11 Billy - By a thread. Too many goals scored in and around the front of the net. Aren't you glad you made WPR this time? I can't explain why there's 11 spots this week. It drops to 10 in future iterations.
10 Brendon - By two threads. A good first two weeks, but the third week was chalk full of slow, cerebrally bad plays. Sometimes it looks like he's trying his hardest to not make a decision with the ball. And he still doesn't know what icing is. Never mind. He's 11 this week.
9 Demaio - A nice game from Mike. He hustled to the corners and forecheck, causing turnovers and panic moves from the defense. Mike gets it. Get the ball to Jared and get open. He seems to be learning how to move without the ball which is good because he's not that great moving with the ball.
8 Jack - "Easily the best game He's ever played by a mile" - Brendon Martino. Jack was jack. Though 3-0 is nothing to be ashamed of.
7 Johnny - If this defensive center starts losing his defensive ability, what's left? If you're not gonna bury EVERY chance, you better start preventing some on the other end. Time to recommit to defense.
6 Dave - Three loses doesn't look good on the stat sheet next to a 5 GAA. But Dave easily had the tougher saves to make on Jared, Brett, Ron and even Sams one timers. Yeah on some plays he looked slow to react but for the most part he lived up to all the mediocrity.
5 Ward - If he just stuck to defense he could've ranked above nick. Sometimes when he loses focus it leads to greatness. Friday, it didn't. Maybe next week he'll learn how to make a pass up the boards without firing a slapshot at Jared.
4 Borges - Who knew he was so stinking fast? Jonny boy played a decent winger and provided the only real threat from the white team. He's always good for a crappy wrap around or a no angle goal from the boards. Come to think of it, I think his mid air goal was a high stick. So now he's a cheater.
3 Nick - Panic. I've seen him panic with Cindy forechecking. It's a problem.
2 Jared - He definitely ran more than anyone else and almost had one of the top 25 end to end to end goals I've ever seen.
1 Brett - His stick is quicker, his legs are quicker and his decisions are quicker. White team struggled all night to penetrate the zone. And even when Brendon tried the always successful dump and chase, Brett was there first and carried the ball out of danger. The only thing they could do is shove Brett from behind in frustration.
Honorable Mention: Ron - Ron had a good night and even had a game winner. But the first two weeks were sooooooo bad. It's gonna take another good week for him to crack the list.
74 comments:
I'm old, I'm senile and I'm back... well 2 outta 3 ain't bad. 3P's ship has sailed. Guest posts only
Here's a first and probably the last. I enjoyed reading WPR's post. Of course being old and senile doesn't mean I can't see, so needless to say I don't agree with the top 11 list.
I do agree with Ron as an honorable mention. When has 'consistency' EVER been part of his game? Dedication for showing up ya ok he can get a check there, but he's got no commitment to playing hard week after week IMO. I gotta reach out to him, we haven't been in touch in quite a while.
Do I really panic?
Good to know
Nick when you yelled, "FRESH LEGS" on Ron's first shift as he used Brendon's dump and chase play to run past you... ya that set the tone for PANIC imo.
That might of held water for anyone else except the senior citizen of the bunch.
Course WPR must have specific examples... but then again he might just be blowing smoke up your hockey shaft. He has a way with words... (haha I still got it) hey WPR you SUCK
Nobody can tell what WPR values. Usually attendance is the most important. I thought a game winner vaulted someone into the top 5
You never know what WPR is gonna do. That's what makes him so great and a must read every week.
Stats!
Box score picture!
Both will hopefully be up this afternoon. What day works best for everyone this weekend?
Praters can play Sunday, probably at 7:30. My father could do Sunday. Dave and I should be good for either day.
I'm out for sunday. Friday I'm a maybe probably
Either day. Let's do Sunday. Brett will show
Im out for sunday
In for Friday
Sorry, thought I brought the stats with me to work today. They will be up tomorrow. I'm checking with another goalie in case we do Friday and my father can't play. Hopefully we can determine the day and time by tomorrow.
Mike wants Friday, either way for me
I have the ice tourney sat and sun
Ron is apparently getting sensitive in his golden years. I won't describe the heated debate we had earlier, but I can report that we have ended our decade long affiliation. He said he'd join forces with some other company named BB. Who is this BB? I asked if it was Big Butt, Inc. He abruptly hung up on me, so whatever have fun with that.
Anyways I didn't waste time going after a replacement. Someone who has personality, a guy who has a great perspective of the game, someone who knows how to keep accurate stats and will keep Johnny on his toes, and someone who 100% knows when to call for an icing to give his team a needed breather.
Now you guys be nice to my boy, my new protege.
Seeing this is likely the last year of Saugus, maybe we can bring back 100+ comments per/post. A tall order I know.
Don't believe everything you read.
I'd be in for Friday, you can believe that though :)
haha I forgot about that picture. Looking good back then Jared. Can you still pull that look off today?
IM BACK BABY!
Oh man, has this site gone to pot without me....I just spent the last 5 minutes reading all your blog posts from the past year....
And no one's ever read your blog
DeMaio is in for Friday
I love the ASSUMPTION that I could play either day. I've got a life! I've got things to do too you know!! I DO STUFF!
But yeah, I could play either day. Sad.
Though once Civ 6 comes out I'll be unavailable for a solid month.
Nobody plays computer games anymore Dave, just be an adult and get a ps4
Good to have Brendon back, now all we need is Dale and my life will be complete again!
I'm in for either day, but prefer Friday.
@Brett, correction: YOU have never read my blog. Other people have.
Oh, wow, will you look at that? I made Brett's cool-guy list, I mean, WPR's rankings.
Wait, is it a good thing to be on the list or not? I think the latter. Hopefully he'll just leave me off the list next time...
I think I know how Brett, I mean, WPR calculates his rankings:
First, he takes the number of games played and adds that to your point totals for the week, then he multiplies by your shoe size and divides by the number of milliseconds since Jan 1, 1970 (old-school computer reference there).
Viola. Or maybe it's just in the order that he happens to hate you that week. Either way, I'm sure I'm right on the money with that.
Stats are up.
So it looks like Brett, I mean, mystery-WPR-person wrote that I said this about Jack:
"Easily the best game He's ever played by a mile"
First of all, if you're going to quote people, at least be accurate with your material. I never said those words. Which game? We played three.
Was any of those games his best he's ever played? Probably not. But what I said was it was his best WEEK ever. That takes into a lot more factors.
Go back in time and find me a week where Jack, not only went undefeated, but also beat both his sons in the process for each game. I don't think you'll find one.
You'd have to go back several years before you can find a game where he played against Dave anyway.
So that fact that he gave BOTH of his kids a pants-down spanking puts him right near the top of his best weeks ever, just for that fact.
Now, Frankenfinger, don't put words into my mouth. You make it seem like I made Jack out to be better than Dave last week. Do I think Jack outplayed Dave? No.
Did Dave have more difficult saves to make? Yes. But I don't see how Dave's performance, or what he had to face, has anything to do with Jack's performance.
"Jack was jack." you said? Jack was not Jack. If Jack was Jack, we would have had at least 5 more goals that go in that night, including JB's wrap-around.
Did he stand on his head to make plays? No. But he did just enough to win. If Jack has an average night for Jack, we at least win game 2, maybe even get close to another win.
Jack was not Jack. Jack was Jack-hammer, or Jack2 (ah, throwing in an old Tekken reference there).
IMO, even though pretty much our whole team except for Dave blew chunks, he should have been ranked higher than everyone else on our team.
But you seem to have a strange way of showing your hatred for certain players, so we understand why you did what you did. Or maybe we don't. Or maybe we don't care. Either way, who cares.
I thought dad played out of his mind, singlehandedly keeping his team in game 2 in particular with some huge saves. Best week I've seen him play. He had great defense -- in fact both teams had very good defense (even though i faced about a dozen breakaways. I think Jared had six...) -- but I thought he outplayed me last week.
I will buy a PS4 when it comes out with games worth buying. PC is the clear winner.
Good stuff Brendon. The only thing I disagree with is the hatred WPR has. I think WPR is a pompous, biased, lover of himself smart-ass. But he has staying power and his ratings are huge. For some unknown reason he enjoys a rabid following. People refresh their browser continuously for his latest piece. Go figure
I disagree with Dave, you played better than Jack, but Jack played above average and was definitely the reason they were unbeaten that night.
Frendon is back...
The Man, the Myth, the Legend, he's a Frendon to all things Saugus Hockey
So...when are we playing?
John wants to know if we can play Sunday instead, as the rink is booked on Friday from 7-9.....unless more people would rather play at 9pm on friday...Please tell us your preference so we can book the rink asap.
And BTW, you can thank the Professor for convincing me to come out of retirement.... ;-)
Someone create a new thread for who is in/out for Friday @ 9pm or Sunday @ 7:30pm
I wonder what frendon's blog was like with elliot and Andrew providing feedback for him.
I cant even imagine how valuable some of the critiques he gave them each week were. I'm guessing there's a lot of "that was your best week ever buddy. Do you think I played really good too?"
Crap. Work thing came up. I can't play Friday night anyways, so if you play Friday, you'll need to get two goalies.
No comments are allowed on my blogs. I just post the stats. :-)
Sunday it is then...
So who is definitely out for Sunday? Brett, Ron, Nick, Mike d....you guys are all out? Everyone else and the praters are in for Sunday?
Mike D is in
Anyone else find it creepy that frendon and 2 underage boys were the only ones allowed to view a private website?
Is to catch a predator still looking for episodes?
Since when is 19 considered underage? Besides, I find it far creepier that this is where your mind goes first....
Nevermind guys. Only 1 of the 2 allowed on the website were underage. It's not creepy anymore.
No, it's not creepy because you were the only one thinking that....and as usual, managed to get your facts wrong ....AGAIN.
Hey, Professor, you convinced me that these guys had grown up now. I think maybe you were wrong...maybe I need to re-retire from this site...
We have grown up. We still don't tolerate idiotic, boring, long winded, meaningless, useless, uninformative posts from someone who thinks having the username tequila mockingbird is cool.
You're the only person who's opinions are incorrect.
If you want, maybe we could get elliot and Andrew on this site to make you feel more comfortable.
"We still don't tolerate idiotic, boring, long winded, meaningless, useless, uninformative posts"
Ok, then leave.
Seriously, besides whining about me using my FFL name for my blogger account (thanks, Brett, I'm sure everyone here really cares what you think of my blogger name), does anyone have any thoughts on playing this Sunday @ 7:30?
We need to know to book the rink. Brett, you're not invited.
I preferred Friday but could play Sunday too
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John asked me to post this here in this thread (I don't have permissions to create a new Blog Post, so Nick, or whoever, if you want to re-post this in a different thread, go ahead)
Tentatively planning to book the rink today for Sunday @ 7:30pm
So far, looks like we have:
IN (9 + 2 goalies):
John, Frendon, Dave (G), Jack (G), Billy, Mike D, Elliott, Andrew, Jared, Mike W, Ron
OUT (2):
Brett, Nick, ???
Havent heard from (5):
JB, Griff, Joe, John F, Bobcat
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I might have a +1 ... I'll send John F a text as well...
Jared: Any chance of Sam again?
Anyone else bringing anyone not mentioned here?
We are currently right on the edge of enough players...we need more people to commit...
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Book it
UPDATE:
Rink is booked for 8:00pm on Sunday (there was a group that booked 6-8 before us).
Please update status if you can make it and aren't on the list.
I have +1 from my hall now.
I think I can speak for everyone when I say that it's hilarious when frendon refers to himself as frendon. So excepting. It's like he's just one of the guys.
And I think I can speak for everyone when I say that it's hilarious that you think we all care what a Canadiens fan has to say about nicknames. Or anything.
One week on the blog and I've doubled the comments on this site. You're going have to go wayyy back to find a blog post with 50+ comments.
Brett, keep it up, and I'll just leave again. The people who want me here for entertainment would be upset with you if I left again because you can't seem to get rid of that diaper with those FrankenBerry hands of yours.
But then again, you don't care what anyone else thinks, do you #1? Well, then perhaps this was just a failed experiment. Sorry, PPP, looks like you were wrong. I tried. Brett just doesn't want to let it happen, I guess...
stupid brett
we can't have anything nice
Frendon is so selfish. Why does everything have to be about his enjoyment. Talk about having wet tissue paper for skin. He's the Gary tanguay of this site.
Tanguay didn't like being called a pedophile. Cant say i blame him
This is wonderful
I'm sorry frendon. I guess I got so excited to have someone express their awful, inaccurate observations, that I jumped at any chance to ridicule you. Maybe we could work out a deal where you only say something stupid 2 times a week and then I can only pick one of them to make fun of? We can hammer out the details as time goes on but I think this could be a great solution.
This totally goes against my standard operating procedures. But I guess it would get out eventually because WPR probably has connections with Wikileaks.
Here is an expert of what I told you Brendon... take special note of who was mentioned my name.
From: Brendon Martino
To:
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2016 9:49 PM
Subject: Re: You should get on the...
I'll post something tomorrow...btw, is this a new email address? What is that your work address or something?
On Tuesday, October 11, 2016, wrote:
I laid out the red carpet for ya. I think guys will not be full blown idiots. Brett is uncontrollable though, but we can handle him and put him in his place. haha
thats normally a faux pas ron
but its frendon
Leave Ron out of it... he was dismissed and is flying solo these days... btw Nick what happened to your game last week? Those moves of putting JB on D then forward then D had all the makings of an indecisive swirl.
I never claimed to be an english grammar major... I meant to type squirrel
no subs...got to shake up the lineup sometimes.
didn't work
If Hillary's emails can be leaked, anyone's emails can be leaked
Ignore Brett. Ok. Everyone else is fair game though.
JB you smell.
Griff you're fat.
Jared you're ugly.
How's that? No....that's not right. I take that all back. It would be wrong to just flamethrowing for no reason on a site dedicated to hockey...Maybe Brett will learn by example to just keep it to opinions on hockey and not dwell in the gutter anymore...
One can hope...It's never the ones you hope, er, think. (There's an AD reference for ya)
Am I over my limit for the week?
Too bad Brett won't be around to abuse/ridicule/berate/make fun of Frendon's +1 this week
Hockey is cancelled for this week. Not enough guys, and we also lost a goalie.
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