Manitoban hockey pool

Greetings hockey fans! Whether you’ve officially entered the 2010-11 Manitoban Hockey Pool or just interested in keeping up with the goings on of the NHL regular season, the Manitoban has you covered. Look for weekly updates in print or online at themanitoban.com to keep abreast of key injuries, major storylines and interesting stats. Also, check online for the full list of hockey pool team standings.

Early season duds

In 19 games so far this season, San Jose defenceman Marc-Edouard Vlasic has zero points and is a team worst -10. Fellow teammate Devin Setoguchi, two years removed to a 31 goal season, had only two goals and six points in the same number of games.

After 21 games this season, Philadelphia leads the league in goals scored. Remarkably, though, James van Riemsdyk still hasn’t accounted for one of the Flyers’ goals, the sophomore winger has seven points in nearly two months of play — all assists.

At this point in the season Nashville’s Shea Weber has put together decent enough numbers, the defenceman has seven points in 18 games. The glaring issue with Weber, however, is that he is currently a team worst – 6 and is currently sitting third on the Predators blueline scoring sheet, behind both Francis Bouillon and Cody Franson.

In Ottawa, hopes that Nick Foligno would finally take a step forward in development have been all but dashed. The forward has five points in 20 games so far with the Senators, still waiting for his first goal of the season. In net, Ottawa is also struggling as both Pascal Leclaire and Brian Elliott have underperformed spectacularly.

Montreal must be thanking their lucky stars some of the less paid players on the team are contributing on the score sheet — Scott Gomez, who costs the Canadiens a cool US $7.35 million off the salary cap, has tallied only six points in 20 games this season.

Columbus is still waiting for rookie Nikita Filatov to realize his scoring potential; the highly touted prospect has six assists and zero goals in eighteen games. Of course, the Blue Jackets aren’t getting much help in net from Steve Mason; the former Rookie of the Year has a 3.20 goals against average and has been consistently outplayed by backup goalie Mathieu Garon thus far this season.

New Jersey has an entire roster of underachievers in this early season. Forwards Ilya Kovalchuk, Jason Arnott, Patrik Elias and Travis Zajac have all played at least 19 games this season but none have more than 12 points.

Honourable mentions: Gilbert Brule, Andrew Cogliano, Rick DiPietro, Marc-Andre Fleury, Erik Johnson, Olli Jokinen, Antti Niemi, Dustin Penner, Wayne Simmonds, Brandon Sutter, Stephen Weiss.

Official hockey pool standings

  1. Red Dragons 7th UC 319.5
  2. Hal’s Johnsons 315.5
  3. ped posse killer 309.5
  4. S. Van Hellemond 304.5
  5. Honey Nut Chelios 301
  6. FTW 299.5
  7. Mujala 298
  8. Zanes 297.5
  9. Cleveland Steamers 295
  10. Canucks 4 the Cup! 294.5
  11. go_philly 294.5
  12. Team Mediocre 294
  13. Your Drunk Uncles 293.5
  14. The Ped Posse 293
  15. pirates 292.5
  16. Pierre’s Picks 292
  17. The Dead Flag Blues 292
  18. Big Tickets 291.5
  19. Jiminy Cricket’s AllStars 290
  20. Brent’s Fabulous Team 288.5
  21. The Hardy Astrom Specials 288.5
  22. Titan 288.5
  23. Coach Mousie’s Manslaves 288
  24. GAMESMASTER 286.5
  25. The Springfield Ice-O-Topes 286
  26. Charleswood Flyers 285.5
  27. The Red’r Racers! 285
  28. Nothing but Net 283.5
  29. Puckfaces 283.5
  30. Team Win 283
  31. Team 97 282
  32. The second cuming 282
  33. The Winnipeg Cormacks 282
  34. The Arse-Kickers! 281.5
  35. ButtKickers 280.5
  36. Team KelJan 279.5
  37. Illegal Curve 279
  38. Prestige Worldwide 278
  39. ProStars 278
  40. Datsyukian Destroyers 277
  41. Courtney’s Super Amazing Hockey Team 276.5
  42. Manitoba Wolves 275
  43. Ice-Ice Baby 273
  44. thewinningbunch 273
  45. thudermucks 273
  46. Team Coolguy1991 272
  47. Hurly Burly’s 271
  48. The Dirt Devils 271
  49. Bie the Die 270.5
  50. Monroeville Zombies 269
  51. Setka 269
  52. Purple Cobras 268
  53. Team Discovery Channel 268
  54. The Warm Guns 268
  55. Having a time 267.5
  56. Levels 267.5
  57. Team LAN 267
  58. Team second place 265
  59. Team T-Bone 264.5
  60. el jefe 263.5
  61. Bourkes Boys 262.5
  62. Winnipeg Coyotes 262.5
  63. Red Army 261.5
  64. CBLOZERO 260.5
  65. HUGE H.C. 260
  66. Sticks + Balls 257.5
  67. Hugz Not Drugz 257
  68. Titans 256.5
  69. Springfield Isotopes 255
  70. go getters! 253
  71. The Losers 252.5
  72. MDB Crusaders 251.5
  73. mydallasstars 251
  74. SLAPSHOT 249.5
  75. Transcona Grinders 248.5
  76. Gryphs 248
  77. Garrett’s Goons 247
  78. Prairie Rays 246.5
  79. Semi-Pro 245
  80. DC-SuperFan-69 242.5
  81. Fannystelle Catchitbigtimers 242.5
  82. Jets 242.5
  83. Funkhousers 241.5
  84. Flint Tropics 241
  85. wapikopa 241
  86. canucks986 240
  87. Pond Boys 240
  88. Falcon Own 239.5
  89. No Talent 239.5
  90. Smokin’ Ducks 239.5
  91. Washington Capitals 239.5
  92. Rogocki 238.5
  93. Here’s a Little Something… 237.5
  94. The Large Farvas 235.5
  95. The Mittens Crew 235.5
  96. QuickStop 234.5
  97. BOMBERJETS 234
  98. GolfLeafsGolf 234
  99. DiZASTA 231
  100. NOA 231
  101. The Wanderer’s 230.5
  102. Winulobacter dominaticus 230.5
  103. No Tooth Smile 229.5
  104. wish1474 229.5
  105. The Ice Kings 226.5
  106. Bourque Chops 224
  107. You Can Have the Umbrella 224
  108. El Tico 221.5
  109. Non-Issue 220.5
  110. The Woody’s 220
  111. Pickles & Cheese 218.5
  112. pencil sticks 217.5
  113. WABAAM 214.5
  114. Red Light Rukus 211
  115. Capitals 193
  116. The rich interior lives of athletes 123