I hope everyone had a wonderful Holiday break, but now it is down to some serious business. We’ve had the Kraken, Thunderbirds, Steelheads and Sasquatch all punch their ticket into the Elite Eight. All four games will start today, two in the morning and two in the afternoon. Polls will close on Friday, roughly two days after they have begun. The Final Four will begin the following week, same pattern Wednesday-Friday. The Championship game will be during the week of January 8th.
Five Hole region:
Wolves vs Emeralds
Gross Misconduct region:
Totems vs Sockeyes
Poke Checking region:
Steelheads vs Sasquatch
Wrap Around region:
Thunderbirds vs Kraken
Comments
THUNDERBIRDS BOOM
By Throbert Bedford on 12.27.17 3:23pm
Looks like Kraken has met it's match.
By FlannelBacon on 12.27.17 3:44pm
My only request would be to not play that annoying Imagine Dragons song at the games.
I was lightning before the thunder. Dumb.
By Throbert Bedford on 12.27.17 3:47pm
The single worst song on commercial radio right now
In fact, keep Imagine Dragons away from the team in all capacities.
By Matt Tucker on 12.27.17 4:28pm
Thun-der, Thun-der, Thun-der, Thun-der...
Lightning and the Thun-der…
By Throbert Bedford on 12.27.17 4:41pm
Flagged
Multiple times
By Matt Tucker on 12.28.17 10:23am
Triaged.
Multiple fatalities
By Speedcat on 12.28.17 4:41pm
Frozen Four
Wolves, Sasquatch, Totems, and Thunderbirds. The Emeralds, Kraken and the Fish must be stopped NOW!
By Sixth Man on 12.27.17 3:47pm
Naw, Ems and Steelheads
are going to take their respective regions.
Emeralds vs Thunderbirds and Steelheads vs Totems in the Final Four.
By Matt Tucker on 12.27.17 4:27pm
Pretty much what I was thinking
I have tough time picking who will win out between Steelheads/Totems though my personal choice will be Steelheads. Honestly I would be happy with Steelheads, Totems or Thunderbirds just so the name is not Emeralds that one just grates me for some reason
By Malve on 12.27.17 4:43pm
Sockeye is better than Steelhead
Too bad sockeye had to go up against Totems earlier.
By Kyle_G on 12.27.17 8:31pm
Anything's better than Emeralds at this point.
By FlannelBacon on 12.27.17 8:41pm
They have a tough match up
In the Frozen Four if they make it.
By yearsago on 12.28.17 2:02pm
I don't understand
How people can hate on Kraken and call it cartoonist but then steam for fucking Sasquatch which seems equally cartoonish to me.
By Malve on 12.27.17 4:47pm
Sasquatch technically shouldn't be on the list
That was vetoed by Leiweke.
By gstommylee on 12.27.17 5:15pm
Good
It’s right there with Emeralds for me.
By Malve on 12.27.17 7:42pm
Neither should Thunderbirds, technically
That’s why this is all for fun.
By Matt Tucker on 12.28.17 10:24am
Why? Last time I checked, the WHL wasn't professional.
And, the name can be acquired. There’s even a decent chance it will be, so it absolutely belongs on the list.
By Throbert Bedford on 12.28.17 10:42am
Agree
By Speedcat on 12.28.17 4:43pm
thunderbirds weren't vetoed though
By gstommylee on 12.28.17 2:44pm
This isn't an official poll/tournament
By Matt Tucker on 12.29.17 5:05am
Farewell Squid, finally !
And take BigFoot with you
By Jeff - j1012 on 12.27.17 9:35pm
I find it ridicilous
that bigfoot is even in this fun tournament given its already been rejected.
By gstommylee on 12.27.17 10:36pm
Still miffed that Sea Wolves was nixed
But Thunderbirds were allowed to remain on the ballet.
Will be interesting to see how the name will be selected,
By Jeff - j1012 on 12.28.17 3:51am
We felt that we had to make a cut off somewhere.
Thought a professional team in Seattle was a fair cutoff.
By yearsago on 12.28.17 6:55am