Each team has now played one game against all the others -- so three games apiece, or a quarter of the regular season. It's been kind of an odd campaign thus far.
The Victorias, in their quest for a threepeat, are a perfect 3-0-0, but all three wins were by the slim margin of a single goal. The other three teams are sitting at 1-2-0, but all having shown flashes of stronger play here and there.
Among individual players, it's been a slow start for three of league's biggest stars -- Cyclone Taylor (2 G, 1 A, -3), Frank McGee (1 G, 1 A, -2), and Gord Roberts (0 G, 2 A, -2). Meanwhile, Hod Stuart (2 G, 4 A, +2) and Hobey Baker (1 G, 5 A, +3) have jumped out to claim a share of first place in the scoring race, but the biggest surprise has been co-leader George Richardson (4 G, 2 A, +4), a second-line winger on the Comets who's now just two goals and four points shy of his career highs.
The funny thing about Richardson is that he almost didn't make the Comets' opening-night lineup. It was down to him or the newly acquired Fred Maxwell, and I opted to insert Richardson alongside Harry Trihey and Jimmy Gardner. Richardson and Gardner both scored in that first game, and theirs quickly became the Comets' best line and arguably the most dominant in the league in the early going. And poor Maxwell is still waiting for his chance to crack the lineup!
The Victorias, in their quest for a threepeat, are a perfect 3-0-0, but all three wins were by the slim margin of a single goal. The other three teams are sitting at 1-2-0, but all having shown flashes of stronger play here and there.
Among individual players, it's been a slow start for three of league's biggest stars -- Cyclone Taylor (2 G, 1 A, -3), Frank McGee (1 G, 1 A, -2), and Gord Roberts (0 G, 2 A, -2). Meanwhile, Hod Stuart (2 G, 4 A, +2) and Hobey Baker (1 G, 5 A, +3) have jumped out to claim a share of first place in the scoring race, but the biggest surprise has been co-leader George Richardson (4 G, 2 A, +4), a second-line winger on the Comets who's now just two goals and four points shy of his career highs.
The funny thing about Richardson is that he almost didn't make the Comets' opening-night lineup. It was down to him or the newly acquired Fred Maxwell, and I opted to insert Richardson alongside Harry Trihey and Jimmy Gardner. Richardson and Gardner both scored in that first game, and theirs quickly became the Comets' best line and arguably the most dominant in the league in the early going. And poor Maxwell is still waiting for his chance to crack the lineup!
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