League News

In spite of Michael’s request to ‘crunch those numbers again’, there was no saving the The Michael Scott Paper Company. Things don’t always go ‘by the numbers’, and sometimes even the higher seeds in the SDFHL playoffs feel the crunch. A shocking Week Two put both the three and four seeds out of business, and even served notice to the one seed. Of the higher seeds, only Captain Linke’s Red has kept a clean/solvent record to this point, and all four lower seeds remain in the market for the Cup as we head into another round of closures this Sunday…

Anything can happen in the do or die (and do away with the concept of a tie) post season, but SDFHL’s first leg on the road to the Cup has historically gone in a fairly ‘by the numbers’ fashion. Captain Kaitlyn Brusso’s sixth-seeded ‘Golden Dundies’ bucked that trend, and extended Blue’s shocking three game slide with a 4-2 rally to victory. Black also overcame as an underdog, and both top seeds (Orange and Red) needed OT to survive a first round humbling, leaving the field wide open as we move into the knockout rounds…

It’s fitting, thematically, that Captain Joel Gattey’s ‘DWhite Schrutes & Scores’ would follow in their namesake’s footsteps and hit a peak with the ‘Assistant To The Regional Playoff Teams’ title. After a tough, short-benched loss to Black in their finale, White were still very much alive, needing just a loss from either Neon or Green to punch them through…nope. Even ‘The Silencer’ could not save this team…they just really schruted their way out of the playoff picture…best of luck at Staples!

Mother Nature put a damper on the final leg of the SDFHL Winter 2023-24 season, but all signs point to a dry course this Sunday. Five teams are already in, two are already out, and the remaining four are carbo loading as we speak in preparation for one final sprint to the playoff tape…

Captain Sean Bathgate’s ‘ScrantoNeonicity’ seems to still be in search of the groove as we edge into the final weeks of regular season play. Now sitting at 3-3-2, they have hit their share of high notes and low notes, with the most outstanding statistical evidence of that range coming with the see-saw-from-hell pairing of most goals scored (28) AND most goals allowed (27) so far this season. A convincing (and important) Week Ten win over Brown has them looking likely to play their way into the postseason encore, but a snare here, or a flat note there could have their season putting on the red light…