Rich wrote one of the stars this week, see if you can guess which one…..

3rd star: Mike Teytelbaum – Sky Fighters

Not to be outdone by James P.’s amazing double header performance the week before, Mike took it upon himself to score SEVEN GOALS in his double header on Sunday. Notching the double hat trick and adding 1 for good measure, this kid tore it up on Sunday. Known colloquially as “Roman’s brother”, Mike has flown under the radar a bit this year.  On Sunday, however, he exploded to double the amount of goals he had on the season, and help his team jump up to the 5th seed.  I am trying to think of something funny for this one, but nothing is coming to me.  There is nothing funny about scoring 7 goals in one day. 

2nd star: Gil Valdes – Happy Little Elves

Gil scored all 4 goals in the Elves’ 4-2 victory over Poutine on Sunday, which was the exact amount of goals he needed to jump Gabe by 1 and cement his scoring title victory. Rumor has it that Gabe didn’t show up Sunday because he was afraid of losing to Gil. Who could blame him – this guy is always dangerous, he is consistently the scoring leader for his team and always a contender for top of the league, and this year he did it. Also, I have been told that Gil did all this even though is over 50. Funny, he doesn’t look a day over 49 to me. 

1st star of the week:  Eric Ramirez – Gut Rot

When Walker agreed to do the three stars, one of the requirements was not to give a star to a player who played in multiple games and did something great for a team he isn’t on. My reasoning is we should be using the free agent list more than we do. But I’m making an exception for Eric Ramirez. And I’m not making it because of how he played.
Gut Rot needed to wrestling win to get out of the play-in game for their first time in their history. But if things broke wrong, they could still win and finish in 13th. One way to ensure that wouldn’t happen, was if the Hookers lost both their games. So when Eric heard the Demons needed a goalie against the Hookers, he agreed to play net. But the best part was Fresh Kills needed an emergency goalie…also against the Hookers. So Eric agreed to play in that game as well. Eric ended up shutting the Hookers out and leading FK to a 1-0 victory. Then Eric reffed a game, and suited up against the Hookers for the Demons. He ended up winning that game too, 5-1. All that was left was beating Mega. But Guttie couldn’t score. So Eric decided to shut out Mega. Through regulation. And overtime. And 8…EIGHT!!!! shootout players.
So Eric, you don’t get a star for giving up 1 goal in six periods, an overtime and 8 shootout attempts. You get a star for being a total heel and ensuring you don’t play in the play-in game for the first time, and the Hookers do.

Honorable mention:  Larry Gilligan – Gut Rot

Larry scored the only shootout goal in NINE rounds (i heard it was 9, though Rich says 8) to both: 1) give his team their first winning season in team history (!!!), and 2) cause his team to not have to play in the play-in game, for the first time in team history.   Big ups, Larry.  Nuff said.