EASHL Transactions 10/9/2008

Team Pensblog have called up inept13astard, jerrrrrry, & tmkst13 from Team Pensblog B team. If any should refuse their assignments and pull a Kris Beech, replacements will be named.

In order to stay under the self imposed CAP, Team Pensblog have unconditionally released darst5 & roguegames892 due to too many nights in the press box.

If Team Pensblog B wishes to sign them to two-way contracts, be our guest. Rumor has it, there's an offer from the KHL for their services.

Conundrum

Our team is 493-412-53 which is good enough for 44th in division 1. But is that good enough?

I think the team needs to stop playing games with only 2 players...everything i've read seems to point to the fact that this hurts in the standings. I know the more we fall, the less people will care. It was fun being the 8th best team in the world....being 44th just doesn't have that pizazz. I don't want to take this thing too seriously either...but it's way too early in the season to give up. Maybe we need to call some people up from the B team...maybe we need to drop some people from our team. I don't know, i don't have the answers, heck i'm powerless to help at this point.

If anyone has ideas about how to fix it or if they don't care to do anything about it...let me know in the comments section.

I'll leave you with this lyric from a Relient K song....

Half of me is all about apathy
And the other half just doesn't care

Frozen Roster

A lot of people have shown interest in ThePensBlog Split Squad, so we're going to have to put a temporary freeze on the roster. There'll be a kind of "evaluation" period over the coming days and weeks and cuts may have to be made. I will let everyone know if/when we will be signing more players.

Stats, record updates, etc. to follow...

Stats

EA Sports, it's in the game. I guess Saturday night would be the equivalent of a lockout since the servers were out all night. Frustration city. Our current record as of this morning is 462-392-49 and we are in 26th place for some reason. Not sure how/when we dropped from 8th to 20th...and now 26th, if anyone has any clue...rant in the comments section.

Also, i might be on the DL with an angry wife. Typical recovery is anywhere from 2 to 7 days.

Points/gm
1.41 blackatom
1.39 polishsteel
1.33 kevbo67
1.23 kaynaan
1.15 eze4384

Goals/gm
.88 blackatom
.78 kaynaan
.74 kevbo67
.64 pittsmo
.62 eze4384

Assist/gm
.87 polishsteel
.59 kevbo67
.58 heavensent
.55 bigtourist
.54 avad

Hits/gm
17.01 samsara
16.32 jaos
15.44 Tjenk
14.51 nate
12.57 wildthing

Most PIM/gm
5.16 samsara
2.88 nate
2.24 jaos
2.08 ajn24
2.05 devilwoacause

Least PIM/gm
.80 blackatom
.89 eze4384
.95 heavensent
1.00 bigtourist
1.09 penscupchamps

Best +/-/gm
.414 bigtouris
.352 blackatom
.333 devilwoacause
.228 pittsmo
.125 wildthing

Worst +/-/gm
-.647 jaos
-.427 samsara
-.400 avad
-.318 ajn
-.280 nate

Rumor has it

That this team is a beast. Our record is 421-367-46, which is a cool 54 games above .500. We are ranked 8th, but if we continue at this pace...who knows? But don't just take my word for it.....here's what a teammate had to say;

"cougar300 (guest): TPB took down the #1 ranked team - was 1-0 most of the way. We made it 2-0 with about 4 min left, then they scored with around 54 seconds left. We held on despite a wild flurry at the end for the 2-1 win. "

EA SPORTS World: gw01

That's polish in the corner getting molsested for the team so that Braun can put it home for the W.

EA SPORTS World: NEW VIDEO

AJN24 going where grandma hides the peanut butter

EA SPORTS World: NEW VIDEO

AJN24...because goals vs the Red Wings are always the best

EA SPORTS World: ot winner

Bigtourist, buries it in OT.

New feature / videos

Hey ya'll, some of you may have noticed we have a chat box on the bottom of the page. We're still working on how to best implement this feature to make this site better. Ideally it would be somewhere near the top, but we're working on a way to make that happen. EDIT: DONE. Until then, go ahead and try it out at the bottom of the site. It's easy and it's a quick way to get conversations going.

Here's a hit by Byeskey...

EA SPORTS World: hit

Here's a video from Nate...

EA SPORTS World: 11 second game winner

Join up - Get hot chicks

Being on ThePensBlog Baby Pens squad makes me wanna touch myself too. With that being said, we need more players on the squad. Leave a post on here or email tmkst13@gmail.com and we'll get you added. Gamertag tmkst13.

We keep moving up in divisions and laying the pimp-hand down on all comers. Get on before we need to create a Wheeling Nailers PS3 squad.

Videos yo

EA SPORTS World: charlie ot

eze 3484 dangle

First of all how did you slow it down like that? nice job. Second, the defending on that play is criminal.

EA SPORTS World: TPB OT GWG

Randy(heavensent) with the OT game winner

Show us your skills

Email me at aronvad@gmail.com if you have any videos that you've saved from your EASHL games that you want to share with everyone. Here's my first one. I played this game with wildthing and ajn24, we were up 1-0 in the third at the time even though we created tons of opportunities all game long. This was definitely the best forechecking game i've been part of, as we constantly would create turnovers in the opponents zone and turn them into quality scoring chances....the video picks up with me just stealing the puck after a weak clearing attempt

EA SPORTS World: game over

avad buries it

Toronto Flames =Stunned

One of the bigger upsets in teampensblog history as we were able to knock off the number three team in the world early this morning.

They are the Toronto Flames, and they are as gay as you could imagine.

If you ever play them, they have one player "Pavel Bure."

They have a human goaltender who is mud.

We were down 3-2 with .40 seconds to play, when Kevbo tied it up.

With .15 seconds PolishSteel found Kevbo again, and the celebration was on.

Everyone is going to have to pick it up, because Juice[Owen] and Canaan are down with injuries to their PS3.


Peace