CAHL state of play: the perfect club drops to six, Jetstream Jets run it to eight straight, and Sunday C North A is a three-team standoff.
Nine weeks in and the unbeaten club is down to six after Springfield Iceotopes and Honkies both took their first loss. Jetstream Jets are the first team in the league to reach a clean 8-0-0, T5P Hockey is still plus-35 and untouchable, and Sunday C North A is a three-way tie at 12 with all three leaders sitting 6-2-0.
Nine weeks in and the perfect club is down to the die-hards. Last week seven teams had not lost a game. This week it is six, one club has become the first in the league to run its record to a clean eight, and the best race on the board has moved again, this time to a Sunday C North A that will not break. Across all 30 active divisions, here is where it stands.
Still perfect
Six teams have not lost a game. The only spotless records left in the league:
- Thursday C South: Jetstream Jets (8-0-0, 41 for, 9 against, plus-32)
- Wednesday B West A: T5P Hockey (7-0-0, 53 for, 18 against, plus-35)
- Wednesday B West B: Winking Lizard (8-0-0, 52 for, plus-29)
- Monday D East: Beaver Taps (7-0-0, 8 against, plus-29)
- Monday D West B: Native Sons (7-0-0, 8 against, plus-22)
- Monday D West A: Columbus Chupacabras (7-0-0, 11 against)
Two names came off the list this week, and neither went quietly. Springfield Iceotopes, the team that survived the Sunday D collision a month ago, finally took a loss and sits 7-1-0. Honkies did the same in Sunday C South C, 7-1-0. Both are still leading or right there in their divisions. Perfect is a tier you belong to until you do not. Six left.
Jetstream Jets hit eight straight, T5P is still the wall
Jetstream Jets are the first team in the league to take a record to a clean eight, 8-0-0 in Thursday C South, plus-32, and they have allowed nine goals across the whole run. That is a title team unless somebody in Thursday C South remembers how to score. Meanwhile T5P Hockey is still plus-35, still the largest goal differential in the entire league, still unbeaten in Wednesday B West A. When the two best differentials in the building are a scorer and a wall, the rest of the league is playing for second.
The best race on the board
Last week's logjam in Sunday C South C broke. The new tightest race is one division over. Sunday C North A has three teams knotted at 12 points, all 6-2-0: The Mighty Drunks, Bad Hombres, and Fat Axes. The Mighty Drunks own the tiebreak on goals for at plus-23, but a two-point cushion in a division this tight is a rumor, not a lead. Purple Koolaid and Demons are one point back at 11. The first team to string three together owns the division until someone takes it back.
Loudest offenses
Some teams just outscore the problem. Through eight games:
- The Chicken Selects, 63 goals for (Wednesday B East)
- Cocktails and Dreams JV, 54 (Tuesday B West B)
- T5P Hockey, 53 (Wednesday B West A)
- StickMan CPA, 53 (Sunday C South B)
- Winking Lizard, 52 (Wednesday B West B)
- DK Brewzers, 51 (Sunday B West)
The Chicken Selects are the only team in the league past 60 and they are doing it with two losses on the card. StickMan CPA is the quiet one here, plus-34 to go with the 53, the second-best differential in the league. Scoring gets you on this list. Defense gets you a banner.
Stingiest defenses
The other way to win. Fewest goals against, five games or more:
- Beaver Taps, 8 goals against in seven games (Monday D East)
- Native Sons, 8 in seven (Monday D West B)
- The Thursday Knights, 8 in eight (Thursday C North)
- Rink Rats, 8 in eight (Thursday C South)
- Jetstream Jets, 9 in eight (Thursday C South)
- Columbus Chupacabras, 11 (Monday D West A)
Rink Rats and the Thursday Knights have each allowed eight goals across a full eight-game sample. Thursday C South put two clubs on this list, Rink Rats and the unbeaten Jetstream Jets, which is why nobody scores on Thursdays in that building. 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
Just four teams are 0-fer through three or more games now, down from eight last week as the stragglers finally got on the board. Nine weeks in, if you are still looking for that first win, the clock is real but the door is open. The team that finds its lines by the playoff round is the team nobody wants to draw. 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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