Winners and Losers 11/17/09 edition

A few times a week I will break down the biggest winners and losers of the past few days. Here is the latest version of winners and losers

Winner-Ray Emery

I REALLY wanted the flyers to hold on to Biron in the offseason. I thought that his very respectable numbers were laregly deflated by last year's swiss cheese defense. I thought Ray Emery was too much of a question mark behind what would be the flyers' best defensive core in recent memory. Ray Emery has proven me to be a complete moron because he continues has been one of the top goalies in the league. His athleticism is something we haven't seen in goal since pre-groin explosion Hextall. Emery is a special goalie-crazy or not and The Flyers are damn lucky to have him.

EDIT: Esche may have been more athletic than Emery. But I was too busy looking at the gigantic rebounds he gave up to accurately analyze

Losers-Boston Bruins

The Bruins have been awful. They are likely to barely squeak into the playoffs a year after running away with the east and losing to a low seed in the playoffs. They will be the 2nd team from their division to suck directly after winning the east (see:08-09 Canadiens)

Loser-JS Giguere
Jean Sebastian Giguere sucks. He used to be good... but he's not anymore. Don't draft him in your hockey pool... Unless giving up 4 goals a game is rewarded. He's got so much talent but it seems he can't deal with being the backup to Hiller. Maybe a change of scenery would be good for him... But the team that I keep hearing about is the Leafs... So, yeah, he'll still have awful numbers


Winner-Anze Kopitar
Anze Kopitar is leading the league in scoring despite having only 1 leg.*

Losers-Anyone who still thinks Vinny Lecavalier will save their team
Did you hear that Vinny Lecavalier could be going to the Canadiens? Yeah, me either... But, did you hear that he's a talented, underachieving Quebecois on an underachieving team who is unhappy with his diminishing role despite bringing most of the misfortune upon himself? Yeah, that sounds about right...


Bold Prediction
The blue jackets will fall back to mediocrity sooner rather than later. Remember this so you can throw it in my face when I'm wrong

--TFS
*Anze Kopitar has 2 legs but, come on, admit you just googled "Anze Kopitar 1 leg"