TEG, 11:29:07

Singing the Blues After a cheap shot administered to the Red's right wing--someone many were already pushing to retire--in only the second game of the week, it looked like Red was done for. And the home teams proved this sentiment to near unanimity as 9 of the next ten selected Blue.

Only, it turned out that not only were home teams an unheard of 2-13 this week, Red also took the week with a 10-5 record. Despite playing pretty much a man down, Red even had four shutouts to Blue's mere one. Even TEG himself was singin' the blues with two losses on the week with the Blue Team, post-incident.

Perhaps the league would be wise to take note of not only these stats, but the fact that both Todd and Chris 2.0, the current leaders in the standings, have most of their wins with Red. Todd is 3-0 and Chris 2.0 is 4-1.


Stats of the Week:
1. Only Todd has not lost a home game.
2. Should the season end today, both Todd and Chris 2.0 would break the save percentage record.
3. Despite being in third place, Justin is dead last in save percentage, .071 percentage points behind the closest competition. Thankfully for him he not only has the second best shooting percentage, but easily leads the league in the least shots allowed (16 shots allowed less than the second place team). In fact, everyone has doubled him in saves made.
4. Justin is 2-0 against Original Four teams.
5. Chris 2.0 is 5-0 when not shutout.
6. Dan is 3-0 against player's whose names begin with a "K."
7. Pat has held his last four opponents to under 10 shots.
8. Chief has already won one more game than last season; Pat has equaled his.
9. Joe had 2 SOG versus Justin and won 2-1 then had 13 versus Kevin and lost 2-1.
10. Though now 0-6, Khris lost his first four games by one goal.
11. Kevin has yet to score more than two goals in a game this season.

Spotlight Stat of the Week: Chris 2.0 only allowed four goals in his three games this week, leading him to a 3-0 week [dramatic pause] but was still not even close to the history Todd made in allowing only one goal in his three games. Even looking back at the league's history when each team played only two games a week, no team has ever allowed only one goal in a week. Kevin allowed two in the first week ever played, but that was a two game week. Last season Todd, Kevin and Chief each had weeks of only four goals allowed, while Dan and Khris each bettered them once by allowing only three goals. But that's as close as it's been.

To pull of such a feat one must get two shutouts in a week, obviously, and the only time a player had previously gotten back-to-back shutouts as Todd did this week, was when nait pulled the trick in Season Four, but got them at the tail end of the one week and in the first game of the next. Todd gets a shot at the first three shutouts in a row in the first game of the week against Dan.

Should Todd's record of one goal ever be bettered, TEG has only one guess as to who might do that: Todd himself.

TEG's 0-3 Blues One week after laying into Kevin's bad 0-3 week, both TEG and Khris repeated the feat--Khris repeating his own feat, TEG repeating Kevin's. Going into the week, nait had the possibility of playing as an undefeated team against another undefeated team twice. Had won his first game and then played Todd undefeated and won, there was the chance that he and Justin could have both been undefeated still. Instead, what looked like primetime games of interest were walkovers with nait on the losing end.

Now TEG has both a 3-0 week and an 0-3 week in the same season, a feat that only Khris has managed to accomplish before: and he made the playoffs. But only one week after looking like nait of old, nait twice failed to pull out a win as the Blue Team against a depleted Red Team, even blowing a 3-2 lead against Justin before falling in overtime, 4-3. The key word would seem to be at this point: falling.