Let me know who is in for Week 1.
We are going to play at 6:00 this week.
In: John, Jared, Drew, Ignads, Austin, Elliot, Andrew, Frendon, Mike D, Billy, Jack (G), Ron, Brett (G)
Haven't heard from: JB, Nick, Joe, Mike W
Maybe: John P
Out: Griff
Friday, August 29, 2014
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
'14 - '15 Season Preview: Team Dark
"Bang-a-rang!"
Elliot – Look for Elliot to have the rare junior slump and even may be demoted to defense some weeks due to the fact that he’s not feeding Johnny the rock, and believe me, Johnny will let him have an earful. The game winners are where he will be most valuable. He’ll finish top 5 in that department.
Austin – I actually think he’d best be served as a defenseman to offset team white’s speed. We’ve seen him cancel out Jared for a whole night before and there’s no better partner to learn what not to do from than Billy T. 25 and 30 for Austin.
Billy T – Billy has been stuck in mediocrity for a while. Saugus mediocrity. In other words, he’s been bad. Billy HAS to stop being beat around the edge by Jared and losing track of him all together. The speed isn’t there to take as many chances as he does. I’m looking for Billy to take a page out of Nick’s book and get back to doing the basics well. Look for Billy to ignore all this constructive criticism and have his finest offensive year ever with 22 goals and 25 assists.
Brett – Brett will be committed to playing in net and getting better as a goalie. But there will be lulls during the season where his team is on a 5 week losing streak and leave him facing countless two on ones and three on ones. This will really test his desire to play goal and may even come dangerously close to exposing him as the truly inadequate goalie he is. But then there will be weeks where he’ll be the only reason Dark team won the week. Look for Brett to have a 3.4 GAA and win 55% of the games. Are the games timed?
Griff – The games just won’t mean enough in Griff’s eyes for him to truly try his best week in and week out. Griff is best served at wing where he will have fewer opportunities to yell “GET BACK!” or “WHERE IS EVERYBODY?”, ergo keeping his interest as high as possible. I can easily see Griff having a 30 30 season. I can also easily see him single handedly blowing up this White team vs Dark team thing by playing once a month.
Johnny – The season is just like a race to Johnny, the longer the better. Johnny doesn’t hit his stride till about 4 months in where his game finally hits top speed and he starts to take over games, weeks, months and eventually even take over the goal scoring title. I do see the back keeping him out 3 weeks or so, and let’s all pray he never takes another deflected shot to the balls again. After how he reacted to the last one, the next one could be career ending. But where does Johnny play? CENTER!!!!!! 120 goals and most assist of his career, edging out Jared by 2 goals in the last week of the season. Jared will have more points though.
Borges – Even though he’ll be the team’s MVP, he’s moving to wing. Kind of how A-Rod moved to 3rd just because SS was Jeter’s position, Borges will move to wing because Johnny is a center and is inept at playing any other position. Borges is just going to have to settle for taking face-offs as his only time at center. 102 goals with a record setting 39 from half ice or beyond. Jared will be looking for a defenseman. Don’t trade him a thing Borges and you’ll take the season.
Elliot – Look for Elliot to have the rare junior slump and even may be demoted to defense some weeks due to the fact that he’s not feeding Johnny the rock, and believe me, Johnny will let him have an earful. The game winners are where he will be most valuable. He’ll finish top 5 in that department.
Austin – I actually think he’d best be served as a defenseman to offset team white’s speed. We’ve seen him cancel out Jared for a whole night before and there’s no better partner to learn what not to do from than Billy T. 25 and 30 for Austin.
Billy T – Billy has been stuck in mediocrity for a while. Saugus mediocrity. In other words, he’s been bad. Billy HAS to stop being beat around the edge by Jared and losing track of him all together. The speed isn’t there to take as many chances as he does. I’m looking for Billy to take a page out of Nick’s book and get back to doing the basics well. Look for Billy to ignore all this constructive criticism and have his finest offensive year ever with 22 goals and 25 assists.
Brett – Brett will be committed to playing in net and getting better as a goalie. But there will be lulls during the season where his team is on a 5 week losing streak and leave him facing countless two on ones and three on ones. This will really test his desire to play goal and may even come dangerously close to exposing him as the truly inadequate goalie he is. But then there will be weeks where he’ll be the only reason Dark team won the week. Look for Brett to have a 3.4 GAA and win 55% of the games. Are the games timed?
Griff – The games just won’t mean enough in Griff’s eyes for him to truly try his best week in and week out. Griff is best served at wing where he will have fewer opportunities to yell “GET BACK!” or “WHERE IS EVERYBODY?”, ergo keeping his interest as high as possible. I can easily see Griff having a 30 30 season. I can also easily see him single handedly blowing up this White team vs Dark team thing by playing once a month.
Johnny – The season is just like a race to Johnny, the longer the better. Johnny doesn’t hit his stride till about 4 months in where his game finally hits top speed and he starts to take over games, weeks, months and eventually even take over the goal scoring title. I do see the back keeping him out 3 weeks or so, and let’s all pray he never takes another deflected shot to the balls again. After how he reacted to the last one, the next one could be career ending. But where does Johnny play? CENTER!!!!!! 120 goals and most assist of his career, edging out Jared by 2 goals in the last week of the season. Jared will have more points though.
Borges – Even though he’ll be the team’s MVP, he’s moving to wing. Kind of how A-Rod moved to 3rd just because SS was Jeter’s position, Borges will move to wing because Johnny is a center and is inept at playing any other position. Borges is just going to have to settle for taking face-offs as his only time at center. 102 goals with a record setting 39 from half ice or beyond. Jared will be looking for a defenseman. Don’t trade him a thing Borges and you’ll take the season.
Sunday, August 3, 2014
'14 - '15 Season Preview: Team White
Season Expectations
2014-2015
Team White (Jared’s team)
Goalie – You know what you’re getting with Jack or Rick. It’s not always bad and it’s not always good. Look for them to frustrate Jared more than the Dark team. Jared is already counting down the days till Dave makes his 2 week visit. I’m looking at a 3.85 GAA for Team White’s goalies combined.
Andrew – The better Pratter discussion isn’t nearly as good as the better Driscoll one, but this year Andrew will put up slightly better numbers than Elliot. Especially since he won’t be getting any drama parts ever again. Look for Andrew to hit the 100 point plateau with ease. *disclaimer* as long as no less than 300 games are played in the 14-15 season
Frendon – Oh Frendon. What’s left to say? Could he possibly use the hilarious summer beating he took on this blog as motivation? Probably not. But I do think he’ll have a bounce back year in stat keeping. As long as Ashley doesn’t get a hold of the official stat sheet, he should get 35 goals and at least 50 assists (all phantom assists) with Jared scoring in bunches.
Mike W – I do think Montreal will help Mike. Kinda like how it helped Nick a while back. Mike’s speed will be uncontested with Jared on his team, playing opposite wing. The only problem I can maybe see is Ward having to play D some weeks, which will dampen his numbers. But not his value. With eyes on Montreal 2015, I can see more games played than ever and Ward finally breaking the 1PPG mark for a season.
Mike D – Mike had a very good Haverhill Cup and a very good last 2 months of the season. Most people start to deteriorate rapidly at that age *cough* Ron *cough*. Mike’s refusal to play defense shows he’s finally joined the crowd in craving stats(or maybe he thinks staunchly refusing to play defense adds to his ruggedness) Stats validate everything we think of ourselves. Mike should find the back of the net 30 times, but no more than 300 times.
Nick – Even though Nick will be working on his offense, his numbers will decrease this year. Trying to remove, or at least decrease, the “up the boards” play from his play book and making quick, smart passes will lead to more turnovers than usual. One step back will hopefully mean 2, if not more, steps forward for when it really matters. Between 20 and 25 goals and a boat load of icings.
Jared – Has his work cut out for him this year. Has less offense to work with than one might think. And a lot of games are going to depend on him scoring rapidly and out pacing Team Dark’s offense (I know that’s the point of every game but you know what I mean). His team does have a major advantage in the BMI department.
2014-2015
Team White (Jared’s team)
Goalie – You know what you’re getting with Jack or Rick. It’s not always bad and it’s not always good. Look for them to frustrate Jared more than the Dark team. Jared is already counting down the days till Dave makes his 2 week visit. I’m looking at a 3.85 GAA for Team White’s goalies combined.
Andrew – The better Pratter discussion isn’t nearly as good as the better Driscoll one, but this year Andrew will put up slightly better numbers than Elliot. Especially since he won’t be getting any drama parts ever again. Look for Andrew to hit the 100 point plateau with ease. *disclaimer* as long as no less than 300 games are played in the 14-15 season
Frendon – Oh Frendon. What’s left to say? Could he possibly use the hilarious summer beating he took on this blog as motivation? Probably not. But I do think he’ll have a bounce back year in stat keeping. As long as Ashley doesn’t get a hold of the official stat sheet, he should get 35 goals and at least 50 assists (all phantom assists) with Jared scoring in bunches.
Mike W – I do think Montreal will help Mike. Kinda like how it helped Nick a while back. Mike’s speed will be uncontested with Jared on his team, playing opposite wing. The only problem I can maybe see is Ward having to play D some weeks, which will dampen his numbers. But not his value. With eyes on Montreal 2015, I can see more games played than ever and Ward finally breaking the 1PPG mark for a season.
Mike D – Mike had a very good Haverhill Cup and a very good last 2 months of the season. Most people start to deteriorate rapidly at that age *cough* Ron *cough*. Mike’s refusal to play defense shows he’s finally joined the crowd in craving stats(or maybe he thinks staunchly refusing to play defense adds to his ruggedness) Stats validate everything we think of ourselves. Mike should find the back of the net 30 times, but no more than 300 times.
Nick – Even though Nick will be working on his offense, his numbers will decrease this year. Trying to remove, or at least decrease, the “up the boards” play from his play book and making quick, smart passes will lead to more turnovers than usual. One step back will hopefully mean 2, if not more, steps forward for when it really matters. Between 20 and 25 goals and a boat load of icings.
Jared – Has his work cut out for him this year. Has less offense to work with than one might think. And a lot of games are going to depend on him scoring rapidly and out pacing Team Dark’s offense (I know that’s the point of every game but you know what I mean). His team does have a major advantage in the BMI department.
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