Player Scores
The player scores have now been updated after week 3, unless there are changes to the gamesheets prior to the gameweek change on Tuesday night. There has been changes in the last few hours so further amendments are still possible.
Our highest point scorer of the season so far was Manchester Storm’s Will Merchant who had three goals and two assists over last week to accumulate 50 points. Also making the top ten scorers last week was Johan Eriksson (41 points) and Anthon Eriksson (49 points) for Fife as they managed to beat the Dundee Stars twice. Both players picked up a lot of their points on the powerplay. Nate Kallen picked up 43 points after blanking the previous week to lead all defenceman with Jake Ryczek, Brady Norrish and Charlie Curti all scoring at least 35 points. In goal Tyler Beskorowany, Evan Weninger and Shane Owen all had two wins last week.
In what is becoming a curse of the top scorers, week 2’s top scorer Cody Donaghey was held scoreless last week to match what happened to Ara Nazarian the prior week. However this makes the top of the scoring charts closer than we have ever seen it before with 20 players being within ten points of this seasons top scorer Troy Lajeunesse who has scored 32 points in week 2 and week 3. Daniel Ciampini and Mitchell Martan are just one point behind. With so many players at the top of the scoring charts there are plenty of trading options for you to look at.
The link below has the updated scores.
League Standings
Last week’s second place team the “Belfast Bruins” have made the jump into first this week with a good score of 237.5. It is still tight at the top though with the top four being within 40 points of each other and 22 teams being within 100 points of first. Our double champion Jon Newbould is lurking with intent in 34th after a good week.
Top scorer of the week is “Bunch’O’Jerks” with 336.8 points and this was only one of three scores over 300 for the week. Captain Danny Kristo picked up 84 points for the week and he was backed up by Anthony Rinaldi, Brady Norrish, Daniel Tedesco and Andreas Heier. The goaltending duo of Tyler Beskorowany and Shane Owen also had two wins each to have over 50 points between them. Chris McCourt’s “Fresh Printz of Belfast” had 311.5 points to move up to 23rd in the standings and Karl Seed’s “Ulett The Dogs Out” moved into second in the league with 303.7 points last week.
Roster Moves
We have some more signing news this week with both Cardiff and Glasgow bringing in some competition for their forward lines who we can compare closely as both were in DEL3 last season. Cardiff have signed Brandon Alderson who brings some good experience across both North America and Europe. A better than a point per game season in the ECHL is a particular highlight but he has had plenty of success across Europe in recent seasons and put up 79 points last year in Germany. Glasgow have brought in Matt Barry who is a lot less experienced with last year being his first full professional season. However he still managed to score 71 points in slightly less games than Brandon. With two very similar seasons both are added into the game with a 8.0m value.
In terms of team selections we have a new leader, with Matt Greenfield now being selected in 112 teams having been traded in by an additional four GM’s. He moves ahead of Daniel Tedesco who drops to 108 selections and Cole Sanford with 97 selections.
The most popular trade target is last week’s top scorer Cody Donaghey who is now in an additional 9 teams but it still owned by just 28 GM’s. Rounding out the top 3 over the week are another two defenceman with Jordan Klimek being added to 8 more teams and Drydn Dow being picked up by another 6 teams.
In terms of who is out it is no surprise that Tommy Parran has been dropped by 6 teams with his move into the French League but their are still 8 teams with him still on their roster. Ollie Betteridge has also been dropped by 4 teams over the week with him not currently icing for the Nottingham Panthers and its quite surprising to see that 4 GM’s have lost patience with Ben O’Connor for the struggling Guildford Flames, even though he has scored points in the last two game weeks.
Upcoming Fixtures
We have games over four days this week and week 3 gets underway on Wednesday night with Manchester on the road again. This time they make the shorter trip to Sheffield for a cup game against the Steelers. The Steelers then also play twice over the weekend with a return trip to the Storm on Saturday, before a return home to play Dundee on Sunday. While Sheffield play three times over the week, the Glasgow Clan play just once with a home fixture against Nottingham on Sunday.
Belfast and Fife have a home-and-home series across Friday and Saturday while Coventry, Guildford and Cardiff rack up the games in their cup group playing each over twice the game week.
Don’t forget you can make trades for week 4 up until the trade deadline at midnight on Tuesday night.
