Safe to say this has not been a good weekend of predicting hockey. It was ruined on Saturday night, more of which soon, and the percentage is bound to take another hit. How bad was it, well find out below:
Saturday night:
Well it started off pretty decent with the Giants disposing of Braehead in the "O" by the odd goal in five and increase the travelling woes for Ryan Finnerty and the Purple Army. Thank you James Desmarais for that. However it didn't turn out as good as it did in the other two games, one more than the other.
Cardiff did win in Manchester, but not in regulation as Storm proved their mettle once more in the Shelter. Devils squeaking home and we mean squeaking home; in overtime. Further proof if you needed that, that Omar Pacha's team this season will be hard to beat on home ice this season. Then the surprise, Edinburgh Capitals. Nobody expected to see them come away from the NIC with a win, and a regulation one at that. But they did, and big props to them for that. A night to forget for Corey and as for the inflatable "bear" - that's an even bigger joke.
Sunday night:
Just as bad on the Sunday evening games with just one game predicted spot on. That came in Ice Arena Wales as the Devils slew the visiting Giants. We did think that the Clan and the Flyers would win but they would need longer than the regulation 60 to do so. However, they ripped the script up completely and beat the Panthers and the Stars with comparative ease so I am led to believe.
In the other game, Storm took the points against a Capitals team probably still living off the exhilaration caused by events in NG1 less than 24 hours before.
So just two wins out of seven! This now takes to the running total to 25 out of a possible 65 achieved, or in percentage terms .385 which is a drop of .012 from week number eight. Here's to more improvements in week number ten. Would be nice wouldn't it?
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