Hockey Pool Week 23 Recap

Well, it's the end of the round one for both of my hockey pool playoffs. I had one team getting a bye that's why only one team were in action for the whole week.

In the Canucks4thecup league, my first round opponent was the 5th seed team and also the team I had success against all year long. It was a tough battle for me, especially earlier part of the week. My opponent had a huge lead as big as 12-1, which it slowly vanquished as I started fighting back. From a 12-1 lead, I was able to cut it back to 8-6 on Wednesday after a major win by my team's backbone, the San Jose Sharks. Witnessing Patrick Marleau scoring two goals on the Sharks' first game. So day after day, his lead has been slowly decreasing.

San Jose played back to back games. The second game was really epic! Patrick Marleau was once the hero again, notching two goals including one to save myself from a loss! However the Sharks fell short in the shootout. That day saw the real turning point of this week, when I forged ahead by a score of 10-7. What was really special about that day was that my opponent had literally all of his players playing, while I only have about half the team dressed, yet I still managed to get more points than him.

10-7 would continue to be the lead for me, until the end of yesterday where I used my last two moves to pick up two goaltenders to steal some categories for packing my lead bigger! I had the result I wanted. As both of my goalies did exceptionally well. Cory Schneider was great today! So I ended up prevailing by a score of 11-5.

Starting tomorrow, both of my teams will be in action!! In the NHL league, I'll be playing against a guy I had quite a bit of problem with. In the Canucksx4thecup league, I'll be playing against the guy I had quite a bit of success with. That being said, both opponents will be very tough, especially when both opponent has Henrik Lundqvist, Pekka Rinne, Alexander Ovechkin, Andrew Ladd, Brent Burns and Alex Burrows.

Lots of mutual players against me! Will my players be able to outperform theirs? Or will my playoff campaign be stopped. We will find out, hope God is on my side for this.