An Article From The Fort Macfie Today's Harry Doyle
BERGLAND, ED � It was a tight see-saw battle in Fort Mac at the OK Corral Centre on Sunday evening which seen the Iceholes and Gangbang play to a 2-2 draw. Bergland was able to move into fourth place with the tie. Fort Mac moved from ninth to seventh with the tie but now find themselves three points out of the sixth and final playoff spot.
The Gangbang finish the season off against some tough competition on the road. They visit the second place Assassins this week and the third place Slammers in the final week. The Scott City Grrrowl were the first team to officially clinch a playoff spot. With the help from first round draft pick Martin Brodeur who finally returned from the IR, the Grrrowl doubled up on the Markerville Six Guns 4-2. The Six Guns move from a tie for seventh to ninth place following the loss; however remain only four points back from a playoff berth.
Gregville and Dionland skated to a 3-3 draw with the Gregville Assassins. Gregville remains in second spot and pending a huge disaster have pretty much locked up a playoff spot. The Twisters remain in tenth spot with the tie and sit six points back from the playoffs.
The Falcons slid into sixth place this weekend after knocking off the team that held the sixth spot last week the Nut Town Natives 4-2. Nut Town drops down to eighth, three points back from the Falcons. it seems as if Natives GM Travis Nutting has abandoned his team down the stretch and it is starting to show as they lost their playoff spot and don't look like they have it in them to make it back to the top six.
RumpyVill dropped from fourth place to fifth after suffering a 4-2 loss to the Brantown Slammers. Brantown remains in third spot with the win. The Slammers are only 7 points ahead of the sixth place Adamville Falcons where the log jam is. With bad games against Fort Mac and Nut Town to finish off the season it is very possible that the Slammers could not make the playoffs.
In a battle of basement dwellers, the Petes hammered on the Leafs winning 6-1. Marktown are four points behind Olchowyville for eleventh place. Neither team is mathematically eliminated from the playoffs but it will take a miracle for them to get to sixth place in two weeks. Only eight points separate the tenth place Dionland Twisters and third place Brantown Slammers. Anything can happen in these last two weeks of regular season play and it will make for some exciting hockey.
This could be the first team in franchise history that the Dionland Twisters don't make the playoffs. This could also mark the fourth year for the Olchowyville Leafs and 3rd year for the Marktown Petes that they do not make a playoff appearance. Scott City, Brantown, and Dionland lead the league with 5 playoff appearances. Fort Mac and Bergland are the only other clubs to make the playoffs in every season of their existence with two appearnces in Fort Mac and one in Bergland. |
