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Even without running Casey Powell’s, or Mark Steenhuis‘ or even Brendan Mundorf’s numbers from their divisional semi openers over the weekend, you had to know guys like that would continue blowing it up in the clutch column now that the playoffs have kicked-off.

Better question, what player that was tied for 97th in regular season scoring is a playoff Money Baller chart topper after his first game in the ’second season’? Find out who he is, plus a number of other offensive ballers that stepped up their post-season game comin’ outta round one, right after the jump.

First off though, as many probably woulda expected after those insane late game heroics, Powell does indeed lead The Money Ballers after the first round of the post-season. Anyone who saw the game against the Knighthawks would obviously know why CP sits at the top of the heap, and for anyone that missed it, you missed one of the best individual post-season efforts the league has seen in several years.

How Friday night at Madison Square Garden probably played out…

Ed Comeau: Hey Casey. There’s about five minutes left in the game. You mind pulling us within one, scoring the tying goal in some sorta historical, dramatic, last second fashion, and then I guess once we hit sudden death, just drive like a mofo to the cage and pot one past one of this year’s most clutch keepers? I mean, if you got the time?

Casey Powell: Ummm, yeah, sure. I was kinda in the middle of figuring out how to stop this whole swine flu craze, but I could probably burn a couple minutes doin’ that for ya Coach.

Powell’s clutch right hand man, Mundorf, who crashed the clutch party during the regular season, continued to stamp his name on the league as a legit money scoring threat, currently sitting second in the rundown with five points that registered in the clutch calculations.

Regular season Money Baller king, Steenhuis, only had two points catch a spot on the breakdown this week, but of course, as usual, was the one scoring what turned out to be the game winning goal. That was the eighth Buffalo win this year Steenhuis has had his hand in the mix on the GWG. The dude just can’t help himself.

So the unexpected clutch performances?

San Jose Stealth soph Frank Resetarits was that guy that came up huge this past weekend, but barely found himself within the regular season’s top 100 scorers. It was actually kinda funny, cuz in last week’s player poll, one Stealth teammate jokingly asked what Resetarits had to do to be included as an option in a question that asked, “What clutch player would you want taking a last second shot in the playoffs to win a game?”. What he did against Portland would be one helluva start. Resetarits was huge in the Stealth’s high scoring win over the Jax and San Jose will need continued production like that from the former NLL Insider contributor if they hope to topple the Necks this coming weekend.

Note: Resetarits’ little bro, Joey, currently at Albany U, was a chart killer in the Jr. A playoff Money Ballers last summer. Check it out here…

Other slightly outta left field showings?

Buffalo mighta been led by Steenhuis and John Tavares in their win over the Blazers, but they got equally strong showings from both Sean Greenhalgh and Cory Bomberry, two guys that sat 59th and 43rd overall respectively during the regular season this year.

Greenhalgh scored a goal and assisted on three others, and all four scoring situations were big. He had one go-ahead goal, one game tying assist, one go-ahead assist and then factored in on the game winning marker too. Bomberry had similar numbers, which can be found on the leaderboard below.

And outside of Greenhalgh, who else assisted on Steenhuis’ game winner? None other than Mr. May himself, ultimate post-season lucky charm, Mike Accursi. Surprised? You shouldn’t be.

Player’s regular season scoring ranking in brackets.

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