Friday, April 4, 2008

IHL Hockey Fight Bracket

Ok... So Justin Cohn laid out a list of the top IHL Fighters on his blog..
http://jgwebblogs.typepad.com/ice_chips_0607/2008/04/jgs-fighter-ran.html#comments

I, in the spirit of March Madness, devised a bracket system to put these rankings into a tournament style playoff. I didn't allow the highest seed to have a bye. Instead I gave the middle ranked (#8) player a bye.... Yeah so it happens to be Henley.. It's not like this is in any way official, its just for fun. Here are Justin's rankings... (I posted a link to his page, so I hope he doesn't mind that I borrowed his rankings...)

The Journal Gazette’s ranking of best IHL fighters:
1) Mitch Woods, FW (22 fights thru March 25)
2) Robert Snowball, PH (12)
3) Olivier Legault, FW (22)
4) Jeremy Cornish, Blm. (9)
5) Kris Mallette, Fli. (16)
6) Donnie Margettie, PH (12)
7) Kevin Bertram, FW (12)
8) Brent Henley, FW (6)
9) Tyler Willis, Kal. (13)
10) Chris Kovalcik, Mus. (20)
11) Sam Miller, Blm (18)
12) David Segal, Mus. (22)
13) Jeff Ewasko, Blm. (17)
14) Ryan Jorde, Fli. (5)
15) Neil Clarke, Blm. (8)

So I broke this down and gave Henley the bye only because it made for better match-ups this way.

Round 1
Mitch Woods vs. Neil Clarke--------Woods
Ryan Jorde vs. Robert Snowball----Jorde in a close fight
Oliver Legault vs. Jeff Ewasko------Legault all day
Jeremy Cornish vs. David Segal-----Cornish
Kris Mallette vs. Sam Miller---------Mallette
Chris Kovalcheck vs. Don Margettie-Kovalcheck
Kevin Bertram vs. Tyler Willis------Bertram

Round 2
Woods vs. Jorde-----------Jorde takes this one.
Legault vs. Cornish--------Legault gets the edge.
Mallette vs. Kovalcheck----Kovalcheck, but close.
Bertram vs. Henley--------Gotta take Henley in this one.

Semi-Finals
Jorde vs. Legault----------Gotta take Jorde based on this years fights between the two.
Kovalcheck vs. Henley-----Henley gets the job done in this one.

Finals
Jorde vs. Henley---------I think Henley takes this on if healthy

Obviously there are major flaws I'm sure that can be pointed out with this, but its fun to look at. For instance, Snowball could easily beat Jorde in the first round. Bertram vs. Henley is cool to debate. Depending on how you match them up the outcome could differ widely.

Share your thoughts.