{"id":1895,"date":"2009-10-06T20:42:28","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T01:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.btsh.org\/bruise\/?p=1895"},"modified":"2009-10-06T20:42:28","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T01:42:28","slug":"playoff-preview-opening-round-part-i-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/playoff-preview-opening-round-part-i-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Playoff Preview: Opening Round (Part I)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Will Either Of These Teams Actually Make An 11 AM Start?<\/h4>\n

\"Squirrels<\/a><\/p>\n

#15 Mighty Squirrels (6-13-1) vs. #18 Mexican Standoff (4-15-1-1)<\/strong>
\nLocation:<\/strong> Tompkins East, 11:00 AM
\nAll-Time Series:<\/strong> Mighty Squirrels lead 4-3-1
\n2009 Result:<\/strong> Week 2 – Mighty Squirrels 3, Mexican Standoff 0; Week 18 – Mighty Squirrels 6, Mexican Standoff 3
\nGame Notes:<\/strong> After another tumultuous season,\u00a0Mexican Standoff finds itself in the play-in game for the third straight time.\u00a0 Although the team’s record\u00a0is marginally better than it was last year,\u00a0Standoff will enter the weekend as\u00a0the lowest seeded team in the playoffs.\u00a0 Offensive leaders Ben and Gary have paved the way for the team this season, accounting for 29 of the team’s 47 goals.\u00a0 However, despite their scoring prowess, Ben and Gary were only able to tally one goal against the Mighty Squirrels in their two games this season.\u00a0 As a result, the Squirrels won convincingly in both contests, including a\u00a0shutout victory by rookie goaltender Eric Ramirez in week 2.\u00a0 Their offense is led by Arthur “Lil Weezy” Revechkis, who finished the regular season with 13 goals.
\nEli’s Pick:<\/strong> Mighty Squirrels.\u00a0 The Cheek-Scrappy line is due for a big game.
\nDerek’s Pick:<\/strong> Mighty Squirrels.\u00a0 They seem to have Standoff’s number this season.
\nWatchability:<\/strong> 3 Bens.\u00a0 The 18th seed has won this play-in game in both years of the current playoff format.<\/p>\n

That’s Gray!<\/h4>\n

\"Mega<\/a><\/p>\n

#16 Mega Touch (5-15-1) vs. #17 Mathematics (3-13-1-3)<\/strong>
\nLocation:<\/strong> Tompkins West, 11:00 AM
\nAll-Time Series:<\/strong> Mathematics lead 4-2-1
\n2009 Result:<\/strong> Week 3 – Mathematics 2, Mega Touch 2 (OT-SO); Week 20 – Mega Touch 5, Mathematics 3
\nGame Notes:<\/strong> Mega Touch’s offseason re-branding may have actually paid off.\u00a0 After notching only one win in 2008, the team has recorded five victories this season.\u00a0 However, the team’s offense still ranks dead last in goals scored with 33, and the Touch will once again have to wake up early for the play-in game.\u00a0 The Mathematics, on the other hand, rank dead last in goals allowed.\u00a0 As a result, they have gone winless in their last 10 games.\u00a0\u00a0Despite these trends, the Mathematics’ offense has been respectable, producing two double-digit goal scorers in Andy Pratt and Bradley Schmidt.\u00a0 They and the rest of the Mathematics will look to exploit Mega Touch’s 17th ranked defense.
\nWatchability:<\/strong> 2.5 Lus.\u00a0 There will probably be a lot of goals scored between these two Woodsworth Division foes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Will Either Of These Teams Actually Make An 11 AM Start? #15 Mighty Squirrels (6-13-1) vs. #18 Mexican Standoff (4-15-1-1) Location: Tompkins East, 11:00 AM All-Time Series: Mighty Squirrels lead 4-3-1 2009 Result: Week 2 – Mighty Squirrels 3, Mexican Standoff 0; Week 18 – Mighty Squirrels 6, Mexican Standoff 3 Game Notes: After another […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[123,115],"class_list":["post-1895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-previews","tag-2009-season","tag-playoff-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1895"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1910,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions\/1910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}