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Bored Hockey Fan Fantasy League – Week Three

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Welcome to the Bored Hockey Fan Fantasy League, brought to you by Yahoo! Sports.

Week Three is now wrapped up. Let’s look at the results for all the Week Three matchups:

It’s The Flying V! dominated the St. Mucus Ooze in pretty much every category to end up 11-1-1 winners.

GreatNessPerSonified’s goaltenders averaged less than 2 goals a game in their 7-5-1 victory over the FistCity CaPs.

Despite the form of San Jose Sharks’ Joe Thornton, Patrick Marleau and Joe Pavelski, DarkSideOfTheMoen managed an 8-3-2 victory over the Hamilton Tigers.

In the closest matchup of the Gameweek, Powers Rangers squeezed out 5-4-4 victors over @GoftheInternet.

7 points from Patrik Elias helped Legs to an 8-4-1 triumph over the Quebec Nordiques.

The ladder after Week Three:

Rank Team W-L-T Pct Pts Last Week Waiver Moves
1. It’s the Flying V! 27-10-2 .718 56 11-1-1 4 1
2. Legs 25-11-3 .679 53 8-4-1 2 –
3. @GoftheInternet 21-12-6 .615 48 4-5-4 5 7
4. DarkSideOfTheMoen 20-15-4 .564 44 8-3-2 9 28
5. Powers Rangers 17-15-7 .526 41 5-4-4 6 1
6. Quebec Nordiques 18-18-3 .500 39 4-8-1 1 5
7. FistCity CaPs 13-22-4 .385 30 5-7-1 3 –
8. GreatNessPerSonified 12-23-4 .359 28 7-5-1 7 –
9. Hamilton Tigers 10-22-7 .346 27 3-8-2 8 13
10. St. Mucus Ooze 9-24-6 .308 24 1-11-1 10 3


THIS WEEK’S MATCHUPS:

St. Mucus Ooze vs. Powers Rangers
Quebec Nordiques vs. FistCity CaPs
DarkSideOfTheMoen vs. It’s The Flying V!
@GoftheInternet vs. GreatNessPerSonified
Hamilton Tigers vs. Legs

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Bored Hockey Fan Fantasy League

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Welcome to the Bored Hockey Fan Fantasy League, brought to you by Yahoo! Sports. The first week of matchups are now over, so here is a summary of what happened:

Thanks to the combined 36 points scored by San Jose trio Joe Thornton, Patrick Marleau and Joe Pavelski. DarkSideOfTheMoen defeated St. Mucus Ooze by a total of 8-3-2.
Even though @GoftheInternet was beaten in points by Hamilton Tigers, @GoftheInternet still managed a 9-2-2 victory thanks to Goalies Craig Anderson, Tuukka Rask and Jaroslav Halak.
It’s The Flying V! only lost in PIM in their 11-1-1 demolition of FistCity CaPs.
Powers Rangers got 25 points from the Powerplay in an 8-4-1 victory over the Quebec Nordiques.
Legs got a massive 102 PIM in an 8-3-3 defeat of GreatNessPerSonified.

After the first week of matchups, this is what the table looks like:

Rank Team W-L-T Pct Pts Last Week Waiver Moves
1. It’s the Flying V! 11-1-1 .885 23 11-1-1 4 1
2. @GoftheInternet 9-2-2 .769 20 9-2-2 5 –
3. DarkSideOfTheMoen 8-3-2 .692 18 8-3-2 8 11
4. Legs 8-3-2 .692 18 8-3-2 2 –
5. Powers Rangers 8-4-1 .654 17 8-4-1 6 1
6. Quebec Nordiques 4-8-1 .346 9 4-8-1 1 1
7. St. Mucus Ooze 3-8-2 .308 8 3-8-2 9 2
8. GreatNessPerSonified 3-8-2 .308 8 3-8-2 7 –
9. Hamilton Tigers 2-9-2 .231 6 2-9-2 10 4
10. FistCity CaPs 1-11-1 .115 3 1-11-1 3 –

This week’s matchups:

DarkSideOfTheMoen vs. Legs
@GoftheInternet vs. It’s The Flying V!
St. Mucus Ooze vs. Hamilton Tigers
Powers Rangers vs. FistCity CaPs
GreatNessPerSonified vs. Quebec Nordiques

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Why The Lockout Was A Good Thing

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It was. I assure you. I know it may not seem like it, and that people predict it will kill hockey in the United States. But, the lockout may not have benefited the NHL as much as a full season may have, the lockout allowed players to play elsewhere. Where else would Joe Thornton, Patrick Kane and Loui Eriksson play in the same team, if it wasn’t for the lockout? Speaking of which, here is just a small example of where the lockout was actually beneficial.

SPENGLER CUP

The Spengler Cup is an invitational tournament played in Davos, Switzerland every year, and normally contains European hockey powerhouses, and Team Canada, which is mostly made up of European-based Canadians. However, this year’s edition of the Spengler Cup was a little different. For starters, Team Canada was stacked this year. The biggest name competing for Team Canada in 2011 was former NHL Goaltender Marty Turco, with only three other players currently playing outside of Europe. However, thanks to the NHL Lockout, Team Canada was able to select from those locked out, then playing for teams in Europe, as well as the four outside Europe selections. It wasn’t just Team Canada that benefited, with other teams competing in the Spengler Cup, being able to include NHL-based stars playing in Europe as well, allowing for stronger lineups, and including names familiar to the viewing public, due to them playing in the National Hockey League pre-lockout.

IIHF WORLD U20 CHAMPIONSHIP

Ah yes, the World Juniors. Where the brightest and best up-and-coming stars of the world of hockey come together to compete for their country, usually made up of the best young prospects that will be the names called out in the next NHL draft. This season was different however, this season, the NHL was locked out. Which meant that the best juniors currently applying their trade for an NHL team could compete for their country if they so chose to, allowing the likes of Ryan Nugent-Hopkins to be available for Team Canada, and Nail Yakupov for Team Russia as opposed to being on the ice for the Edmonton Oilers. Every country competing had at least one player currently on an NHL roster, and not having those players, quite possibly would’ve led to a completely different result than what actually happened. Who knows, Canada may have actually won a medal!

THE CASUAL VIEWER

No casual viewer of any sport wants to sit down for an entire 82-game season, as chances are they’ll be bored inside the first 20 games and not watch the season out. But, this season is a shortened season, maybe 50 games maximum, and the casual viewer may tune in for the first 20 or so games, but rather than being 60 left.. there’s only going to be 20 or so left, which could very well mean that the casual viewer may be more intrigued as divisions will be tighter, the playoffs will loom, players will be fresher, and hockey will thrive again. Even ESPN are dragging Barry Melrose out of cotton wool, and called it ‘the top story of the day’. When ESPN start caring about hockey, you know it’s getting serious.

There is just a sample of what having a lockout actually improved. The lockout wasn’t all bad, but now that’s it’s back, don’t ever leave again. Lockouts are bad bad things.