OTHL -- With all the holiday commotion going on, the weeks fly by and it is time to hand out some new awards. Jaromir Jagr won last weeks award, this week it is Brian Willsie from the Washington Capitals who recives the award as the past weeks best player. Willsie gets the award after a week where he had 1 goal and 6 assists for 7 points in 3 games. Willsie where also +6 in the 3 games he played. The last placed Washington had a solid week, going 2-0-1 and looking like a team that could acually win some games this season.
Willsie layed out the ground work for his great week in the game against Carolina where Washington won 5-1, and Willsie had 4 points (1+3). A game that was followed with a 2-2 tie against Los Angeles where Brian Willsie assisted on a goal from Jan Hrdina. Washington and Willsie closed the week with a new win over Carolina, this time a 3-0 game where Willsie had 2 assists.
Brian Willsie won the award ahead of Minnesota's Daymond Langkow who had 5 assists in 2 games, and Phoenix Markus Näslund who had 4 goals and 2 assists in 3 played games.
This past weeks best goaltender where Anaheims Martin Biron. Biron started all 3 games for Anaheim, and won all three and only allowed 2 goals on 86 shots during the three games. Martin Biron started his week with a 32 save game against the Vancouver Canucks (4-1), followed by 19 saves against Los Angeles Kings (2-1) and the week ended with a shutout game against Tampa Bay (2-0) where Biron made 33 saves to record his 2nd shutout this season. Giving him a 3-0-0 week, with a impressive .977 save pct.
Martin Biron edged out NY Islanders goalie Mathieu Garon who also won all 3 games he played, and had a .959 save pct and Philadelphia's Andrew Raycroft who where 2-0-0 this past week with a save pct of .937.
PREVIOUS WINNERS:
Week 13 - Jaromir Jagr (Dallas) & Roberto Luongo (Florida)
Week 12 - Mats Sundin (Phoenix) & Roberto Luongo (Florida)
Week 11 - Vincent LeCavalier (Tampa Bay) & Martin Brodeur (New Jersey)
Week 10 - Adam Deadmarsh (NY Islanders) & Dan Cloutier (Vancouver)
Week 09 - Mathieu Biron (Carolina) & Roberto Luongo (Florida)
Week 08 - Doug Weight (Florida) & Roberto Luongo (Florida)
Week 07 - Ray Whitney / Pavel Datsuyk (Detroit) & Miikka Kiprusoff (Boston)
Week 06 - Richard Jackman (Pittsburgh) & Kevin Weeks (Carolina)
Week 05 - Chris Chelios (Chicago) & David Aebischer (Colorado)
Week 04 - Brent Sopel (New Jersey) & Jean Sebastien Giguere (Buffalo)
Week 03 - Patrik Elias (New Jersey) & Ty Conklin (Columbus)
Week 02 - Josef Vasicek (Carolina) & Dominik Hasek (Atlanta)
Week 01 - Kip Miller (Tampa Bay) & Miikka Kiprusoff (Calgary)