The Boulder Flyers assault on Week 7 continued as Mikko Rantanen (3g, 1a) added 12.0 to his team’s week-best and season-best total of 84.8 points; the Flyers - trailing by 78.8 points just 12 days ago - now with an eye on what would be their 4th FHL Cup championship, the playing-big birds seated just 10.0 rows behind the best team in the league.Bluliners: 45.0
Boulder Flyers: 84.8Long before the Boulder Flyers outburst on Saturday, the Fat Lady had sung a few tunes in honor of this lopsided Probert division contest - the Flyers now leading the battered-and-bruised Bluliners by almost 40.0 points.
LAST DAY LINEUP (Bluliners: 2 players; Boulder Flyers: 3 players)
Bluliners: Elias Pettersson, Taylor Hall
Boulder Flyers: John Tavares, Alex Killorn, Thatcher Demko*
*Start not confirmed at press time.SC Cobras: 50.0
Rocky Rocks: 33.8
Pavel Buchnevich (2g, 1a) netted 7.0 points as the SC Cobras returned to their former 1st place home, the Cobras and their 15.0 point outing now 2.2 points better than the 2nd place Bluliners and 16.2 points clear of their H2H opponent; the Rocks win-hopes routinely dismissed after scoring just 3.0 points on Saturday.
LAST DAY LINEUP (SC Cobras: 4 players; Rocky Rocks: 6 players)
SC Cobras: Logan Couture, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Vincent Trocheck, Oliver Ekman-Larsson
Rocky Rocks: Patrice Bergeron, Claude Giroux, Troy Terry, Dougie Hamilton, Cam Fowler, James Reimer
*Start not confirmed at press time.Polar Bears: 41.7
Baba Booey: 42.9
Baba Booey’s stay at the top didn’t last long as a quiet 4.0 point Saturday dropped the team into 3rd place overall. The lack of production didn’t hurt the team’s H2H chances as the Polar Bears were held to just 2.0 points. The Booeys however will have a difficult time protecting their slim 1.2 point lead, the Bears bringing eight players and (reportedly) the kitchen sink to Sunday.
LAST DAY LINEUP (Polar Bears: 8 players; Baba Booey: 6 players)
Polar Bears: Sebastian Aho, Steven Stamkos, Teuvo Teravainen, Ondrej Palat, Seth Jones, Morgan Rielly, Tony DeAngelo, Marc-Andre Fleury
Baba Booey: Timo Meier, David Pastrnak, Alex DeBrincat, John Carlson, Matt Dumba, Jack Campbell*
*Start not confirmed at press time.Misconducts: 45.4
Ice Hogs: 33.4
With only two Ice Hogs skating on Sunday, the Fat Lady will soon be dispatched to Troy, Michigan (after she’s done scarfing her 9th order of hotcakes) - the Misconducts and their 12.0 point lead just hours removed from handing GM Henry and his hapless Hogs their league-worst 7th loss of the season.
LAST DAY LINEUP (Misconducts: 8 players; Ice Hogs: 2 players)
Misconducts: Mitchell Marner, Kirill Kaprizov, Sean Couturier, Trevor Zegras, Anthony Cirelli, Alex Goligoski, Kevin Shattenkirk, Andrei Vasilevskiy*
Ice Hogs: Brad Marchand, Charlie McAvoy
*Start not confirmed at press time.Wild Ducks: 43.4
Lumberjacks: 28.3With the Wild Ducks bringing both Alexander Ovechkin and Auston Matthews to final day of the week, the curtain has already been drawn on this pivotal Grimson division showdown, the Wild Ducks leading the still-lumbering Jacks by 15.1.
LAST DAY LINEUP (Wild Ducks: 6 players; Lumberjacks: 6 players)
Wild Ducks: Auston Matthews, Alexander Ovechkin, Kevin Fiala, Erik Karlsson, Brent Burns, John Gibson*
Lumberjacks: William Nylander, Mats Zuccarello, Victor Hedman, Quinn Hughes, Linus Ullmark, Mackenzie Blackwood,*
*Start not confirmed at press time.Central Red Army: 37.4
Cherry Pickers: 38.2The Cherry Pickers scored 7.4 points on Saturday; the Central Red Army, 8.0. All told, this match is almost as close as it was when the puck was dropped on Monday - the Pickers leading the Army by a mere 0.8 points with a combined 9 players remaining in the week.
LAST DAY LINEUP (Central Red Army: 4 players; Cherry Pickers: 5 players)
Central Red Army: Tom Wilson, Travis Konecny, Frederik Andersen*, Ilya Samsonov*
Cherry Pickers: Martin Necas, Andrei Svechnikov, J.T. Miller, Patrick Kane, Mikhail Sergachev
*Start not confirmed at press time.BONUS LEADERBOARD1. Boulder Flyers, 84.8
2. SC Cobras, 50.0
3. Misconducts, 45.4
4. Bluliners, 45.0
LINK: Standings