CAHL state of play: the field thins to nine perfect, T5P Hockey is plus-30, two Sunday divisions won't settle.

Five weeks in, the field is thinning. Last week eighteen teams had not lost a game. This week the clean sheet is down to nine teams at a perfect 5-0-0, the front-runners are pulling away in some divisions and getting swallowed in others, and a couple of races have tightened into four-team scrums. Across all 30 active divisions, here is where it stands.

Still perfect

Nine teams are sitting at 5-0-0. The only spotless records left in the league:

• Wednesday B West A: T5P Hockey (5-0-0, 45 for, 15 against, plus-30)
• Wednesday B West B: Winking Lizard (5-0-0, 35 for)
• Thursday C South: Jetstream Jets (5-0-0, 7 against)
• Sunday C North A: Demons (5-0-0)
• Sunday C North B: Army Of Darkness (5-0-0)
• Sunday C South A: Jet Stream (5-0-0, 5 against)
• Sunday C South C: Honkies (5-0-0)
• NTPRD Chiller Sunday D: Springfield Iceotopes and Miami Valley Monsters, both 5-0-0 in the same division

Springfield Iceotopes and Miami Valley Monsters are both unbeaten in Sunday D. One of those records ends when they meet. Everybody else on this list has already separated from their division.

T5P Hockey is on another level

T5P Hockey is not just unbeaten in Wednesday B West A. They are plus-30 through five games, the largest goal differential in the entire league, with 45 goals for. Nobody else is close on both ends. When a team scores at will and the back door stays shut, the division is usually already over. This one looks over.

The best race on the board

Two divisions are dead even at the top. Sunday C South B has four teams knotted at 8 points: StickMan CPA, Only Dudes, Silver Bullets, and Psychobilly Slashers. Sunday C West is the same picture, four teams tied at 8: Hague Water, Kraken Beers, Lumberjacks, and Icebreakers. Nobody in either building has pulled away. The first team to string two together owns the division until someone takes it back.

One more logjam

Thursday C West has a leader but no breathing room. Chico's Bail Bonds sits on top at 9 points, and six teams behind them are within a single point of the lead. Fat Axes, Icebreakers, Barons, Jarvisburg Salmon Sharks, and The Thursday Heat are all stacked at 8. One bad Thursday and Chico's is in the pack.

Loudest offenses

Some teams are just outscoring the problem. Through five games:

• T5P Hockey, 45 goals for (Wednesday B West A)
• The Chicken Selects, 44 (Wednesday B East)
• Winking Lizard, 35 (Wednesday B West B)
• Cocktails and Dreams JV, 33 (Tuesday B West B)
• Shakers Raw Dogs, 33 (Wednesday B East)
• Brewskies, 33 (Friday B)

Wednesday night is where the goals live. Three of the six loudest offenses in the league skate Wednesdays.

Stingiest defenses

The other way to win. Fewest goals against, four games or more:

• Beaver Taps, 4 goals against (Monday D East)
• Red Knights, 4 (Monday D West B)
• Rink Rats, 4 in five games (Thursday C South)
• Ice Hawks, 5 (Monday D West A)
• Jet Stream, 5 in five games (Sunday C South A)
• The Thursday Knights, 5 in five games (Thursday C North)

Rink Rats and Jet Stream have held the door shut over a full five-game sample. That is the defense that travels into the back half of the season.

Sunday is still the giant

Eleven Sunday divisions, more than any other day on the calendar. Sunday C South C runs sixteen teams deep, still the largest single division in the league. If you want games, a sub spot, or a roster opening, Sunday is where the volume lives. It is also where most of the goalie pool's alerts fire, because more games on one ice slate means more goalies who come down with a work trip or a tweaked groin by Saturday night.

Still chasing the first win

Sixteen teams are 0-fer through three or more games. Five weeks in, that is a hole, not a grave. The team that is winless today and finds its lines by week eight is the team nobody wants to draw in the playoff round. Striking distance, not a verdict.

High School and Women's

The high school divisions and the Women's League are seeded and scheduled but have not put points on the board yet. Brief note for now. They get their own look once games are played.

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