The Junior Showcase Tournament Restarted!

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In an unprecedented situation, the Junior Showcase Tournament has had to be replayed! The league has not commented on the situation other than to let us know we had to lace up our skates and replay the tournament to date. We had between 19 and 22 games played per team in the first go at things. Team Clue was on top with 26 points followed by Steel (24), Warriors (22), Royals (20), and Brigade (14). The standings were pretty close with several games to go before the news dropped about a restart.

 

The top 3 point getters in the first attempts were Liv Slater of the Brigade (34 points in 18 games), McDonalds BigMac of the Warriors (32 points in 20 games), Jasper Davis of the Warriors (31 points in 20 games) and Legacy Gaming of Team Clue (31 points in 19 games). Gregger McKeggegger of the Steel led the league in goals with 16. On the goalie side of things, Olivier Gauthier was sitting way atop the goalie leaders with a goals against average of 1.59 and a save percentage of .921.

 

So what happened after the restart? The first change we noticed was an alignment change that had the Warriors and Team Clue swap conferences. The second thing we noticed was a significant shake up in the standings! Now leading the way were the Royals with 31 points followed by Brigade (26), Team Clue (23), Warriors (20), and Steel (19). The restart was great for the Brigade who saw themselves improve greatly over their first go of things.

When we look at player statistics, Mason Jones of the Royals (32 points in 22 games) leads the way with teammate Francesco Mancini (31 points in 22 games) right behind him . Liv Slater who was leading the first attempt is still hanging up there with 30 points in 22 games, a slight dip in production but still very impressive.

 

Mason Jones is also the goal scoring leader with 18, 4 more than Gregger McKeggegger of the Steel and Jasper David of the Warriors who both have 14. Taking a look at the goalie leaders, Olivier Gauthier is still holding his own with the top save percentage of .901 and is second in goals against average with at 2.51 which is just behind Boolie Buchholz of the Royals who has 2.40.

 

I'm not quite sure how many games each team plays in this tournament but it look like there is still a large chunk of the tournament to go as we've played through game 55 and there are 75 total. To date, it's been fun taking part in the tournament, a really nice way to stay busy before the drafts come up. The restart has taken some of the shine off of the tournament but we're still getting to play games and that is what makes things fun (unless of course you're this player who completely fell off between restarts).

 

Thanks to the convenor and a good luck to you as we wrap things up and good luck to the teams the rest of the way!

 

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