Stats Corner

Fast Start For Reggie Reggie S is enjoying his best start to a season. Currently ranks 5th in goals (4) and 5th in points (6). Those 4 goals have come in just 8 games, a .5 goals per game average. Prior to this season Reggie had 10 goals in 37 games, a .27 goals per game pace.

Early Vezina Favorite? Jimmy C, while still shaking obvious rust from his game, has compiled some impressive numbers thus far with a 7-1 record, 2.37 GAA, and 1 Shutout. Last year's winner Tony still has yet to play a game...

Rivals Perhaps the closest rivalry has been between Nick B and Lee. They've played 46 games, with Nick winning 23 games, and Lee winning 22 (there was 1 tie). Nick has scored 2 goals in those games, Lee 1.

Just Who is the Better Driscoll? Thanks to a record-setting start to the year, Brett not only has joined the top 5 in Career Scoring, but he has started his campaign for the title of Better Driscoll. While Billy still has more goals than Brett (24 to 20), Brett has surpassed Billy in total points (53 to 42), wins (14 to 11) and winning % (58.3 to 42.3). It is worth noting though that Billy has edge in head-to-head play: 6 wins to 4, 15 goals to 10.

Milestones We've already seen some broken this year: Jared (150 points), Brendon (100 points) and Brett (50 points). This year should see Jared and Jon B both pass the 100 goal mark, Brad and Reggie the 20 goal mark, and Nick 10 (he needs to get two so it's a bit of a stretch). Congrats to all.

All-purpose Florida thread

Hey guys, Anything Florida related keep in here. Let's keep the other threads uncluttered, for either Saugus or general hockey discussion.

Stats Updated on 10/27

On the anniversary of one of the greatest sports events in history. The stats are updated. Try to enjoy Johnny's review.[yuk,yuk]

10/26/08 Recap

It was another action packed week on the rink. Things were different this week as JB did not arrive (an unconfirmed soure reportedly placed Borges and Doug S. at home, sharing a bowl of popcorn while awaiting the start of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition). As a result, Lee took over the role of captain for the White team. Lee gambled with his first pick, choosing Jared. Sans Borges, Lee was banking on a monster game from the sniper. Unfortunately, Jared too was not to be found - at that moment he was escaping from a family reunion, showing true determination and team spirit.

Too bad for the White team, they had to start play without Jared. The Dark team was able to win a 5-0 shutout, thanks to some solid goaltending from Jimmy, some great playmaking from Brett, and a timely goal from The Gimp (for those of you who were not there, that was Brendon, who showed admirable courage playing on one leg after suffering a near-fatal muscle pull during warmups).

Game 2 though the White team fought hard. Buoyed by Jared and Matt S on the attack they fought to a 4-4 tie before Johnny and Brett had a partial two-on-one break. Brett passed to John who one-timed a perfect changeup at Steve. Steve, while stopping previous one-timers, was not expecting the 12 mph floater, and had the ball riccochet off of his glove under the crossbar.

Before Game 3 the White team decided to strategize. Lenny, upon feeling "patronized" by a member of the dark team, vowed retribution. "We'll see how the dark team feels when we start to Griff them", he was overheard saying. Reggie, who played some of his best hockey last night, at that point tried putting the team on his back, and scored the only goal for the White team. Yet his efforts were not enough as the dark team prevailed once again, this time by a score of 5-1.

Game 4 saw the White team's resolve start to break down. Reggie despite having a pass given to him which would have given him a clear breakaway, saw a streaking Nick heading towards him and developed the first case of "Alligator Arms" in Saugus history, and let the pass fly by. The Dark team received continued great play from the Mikes (D and P) and were able to win fairly easily, 5-1. The last goal was scored by Mike P, his first of the season, after a stellar display of unselfishness on the part of John, the likes of which we haven't seen since Brendon willingly sacrificed his body and pride and held up, allowing Ariel to run him over with a check so that she would not end up hospitalized. Upon seeing that pass to Mike P, an anonymous player overheard Dale commending the play, although adding that "he would have shot the ball off of Mike P and picked up the rebound, so that he could get both the goal and the assist".

Recap

The first week of 2008-2009 Hockey season has begun and it started singly. There is nothing special to report, everything you would have expected to happen on this 19th of October happened just as you would have thought. Well, not really. First off the Red Sox lost! Wait, wait. This is the hockey site, not SOSH, i will rant over there...let's get right into this weeks notes...

*Will start of with how terrible Brad is at hockey, wait hold on Nick! What am I talking about? 3 goals? Holy Cow! One scout at the game said of Brad "He looks like the second coming of his father" [yuck,yuck] Game one and two Brad was really holding his own on D and played solidly, but in game 3 and 4 he really turned in on, combining for 3 goals in the two games. It was no coincidence that the only game his team won was the game Brad scored two points...One loud mouth observer said "We should have traded Mike Ward for Brad after game 2 when we had the chance."
*It was the week of the unexpected at hockey town: "A shutout? Great game by Steve but I think Jared could have gotten a shutout in that one..." said one scout. An absolutely pathetic showing by the white team, everything seemed to go the black teams way, they got the bounces off the boards and they were even given the ball by some white defenders(TONY!!)
*With Brad being Borges' favorite whipping boy over the years and Brad having the week of his life-Borges had to choose someone else to rag on. "Better Jimmy then me" said one casual observer,"Borges' equipment smells awful...the further he is away from me the better"
*I would like to say thank you to Joe, for his actions against the boards.(Brett say thank you) And I would like to thank all(1) of our anonymous posters(Jared having an argument with himself) for being the voice of reason in the comments.

Hockey this Sunday, Oct 26th 7-9 (Outside)‏

Last week got off to a good start, we had a good group show up for the first game. We play this week from 7-9 on the outdoor rink. Mostly everyone was on time last week, let’s try for that again, especially in light of the 7:00 time.

Post 101

Yes, we have past the Century Mark...Just letting you guys know that the years's first stats are up. Link on the side bar.

Season 3

Hi guys, We're starting hockey in Saugus up again for the year. The plan is to start on Sunday the 26th, although if there is enough interest we could start this week. We'll be playing at 7:00 until January, at which point we'll be able to get an earlier start time (either 5 or 6). Let me know who is able to play.

Also, Nick has disabled anonymous blogging this year as there were far too many personal attacks going on. If you have a Google account you can use that to sign in, otherwise you'll have to create a Google account to post. Still feel free to debate / argue / critique performances, but without the name-calling that if often degenerated into last year.