Victor Hedman (left) flips the puck into the net, the fifth defenseman taken in this years draft pocketing 6.0 points (1g, 1a) on Saturday, his Cherry Pickers team padding their $10.00 bonus lead and, once again, moving into first place in the overall standings.Cherry Pickers: 58.1
Baba Booey: 39.9
Baba Booey played well on Saturday as Blake Wheeler (3a) guided his team to a 9.0 point evening, but alas, the first-year franchise still lost ground to their opposing opponent - the Booey’s glaring at an 0-2 start as they trail the poppin' Pickers by a seemingly insurmountable 18.2.
LAST DAY LINEUP (Cherry Pickers: 4 players; Baba Booey: 10 players)
Cherry Pickers: Nathan MacKinnon, Mikko Rantanen, Nicklas Backstrom, Darnell Nurse
Baba Booey: Jack Eichel, Dylan Larkin, Blake Wheeler, Dominik Kubalik, Kevin Fiala, Rasmus Dahlin, Jared Spurgeon, Neal Pionk, Jacob Markstrom*, Semyon Varlamov*
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At press time, start not confirmedWild Ducks: 44.6
SC Cobras: 36.4
Well now, lookie here - the thought-to-be-out-of-it SC Cobras have drawn to within 8.2 points after outpointing the Wild Ducks 11.1 to 0.0 on Saturday. That’s the good news. The bad news: the Ducks will be bringing their entire 12-man team to Sunday, the Cobras chances of a comeback win a longshot, at best.
LAST DAY LINEUP (Wild Ducks: 12 players; SC Cobras: 9 players)
Wild Ducks: Connor McDavid, Taylor Hall, Jack Hughes, William Nylander, Rickard Rakell, Anthony Mantha, Phil Kessel, Brent Burns, Erik Karlsson, Cam Fowler, Anton Khudobin*, John Gibson*
SC Cobras: Mika Zibanejad, Mark Stone, Mike Hoffman, Sam Reinhart, Jonathan Marchessault, Samuel Girard, Drew Doughty, Jordan Binnington*, Igor Shesterkin*
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At press time, start not confirmedCentral Red Army: 49.0
Misconducts: 32.3
Mark Scheifele (1g, 2a, 5.0 pts) kept his team’s slim win-hopes alive, the Misconducts outpointing the Central Red Army 8.3 to 5.0 on Saturday - the entrenched Army still leading this battle of undefeated teams by a robust 16.7.
LAST DAY LINEUP (Central Red Army: 9 players; Misconducts: 8 players)
Central Red Army: Viktor Arvidsson, John Tavares, Kailer Yamamoto, Kirill Kaprizov, Nikolaj Ehlers, Brayden Schenn, John Carlson, Shea Theodore, Juuse Saros*
Misconducts: Leon Draisaitl, Mark Scheifele, Jake Guentzel, Jakub Vrána, Evander Kane, Tyson Barrie, Ryan Ellis, Linus Ullmark*
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At press time, start not confirmedBoulder Flyers: 23.7
Lumberjacks: 51.9After lumbering their way through Saturday (3.0 points), the Boulder Flyers now have the worst score of the week, a paltry 23.7 points dropping the torpedoed team just 0.1 points shy of the basement. The Lumberjacks are humming an entirely different tune, the jacked Jacks very much in the bonus-hunt, trailing the $10.00 prize by just 6.2 points.
LAST DAY LINEUP (Boulder Flyers: 7 players; Lumberjacks: 12 players)
Boulder Flyers: Kyle Connor, Chris Kreider, Victor Olofsson, Nazem Kadri, Roman Josi, Filip Hronek, Scott Wedgewood*
Lumberjacks: Mitchell Marner, Sidney Crosby, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Gabriel Landeskog, Paul Stastny, Ryan O'Reilly, Anze Kopitar, Kris Letang, Devon Toews, Colton Parayko, Frederik Andersen*, Casey DeSmith*
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At press time, start not confirmedRocky Rocks: 29.9
Bluliners: 38.9
Flirting with the league-worst score all week, Rocky Rocks finally found the gas pedal, a Patrice Bergeron-fueled (2g, 1a) effort drawing the team to within 9.0 points of an improbable win. GM Hamilton is still smiling however, the three-time champion confident his Bluliners dominant 11-player Sunday will hold-off the surging Rocks.
LAST DAY LINEUP (Rocky Rocks: 8 players; Bluliners: 11 players)
Rocky Rocks: Artemi Panarin, Evgeni Malkin, Johnny Gaudreau, David Perron, Ryan Pulock, Matt Dumba, Mikko Koskinen*, Cam Talbot*
Bluliners: Auston Matthews, Patrick Kane, Filip Forsberg, Riley Smith, Matt Duchene, Jesse Puljujarvi, Jaden Schwartz, Alex Pietrangelo, Mark Giordano, Robin Lehner*, Philipp Grubauer*
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At press time, start not confirmedIce Hogs: 33.7
Polar Bears: 32.1Close throughout, it's only fitting that the Ice Hogs and Polar Bears bring the same number of players to the final day of the week. The Hogs will begin play with an advantage, the team using Zach Werenski's first goal of the season to commandeer the lead on Saturday; GM Henry skating into an
11-game Sunday with a 1.6 point lead.
LAST DAY LINEUP (Ice Hogs: 8 players; Polar Bears: 8 players)
Ice Hogs: Max Pacioretty, Clayton Keller, T.J. Oshie, Tomas Hertl, Alex DeBrincat, Morgan Rielly, Jakob Chychrun, Connor Hellebuyck*
Polar Bears: Matthew Tkachuk, Mathew Barzal, Elias Lindholm, Logan Couture, Pavel Buchnevich, André Burakovsky, Cale Makar, Vitek Vanecek*
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At press time, start not confirmedBONUS LEADERBOARD1. Cherry Pickers, 58.1
2. Lumberjacks, 51.9
3. Central Red Army, 49.0
4. Wild Ducks, 44.6
LINK: Standings