GDT - Week 11

[Matthew]

4 day week
Monday-Thursday
Merry Christmas, gentlemen.

Eastern Conference

1. Buffalo Sabres 395.5 (Atlantic Leader)
2. Philadelphia Flyers 392.5 (Metro Leader)
3. Toronto Maple Leafs 366.5
4. Pittsburgh Penguins 356.5
5. New Jersey Devils 337.5
6. Washington Capitals 333.5
7. Ottawa Senators 325
8. Tampa Bay Lightning 324.5
9. Florida Panthers 320.5
10. Montreal Canadiens 266
11. Columbus Blue Jackets 254.5
12. Detroit Red Wings 232.5
13. Carolina Hurricanes 215.5
14. Boston Bruins 213.5
15. New York Rangers 188
16. New York Islanders 166.5

Western Conference

1. Dallas Stars 431 (Central Leader)
2. Vancouver Canucks 407.5 (Pacific Leader)
3. Anaheim Ducks 380
4. Colorado Avalanche 373
5. Edmonton Oilers 371.5
6. Minnesota Wild 367
7. Nashville Predators 361
8. Calgary Flames 344.5
9. Los Angeles Kings 324
10. Arizona Coyotes 312
11. Seattle Kraken 303.5
12. St Louis Blues 286.5
13. San Jose Sharks 252
14. Winnipeg Jets 199
15. Vegas Golden Knights 169
16. Chicago Blackhawks 158

[Shoalzie]

Just looking at my roster on Fantrax...I'm seeing Anaheim, Boston, Calgary, Carolina, Colorado, Edmonton, Florida, Montreal, N.Y. Rangers, San Jose, St. Louis, Toronto, Vancouver, Winnipeg won't even play a game this week...I know there's more. I know the Red Wings are out as well.

There's a lot of players in protocol but with so many teams out of action...good luck filling out a lineup this week. Rough math is showing me maybe 8 active skaters and Talbot in goal for me this week.

Everybody have a happy (and safe) holiday. My wife caught Covid a couple weeks ago. The three of us all stayed home for a week or so for quarantine but thankfully I had no symptoms and I tested negative to go back to the office. My 3 year old had some symptoms but he also tested negative.

[Matthew]

Yeah what a shit show. The league should go on a break.

[Shoalzie]

There's a good chance we see a brief shutdown of the league and I don't expect them going to China in February.

[dave1959]

How sick was your wife Scott? and did she have the variant?

[Shoalzie]

No idea what strain she's got. I don't think she ever had an elevated temp but she had a pretty rough cough and she'd get the chills at night. At this point, she's still technically Covid positive but her symptoms are less and less noticeable. She works at home already so this hasn't been much of a disruption for her.

For context, she got the Pfizer shot and I got Moderna. Neither of us had our boosters yet. I think where she caught is there's pocket of her family who are a little too right-leaning and don't believe in the vaccine and she probably caught at a bridal shower with those family members around. She was showing the strongest symptoms going back to (U.S.) Thanksgiving and before she found out about her anti-vax relative tested positive, we already spent the holiday with my mom. Thankfully, she didn't get sick.

Funny thing for me going back to Thanksgiving, I've been fine. I tested once and it came back negative. I've been relatively healthy for the month since she came in contact. My 3-year-old never got all that sick and he did test negative after a week of being home. He goes to daycare and he couldn't go back until they got confirmation of a negative test.

[Bruyns]

Merging weeks 11 and 12 might be in our best interest here

[kyuss]

yeah this week would be a joke otherwise. Not much time to do that though

[Matthew]

So are we going to put 10+11 together or no?

[Shoalzie]

So are we going to put 10+11 together or no?

Even if it's a small number of games for Monday through Thursday...you've gotta give teams a chance to adjust to the latest postponements and callups. That's why merging Week 11 and 12 makes more sense.

We're going to an interesting decision to make with the weeks during the Olympic break. If the NHL doesn't go and they schedule some of the makeup games during that time, we'll have to include those weeks into our schedule.

[Da_Hawks]

Agree to merge week 10 and 11.

[KapG]

I’m ok with a merge

[dave1959]

sounds good

[Shoalzie]

Now that I think about it, it makes sense to just tack these games onto last week. NHL rosters could look a lot different whenever play resumes after the holiday break. I think we're down to single digit games for Monday through Thursday.

[kyuss]

so who's going to make the merge? and should we dress our lineups assuming there is indeed a merge?

[Matthew]

so who's going to make the merge? and should we dress our lineups assuming there is indeed a merge?

We can just say it is done, and merge the two tonight after the week begins?

[Shoalzie]

Is that how it works? I just was looking through settings and I didn't anything on how to combine the weeks. I always assumed we were stuck with the periods Fantrax had setup.

[kyuss]

well my lineup would be quite different if it is for the next 2 weeks rather than this one only, and I probably won't last long before going to bed...

[Matthew]

Same.

[Matthew]

So are we going to put 10+11 together or no?

Even if it's a small number of games for Monday through Thursday...you've gotta give teams a chance to adjust to the latest postponements and callups. That's why merging Week 11 and 12 makes more sense.

We're going to an interesting decision to make with the weeks during the Olympic break. If the NHL doesn't go and they schedule some of the makeup games during that time, we'll have to include those weeks into our schedule.

I meant 11 + 12, not 10+11