KL Week in Review: Week 20

Uh remember how I said last week that this was going to be very short on account of a forthcoming Month in Review post? Well, shit. It's still coming. In the meantime, here we sit after 20 (!!) weeks of competition:

A few notes:

• The Micahleks just can't crack 1st place.
• The TEEYOTES ARE IN A MONEY SPOT. I'm really happy about that. The happier Teehan is in this league, the happier the league is.
• Sadly it is at the expense of the Winter Claassics. That 4th place spot is hotly contested right now and I'd love to see some GMs in that zone make some moves before the roster freeze (March 6th). 
• The Powder Rangers have, despite losing Steven Stamkos, taken 14 weeks to hit 8th place. It is a credit to the strength of the rest of the team that they have remained even remotely competitive.
• On the same note, they are proportionately not much further behind 1st place now than they were on November 12th, on a Points:Points Behind Leader basis. Of course, an inverse of that is the Games Remaining:Points Behind Leader ratio which is not nearly as favourable. 
• Is 8th place a race between 3 teams? 17 points separate 8th and 9th place, whilst 30 whole points separate 10th from 11th. The Dicklas Lidstroms are 56 points back of a playoff spot. 
• I am heartened to see the Kovalchuk-less Vanrooser Canicks in 12th place. After spending the first half of the season in 16th place, they have steadily clawed their way up to 12th. They may run out of road before they run out of gas, but they are my long-shot favourites to take the 8th and final playoff spot.