CAHL state of play: eight teams still perfect, T5P Hockey is plus-34, and the first big collision lands in Sunday D.
Six weeks in and the unbeaten count is down to eight after Springfield Iceotopes and Miami Valley Monsters met in Sunday D and only one walked out clean. T5P Hockey pushed its league-best differential to plus-34, and Sunday C South B and Thursday C North are each a three-team standoff at the top.
Six weeks in and the collisions have started. Last week nine teams were perfect, and two of them, Springfield Iceotopes and Miami Valley Monsters, shared a division and were headed for each other. They met. Only one walked out clean. The unbeaten count is down to eight, the front-runners in a few divisions have stopped pretending it is a race, and the top of Sunday C South B and Thursday C North is a three-team standoff. Across all 30 active divisions, here is where it stands.
Still perfect
Eight teams have not lost a game. The only spotless records left in the league:
- Wednesday B West A: T5P Hockey (6-0-0, 51 for, 17 against, plus-34)
- Wednesday B West B: Winking Lizard (6-0-0, 40 for, plus-22)
- Thursday C South: Jetstream Jets (6-0-0, 9 against)
- NTPRD Chiller Sunday D: Springfield Iceotopes (6-0-0)
- Sunday C North B: Army Of Darkness (6-0-0)
- Monday D West B: Native Sons (5-0-0, 5 against, plus-20)
- Monday D East: Beaver Taps (5-0-0, 7 against)
- Monday D West A: Columbus Chupacabras (5-0-0, 8 against)
Last week's list had nine names. This week it has eight, and the one that fell did not lose to a stranger. Springfield Iceotopes and Miami Valley Monsters were both 5-0-0 in NTPRD Chiller Sunday D. They played. Iceotopes are 6-0-0 and alone on top at 12 points. Monsters are 5-1-0. That is what a collision looks like. Somebody's record ends when they meet, and Sunday D just proved it.
T5P Hockey is not playing the same sport
T5P Hockey went from plus-30 to plus-34 in a week without breaking stride. Six games, 51 goals for, 17 against, the biggest differential in the entire league by ten goals. They are now tied for the league lead in goals scored and they are still the best defensive team in their division. When a club outscores everybody and out-defends everybody at the same time, the standings are a formality. Wednesday B West A is over. Somebody tell the rest of the division.
The best races on the board
Two divisions have a three-team standoff with nobody willing to break it. Sunday C South B has StickMan CPA, Only Dudes, and Silver Bullets all knotted at 10 points. StickMan is plus-24 on the season, the second-loudest differential in the league, and they still cannot shake the other two. Thursday C North is the same picture: The Thursday Knights, Purple Koolaid, and Barons² all tied at 10. The Knights have given up five goals all season, fewest in the division, and it has bought them exactly a share of first. The first team to string two together owns the division until someone takes it back.
Loudest offenses
Some teams just outscore the problem. Through six games:
- The Chicken Selects, 51 goals for (Wednesday B East)
- T5P Hockey, 51 (Wednesday B West A)
- Shakers Raw Dogs, 41 (Wednesday B East)
- Cocktails and Dreams JV, 40 (Tuesday B West B)
- Winking Lizard, 40 (Wednesday B West B)
- Brewskies, 40 (Friday B)
- DK Brewzers, 40 (Sunday B West)
- StickMan CPA, 40 (Sunday C South B)
Two teams are tied for the league lead at 51, and the Chicken Selects are doing it with two losses on the board. Scoring is not the same as winning. Just ask Wednesday B East.
Stingiest defenses
The other way to win. Fewest goals against, five games or more:
- Rink Rats, 4 goals against in six games (Thursday C South)
- Native Sons, 5 (Monday D West B)
- The Thursday Knights, 5 in six games (Thursday C North)
- Puck Uglies, 6 (Monday D East)
- Red Knights, 6 (Monday D West B)
- Beaver Taps, 7 (Monday D East)
Rink Rats have allowed four goals in six games and they are not even the team everybody is talking about. Monday D West B put two teams on this list. Whoever is in those nets is worth knowing when the division has a sub opening later.
Sunday is still the giant
Ten Sunday divisions, more than any other day on the calendar, 114 teams across the slate. 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
A dozen teams are 0-fer through three or more games. Six weeks in, that is a hole, not a grave. The team that is winless today and finds its lines by week nine 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. East, North, and West are each more than ten teams deep, all level at zero, all waiting for a first puck drop. They get their own look the moment games are played.
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