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The Money Ballers: JR A Playoffs Edition

Well, all the provincial stuff is in the books and even though the Orangeville Northmen, Victoria Shamrocks, Edmonton Miners and Calgary Mountaineers are gettin’ ready to kick-off the Minto Cup later this week, The Money Ballers is closin’ up shop for the summer.

And… Cody Jamieson locked ‘er down in his typical dominating fashion, taking both the regular season Money Ballers crown and the playoff edition too.

His 16 point lead over runner-up Adam Jones of Orangeville, quadrupled his regular season Money Ballers lead, which he won by edging out Nanaimo rook Colton Clark. READ MORE »

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The Money Ballers: JR A Playoffs Edition

Fact: During the second half of the playoffs, Cody Jamieson’s numbers have gone down substantially. Seriously.

Proof? Over Cody’s first eight games in the post-season, the OLA MVP was averaging an insane six-&-a-half points per outing. Since then, aka the next six, Jamieson’s points per game average has dropped to just two points per, but the crazy thing is, his stick still finds it’s way on the heaviest goals of most games, allowing him to keep killing the charts in The Money Ballers. READ MORE »

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The Money Ballers: JR A Playoff Edition

Not only are the Six Nations Arrows on the verge of getting knocked off by the St. Catharines Ahtletics, currently down three games to two, but Cody Jamieson, the man that’s had the lead on The Money Ballers since way back in the early part of the regular season, has a couple of A’s just a few points shy of taking that top spot from him.

Corey Small and Joey Resetarits have been super clutch for St. Kitts as the A’s are just a W away from going to the Ontario finals for the first time since 2003, the year they also landed the Minto Cup. READ MORE »

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The Money Ballers: JR A Playoff Edition

This is turnin’ out to be a serious race for second and everything after that, cuz Cody Jamieson is just workin’ over the charts like, well, I guess kinda like he did during the regular season too.

Anyways, with games played kinda being outta whack because of the pretty different ways both Ontario and BC figure out their champ (IE. byes, five game series versus seven games, fewer series played, etc…) we also broke-down what guys are doin’ on average too, so teams like Victoria and Coquitlam could be included. The result? Jamieson is still kickin’ ass hardcore. READ MORE »

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The Money Ballers: JR A Playoff Edition

Man, those Junior A playoffs really snuck up on me last week. Got burned real bad today trying to compile all those Money Ballers digits from a slew of games already in the books since last week.

Of the 30 or so guys that made the grade during this heated first round of the post-season, 15 of ‘em were also on our last regular season edition of The Money Ballers.

The usual names, guys like Cody Jamieson (who of course is leading the pack), Jesse Guerin (who’s provin’ his Money Ballers dominance was no fluke during the regular season) and Corey Small (who’s factored in on every A’s game winner so far in their series), are all there again, but we also have a host of guy’s that have stepped it up and are postin’ those clutch points that we didn’t really seem ‘em doing during the season. READ MORE »

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The Money Ballers: JR A Edition

Well, even though he had some heat on his heels in the last couple weeks, Six Nations work horse Cody Jamieson took our first ever JR A Money Ballers.

Jamieson’s single game winner might have the average stats junkie wonderin’ how he climbed the charts on The Money Ballers this summer, but when you look at his seven game winning assists almost 20 go ahead points and nine game tying points, the dude just oozed dollar signs all over the court since May.

Other guys that really impressed on the board this year? READ MORE »

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The Money Ballers: JR A Edition

With only one game left on the slate in BC (Coquitlam vs. New West) and Ontario playing their last regular season tilt on Saturday night, the JR A Edition of The Money Ballers is almost in the books. Sad I know, but be strong… be strong.

With that said, there’s not really all that many guys that look like they’ll dump Six Nation’s Cody Jamieson for the crown. A couple but not many. READ MORE »

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The Money Ballers: JR A Edition

Entering Week 6 of this thing and we finally see the guy at the top of the leaderboard that I’m sure most would have picked as their favorite for our JR A Money Baller champ… Six Nations Arrow’s forward Cody Jamieson.

Even with his boys dropping a couple pretty hard to Burlington and Orangeville and then barely squeaking by an amped up Missy Tommies, Jamieson still made sure his stick was on almost every clutch goal the orange-and-white buried as they slipped in the standings, and likely the National Junior A Ranking (check back Wednesday for that). READ MORE »

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The Money Ballers: JR A Edition

Outside of tossing up the usual 30 best Money Ballers in Junior A ball, this week we also hashed out the guys that are getting their stick on the one that matters most… the game winner.

Yeah, Jacob Kicknosway-Louks leads Ontario with four game winners, but what about BC, and what about the helpers on those GWG’s in any province (Alberta digits will be in the mix soon)? READ MORE »

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The Money Ballers: JR A Edition

Like last week, the top guys on The Money Ballers leaderboard just aren’t putting in the clutch performances we were seeing from them earlier in the year.

For the third straight week, Peterborough’s Jesse Guerin has his name at the top of the charts, his half point earlier in the week giving him a slim two point lead over New West’s Max Gallant.

The guys that made some noise this week? READ MORE »

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The Money Ballers: JR A Edition

Outside of a couple guys (see Scott Tinning from KW and Corey Small from St. Kitts) there was very little movement on the boards this week. And when you look at what guy’s  on The Money Ballers‘ leaderboard did versus what their respective teams did since last Wednesday, well… READ MORE »

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The Money Ballers: JR A Edition

Man, is Cody Jamieson for real?

In last night’s clash with the Whitby Warriors, the #1 ranked Six Nations Arrows looked like their goose was finally cooked, heading into the third period down 8-4 and all but done.

Then Jamieson shifted gears and netted four goals, the only goals by either team in the period, to knot things up at eight. You knew he was gonna get the rock, you knew he was gonna shoot and I’m sure at some point in the third, even the Warriors knew he was gonna score. Outside of running him over with a tank, there was not stopping Jamieson on Tuesday night. READ MORE »

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The Money Ballers: JR A Edition

Word to the wise, when you sign yourself up to tackle a project like The Money Ballers, do not wait for something like 75 games to be played before you start sifting through the digits, unless you have like seven straight hours to kill.

Anyways, my back might look like Quasimodo’s hump and my vision is about as blurred as you can get, but not to worry, the first edition of the Junior A Money Ballers is complete… every God damn game included, even last night’s trio. READ MORE »

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The Money Ballers: Playoffs + Regular Season Mash-Ups

Having the two slickest clutch ballers in the post-season didn’t end up meaning much when it was all on the line. Portland’s snipe-show, Dan Dawson and Ryan Powell, as usual took their game to another level in their Champion’s Cup loss against Buffalo, only thing was, there weren’t many else clicking like the two of them. READ MORE »

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The Money Ballers

I picked him as my impact scorer in the Jax win and Shanny mentioned him in his post yesterday, but not sure many people realize how important the play of Ryan Powell has been for Portland in their run for the cup over the last couple weeks.

And what better way to figure out how important Ryan’s been than lookin’ at the clutch holy grail that is The Money Ballers leader-board. Amen. READ MORE »

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NLL Playoffs Edition: The Money Ballers

After going through last year’s playoff game sheets and rifling through this past weekend’s 08 opening round in order to piece together some digits for our Playoff Edition of The Money Ballers, I gotta tell ya, last year’s post-season was super lame.

Well not lame, cuz their were some dominating performances for sure, but the games themselves had next to no back-and-forth, nail biters outside of the East Final in Rochester. Gotta have mustard on my dog, double cheese on my pies and barn burners in my post-season. That’s just the way it’s gotta be. READ MORE »

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Does D really win Championships?

It’s funny that a post popped up on the boards today about D winning Cups, cuz it’s an adage I was giving some serious thought to last week.

Does defense really win Cups?

It’s a line I’m sure everyone has heard a million and one times. But is it true? READ MORE »

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NLL Edition: The Money Ballers

Well, the final numbers came in, and…

Athan Iannucci killed it.

Nooch won our first ever Money Ballers this year, and it wasn’t even close. READ MORE »

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NLL Edition: The Money Ballers

Even with Athan Iannucci not picking up a single clutch point this past weekend (the first time that’s happened all season), no one really poured it on hard enough to close that gap Nooch has on the leader-board.

Dan Dawson had a pretty solid showing again in the Jax’s OT win over the Stealth, which has him right up there fighting for second (maybe first).

And even though John Grant and Scott Evans are scoring in bulk lately, it’s Evan’s goals and helpers that are the ones that are showing up on The Money Ballers radar.
Without his goals I’m pretty sure Rochester wouldn’t still be in the playoff picture heading into the weekend.

With the game on the line, which of those two would you dish the ball to? Right now the numbers say Scott, but sure Jr.’s rep would have a lot of people feeding him. READ MORE »

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NLL Edition: The Money Ballers

Well, after our Special Report on Saturday morning, no one was really able to put much a dent in Athan Iannucci’s lead in The Money Ballers during a busy night of lacrosse.

Nooch went loco in that Portland win (as did Dan Dawson) and drummed up a pretty commanding lead over his next closest competitor on the charts. The Wings’ massive come from behind “almost win” over Minnesota allowed him to continue to hold onto that, now 11 point, lead. READ MORE »