Got a horror story for you guys from last week.
I was the #1 seed playing the #6 seed last week. The last time I lost a head-to-head matchup in my pool was week 7 (Novemeber 2011).
Going into Sunday I was up 8-2. Was pretty much smashing the guy who I was playing the entire week too.
The GM who I'm playing picks up Ryan Jones late Saturday night as a spot start for Sunday.
Ryan Jones' stat line on Sunday: 1G, 2A, +3, 1SHP. That short-handed point (which was a secondary assist into an empty net) gave the guy who I was playing a category so now it's 8-3. Furthermore, those 2 assists by Ryan Jones put the guy who I was playing up by 1 assist, so now it's 7-4 for me.
Going into the later games, I had Seabrook, Yandle, Bobby Ryan, and Ray Whitney. The guy who I was playing just had Brian Elliott left.
At this point in time, I needed just 1 assist from Seabrook, Yandle, B.Ryan, or Whitney to tie the assist category, and needed Phoenix to score just 1 goal to be guaranteed GAA/SV%.
So what happens.....the worst possible scenario. Seabrook, Yandle, B.Ryan, Whitney combine for 0 assists in their games, and Elliott gets a shutout which barely gave the guy who I was playing GAA/SV%.
The matchup ends up going from 7-4 to me, to 6-5 for the other guy. Heartbreaking loss to say the least