PowerRankings

Yes a lower winning percentage than the Highlight Reelers, but the NorthVan Knights are coming off three wins in a row against each of the remaining teams in this tier. One of those victories being a convincing 6-1 win over the Highlight Reelers. From here on out, I expect NVK to replicate those performances, which in effect means any of the other teams vying for the T1 crown will have to go through NVK in the finals. I have always maintained that if the right bench shows up for this team they are the favorites, and it looks like their right bench is showing up at the best time.

Far and away the best winning percentage of the four teams in this tier, I have only placed HLR in second solely due to their 6-1 loss to NVK. I generally dont put that much stock into one game, but this late into the season we start seeing the rosters loading up into what you will probably see in the playoffs. Can HLR topple NVK come playoffs? Of course they can. Will they? Not sure, my crystal ball is in the repair shop.

Have actually fared better than the Bombers since the final re-tiering, going about .500 in the process. Jacob Chong leads the team in scoring once more, which restores some balance to the force. Justin Lee is back to PPG status, which I am sure he is pleased about (sarcasm) and Jun-Ho Kang has rebounded to get in his six games in time, WHAT A MONSTERRRR. Truth be told though, I dont think Goombas can take two of three against NVK or HLR.

Ever since tier 1 received the preverbial trimming of the fat, and only four teams remained, the Bombers have suffered, going 0-4-1 in their last five. True, they have a Overtime tie against HLR and one of their losses was in overtime against NVK, but they also got torched for 8 goals against Goombas. Is it me, or does every game between Bombers and Goombas have like 15+ goals scored. A big question is whether Jerry Wong plays for Bombers or HLR for the playoffs. With or without Jerry Wong, the prospects of Bombers lifting the ice604 cup this season are evaporating with each passing loss.

If you exclude their losses to the Vipers (who seem to have a mastery over them this season), the Drillers could have ran the table into an undefeated season. Drillers better hope they win their next game, and Underdogs lose theirs, as the Drillers' current trajectory puts them in a first round match up against Vipers. Assuming that is there is no form of a first round bye in this tier.

Adrien Wen's banner season is helping put UDG near the creme of the crop in tier 2. With the exception of their loss to Drillers last game, Underdogs' record has been spotless since the tier down. They will be even better once Jeff Louie starts scoring at a PPG clip we are more accustomed to seeing him get once the playoffs roll around.

An enigma thus far this season, I was expecting a rebound from this team once they got tiered down. By rebound, I mean I expected them to lay a savage, mean streets of LA gang beating on people. Hasn't quite happened as Top Gun flirts at a record just about .500 with no signs of their former selves showing up.

Previously on cruise control for most of the season, but has hit a few potholes in the road with losses to Coldshots in OT and in their last game to Dill Pickles. Still my favorites in this tier, Vancouver Ice Bears present a balanced package of offence, defence and goaltending.

Yeah, that’s right, I did 1a and 1b.... a cop out, but what a cop out! 4-0 in their last four with a win over Ice Bears, and their three wins before that all being by wide margins. Dill Pickles are peaking at the right time, and Yaz Jinnah's 1 goal and 21 assists deserves some sort of award. That is a monsterous stat line.

Have played well as of late, also beating Ice Bears but can't bust through that wall we call The Dill Pickles. Sean Reyes has been scoring in droves this year.

They have the best Goals For/Goals Against ratio for any team I have seen that is 2-5-1. They have the scorers that can allow this team to compete, they have had that all season long. They just don’t seem to have the attendance looking at their roster. Lots of 2's, 3's and 4's under the games played category.

Competitive for the most part, but pretty much find themselves on the wrong side of the win/loss column the majority of the time. They have been getting blown out of the water by the top three teams in this tier since their 5-0 win over Dill Pickles.

Finishing the season strong has not applied to the Spartans this season, having been accosted in three of their last four games, losing by scores of 11-4, 10-3 and 9-4. It won't get better, their last opponent of the season is Vancouver Ice Bears.

The top of a ridiculously competitive tier, Ron Gil now carries the offensive load for this team instead of the mostly absent this season Bryson Davies. Ron Gil's 20 goals thus far are actually pretty damn monsterous, so I am just going to repeat it: TWENTY GOALS.  One more time for good measure: TWENTY GOALS

The second of this really close tier, their GF/GA ratio is nearly 1:1 which is not too great come to think of it.  Gregory Ma and Shea Mcneil have led this team in scoring, but I assume Josh Malamas will play most games this playoffs if not every, and be right up there in playoff team scoring.

Have a better GF/GA than Marauders and have a lot of guys that can score. Raymond Ma, Eric Wong, Johnny Ly and John Vo each have over twenty points, and they have about five more players after that, that are a point per game. Bullets can easily have been put second in this tier.

Suffering from Vancouver Canucks syndrome, which sees them beat the higher seed teams and lose to the lower seed teams. Sakai's have delievered the business to the Marauders this season and also just beat Eh Team 6-2. But for all that they are still under .500.

Those new dark jerseys are fantastic, if I were to go on jerseys alone, I would put JTP in first in the tier, and second, and third, and fourth, fifth and six. But alas, such is not the case, and here we have JTP in fifth. Jonestown Punch doesn’t hold a win over any of the top three teams in this tier. Jeremy Smith narrowly holds his lead over Matt Hurst for team scoring title.

The last time Herb Lee played enough games to be playoff eligible for a team, I saw a pig flying when I looked out my window. But here we have it, 11 games played for Herb Lee. But I can that is really all the good news I can muster up for Fury.

Highest winning percentage of a tier that is even more close than tier 6. Razors are led by the two-headed monster Russ Metcalfe and Jeff Holten, who lead the team in scoring, and are also one and two in tier scoring. Will anyone shut them down for the playoffs?

Only two players over a point per game, and lead by a defenceman in scoring, but that doesn't matter Blue Devils have still been getting the job done all season long. Just keep the penalty minutes down boys, those are bound to catch up with you once playoffs rolls around.

Kim Chiefs have been getting a lot of offence from players we are not use to seeing at the top of team scoring. Jeff Chong and Gordon Leung are having career seasons right now, let us all bask in this, as everyone loves surprises.

The perfect .500 record of 3-3-3-1 with a GF/GA hovering near 1/1.  The league is demanding more offence from Rob Low, and we won't except "he is playing defence" as an excuse. Come to think of it, this team has a pretty strong defence on paper, it can maybe translate to playoff success.

Same boat as Shaolin Monks, just a hair under .500 with a GF/GA hovering around 1:1. Having been able to get over the preverbial hump, but at the same time it is not like they have fallen off the radar. They have seen themselves at the wrong end of a one goal loss more than they would have liked this season.

This is a disappointing spot for Icemen, at least for me. Allen McDonald and Sean Corbett haven't quite been able to lead this team to regular season glory, and The Stallion Julian has played a paultry three games for Icemen. Again this is a really close tier and pretty anything that happens come the playoffs, I will not consider an upset.

Continue to roll along here quite nicely, has been consistent all season, and has plenty of guys that are in the double digits for points. This tier is between them and the Whisky Militia.

Pretty much the same as the Baby bulls, but with not as high winning percentage. Whisky Militia has a lot of guys with double digits in points as well, and they also won their last game against Baby Bulls, but Baby Bulls hold the season series edge over Whisky Militia two to one.

Yep, same schtick, lots of goals for and lots of goals against. If Blings hope to be able to beat either Baby Bulls or Whisky Militia they must lower the goals against. Adam Fulkerson, Colin Chinack and Brian Chu each have over twenty points.

I am still crushed by the disappointment of Transformers 2, but after watching the masterpiece that was Inception yesterday, my soul has been soothed enough to place Autobots in fourth. Pretty fun stat: Their top three scorers are dmen, watch out for the end to end!

The defence has evaporated, and their PIM is sky high. Don’t really have a world beating scorer who can carry them through the games in which their defence falters. They will probably need to find a way to outscore an opponent come the playoffs.

To say it has been a rough season for the Ice Hawks is an understatement. Ice hawks continue to search for that elusive first win after having already been tiered down twice. Now if rookie sensation Nick Barrientos would just bury the damn puck like we expect them to, they could have ran the table to an undefeated season damn it.

What?! I put a defence-first team in first place?! How criminal! But yes, sticking with my defence first  philosophy, Titans have allowed just a smidgeon above 2 goals per game, which is pretty damn low for beer league. Kevin Lockwood has things on lockdown baby.

Have taken a more offensive approach to this season compared to seasons past. They have the highest goals for clip in the tier, now that is something new for this team. New addition of Eric Olarte has worked out quite nicely as he leads the team in scoring.

Woah, what a rebound, a reminder these guys were an easy last, in the last power rankings. But here they are in third, with a solid 5-3 record now. William Lee looks to be their go to guy as he has nearly double the points for the second leading scorer.

John Bablitz has tallied yet another career season for Camp Douglas, but that is not enough to put Camp Douglas at the same .600 winning clip as the other big three in this tier. Preston Chuhon and Jason Minarto only have three games played, what the heck guys!

Have a .350 winning percentage despite their GF/GA being pretty much even, Rockstars are a better team than their record otherwise suggests. Though they don’t have a single player that has broken double digits in goals yet, which is a bit of cause for concern.

Have suffered at the hands of the top four of this tier, but not to be lost in this is Phil Ramos' career season. This is the highest PPG clip he has ever scored at!

Scoring at an insanely high rate, Coldshots 2.0 average 6.5 goals a game. Everyone and their dog, and even their cat is a PPG on this team, whenever there is a problem on this team they will just outscore it. If someone gets H1n1 they will probably just outscore that too.

Not scoring at the same ridiculous pace as Coldshots 2.0, but close to five goals per game is nothing to sneeze at, not to mention a lower goals against average. This is another team with quite a few guys that are about a PPG.

Isn't in the same tier of offence as the top two, but their commitment to defence will always make up for what is their lack of offence at times. Brian Phan is having a goal scoring surge this season almost averaging a goal per game. This being done while playing defence!

Continues to respond to my callout of them suffering without Jesse Rupert. These guys were 0-3 when I said that, and after a little bit of re-tiering, and alot more winning they are not 7-3. D'oh!

The Uns and Olarte look like they will get in their required games for playoffs which is indeed bad news for the rest of the tier. Though since I am talking about attendance they probably should have had more players show up against Masterbladers to avoid that drubbing.

The players on the BottomFeeders continue to maximize their money spent by insisting on sending every game to OT so they can get more ice time. In their last ten games seven have gone into extra time. I have heard from my shadow agents that BottomFeeders have finally procured a bucket of pucks recently. Disturbing news.

The surge has begun for this team as well. Except is a surge going the wrong way, I started with this team in second place and now I have them in second last place to finish the season. Captain Isaac Chong  still refuses to put top prospect Sam Chin for the critical situations, someone rip that C off his goalie equipment!

Have been pretty much shut down this season, going 1-7-1. Nakyoon has seen his worst season ever getting just 10 points in 11 games. I guess the post Soo-Young Jang era did not go as well as I thought it would.

Continue their mastery of this tier with a .833 winning percentage near the end of the season, which I think may be the highest in the league. They have more than replaced Paul Dumas by the looks of it.

Lead all the way by their old Thunder core, Cleveland Steamers are in second. Ice604 rookie Daniel Del Bianco has himself together a nice little season compiling 17 points in 12 games. Cleveland Steamers are the only team to beat the Donkies in this tier, so far this season.

For all those goals, they don’t seem to have any player with stunning stats. I guess I will take that as a good thing, as it means spread out, harder to stop offence.

The highest scoring team in the tier is the good news for this team. Unfortunately for them they have more goals against than for. Corey Trogi and Robert Alyward have a combined 51 goals between them, that is more than some teams' entire offensive output!

Even with four players over the twenty points mark, Spuzzum Shockers still find themselves in the lower portion of this tier. Though they haven't allowed as many goals as Motley Crew they have allowed more goals per game, because they have two less games played. But at the end of the day when all is said and done, they have some sweet jerseys to show for it.

Billy Huynh is having his breakout season, however Koopa Troopas are not. Interesting Stat: Nam Nyugen is over a point per game in his two games played in net for Koopa Troopas, with three assists.

These are the Fighting Squirrels I have come to expect, sitting at 10-1, they, not the Donkies(my bad), hold the leagues' highest winning percentage at .846. This being done with Eric Chan Wong only having played four games.

A 9-4 record would be good enough to have Ghetto Superstars in first in a lot of tiers, but alas they are in the same tier as Fighting Squirrels. Kris Lee is the tier's top scorer with 34 points, 23 of them being goals.

Powered by Graeme Lin's 34 points, the Tigers have their stranglehold over the middle spot in this tier. Tigers have played Fighting Squirrels very close this year, with one loss being by one goal and another game being a tie.

Predators and Dai lo bots have pretty much all their wins against each other. I put Predators ahead of Dai Lo Bots simply because of their last match where they crushed Dai lo bots 9-1.

Wish they could play Predators every game, with the exception of the last 9-1 drubbing, every game has been a close contest. If only Dai lo Bots could replicate their victorous performance over Ghetto Superstars more often.