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<\/a><\/p>\n#2 What The Puck (18-5) vs. #11 Fresh Kills (11-10-1-1)<\/strong> Muscles Has His Own Way Of Expressing The Number Two #2 What The Puck (18-5) vs. #11 Fresh Kills (11-10-1-1) Location: Tompkins Square Park, Time TBD All-Time Series: What The Puck leads 8-6-1 2009 Result: Week 4 – What The Puck 6, Fresh Kills 4 Game Notes: In what is becoming an annual rite of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[123,27,115,8],"class_list":["post-2012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-previews","tag-2009-season","tag-fresh-kills","tag-playoff-preview","tag-what-the-puck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2018,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions\/2018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nLocation:<\/strong> Tompkins Square Park, Time TBD
\nAll-Time Series:<\/strong> What The Puck leads 8-6-1
\n2009 Result:<\/strong> Week 4 – What The Puck 6, Fresh Kills 4
\nGame Notes:<\/strong> In what is becoming an annual rite of the postseason, What The Puck and Fresh Kills will\u00a0face off\u00a0once again this Sunday, their third playoff battle in the last four years.\u00a0 As expected, What The Puck\u00a0cruised through the first round, notching a playoff high six goals against the Mighty Squirrels.\u00a0\u00a0Although the quarterfinals provided a much tougher challenge for them, they ultimately prevailed over the Rehabs 2-1.\u00a0 Awaiting What The Puck in the semifinals will be Fresh Kills, the team that eliminated Larry’s Orange Juggernaut from last season’s playoffs.\u00a0 Entering as the 11th seed this year, the defending champions picked up where they left off with an upset victory over the sixth seeded Dark Rainbows in the first round.\u00a0 They continued the trend in the quarterfinals with a stunning 4-3 overtime victory over the regular season\u00a0champion Denim Demons.\u00a0 Can Fresh Kills extend this amazing\u00a0playoff upset\u00a0streak to seven\u00a0or will What The Puck return to the championship game for the first time since 2006?
\nKeys To The Game For What The Puck:<\/strong>
\n1.\u00a0 While Ollie Hartman leads What The Puck with three playoff goals, five other players are tied for second on the team with one goal each.\u00a0 Thus, What The Puck will bring an extremely deep and balanced offense to this game, where anyone on the team is capable of scoring (except Ant “Father Time”\u00a0Ventolieri, who claims to have assisted on all eight goals).
\n2. What The Puck’s “Italian Stallion” line has been its highest scoring unit throughout the season due to Adriano “Muscles Marinara” Bratta and Salvatore Malguarnera Jr.’s\u00a0“shoot first, pass second” mentality.\u00a0 However,\u00a0Captain Larry continues to relegate them to third line duty, mainly because of their linemate, enforcer Hannah Stark.\u00a0 She also claims to be Italian, and who are we to argue with her?
\n3. After\u00a0Adriano\u00a0“Muscles Marinara” Bratta’s dismal performance as goalie for the\u00a0Happy Little Elves last week, one has to wonder if his confidence is permanently shattered…not because he gave up seven goals, but because he had to play for the Happy Little Elves.
\nKeys To The Game For Fresh Kills:<\/strong>
\n1. Fresh Kills boasts six players with at least one goal in this season’s playoffs.\u00a0 With so many potential scoring options to cover, What The Puck will have to look in all directions on defense.
\n2. Two of the league’s top defenders man the blue line\u00a0for Fresh Kills in captain Kevin “The Planet” Foster and Scott Townsend.\u00a0 While Foster is notorious for his booming slap<\/span> shot from the point that always seems to generate scoring opportunities, Townsend is known as more of a pure defenseman, capable of shutting down any attacker.
\n3. With several players growing cranky without their afternoon nap, Fresh Kills vacated the court immediately after last week’s win over the Denim Demons.\u00a0\u00a0Should Fresh Kills\u00a0defeat What The Puck, it is unclear whether the team will be rested enough to compete\u00a0in\u00a0the championship game.
\nEli’s Pick:<\/strong> What The Puck.\u00a0 In a matchup of old vs. older, old wins.
\nDerek’s Pick:<\/strong> What The Puck.\u00a0 Nothing less than a championship will be acceptable for the Mad Dog.
\nWatchability:<\/strong> 4.5 Zimmers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"