Season 6 Is Underway!

The Thistles' Alf Smith beat Bulldogs goaltender Paddy Moran on the very first shot of the first game of the season. It's been non-stop action ever since! Below are some interesting developments from the first quarter of the season.

• The Bulldogs (3-1-0) and Victorias (2-0-2) sit atop the league standings after both missed the playoffs last season. The Dogs have allowed as many goals as they've scored, so they owe a bit of their success to Lady Luck; the Vics, on the other hand, sport a league-best +6 goal differential. 
• The Thistles may be in the cellar (1-3-0), but their top line of Dan Bain (2 G, 6 A), Alf Smith (3 G, 4 A), and Tommy Phillips (2 G, 5 A) has been the hottest in the league. 
• This year's freshman class has taken the league by storm. We might well have two rookies -- the Comets' Dick Irvin and the Vics' Newsy Lalonde -- finish in the league's top ten in scoring. For context, no rookie has ever finished among the top ten point producers.
• The Millionaires (1-2-1), the reigning Creighton Cup champions, are scuffling a bit despite fan-favorite winger Jimmy Gardner's league-leading five goals and last year's Forward MVP, Barney Stanley, creditably defending his trophy. No doubt the Millies would be higher up in the standings if not for the goonery of winger Billy Gilmour, whom the team acquired prior to the start of the season. In both of the Millies' losses to date, Gilmour has taken a boneheaded penalty late in the third period, and in both cases it resulted in a power play goal for the other team. Gilmour has quickly become the team's resident goat, and he'll undoubtedly be left unprotected in the expansion draft coming up after the season ends.