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Dipsy Doodles and Rats Run the Table While Dermits Drown in Goalie Wins
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Breadbois Win on Hits and Goals
Walnutport beat Shickshinny 10-5-1, and the box score looks like a wrestling card. The Breadbois won goals 25 to 10, hits 90 to 33, penalty minutes 51 to 22 and shots 139 to 103, while also taking power-play goals, power-play points, short-handed goals, game-winning goals, blocks and goalie wins. Shickshinny's five wins came in assists, plus/minus, average time on ice, GAA and save percentage. Walnutport's goalies posted a 4.37 GAA and still won the week, which tells you what 25 goals will do for a team's confidence.
Hunlocks Goalies Bury Dillsburg
Hunlocks Most Wanted won 11-4-1, and the goaltending decided it. Their netminders collected five wins and two shutouts, with a 1.48 GAA and .923 save percentage against Dillsburg's 3.87 and .867. They also won goals, 17 to 12, power-play goals, 9 to 5, and blocks, 48 to 26. Dillsburg took assists, plus/minus, game-winning goals and hits, so the Dermits did not show up empty-handed. They just showed up to a net that kept filling. A shared short-handed goal each produced the lone tie.
Dipsy Doodles Pass Their Way to 14-1-1
Dover Dipsy Doodles beat Dover Defenestrate 14-1-1 in the all-Dover derby. The Doodles piled up 32 assists to 16, 18 power-play points to 7 and 62 hits to 25. Their goalies were stronger too, with a 2.68 GAA and .900 save percentage against 4.21 and .823. Defenestrate's lone category win came in plus/minus, 8 to 4. Shutouts were tied at zero, the only other category not claimed by the Doodles. A busy week of waiver pickups for Defenestrate did not change the outcome.
Noxen Edge Lehigh Despite a Minus-21
Noxen beat Lehigh 8-5-3 even though their plus/minus was a ghastly -21 against Lehigh's -8. What carried them was volume: 116 shots to 85, 75 hits to 37 and 49 blocks to 38, plus wins in goals, power-play points and game-winning goals. They also took GAA, 2.67 to 2.85, while save percentage was a statistical dead heat at roughly .897. Lehigh won assists, plus/minus, penalty minutes, power-play goals and average time on ice. Three ties, including goalie wins at 3-3, kept it close.
Trash Panda Overwhelms Backup Dancers
Trash Panda's Mischief took Taylor Swift Backup Dancers 11-2-3. The decisive number is assists: 29 to 6. Add 13 plus/minus to -11, 12 power-play points to 2, 87 hits to 28 and 53 blocks to 22, and the picture is complete. The Backup Dancers' two wins came in average time on ice and GAA, where their 1.85 beat Trash Panda's 3.04. Save percentage stayed tight at .910 to .900 in Trash Panda's favor, and goalie wins went 2 to 0. Three ties rounded out a comfortable week.
Pranksters Win Without a Single Power-Play Goal
Pvckin' Pranksters beat Sombrero 8-5-3 with zero power-play goals, against five for Sombrero. Their edge came in goaltending and physical play: a 1.48 GAA, a .941 save percentage, three goalie wins to none, plus 93 hits to 48 and 59 blocks to 44. Sombrero won goals 16 to 11, shots 140 to 116 and plus/minus, so the offense was theirs. But shots at that rate only matter if they get past the goalie. Penalty minutes tied at 18 and short-handed goals and shutouts were also level.
Rats Shoot Hung Henchmen Out of the Building
The Brooklyn Rats beat Hanover 13-1-2. The shot count says it: 117 to 37. Brooklyn won goals 16 to 4, power-play goals 6 to 0, hits 70 to 24 and blocks 43 to 14, and even took assists and goalie wins. Hanover's lone category win was save percentage, .910 to .884, a small consolation when you barely face shooting. The Henchmen's total of 4 goals for the week is the number that tells the story. Short-handed goals and shutouts were tied at zero, giving the two ties.
ESPN · 2027 season · week 2