[Loki309]

First full week of Hockey is now in the books guys! I am seeing a lot of things that look crazy! People and teams that are doing better than I would have thought, teams and people doing crappier than I picked...but hey the season is still young! So far I haven't been doing so hot with my daily picks.

Total before this weeks game: 12/27 44%

10/13: 5/7
10/14: 4/5
10/15: 2/5
10/16: 4/7
10/17: 2/7 (OUCH)
10/18: 9/13
10/19: 1/2
Total from the past week: 27/46 about 58.6% this week!

Overall: 39/73 53.4% so far. Not to bad if I do say so myself!

Who's still holding their division, and who's fighting to gain it back? Let's look at the standings! NHL - Standings - Yahoo! Sports

Eastern
Atlantic - NY Rangers with 2 losses 6-1-1 and 13 points

Northeast - Buffalo and Montreal both 4-0 both have 9 points so far.

Southeast- Washington and Carolina both 3-1 with 7 points

Western
Central - St Louis sitting at 4-1 with 8 points (Det not to far behind at 3-1-1 with 7 points)

Northwest- Minnesota and Edmonton both 4-0 with 9 points

Pacific- San Jose at 5-1 with 10 points

Not to much change. Lets check the injury list. Below is the new injuries. NHL - Injuries - Yahoo! Sports

Boston Bruins
P.J. Axelsson LW Oct 18, 2008 Day-to-Day Muscle Spasms
Buffalo Sabres
*Jochen Hecht C Oct 14, 2008 Day-to-Day Surgery On Injured Finger
Carolina Hurricanes
Frantisek Kaberle D Oct 19, 2008 Day-to-Day Fractured Right Foot
Tuomo Ruutu LW Oct 17, 2008 Day-to-Day Groin
Columbus Blue Jackets
Christian Backman D Oct 18, 2008 Day-to-Day Lower-body Injury
*Pascal Leclaire G Oct 18, 2008 Day-to-Day Right Thumb
*Jared Boll RW Oct 15, 2008 Injured Reserve Head/neck Injury
Dallas Stars
Doug Janik D Oct 18, 2008 Day-to-Day Left Game - Facial Laceration
Detroit Red Wings
* Brad Stuart D Oct 18, 2008 Day-to-Day Left Knee
*Henrik Zetterberg LW Oct 15, 2008 Day-to-Day Slight Groin Strain
Edmonton Oilers
Sheldon Souray D Oct 18, 2008 Day-to-Day Muscle Bruise
Sam Gagner C Oct 18, 2008 Day-to-Day Lower-body Injury
Florida Panthers
*Bryan Allen D Oct 16, 2008 Day-to-Day Knee
Los Angeles Kings
*Jack Johnson D Oct 13, 2008 Injured Reserve Shoulder
Minnesota Wild
*Marian Gaborik RW Oct 16, 2008 Day-to-Day Lower Body
*Pierre-Marc Bouchard RW Oct 14, 2008 Injured Reserve Back Spasms
*Owen Nolan RW Oct 14, 2008 Day-to-Day Left Game - Lower Leg
Montreal Canadiens
Andrei Kostitsyn LW Oct 18, 2008 Day-to-Day Left Game - Head
Nashville Predators
Jason Arnott C Oct 14, 2008 Day-to-Day Right Finger Fracture
New Jersey Devils
Bobby Holik C Oct 18, 2008 Day-to-Day Left Game - Broken Right Pinkie
Brian Rolston LW Oct 17, 2008 Day-to-Day Sprained Right Ankle
San Jose Sharks
*Milan Michalek LW Oct 17, 2008 Day-to-Day Upper Body
*Douglas Murray D Oct 17, 2008 Day-to-Day Upper Body
Tomas Plihal LW Oct 14, 2008 Day-to-Day Lower Body
St. Louis Blues
D.J. King LW Oct 18, 2008 Day-to-Day Undisclosed Injury
*Patrik Berglund C Oct 17, 2008 Day-to-Day Undisclosed Injury
*Chris Mason G Oct 17, 2008 Injured Reserve Appendectomy
*Alex Pietrangelo D Oct 16, 2008 Day-to-Day Undisclosed Injury
Washington Capitals
*Tom Poti D Oct 18, 2008 Day-to-Day Groin
Donald Brashear LW Oct 16, 2008 Day-to-Day Hand
Viktor Kozlov C Oct 14, 2008 Day-to-Day Left Knee

* Indicates what I would pick as injuries that hurt the entire team.

Injuries to Goalies and defense men are always hard. Offensive players, while they are fast skaters, they just don't hit hard enough to muscle players off the puck when need be.

Offensive men are hard to lose on a team who's best defense is a good offense, and those teams would be Sharks Wild and Red Wings. Canes are kinda hurt right now too.

Now for the winning (or losing picks ):

10/20: Give me...Rangers by 4, Boston by 2, Montreal by 3, LA by 1.
10/21: I'll take...Buffalo by 3, Toronto by 2, Vancouver by 2, Atlanta by 1, Washington by 3.
10/22: Hmm...NJ by 2, Ottawa by 1, San Jose by 3, St. Louis by 2, Edmonton by 3.
10/23: Hard picks this day...Boston by 2, Dallas by 1, Carolina by 3, Nashville by 4, Buffalo by 2, Edmonton by 4, Washington by 2.
10/24: Great day for Hockey...NJ by 2, Ottawa by 2, Rangers by 4, Detroit by 3, SJ by 3, St. Louis by 4
10/25: Another hmm day...NJ by 2, Atlanta by 2, Ottawa by 3, Montreal by 2, Carolina by 1, Rangers by 4, SJ by 3, LA by 2 (upset), Minnesota by 3, Washington by 2, St. Louis by 2, Detroit by 4, Buffalo by 2, Edmonton by 2, Calgary by 3.
10/26: No games!

That's you "Whats What in Hockey" for this week. Remember if you have anything that you would like to be included in a post all you have to do is PM it to me. Happy Hockey.