{"id":502,"date":"2008-09-30T22:19:15","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T03:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.btsh.org\/bruise\/?p=502"},"modified":"2008-10-01T13:55:34","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T18:55:34","slug":"playoff-preview-opening-round-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/playoff-preview-opening-round-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Playoff Preview: Opening Round (Part I)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Game Will Feature A Lot Of Hair (And Sand)<\/h4>\n

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#15 Gouging Anklebiters (4-13)\u00a0vs.\u00a0#18 Bad Touch (1-15-1)
\nLocation: <\/strong>Corlears North, 12:00 PM
\nAll-Time Series: <\/strong>Gouging Anklebiters lead 5-4-1
\n2008 Result: <\/strong>Week 10 – Gouging Anklebiters 6, Bad Touch 0
\nGame Notes: <\/strong>An 0-7 start buried the Anklebiters’ hopes for a high playoff seed this season, and although they played a little better down the stretch, they still find themselves in the play-in game.\u00a0 Despite having one of the more dangerous rosters in BTSH, the ‘Biters have struggled this season due to frequent absences from some of their key players.\u00a0 Star forwards Eric “El Guapo” DiPierri and Caroline Morrissey-Bickerton have both missed several games this year for a variety of reasons, as has starting goalie “Quiet” Mike O’Connor.\u00a0 Although the Bad Touch only have one win to show for the season, captain Eric Devlin is quick to point\u00a0out that\u00a0they are a lot better than their record may indicate, as four of their losses have been by only one goal.\u00a0 Devlin leads the team with twelve goals, which ties him for\u00a0eleventh place in BTSH.
\nEli’s Pick: <\/strong>Gouging Anklebiters.\u00a0 DiPierri won’t score four goals again, like he did in their regular season meeting, but the ‘Biters will still prevail.
\nDerek’s Pick: <\/strong>Gouging Anklebiters.\u00a0 To emphasize, they have the ability to shock a lot of teams…if everyone actually shows up.<\/p>\n

Jefferson Hendricks\u00a0Will Destroy Any Elves Who Get In His Way<\/h4>\n

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#16 Mexican Standoff (2-12-2-1) vs. #17 Happy Little Elves (1-14-1-1)
\nLocation: <\/strong>Corlears South, 12:00 PM
\nAll-Time Series: <\/strong>Mexican Standoff leads 1-0
\n2008 Result: <\/strong>Week 5 – Mexican Standoff 5, Happy Little Elves 2
\nGame Notes: <\/strong>Despite the offseason addition of offensive superstar Ellery “The Nature Boy” Gillette, Mexican Standoff finds themselves in the play-in game for the second consecutive year.\u00a0 Even with Naitch’s offensive prowess in the mix, the team has scored only twenty-seven goals this season, with no individual player having more than four.\u00a0 The Happy Little Elves are still winless since their first game of the season, but have been playing much better hockey in the last few weeks (although they would have been hard-pressed to play worse).\u00a0 Since the addition of Garrett Carrino over the break, the Elves have lost two games by only one goal and another game against the Corlears Hookers in shootout.\u00a0 Carrino now leads the team with five goals, even though he has only played in four games.
\nEli’s Pick: <\/strong>Mexican Standoff.\u00a0 They do have an all-star goalie.
\nDerek’s Pick: <\/strong>Happy Little Elves.\u00a0 Carrino really could be the next elite player in BTSH.\u00a0 It should be fun to see the numbers he puts up in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Game Will Feature A Lot Of Hair (And Sand) #15 Gouging Anklebiters (4-13)\u00a0vs.\u00a0#18 Bad Touch (1-15-1) Location: Corlears North, 12:00 PM All-Time Series: Gouging Anklebiters lead 5-4-1 2008 Result: Week 10 – Gouging Anklebiters 6, Bad Touch 0 Game Notes: An 0-7 start buried the Anklebiters’ hopes for a high playoff seed this season, […]<\/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":[10,115],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-previews","tag-2008-season","tag-playoff-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502"}],"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=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}