AJHL update - Jan 26th

Kind of a crazy night in the AJHL tonight/Saturday... with 4 of 6 games ending up with very lopsided scores at the end. There's going to be a lot of 3+ point players and moves... I can foresee it already.
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Scores:

1. Sherwood Park Crusaders beat Bonnyville 3-1 in... Leduc. Relatively even game, with Bonnyville having a bit of a shot edge in the first and 3rd. A lot of PIM but no one cleared 15, so I wont get into that too much. Not bad turnout in Leduc - 790, for a non-league city for a regular season game. No one with 3 points in the game... probably one of maybe... 2 games, at most this will be the case.
2. Bandits beat Canmore 8-3 in Brooks. It was a tight game... until the 3rd period. When the mighty Bandits awaken... dang, watch out! Not sure what the heck happened in the intermission... but a 5 goal 3rd period for them, after a 3-3 game heading into the 3rd. Wow, 5 PP goals in the game also - both teams over 25% efficiency! Eagles' LD /F #8 Trey Phillips with 3 A's, but the Bandits had the main 3 pointers... LW #13 Anthony Petruzzelli (2G, 1A), RW # 15 Cam Maclise (1G, 2A) along with - RW #8 Mark Reners & C #21 Anthony Paskaruk (both with 3A).
3. Oilers beat Camrose 7-0 in Okotoks. A very dominant one-sided game for the Oilers from start to finish. A fair amount of penalties with 2 Kodiaks' with 17PIM (to save time I'm only going to hyperlink guys that clear 20PIM from now on). Oilers' D #10 Robbie Fisher (2G, 1a), C #12 Chris Collins (1G, 2A), & RW #17 Greg Lamoureux (1G, 2A) - all with 3 point outings.
4. Lloydminster beat the Saints 4-0 in Spruce Grove. A bit of a surprising result (no offense meant to the Bobcats)... until a person looks at the injury ravaged Saints lineup. I'll know for sure later, but from initial counts, I'm pretty sure the Saints had 7 AP skaters in the lineup alone! That is something else... I don't believe the Canucks even had so many at their most injured plagued time(s). Few penalties and few points in the game... one Bobcat goal was unassisted, 2 others only had 1 assist. Bobcats G #33 Devin Green with the shutout.
5. Thunder beat Grande Prairie 4-3 in OT in Drayton Valley. It was the Storm's game after the first with a 17-11 shot advantage though the score was tied. Shots wise, the Thunder took over after that big time, with a 27-12 advantage in the 2nd & 3rd before that one shot edge in OT (3-2), and in a sense that lone shot edge gave them the win. LW #17 Trevor Poirier, with the Thunder's OT winner.
6. Oil Barons beat Wolverines 6-0 tonight in Whitecourt. Major internet/phone problems at the Scott Safety Centre tonight (as I've been in touch with some involved with the team), but the game was definitely a 6-0 final, per a tweet from Tyler King (Kinger) and confirming it is a tweet from the Wolverines. It's currently stalled at 16:28 of the 3rd period on the online game sheet, but as it ended 6-0 the main credited game stats (besides shot and G #s and PIM) of Gs, As, Pts should be complete. Also according to Tyler King tweet, G #31 Tanner Jaillet becomes first G to post a shutout against the Jr A Wolverines, in the AJHL. Somehow the MOB didn't have anyone with more than 2 points - total team effort there in that regard. League leading scorer, Wolverines' LW #15 Mathieu Guertin is really making a run at former teammate LD/C #25 Mathieu Gagnon's PIM totals (259PIM... listed on a hidden profile - it's unfortunate that due to how the ESportsDesk sites are set up, now that Guertin is no longer with the Wolverines, his PIM total does not show in the league PIM list) - with a 26 PIM night which eventually led to being tossed before the last stats update for the game was made.Update on the game after stats were finalized: Loads of final penalties added in and changes made. Guertin is no longer listed as the PIM leader of the game, and no MOB player had over 20PIM. RD #28 Conner Dea with 29PIM, and RW #27 Trace Elson with 22PIM.

So... with this game a confirmed final, this is what the AJHL standings should look like now, as I have them on EP (and YES I am aware of the out of date map... I have frustratingly basically given up hope on it ever getting updated. If I had the ability to upload the map update now, I would... but I don't, and it ticks me off royally that it STILL has not been updated, after first messaging about it in May 2012!):

2012 - 2013

#	Team	GP	W	T	L	OTW	OTL	GF	GA	+/-	TP	Postseason
Group: North Division                  GP    W        L         OTW  OTL  GF    GA   +/-  Pts
1	Spruce Grove Saints	47	28	-	13	7	6	146	124	22	62	-
2	Whitecourt Wolverines	48	25	-	15	2	8	188	174	14	58	-
3	Bonnyville Pontiacs	49	25	-	16	2	8	139	140	-1	58	-
4	Grande Prairie Storm	47	27	-	17	3	3	148	128	20	57	-
5	Fort McMurray Oil Barons	49	26	-	19	5	4	140	142	-2	56	-
6	Drayton Valley Thunder	49	25	-	19	6	5	147	140	7	55	-
7	Sherwood Park Crusaders	48	23	-	19	2	6	144	149	-5	52	-
8	Lloydminster Bobcats	48	16	-	26	2	6	129	178	-49	38	-
Group: South Division
1	Brooks Bandits	47	43	-	2	2	2	238	87	151	88	-
2	Camrose Kodiaks	48	27	-	17	5	4	138	127	11	58	-
3	Okotoks Oilers	46	26	-	16	4	4	139	121	18	56	-
4	Drumheller Dragons	48	23	-	21	1	4	140	138	2	50	-
5	Canmore Eagles	46	20	-	21	2	5	124	159	-35	45	-
6	Olds Grizzlys	51	19	-	29	3	3	144	182	-38	41	-
7	Calgary Mustangs	49	17	-	27	1	5	137	175	-38	39	-
8	Calgary Canucks	48	14	-	31	1	3	114	191	-77	31	-

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Changes - to save time as I need to get to bed very soon, I will post the transfers onto EP and update hyperlinks tomorrow (it also helps me out tremendously that tomorrow/Sunday & Thursday are days off from AJHL play... I must, and will take full advantage of those days!):

Bonnyville:
*RW # 12 Christian Nypower was back with the Cold Lake Ice (NEAJBHL) for a game Friday.
*RW #14 T.J. "Thomas" Cunningham was not in the lineup for that game, but could have been for last night/Saturday's game as the NEAJBHL game sheet for the game is not currently up. not back in Ice lineup as of yet, so either he is hurt or... a healthy scratch... or... who knows. Still with the Pontiacs to me until otherwise proven.

*RW #89 Ty Carey back from injury (Upper body injury, day-to-day).
*C #10 Marc Dubeau back from injury (Cold/flu/illness, day-to-day).

Sherwood Park - no known changes since last game

Canmore:
*RW #13 Nils Moser, though still listed as hurt on AJ Eagles' stats/roster, is back from injury (Broken foot suffered in December, out indefinitely but hopeful to return for playoffs)... but still on reserve, and still an AP. I'll have to do some messaging tomorrow [Messaged] to see if he's fully carded with a Jr. B team somewhere (Banff & Cochrane, HJHL, are closest?), so hopefully will find out something. He must have been erroneously listed on game sheet last night, and it's since been removed that he played. I've been told he was still in crutches at Friday's Eagles game... so definitely didn't play.

Brooks:
*Bandits LD #3 Chris Muscoby has committed to the University of Vermont (NCAA) for this fall, as of today.
*Though still listed as hurt on AJ Bandits stats/roster, F #12 Tyson McCallum is back from injury (Upper body injury suffered Jan 11th, expected back Jan 25th - Feb 8th).

Okotoks:
*Strangely C Matt Forchuk - who's up from the UFA Bisons Midget AAAs (AMHL) & LW Jack Goranson - who's up from Red Deer Chiefs Midget AAAs (AMHL) are listed are both wearing #18 on the game sheet from the Oilers game last night/Saturday. Edit: What in the heck... both crossed out players have since been removed from the game sheet... I could see one of them being removed, but not both. I may have to re-edit Oilers stats from last night, along with the MOB/Wolverines game that was unable to be completed last night... hmm, very strange! Besides those 2 having their game credit removed, no other stats for the Oilers changed from last game. Maybe there was just 2 guys accidentally listed on the roster? Same thing happened for the DV/Storm game the other night - I went on and edited that LD #6 Allan MacPherson did not play (there was 19 Storm skaters listed up til then)... not a big deal to fix up hey! So it easily could be what happened to the Oilers roster for this game.

Lloydminster:
*A lot of missing game sheets of late on the NEAJBHL site that could possibly show that AP C #19 Ryley Wozniak was back with St. Paul Canadiens, so as of now he never left the Bobcats to me. If I find out otherwise later I'll link it in. Edit: Hmm, no Ryley on any of the now updated game sheets up to last night's game. Kind of strange - maybe the Bobcats we're able to carry him all weekend.

Spruce Grove - the absolute mess that is the Saints lineup, due to mass injury casualties... think I should message[-d] up Travis Ziegler (Saints play-by-play guy) to see if I got this mass confusion, sorted out right... [but have not heard back. Will try the Saints tweeters, for confirmation.]
*LD Jamie Vermeulen up from St. Albert Raiders Midget AAAs (AMHL) & played. Was #3, now #4
*RW/C Riley Simpson up from SSAC Athletics Midget AAAs (AMHL) & played. Was #20 [& #18], now #19.
*RW #14 Tyler Mrkonijc up from St. Albert Raiders Midget AAAs (AMHL) & played.
*RD Clayton Kirichenko up & played. Was #4 [& #2 & #37], now 21.
*RD Graydon Smith up from Leduc Oil Kings Midget AAAs (AMHL) & played. Was #4 [& #25], now #7
*RW Brett Smythe was back down with the St. Albert Raiders Midget AAAs (AMHL) on the 16th, & up & played Saturday. Was #14 [& #25], now #17

Grande Prairie:
*C/RW #23 John Webb could be with the Storm until Feb now, as the Sexsmith Vipers (NWJHL) don't play again until Feb 1st.

Drayton Valley - no known changes since last game

Fort McMurray:
*RD/F #25 Joey Stadnicki, returned to play from injury (Broken collarbone, expected back (after 6 weeks, as of Jan 17th) by Feb 28th). Edit: Will address this is Jan 28th post.
*D/C/F #8 Daniel Petten was back down with Fort McMurray Barons Midget AAs (NAMHL) last night.
*D/F #5 Taylor Graham & LD #10 Matt Purmal, were confirmed in email to me today from Trevor Howett today, as new permanent assistant captains per talking with MOB GM/Head Coach Gord Thibodeau.

Whitecourt:
*AP LD Jordan Davies was #5 now #2.
*LW #16 Jacques Bernier (was 17) was up and played last night, but will likely be back with CAC Edmonton Canadiens Midget AAAs (AMHL) for Feb 2nd.. was on last night's game sheet but was later removed.
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Quick suspension update:
January 25, 2013 - Brooks player, Alex Roberts, and Drumheller player, Mitchell Gartner, are each suspended for one (1) January 25, 2013 - Brooks player, Alex Roberts, and Drumheller player, Mitchell Gartner, are each suspended for one (1) game as a result of being involved in a secondary fight during a January 25, 2013 game in Brooks.  The suspensions are to be served during the respective teams’ next regularly scheduled League game., 2013 game in Brooks.  The suspensions are to be served during the respective teams’ next regularly scheduled League game.

So, RW #16 Alex Roberts, served one game Saturday and is eligible tomorrow/today/Monday for the Bandits. D/F #28 Mitchell Gartner will be at the least missing game Wednesday, and should be eligible to return Feb 2nd. Also according to what I heard through the grapevine - Gartner was outright released by the Dragons. My mind is over half tired now so this may be remembered incorrectly. Someone besides Bonnyville C #16 Travis Wellman was definitely released though.
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I had an extremely hard time pulling together to complete this post tonight... I think it is due to excitement and eagerness to start my new (4th) job! I'll likely post a bit about it tomorrow, but if anyone is curious check my Twitter cover... and it will give it away.

Need to sleep now though - am hoping to get the NWJHL fully up to date tomorrow!