Trade Deadline Strikes on Quiet Night

From here on in, the FunHL teams will have to dance with who they have. The FunHL trade deadline hit last night at 6:00 pm Mountain and for the most part all was quiet. All save for the Scourge who made a pair of deals to try and recapture the momentum from the Edge who had relegated them to last spot. While last night was a quiet one, the early returns for the Scourge are encouraging as they pot two points from the only game of the night and pull back ahead of the idle Edge.

The Highlanders also got the most from their one player (R.Dipietro filling in for the ailing D.Hasek) turning aside 56 of 57 shots. Dipietro's contribution helped to extend the Highlanders' lead atop the Predator Cup standings to about a dozen points - but then the Bladerunners didn't have anyone playing last night.

The Challenge Cup semi-finals are now in game two and the setting shifts to the Mausoleum for the Bladerunners and the Shadowmen (still awaiting official confirmation of a Shadowmen victory in game one) and to Stronghold as the Severed Heads visit the Highlanders. The Highlanders had no need for video review in their first game victory and are looking forward to quickly dispatching the Heads to move on to their first Challenge Cup final.

Not much to report from one NHL game on Monday night but here are the unofficial standings: