

[Oreo]

The Snow Leopards continue to dominate the league winning 7-2 this week. The lowly Colorado Snows have been crushed 2 weeks in a row. The owner of this team isn't making any lineup changes. Wake Up Snows! The season started!

1 Snow Leopards 18-2-2
2 Flying Frenchmen 13-4-5
3 Fargin' Iceholes 14-7-1
4 Furies 12-5-5
5 Pittsburgh Donkeys 12-9-1
6 Dithers' Dems 11-9-2
7 Puddles 10-8-4
8 Ravenseye 10-8-4
9 Telly's Morans 10-8-4
10 DC Executioners 10-9-3
11 Bush Bashers 9-8-5
12 Oreos 9-9-4
13 bitethebush 8-9-5
14 Green Eggs & Ham 9-11-2
15 Pickwick Passers 7-11-4
16 Hippie's HockeyDudes 6-10-6
17 StarsOfTheNorth 6-12-4
18 Caniacs 5-11-6
19 WildPhan 5-14-3
20 Colorado Snows 1-21-0

[hippiechick]

1. I am SO getting my ass kicked ...

And I have the best goalie in the league !!
Sigh. :(

[Oreo]

2. It's a different league

One where my Minnesota Wild went from 25th before the season to 6th place in TSN's power rankings. It's all about youth and speed now.
http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/feature/?fid=548&hubname=

Brodeur lost two of the best defenseman in the league. It's not too surprising he's not doing as well.

I suggest your first moves as soon as you read this are dropping Hull (retired), Korolyuk (went back to Russia) and Nurminen (retired due to injury) and picking up some people that are actually playing! ;)

[hippiechick]

3. Will do, thanks !

:applause:

[Telly Savalas]

6. Ahem. Cough. Cough.

Ed Belfour is on my fantasy hockey team.

[hippiechick]

8. Gee, that name rings a bell ...

.... didn't I cut him a couple weeks ago ? ;-)

[Doctor_J]

4. If I want fantasy hockey

I just imagine the Blackhawks being decent for a season.

[Oreo]

5. Bill Wirtz is the problem

The Blackhawks will never have a good team until this evil man is gone.

[kcr]

7. LOL

Well, I did take several Hawks on my fantasy team, and I am 7th in the league :)

[Doctor_J]

9. Either the non-Hawks are pulling all the weight,

or you picked Vorobiev.

Mark Bell is a typical Blackhawk. He was the 9th pick in the draft one year. THat same year, the Wings picked, in the 8th round, one Pavel Datsyuk. The 9th pick has one point this season. The 8th round pick is going to contend for the Hart Trophy.

Bell, Steve McCarthy, Ty Jones, Dmitri Nabokov, Jimmy Waite, - all high draft picks for the Hawks, none made anywhere near "journeyman".

Then there's our system of development, of which Vorobiev is an example. The Blue Jackets teenage draft pick goes straight to the NHL and wins the Richard Trophy his first year. Ours goes to the AHL for five years of learning to play "Blackhawk Hockey".

Arrgh. There goes my blood pressue again.

[KitchenWitch]

10. I suck at this!

I do not know what I am doing, and I am so in the dark about the stats.

I am WildPhan BTW!