CAHL state of play: seven teams still perfect, the Chicken Selects seize the scoring crown, and the best race moves to the deepest division.
Seven weeks in and the unbeaten club is down to seven after Army Of Darkness took its first loss. T5P Hockey is still plus-35 and untouchable in Wednesday B West A, the Chicken Selects jumped to a league-best 59 goals for, and Sunday C South C is now a three-team logjam at 12 with Healthy Scratches and Honkies holding a game in hand.
Seven weeks in and the perfect club keeps shrinking. Last week eight teams had not lost a game. This week it is seven, the front-runner in Wednesday B West A has stopped pretending it is a race, and the best logjam on the board has moved to the deepest division in the league. Across all 30 active divisions, here is where it stands.
Still perfect
Seven teams have not lost a game. The only spotless records left in the league:
- Wednesday B West A: T5P Hockey (7-0-0, 53 for, 18 against, plus-35)
- Wednesday B West B: Winking Lizard (7-0-0, 47 for, plus-27)
- Thursday C South: Jetstream Jets (7-0-0, 9 against, plus-25)
- NTPRD Chiller Sunday D: Springfield Iceotopes (7-0-0)
- Monday D East: Beaver Taps (6-0-0, 8 against, plus-21)
- Monday D West B: Native Sons (6-0-0, 8 against, plus-21)
- Monday D West A: Columbus Chupacabras (6-0-0, 10 against)
The name that came off the list this week is Army Of Darkness, who carried a perfect record into Sunday C North B and walked out 6-1-0. Six wins and a sample-of-one stumble is not a collapse, but the spotless club is a tier you only belong to until you do not. Seven left.
T5P Hockey is still the standard, but the loudest gun is in the East
T5P Hockey is plus-35 through seven, still the largest goal differential in the entire league and still unbeaten in Wednesday B West A. That division is over. What changed this week is the scoring crown: The Chicken Selects jumped to 59 goals for, the most in the league, and they are doing it with two losses on the card. Wednesday B East is where the puck goes in the net. Three of the league's six loudest offenses skate that one division. Whether any of it adds up to a banner is a different question.
The best race on the board
The two three-way ties at the top of Sunday C South B and Thursday C North both broke this week. The new tightest race is in the deepest division in the league. Sunday C South C has three teams level at 12 points: Healthy Scratches, Honkies, and Spare Parts. Read the fine print. Healthy Scratches and Honkies are both 6-1-0, while Spare Parts got there at 6-2-0, which means the other two are sitting on the same points with a game in hand. Healthy Scratches are also plus-22, the loudest differential in the division. In a sixteen-team building, that is the team to beat until somebody beats them.
Loudest offenses
Some teams just outscore the problem. Through seven games:
- The Chicken Selects, 59 goals for (Wednesday B East)
- T5P Hockey, 53 (Wednesday B West A)
- Cocktails and Dreams JV, 48 (Tuesday B West B)
- DK Brewzers, 48 (Sunday B West)
- Winking Lizard, 47 (Wednesday B West B)
- StickMan CPA, 46 (Sunday C South B)
The Chicken Selects are the only team in the league past 55, and they did it in seven games. The score sheet loves them. The standings are a tougher room.
Stingiest defenses
The other way to win. Fewest goals against, five games or more:
- The Thursday Knights, 7 goals against in seven games (Thursday C North)
- Rink Rats, 7 in seven (Thursday C South)
- Beaver Taps, 8 (Monday D East)
- Native Sons, 8 (Monday D West B)
- Red Knights, 9 (Monday D West B)
- Jetstream Jets, 9 in seven (Thursday C South)
Rink Rats and the Thursday Knights have each allowed seven goals across a full seven-game sample. That is the defense that travels into the playoff round. Monday D West B put two teams on the list again. 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, and it now owns the best race in the building too. 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
Eight teams are 0-fer through three or more games, down from a dozen last week as a few finally got on the board. Seven weeks in, a winless start is a hole, not a grave. The team that 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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