The Travis Wellman trade to Abitibi that never actually happened

What an outright mess this has become... i am seemingly unable to use caps or contracted words or secondary functions while blogging from my new cell, so bear with me. even enter wont work on this now... haha     anyways though...

I'm right now almost starting to feel like an EP public relations expert, after trying to sort all of this out... haha!

So, this all started around the 10th when Bonnyville C #16 Travis Wellman showed up on the Abitibi Eskimos trade section on the current version of the NOJHL transactions link that's only been around since the start of the season when they switched their stats site to NGIN. Anyways, our/EP's NOJHL updater added the move onto EP as soon as he came across it, and which I later posted on my blog here. I didn't take a screenshot of it (heck - it's a league transaction link, it should be 100% accurate, right? Well, not this time unfortunately...) but I did copy exactly what was listed there that may as well be a screenshot, as it copied the exact text style, background colour, and a hyperlink to that earlier blog post. I ended up also posting about it on the AJHL forum, commenting about how it seemed the Pontiacs didn't inform Wellman about being traded, as it turned out a Manitoba Jr B coach I know on Twitter, had asked him about it and Wellman didn't know about it until this coach saw the trade - I believe off my blog. I definitely meant no disrespect to the Pontiacs - I was basically commenting about how it seemed strange Wellman wasn't notified prior to being traded. I got a couple tweets from Robb Hunter (Pontiacs play-by-play) last night but didn't find out the whole story until a few hours ago (around 7:30pm) ... but as it turns out from those latest tweets of Robb's (then) - the trade never did actually happen.

So, as soon as I saw those from Robb, I kind of wondered what in the heck happened. Checked over on the NOJHL transactions link and sure enough, Wellman being acquired by Abitibi, has been removed from Abitibi's transaction history for this season. Like... what in the heck??? I have absolutely no idea where in the heck the updater of that league link got the 'trade' from. But yeah, I totally stand behind our NOJHL updater - he posted what he saw at the time, and I copied exactly what I saw that backed/backs up what he posted, but was later removed from the NOJHL transaction link. So basically with that, I have proof of the 'transfer' (even though it didn't happen) and proof of the NOJHL screwup, and have 'Inside Information' of the 'transfer back' (Robb's tweets to me, of the back transfer than never did happen). Frig!

I'm just about 100% certain, for some point of time the other day though, that Wellman was de-listed/taken off the AJHL Pontiacs stats/roster when I updated the team... but at the same time, it would not surprise me one bit if the whole 'supposed transfer' had the updater kind of wondering if it really did happen as well, briefly.

So yeah, there's the full logical explanation of this mess - I'm very tempted (and for a good, granted reason!) to email the NOJHL and 'nicely give them a piece of my mind' for the mess their erroneous transfer started... but for the time being, to heck with it! I'll take the fall for this for the time being... I can handle it! At the same time... I've spent/wasted more than enough time on this tonight and need to get to other stuff, badly, already! Robb's being great about all this, which is definitely appreciated. I still have to get back to his last round of tweets to me replying to what I sent him while at the arena, but thought I'd get this fully finished before I got to those.

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Speaking of the reason I was typing on my cell in the first place... was at the Grande Prairie [JDA] Kings (NWJHL - Jr B) game tonight against the visiting North Peace Navigators of Peace River (by the way, the game sheet LIES about at least one thing - there were real people in the stands! Haha!)... I was trying to sort out the above mess prior to leaving and during the entire game, along with sending texts to a friend in Fort St. John in between as well. Saw all the main plays though, in between looking down and back up for the game, repeatedly... haha! What a game that was... Kings led most of the game (at least it felt that way, but from looking at the game sheet it appears they only really led first half of the game), but went down 6-4 after the 2nd (with nearly a full out line brawl at the end of the period... haha!). North Peace then went up 7-5, before the Kings scored 2 to tie it and take it to OT, which led to the shootout victory 8-7. Definitely got our money worth tonight!

Jamie Johnson developments/changes

Okay, as I posted in the post about Thursday game and moves (part 2 in it, of 4):
"Okay... along with Claffey's addition, the Wolverines also traded captain C #16 Jamie Johnson(strangely they didn't mention anyone was traded away in their media release - and spelled Claffey wrong... hehe - geez guys, should know how to spell your own players names! hehe! ;) only joking/bugging of course) for SJHL's Melville Millionaires D Landon Hall (who was listed in above Wolverines media release). Hall by the way, was born in Stony Plain from what I previously gathered while he was briefly with the Grande Prairie Storm in the September 2010's preseason schedule. I first found out about Claffey/Hall in a repost of the Wolverines media release on the AJHL forum earlier; and only found out about Johnson being traded away from a Gino De Paoli (Okotoks play-by-play) tweet. As I've said in the past on the AJHL forum, "Play-by-play guys are like 'AJHL gods' in my books", for their close to 100% accuracy. He tweeted prior to that Johnson was apparently released, according to what he was seeing on social media. Regardless of what fully transpired - Whitecourt gains D's Claffey & Hall and traded Johnson to Melville."

Okay... not to add into that. I originally saw this email around 9-9:30pm, but had loads to do so didn't fully process it til later. I got a quick email from a friend/source from St. Albert - but anyways, my source told me that he saw my website (not sure if he meant my blog or EP, but either way) for the Jamie Johnson trade, and informed me that he just got back from a St. Albert Merchants (CapJHL Jr B) game not long before messaging me, and said that Jamie Johnson was in the lineup for the North Edmonton Red Wings team wearing #9, and was "Probably the best player on the ice". I double check everything if possible, so just as I expected, sure enough - there was Jamie Johnson's profile listed as playing last night for North EDM with that aforementioned #9, and he picked up an assist in the game.

So I briefly thought that maybe part of what Gino tweeted the other night might not have been fully 100% accurate (regarding the fact he said Johnson was traded, as the release now seemed more accurate, and then just a signing by Melville); but that brief doubt did not last long at all... which isn't any surprise to me... haha! 

As seen below, according to the SJHL transactions link for December 14 - C #16 Jamie Johnson was infact traded to Melville for the previously mentioned Landon Hall:

So, to try and get this story straight... as of the 13th, according to what Gino found out and tweeted - Johnson was traded to Melville for Landon Hall. On the 14th, seemingly after already being traded to Melville, as I found out from my St. Albert source - he played last night for the North Edmonton Red Wings (CapJHL, Jr B). So a person has to wonder if he's staying with NERW and just had his Jr A rights traded, or if his rights were traded and maybe instead of reporting all the way to Melville right away, he decided (or was directed/allowed) to go St. Albert for the game last night and maybe will soon after show up on the Melville Millionaires game sheet.

I guess only time will tell - but there's the full story from what I've gathered, as of this exact moment.

It kind of begs the question again: why was Johnson's trade (or even if it did happen earlier - release) not posted by the Wolverines on their press release - heck, he was a high profile guy - the team captain. But, as a close personal source with a long history with the league even quoted to me yesterday, more or less, "some teams in the league do strange things on their websites".

And now I badly, extremely late mind you... need to go and get some well needed sleep! Haha!

AJHL score from tonight & changes/moves - Dec 13th

Only 1 AJHL game tonight and it was something else!

Oilers beat Calgary Canucks 7-1, at the Pason Centennial Arena in Okotoks.

As I first find out on the AJHL forum from a post about it by pabloamigo:

Re: tonights game

by pabloamigo » Thu Dec 13, 2012 11:38 pm

How do the Canucks just dress 14 guys?? What a joke of an organization.

There are AP's for a reason, it actually is a pretty good recruiting tool as well.

To which I replied:
Holy crap... and I thought you were just kidding or messing around until I looked... very sad situation there! I could see if all their listed/AP guys were playing elsewhere tonight (midget AAA, minor midget AAA, Jr B, etc) ... but come on, they should be able to find more guys willing to play from somewhere. Heck, if the Saints have a whole 'team' worth of listed players/APs (if anyone is not aware of this:http://ajhl.ca/statistics/north_divsion ... aints.html - then check/click their reserve roster... seriously, they do have a full team of listed players - hehe! :D ... from their earlier season injury chaos...) - what in the heck was preventing the Calgary Canucks from doing the same thing hey? 

Geez... 14 skaters - I guess if it's any consolation, at least they had 2 healthy (as least as far as I know backup Guglielmin is healthy) goalies. I've seen and heard of skaters having to dress as backups before and even get in game action as well (http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/jrhock ... 15418.html)... hehe! I'm pretty sure it happened in a Jr A game in the last few seasons as well.

Some real problems for the Calgary Canucks these days, due mainly to their 'injury plague'... but, now that I think about this though... I have to wonder if maybe the Canucks did have APs up that just weren't added to the game sheet/AJHL profiles, by the Canucks stats updater(s)... just a theory of course, but considering what happened with the Wolverines roster on the game sheet the other night - it's a definite possibility.

But as for the game... unfortunately for the Canucks, it resembled their game against Brooks the other day fairly well, by the game sheet. Brooks scored 6 more goals that night mind you, in the highest goal output in the AJHL by far since I started this blog; but heck, the shots were just about the same in that game as this one. Brooks outshot them 39-13 that night, and tonight there were outshot 41-16 by Okotoks. I'm honestly semi-baffled by their 3rd period... with 14 skaters, they were only outshot 10-5 (best period of the game, in comparison to the Oilers' output) and allowed only 2 more goals - would figure they'd be dead, dog tired, by probably definitely being double and possibly triple shifted. LW #24 Mitch Amatto (2G, 1A - anyone know if he is brother of former NWCAA Stampeders Jr B (CalJHL) player Jordan Amatto, who I just became aware of?), C #9 Spencer Kryczka (1G, 2A), and C #26 Braeden Salverda (3A), all with 3 points for the Oilers.

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Moves:
Also to back up what I heard during the GP Storm radio broadcast of the game in/against Whitecourt, numerous times referred to by Jeff Henson, and what I posted about on blog post during game that night - Whitecourt did infact acquire a 'new d-man from the Q' per say. Jeff didn't say then per say, as far as I remember, that the guy was coming directly from the Q though. The guy coming in is RD/F Michael Claffey. I just archived in a couples of moves on him on EP (I kind of try and add in/archive in all Jr level moves I can on EP, to develop a player history/transaction archive, since the site started storing old transfers in the last season I believe), including him becoming listed/AP-ed again this season by Drayton Valley (while with the Spruce Grove Regals of the CapJHL - Capital Jr HL Jr B) after the same had happened last season prior to his camp release the OHL's Peterborough Petes, after he was added to their pre-season camp - and before that he was playing Spruce Grove (AJHL version) after being with the QMJHL's Shawinigan Cataractes (2009 - early of 11/12 season). Things were a little buggered up in the transactions history, so I've since edited things a bit to hopefully make it all look right.

Okay... along with Claffey's addition, the Wolverines also traded captain C #16 Jamie Johnson (strangely they didn't mention anyone was traded away in their media release - and spelled Claffey wrong... hehe - geez guys, should know how to spell your own players names! hehe! ;) only joking/bugging of course) for SJHL's Melville Millionaires D Landon Hall (who was listed in above Wolverines media release). Hall by the way, was born in Stony Plain from what I previously gathered while he was briefly with the Grande Prairie Storm in the September 2010's preseason schedule. I first found out about Claffey/Hall in a repost of the Wolverines media release on the AJHL forum, by canuck88 earlier; and only found out about Johnson being traded away from a Gino De Paoli (Okotoks play-by-play) tweet. As I've said in the past on the AJHL forum, "Play-by-play guys are like 'AJHL gods' in my books", for their close to 100% accuracy. He tweeted prior to that Johnson was apparently released, according to what he was seeing on social media. Regardless of what fully transpired - Whitecourt gains D's Claffey & Hall and traded Johnson to Melville.
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Okay, now onto finally updating the stats onto EP from tonight's game, and any possible moves that are so far confirmed (speaking of the theory I mentioned above, about the Canucks roster from tonight - as the erroneous Wolverines one the other day was later updated a few times). To also back that above theory of mine a small bit - not one single AP currently listed (all are listed on the reserve roster, current screenshot below), was listed on the current game sheet roster for the Canucks (also screenshot below).

Kind of makes a person wonder, as almost all the AMHL games are played Friday-Sunday, therefore many if not all of these APs should have been available.

Have also tweeted the Calgary Canucks to see if I can get some sort of confirmation one way or another. If they really did only dress 14 skaters though... a person almost have to wonder if they're already given up on the season. Sure, they hold a 2pt lead on 8th place Canmore, but Canmore has 3 games in hand. Sounds funny I know, and I hope it's not true, but who knows...

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Haha... who'd have thought this blog post, for really a 1 game night, could have 4 parts to it... but oh well, it happened...

Roster changes from the game:

Calgary Canucks:
*LW #11 Devon Westby, though still listed with the injury 'red cross' on the Canucks current roster, and listed on the first of the 2 screenshots - Westby did play tonight, so is back from injury to me, from a day-to-day knee injury .
*Though I only noticed it while 'sifting through the Canucks current AJHL stats/roster on the AJ site after updating stats onto EP (I do this every single night, for every single team in action due to players 'appearing' or 'disappearing' from the stats/roster at will... one of the drawback of the Esportsdesk site, along with the inter-league trades)... D #10 Alex Marcinew also was in the game tonight and is also still listed on the AJ Canucks page with the 'red cross', back from a day-to-day knee injury.
*Of the APs I last had on the roster (as they haven't played another game elsewhere yet)... D #3 Zach Dietrich & RD #6 Deryk Sutherland's Calgary Northstars Midget AAA (AMHL) team is off from Sunday - Friday so they theoretically coulda/shoulda played tonight.
*RW #24 Alexander Mowbray & LW #3 Jack Berezan played Wednesday night for the Calgary Buffaloes Midget AAA (AMHL) so they're both back down, but again theoretically coulda/shoulda played tonight as they Buffaloes are off from Wednesday-Sunday. There's 4 guys alone that would complete the 18 man skater roster for the Canucks tonight... got to wonder about this.

Okotoks:
*LD #3 Kyle Krabben played last night as well, back from 'Upper body injury, status uncertain' as I had on EP, though still listed with a 'red cross' on the AJHL Oilers stats/roster


Confirmed/known injury changes (full list for standings and injuries here - and yes, as I mentioned before - I do know our map is out of date. Have emailed our photo staff about it numerous times to get updated ASAP, and messaged again about it and a few other things last night. They seem as bad, or even more backed up than me... currently 1,865 unread now, but I actually know people worse than that somehow... haha!):

Teams that either definitely don't, or appear not to (or are miraculously 100% healthy all the time... haha!), list injuries on AJHL site: Calgary Mustangs, Camrose, Drayton Valley (their injury I heard on Storm broadcast), Drumheller, Grande Prairie (definitely don't - those listed I know of personally or through close sources - like billets), Lloydminster (heard some on Storm broadcast, before), Olds, Whitecourt (once found out of one through a friend/forum source, and it never got listed on Wolverines roster either). Yikes, half the league... didn't think there were that many teams that didn't list/inform of injuries!

Calgary Canucks, were mentioned above - still though, at 7 confirmed out

Canmore - 6 still out

Fort McMurray:
*Not really a change, but the next MOB game tomorrow night will be after the 4-6 week range for return for LD #4 captain Brock Maschmeyer's from fractured/broken thumb injury. Same is the case for LW/C #20 Justin Fraser's fractured/broken jaw (excited expected out for 6 weeks). Yikes... LD/F #7 Mike Green (Concussion, expected back Nov 21st-28th) & C #11 Harrison Hendrix (Knee strain, expected back Nov 30th) are both a half month overdue. #-less D Jordan Clark overdue on Fractured tibia/ankle injury, status uncertain (was to be back by November 24th) - as I already noticed him overdue prior to this check. Not good for the Oil Barons...

Spruce Grove:
*Not a change really, but C #10 Sammy Spurrell (who is on my massive growing list of guys I need to look up earlier bntm/mdgt stats for... seriously, it's taking up most of the front on an envelope on my desk here... haha!) was supposed to be back by Dec 8th (Listed as out with upper body injury, expected back in 3 weeks)... still hasn't returned. So I updated him to "status uncertain".

And, now finally done with the AJHL tonight... geez, I got to find a way to get this totally finished earlier/quicker than 6am! Haha!

Some AJHL [related] moves

As I just posted on the AJHL forum:
Our NOJHL updater on EP, just posted this one, off the NOJHL transactions link:

C #16 Travis Wellman traded to Abitibi Eskimos of the NOJHL (Northern Ontario JHL), from Bonnyville.

Though, the NOJHL transaction link updater goofed nicely... haha (exact text size, colour, background, hyperlink copied from what was then on NOJHL transactions link):
December 10, 2012 - Abitibi Eskimos acquire Travis Wellman from the Calgary Canucks
... coulda swore he played for Bonnyville?!? Hahah!

A combined 62Gms 9G 23A 32Pts 16PIM, along with 3 playoffs games and 2PIM for Lloyd in parts of 2 seasons, followed by 13 games and 1 goal for the Calgary Canucks, then 4gms without recording any point or PIM for Bonnyville, prior to being shipped out to Abitibi.


Another AJHL linked move... as I posted in the earlier MJHL (part 2) post:
*LW #11 Mitch Loose added to Flyers as of the 23rd, from Kimberley Dynamiters (KIJHL - BC Jr B). Started the season with Whitecourt Wolverines (AJHL). Loose started the season with 3 games with the Whitecourt Wolverines along with 2PIM, before being released and added on by th, mjhe Kimberley Dynamites (KIJHL) where in about 6 weeks he played 16Gms scoring 5G and adding 6A for a total of 11Pts, along with 42 PIM. So far with the very shuffled Winkler Flyers (see massive amount of moves for them alone in above linked MJHL (part 2) post)he's played 6Gms scoring 1G and adding 2 PIMs.

AJHL injury update - Dec 7th

So, I was informed on the AJHL forum by EddieShack that F #12 Jordan Revie is also out for Canmore with a lower body injury, until "games in January" as I put it on EP. Also found more info on the C #28 Alexander Bechtold injury from what is on the AJHL Canmore Eagles stats/rosters (as an lower body injury), as it's in fact a broken ankle, suffered September 8th.

Also... the Calgary Canucks are turning into a team of immense casualties... total hurt was 3 the other day, 5 when I updated it for the last injury post, and now 9... yes, 9 confirmed injuries (6F, 3D).... already there were Mangone (Hip/back injury, out indefinitely), Ruzesky (Broken collar bone, expected back by January 13th), Westby (Knee injury, day-to-day), Sakal (Collar bone injury, expected back by January 8th) and Thorogood (Broken collar bone, expected back by January 8th).

Add to the list:

1. LD #33 Curtis Lewington - Mononucleosis, day-to-day
2. F #23Joel Rogers - Wrist injury, day-to-day
3. C/LW #21 Ty Morgan - Concussion, day-to-day
4. D #5 Ryan MacPhee - Flu, day-to-day... what amuses me is that clicking on the red cross next to MacPhee's name on the AJHL Canucks stats/roster, says he got sick on December 15th... they have some impressive foresight to know he's getting the flu in a week... hehe!

Seriously, gotta screenshot this one:

Also new - Bonnyville's LW #28 Brady Bakke, out with a lower body injury for 8 weeks (AKA - return by Jan 31st), per the AJHL Bonnyville Pontiacs's stats/roster. Was added since I was at the Storm game around 11 hours ago.

Odd... the RW #22 Scott Pooley injury (Shoulder injury, expected back December 19th - January 2nd) Kinger left me a comment about being listed, is no longer listed on the MOB's AJHL stats/roster... haha! Okay... bizarre... but I'll take Kinger's word on it. The injury to F #15 Doug Jones is also no longer listed (Knee injury, expected back December 21st - January 4th)... what in the heck?

And that's all the changes and covers everything as of now. The others still injured are listed here with injury (if known details) plus approximate return dates.

Dec 7th AJHL scores

As I just posted on the AJHL forum, but more detailed here...

Oh yes, score for me - only 4 games to update this Friday instead of the 6 played last Friday... hehe! Am trying to get more with it and update the games and that at an a lot more reasonable time, so hopefully this is the start to that. Scores from tonight:

1. Brooks beat Drayton Valley 4-2 in Brooks. Brooks came out to a 2-0 lead early in the 2nd, only to have Drayton tie it before the end of the frame... but an upset just wasn't meant to be, as Brooks scored 2 in the 3rd for the win 
2. Spruce Grove beat Whitecourt 3-2 in Whitecourt. Spruce Grove led most of the game besides midway into the first when the Wolverines tied in at 1 all, and until Spruce Grove scored the first of two in the 2nd midway through the period. Whitecourt ended up outshooting by 5 however.
3. Okotoks beat Olds 3-2 in Olds. Wow, what a back and forth game there, Olds never led but tied it twice. Okotoks scored, then next goal was Olds, but they couldn't tie it a 3rd time. Okotoks outshot by a fair margin as well.
4. Grande Prairie beat Sherwood Park 2-0 here in GP. Pretty close game to start from finish, but easily could have been 4 or 5 nothing if not for a few breaks the Crusaders got - off a goal post, and later a net dislodging when one went in - for examples. Kind of amusing empty netter goal though - not the prettiest, but it went in.

More posts to come - an AJHL injury update (a couple teams with massive injury #s!), likely callup/reserve/assignments update as well, then back I go to the MJHL.

I just realized commenting was limited on the blog to only register OpenID/Google members - that's been changed/updated. Feel free to comment!

More AJHL updates - JC Heck & Paul Lamoureux

I wouldn't be surprised if JC Heck cracks the top 10 in PIM between now and even the trade deadline, after tonight's game against Brooks - 32PIM... haha, crazy!

I originally thought it was a typo by the Olds stats updater, until I looked at his profile to see he DID infact go from 4PIM in 4 games to 36PIM in 5 games.

A quick look at the penalty summary:
1st period:

Olds Grizzlys at 11:20 - JC Heck for Roughing (2 Min.)

then...

Olds Grizzlys at 15:04 - JC Heck for Misconduct (10 Min.)

Brooks Bandits at 15:04 - Tyson McCallum for Misconduct (10 Min.)

Olds Grizzlys at 15:04 - Landon Kletke for Slashing (2 Min.)

So, after that he's in the box until about the 5 minute mark in the 2nd, and though I have no clue for sure what transpired as I wasn't at the game, I wouldn't be surprised if he was maybe kept on the bench most of the period either.

Then things really got heated late in the game/3rd period from the Grizzlies end:

Olds Grizzlys at 19:59 - Dylan Hubbs for Misconduct (10 Min.)

Olds Grizzlys at 20:00 - JC Heck for Misconduct (10 Min.)

Olds Grizzlys at 20:00 - JC Heck for Game Misconduct (10 Min.)

No idea what transpired - someone at the game maybe will be able to shed some light, but I find it strangely amusing that Hubbs got the misconduct with only 1 second left, and no Brooks player got anything, then the same for Heck but a game on top of it. Like... what the heck? Haha!

Anyways though, onto the other part of this...
 The latest on potential Paul Lamoureux next team:

Paul Lamoureux ‏@PLams_7

@bigjayhoughts lol I'm going to Ontario tomorrow , now that's actually beauty
posted 12 hours ago

Incase anyone from the AJHL forum wonders... I'm not obsessed with the guy or where he turns up - I just have him still listed on Spruce Grove on my inter-league trade list (a txt file) as a reserve (from Canmore to Spruce Grove - inter-league trade, to remind me to split stats if by some total shocker happens that he does dress for the Saints), as he hasn't shown up anywhere yet nor has any sort of hint about him quitting junior hockey. I'd take him off the list, but he hasn't officially gone anywhere else (nor left the AJHL), so I may as well keep checking up for now. Eventually it will get old for me if nothing happens, and I might just remove him from it by the trade deadline.

Surprisingly to me, there was no roster moves in the AJHL at all Tuesday. Lovsin and Nicholson showed up on the Saints roster the night before, but ended up playing against the Storm as well.

Now, onto another league's update for me.

First post/introduction & a tell you what's up with this

Well, I might be nuts for starting this at all, considering I've been behind on updating on Elite Prospects all season, but in the end I finally decide to start this off.

Thought I'd include a bit of an EP disclaimer as my description in the following paragraph now dwarfs the rest of it, badly... haha! Anyways, here's that:

We on EP, kind of speaking for everyone in a sense, are a player stats/transfer database site and with our work are not only out to gain a following of viewers but to help support the players, teams & leagues we're updating along with be a complete, or as complete as possible (as we're still always adding tonnes of stuff to the site), hockey stats database website, and a place where people can find an as complete as possible player history of all teams/stats player for/available and in no way are out to 'steal' stats from these leagues we update.

This blog will include a hodgepodge of all leagues and areas I work on on Elite Prospects and will include a focused emphasis on the following:

1.  Alberta Junior Hockey League (Jr A, as most reading this will know) - my posting on the Hockey Talk AJHL forum, especially the Callups, reserves & assignments thread that became my own personal project/page there, has mainly led to me to start this endeavour) which I update on EP/the forum daily - I do all this stuff about the AJHL for free though, but if the league ever offered me a paid job for the work I have done and will continue doing in keeping people updated on it and promoting the league, I'd definitely appreciate it, and accept!;
2. NHL (if it actually starts up before the 'end of the world' - I personally like the list of predicted apocalypse failures on Wikipedia.. haha!) which I was updating as my only daily updating before the lockout, along with many bi-weekly leagues updated including the following:
3. Manitoba Junior Hockey League (Jr A) which I update stats for every 2nd Wednesday and will be after posting this and updating the AJHL simply because I was 13 days behind on league updating (partly thanks to a recent twitter obsession and my posting on the AJHL forum) and will just have a '2 week reset' as I call it, and start off the following 2 weeks sitting at one day ahead (as even though it's now past midnight and officially 'Wednesday' - it's not for me as I haven't went to sleep yet... haha!);
4. Ontario Junior Hockey League (Jr A) which I update every 2nd Sunday;
5. Superior International Junior Hockey League (Jr A - NW Ontario and parts of the nearby US states of Minnesota & Wisconsin), which I update every 2nd Monday along with
6. Allen Cup Hockey (Senior AAA in southern Ontario), which I also update the same Monday as the SIJHL;
7. Central Canada Hockey League (Jr A, in and around metro Ottawa - formerly CJHL and CHL Tier 1 for one season I believe) which I now update every 2nd Tuesday (used to every 2nd Friday but they're busy AJHL days);
8. Manitoba Major Junior Hockey League (Independent Jr A) which I have been aiming to get updated every 'other' 2nd Wednesday... but have yet to get enough free time to get the 2011-12 stats for the league fully updated on EP, let alone the 2012-13 stats and rosters;
9. Heritage Junior Hockey League (Jr B - S and C Alberta) which I update every 'other' 2nd Sunday;
10. Northwest Junior Hockey League (Jr B - Peace Country of NW Alberta & NE British Columbia - basically my real 'home league' as I've mainly lived/grew up in the area though as some that will see this know I am a huge Grande Prairie Storm/AJHL fan) which I update every 'other' 2nd Monday along with
11. Northern States Hockey League (not exactly sure what level it is, as it's a new Junior league in the 'northern states' of the US - a league player and father of another, kind of messaged me a lot about it so I decided to take it on) which I also update on the 'other' second Monday;
12. Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (Jr A) which I update every 'other' 2nd Tuesday, along with the
13. Western Hockey League (Major Junior - as if anyone reading this wont know.. haha!) where I no longer update but have been adding in trades/transfers not posted based on the usually Tuesday releases of WHL Weekly Reports from the WHL.
14. Also intend/hope to get to updating the Alberta Midget Hockey League (AMHL - Midget AAA) & 
15. British Columbia Major Midget League (BCMML - also Midget AAA), but I've got to get other stuff done and caught up on before I'll dare getting into those 2... but I sure wish I would have gotten them up by now...
    
    I do a huge amount on EP... but I definitely don't do everything, so a person cant assume if something is out of date or anything, that it was my fault. If anyone comes across anything out of date or needing an update/addition though, let me know as well!

Some may, and most wont know - I also formerly updated well... every Junior A 'main'/CJHL league in Canada for a couple seasons I believe, prior to a staff member from BC joined to take care of the BCHL (a guy by the name of Brian Wiebe, as some of you may know who also worked for the Merritt Centennials for years and now continues to run his Brian's Banter BCHL blog), another from Northern Ontario who now updates the NOJHL (Northern Ontario JHL - Jr A), a couple of French Canadian of guys (mainly the one now) who now take cake of the LHJAAAQ/QJAAAHL (Quebec Jr A), and a guy from Cape Breton who tries to update the MHL (Maritime Hockey League - formerly MJAHL which we still use on EP as we also have an MHL in Russia that gets updated regularly). We had a guy show interest to help out with the MHL but went MIA by email, shortly after. I also used to update all the major junior leagues at some point - WHL, OHL, and QMJHL/LHJMQ; the Greater Metro Hockey League (Ontario - Independent Junior A); and originally started on EP back in 08 I believe, updating and working on the main German (DEL) and Czech (Czech Extraliga) leagues, prior to German and Czech staff members. If anyone has the time and interest in joining Elite Prospects as a staff member, definitely let me know as well.

As some may also know, I go by @Jayrox28 on Twitter. Twitter for me used to be, just a place to retweet NHL trades and the odd Jr A ones I was able to track down on there when unable to track down a team/league/quoted media release of one. Then in the past few weeks I've kind of got obsessed with it, though have got that under control a lot better the last few days. Am following just about everything or everyone hockey related (besides players, as most don't seem to reply to tweets from the general public) on there, besides what I cant read in other languages, though may click follow for them eventually as well - give them some support and maybe gain a follower as well hey.

As I have listed on Twitter, I also am 'Jack of all trades'/Backup for everything' in the GP Storm press box, besides play-by-play (though would probably help out Jeff Henson if he ever offered/needed - his old blog he had on the Storm, and Brian's BCHL blog kind of are part inspirational for this blog as well - kudos to them both! I've already jokingly referred to myself on Twitter as the "AJHL's Brian Wiebe", so maybe this blog will solidify that position/reputation... hehe!). Definitely been a great opportunity for me, since former GP Storm business manager Don Moon brought me aboard on the same day I fully got moved in my new home here in Grande Prairie, August 31st. Met a lot of great people, definitely re-entered the world a lot, and became very involved with the Storm and Storm Booster Club. I've kind of felt like I've become a bit of a team/booster club ambassador, as since mid-October when I finally bought a jersey, anytime there's a Storm game (home or road) people around GP can see me wearing the jersey and huge GP Storm Booster Club pin, with pride.

As I also said on the AJHL forum late last night, about the idea of starting this blog:
I don't know everything there is to know, and hope I never claim I do... haha - but I've come to learn a lot and I deal with/update a crazy amount of NA leagues at all sorts of different levels. I may be a huge Storm fan, but I purposely am very unbiased, and as people on the forum here have got to have noticed - I'm very serious and thorough about what I do, though joke around at will. I guess what I'm saying is that - through being a huge fan, I'm a huge fan of the AJHL hockey as a whole - so it'd be a perfect fit.

And a last little note, as I posted on my Facebook account the other day:

~>Well that's just awesome - got 285 FB friends now (it's been higher and lower depending on if was currently obsessed with some FB game... haha), 28(.5) seems to be my #, and I'm currently about 28.5 years old (born March 4th) & it's the BEST I've felt in ALL MY LIFE!

And all the while before realizing this, I was listening to my "birthday brother" Buck 65: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_65

28 for me started off kinda rocky and rough, but 28.5 (as of about Sept 4th...

only 5 days after my first night here since moving) - is going to really be the prophesied greatest year of my life!

I started this blog exactly 3 months after hitting 28.5 (Dec 4th - yesterday to most of the world... today still for me, as I said above), on purpose. Now let's see if starting this blog was a good great idea, or a totally nuts one considering how busy I keep and how I've been so far behind on work on EP... haha

Game on! Only have to be up in around 10 hours, so best get to work tonight already. (As soon as I hyperlink in a good 20-50 sites, that is... haha!)

Oh yeah... thought I'd also mention - I post transfers on EP too... by the thousand... literally! Over 34,000 since record keeping started May 5th/08.