AJHL update - Jan 28th

Before I get much further - I'm very proud to say I'm now part of the Grande Prairie JDA Kings Jr B (NWJHL) organization and very eager to get started with them for tomorrow night's game against Fort St. John! I am hoping to get the N-dub 100% up to date on EP tomorrow (well besides player histories I will have to scrounge my best to fill as best as possible), but for now I will focus on the lone AJHL game and notes from the league, and get to bed for a well needed & well deserved rest. Let's just say stuff away from the blog, Storm, Kings, EP work... really made my day today extremely hellish - but thanks to a great friend of mine, it was almost fully forgotten!
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One game tonight:

1.  Brooks beat the Canucks 3-2 in OT at the Max Bell Centre in SE Calgary. Definitely not saying bad about the Canucks - but one heck of a good result against the Bandits, considering the struggles and injuries they've fought through. I was personally shocked to find out it was this close of a game. Which isn't a total surprised, being #1 in the country and all - Bandits outshot fairly heavy (39-27). Bandits C #21 Anthony Paskaruk scored the OT winner, and also was the lone 3 point player of the night (1G, 2A), and deservedly earned the Bandits game star of the night.

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Changes:

Brooks:
*According to the current game sheet (in light of the multiple players strangely originally listed on game sheets Saturday only to strangely be removed after), LD #7 Shane Pilling returned to the Bandits lineup last night.

Calgary Canucks: - As for the Canucks... their roster is just about as hard to keep track of now, maybe even harder, to figure than the Saints!
*C #25 Sam Plaquin - his case still baffles me. From what I've heard he is an AP/reserve guy, and therefore should be fully carded with a Jr. B team... but I cant find him listed anywhere currently. His last Canucks playing time was a 3 game in 4 night stretch on the 17th, 19th (here in GP - I have the paper game sheet with his name on it) & 20th. What his status is and where he is, I have no clue - there fore he's still "with the Canucks" to me. Unfortunately his tweeter bird doesn't help out one bit either.
*According to the current game sheet, LW #25 Keith Csizmadia returned to the lineup for tonight's game (from "Broken thumb, out indefinitely").
*G #1 Cody Befus, who was backup for last game, was back down with CBHA Rangers Jr. B (CalJHL) for a game Sunday.
*F #40 Spencer Bender, was up & played last night against the Bandits, from the Calgary Royals Midget AAAs (AMHL). He will likely be back with the Royals on their next game on Feb 1st.
*RD #7 Owen Johnson, was also up & played, from Calgary Buffaloes Midget AAA (AMHL). He will likely be back with the Buffaloes on Feb 2nd.
*LD #5 Jake Dube (was #7) was also up & played last night, from the UFA Bisons Midget AAAs (AMHL). The Bisons next game is Feb 2nd.
*Former #7,  D Zach Fowles, was back with Edge School (Prep) for an MPHL game Jan 25th.

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Fort McMurray:
*Thanks to the watchful eye of Trevor Howlett, I found out that RD/F #25 Joey Stadnicki actually did not return from injury (Broken collarbone, expected back (after 6 weeks, as of Jan 17th) by Feb 28th), and he is in fact still injured. I didn't screenshot it, like all the other 'phantom players' from the 26th, but I was fairly awake. I'm 100% certain he was originally listed as playing last night, and at least 3 others I remember offhand were also erroneously listed and later removed (I'm pretty sure it was 5 in total, but as I'm tired I'm not going to bother going back to Jan 26th post now to confirm)... not sure why the 'epidemic' of it happening all at once on Saturday... but I guess it was one slough of coincidences at once. My best assumption there.
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As for me, I best get to bed! I tried my best to celebrate the new job the last couple days of limited AJHL updating to do... but due to stuff outside my 4 jobs (yeah, I know it sounds crazy that I work on 4 jobs now... haha! Friggen workaholic!)... a lot of it dealing with a seemingly endless amount of technology not working properly (my ancient 2004 laptop I think is officially obsolete and needs to be replaced... tonight before I gave up on doing anything but playing poker while at a seafood restaurant for all I could eat crab - the dang thing would freeze up steadily with any sort of browser open and the music on it was aggravating to even here... freezing/skipping every half second... you know a computer is at death when it does crap like that hey!), and well... 'personal relationship' stuff... I really had a hellish day today. Big thanks to my buddy Cam for saving the day - but between the beer at the seafood restaurant and out with him and some co-workers, I ended up having more beer in one day I believe since June. The strange thing is I'm more sober and 'with it' right now, than I was during those amusing tweets/post the one night last week... it's somewhat baffling! But, off to bed I go... I badly need a well needed LONG & well deserved catchup sleep, after only sleeping 12 hours in the last 2 days!

AJHL update - Jan 25th

Let's see how fast I can get this update active, with only one more game (5 total) than on Tuesday (4), so I should be able to pull off this update relatively quickly... I hope!

Here goes:
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As I noted above, 5 games tonight in the AJ:

1. Crusaders beat the Saints 4-2 in Sherwood Park. The shots totals in this game were insane... I'm hoping they're accurate though but I just got league confirmation that they're 100% accurate - that is something else there! Full out offensive game there - a person has to wonder where the D was in this match, or at least shot blocking.. and if there was shot blocking - yikes!! The reason I'm a a little suspicious is because the goalie stats were definitely entered incorrectly as according to it right now no Cru G received a win, but the real giveaway is that according to it now the only goalies that actually played were both of the Saints goalies, with neither Cru G even getting credited with any time played, though it appears G #31 Matt Tomkins, at least, was the starter. I've definitely got to bug the league about this one... Email just passed onto the league for correction. In case anyone wondering what in the heck I am talking about:

The above has since been fully updated. As for the actual game though... if anything what sticks out the most to me besides the crazy shot total (57-56 SP), is all the slashing calls made - 6 in the 1st & 3rd periods! Cru LW #15 Garth Wallin with a 3 point game (1G, 2A) - speaking of Wallin, can anyone confirm if he played for the St. Albert Flyers Minor Midget AAAs (AMMHL) in 07/08 (as the stats are not arrived online that far back)? I've got to say - I personally would have given both G's the game star - heck even losing G #1 Kenny Cameron had a .930 save % in the game! That's something else there! Cru G #35 Matt Tomkins, as I mentioned earlier in the crossed out part, was however the game star for Sherwood Park.
2. Bandits beat Drumheller 5-2 in Brooks. Drumheller actually outshot in the game by 5 (31-26) but a 2 goal 3rd period for the Bandits sealed the victory, in a huge turnout in Brooks (nearly 1300) - the largest attendance I remember seeing there offhand, recently. A lot of penalties but no one clearing Dragons RW #24 Tristan Reimer's 20PIM. Bandits C #21 Anthony Paskaruk with a 3 point game (1G, 2A).
3. Eagles beat Camrose 4-3 in OT in Canmore. Relatively close game with Canmore with a slight edge in shots in the 1st, 2nd and OT resulted in overall outshooting by 7 (36-29). A remarkably low # of penalties - 4 in the game, all to Camrose. Canmore RW #17 Zack Rassell was the lone 3 point player (1G, 2A - that seems to be the pattern tonight).
4. Calgary Mustangs beat the Oilers 5-2 in Okotoks. Okotoks outshot heavily in the game, by 19 overall (49-30), but could only stuff 2 by G #1 Ravi Dattani - who was understandably named road star of the game. Mustangs F #21 David Norris with 3 points (again, 1G & 2A).
5. Fort McMurray beat the Wolverines 5-3 in Whitecourt. Wolverines outshot by nearly double (29-16) but the Oil Barons held off the attack - that effort in goal earned MOB G # 31 Tanner Jaillet, the road star. The MOB continue to amaze/impress me with their post-trade deadline record, which is somewhat surprising after trading away all overagers except current captain C #9 Mike Marianchuk. Which doesn't surprise me at all with tonight's pattern - the leading scorer again had 3 points (1G, 2A). Only difference is that both teams had a guy with these totals - MOB RW #8 Hayden Dawes & league leading scorer Wolverines LW #15 Mathieu Guertin, who now has 76 points in 44 games.
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Changes:

Spruce Grove - this is looking like it could get lengthy...
*RW #7 Parker Mackay, now injured (Upper body injury suffered Jan 24th, day-to-day).
*D #21 Carson Soucy, also now injured (Lower body injury suffered Jan 19th, expected back by Feb 2nd).
*LD #5 Brandon Hickey, also now injured (Upper body injury suffered Jan 25th, expected back by Feb 8th)
*D/F #4 Cole Nicholson, as I never did confirm as I forgot to post the recall/game played for the Saints Jan 9th onto EP, was back down with the Lloydminster Bobcats Midget AAAs (AMHL) as of the 12th. He was also up playing tonight for the Saints. He doesn't have another Midget AAA game scheduled until Feb 3rd, so many more opportunities to dress for the Saints.

*LD #17 (was #4, #21 & #25) Connor James, was up and played tonight for the Saints also from the Lloydminster Bobcats Midget AAAs (AMHL). As I said of Nicholson - same opportunities are there for James to dress again for the Saints, with no Midget AAA games until Feb 3rd.
*C #18 (was #25) Tyler Busch, who is also from that very same Lloydminster Bobcats Midget AAA team (AMHL) also played tonight for the Saints, and as the other 2 is next set to play Midget AAA Feb 3rd. Earlier in the season it seemed like the St. Albert Raiders Midget AAA team were the seemingly primary affiliate team of the Saints - now it's looking like the Midget AAA Bobcats have taken over that claim.
*LW #21 (was #14) Mathieu Lapointe - whom either I missed was recalled on the 19th or he was added onto the game sheet after the game/my league update (he also was then first added/listed as an AP), was back with Knights of Columbus Pats Midget AAAs (AMHL) on the 20th, was also playing tonight for the Saints, and his Midget AAA team is back in action Feb 2nd.
*Newly listed AP/reserve LW #14 Liam Gregor was up and played tonight also for the Saints, from the Leduc Oil Kings Midget AAAs (AMHL). His Midget AAA team wont be back in action again until Feb 3rd.

Sherwood Park:
*LW #18 Arthur Gordon is out with injury (Upper body injury suffered Jan 19th, expected back Jan 26th-29th).
*LD #6 Marshall Donald is out with injury (Lower body injury suffered Jan 25th, day-to-day).
*Since he was recalled/moved to active, but did not play, here's a screenshot showing C #26 Darcy Zaharichuk on the active Cru roster, up from Sherwood Park Kinds Midget AAAs (AMHL).

*LW #25 Bryce Woodward was, as expected, back down with his Lloydminster Bobcats Midget AAA (AMHL) team on the 19th.

Drumheller - surprisingly, no known changes.

Brooks - surprisingly no known changes there either... hopefully it is a pattern as I am desperate to not only finish this, but to get to bed as quickly as humanly possible!

Camrose - again, no know changes... this is a rarity (maybe even a first for me on the blog) - three teams with no known changes in a row!

Canmore:
*LD/F #6 Nikolas Kosman returned from injury (Arm injury, status uncertain).
*LW #7 Carter Jensen returned to CRAA Gold Jr. B (CalJHL) for a game tonight.
*RW # 16 Dylan Houston, is likely back tomorrow with Three Hills Thrashers (HJHL) for a game there.

Calgary Mustangs:
*LW #11 Matthew Alfaro was up and played tonight (well Friday night, as it's now 5:37am, but you get my drift!), from Calgary Northstars Midget AAA (AMHL). The Northstars don't return to action until Feb 2nd.
*C #26 Matt McNair returned to action to play for Edge School Prep for an MPHL game tonight.
*F #29 Vincent Paquette was up and played on Jan 22nd, from Calgary Flames Midget AAA (AMHL). He had to have been added in later... I am certain I would have came across him if he was listed on the roster when I updated the games for that day. The Flames don't play again until Feb 1st.

Okotoks - no known changes. Four out of 5 ain't bad at all for me to finish this up sooner.

Fort McMurray - no known changes, besides LD/F #7 Mike Green possibly being with/having a Jr B team, in between games with the MOB - hopefully will find out for sure for the next update or two.

Whitecourt - surprisingly no know changes here either.

All complete! I am so proud I was able to do a daily update on a peak Friday and/or Saturday... even though it's after 6am, but whatever - this is something to build off of for sure! Likely will be back attacking this blog, with that secondary N-dub update ahead of the Saturday night AJ update! Here's hoping it all works out well!

AJHL update - Jan 22nd-23rd

A slow-er day than Friday & Saturday, but still 4 games/half the league playing. Since it doesn't make much sense to split posts with everything that I came to know about the Pontiacs and Storm lineups for these 2 days, while updating stats - Tuesday and Wednesday are getting combined.

Post is now complete... managed to stay awake long enough to complete it, and not start typing crazily again or have my vision go haywire in one eye already!

[Tuesday] Scores:

1. Bonnyville beat the Storm 3-2 here in Grande Prairie. Was a fairly close tight game, especially for the first 2 periods overall. Was really rough in the first so and less so in the 2nd, and barely in the 3rd. 2-0  Pontiacs after 1, 2-2 after 2, then the 3rd period... Pontiacs outshot 13-4 but only outscored by one for the win.
2. Bandits beat the Canucks 6-2 in Brooks. Another dominant game by the Bandits, shots and score. RW #8 Mark Reners & RW #19 Dakota Mason each with 3 points (both with 1G, 2As).
3. Camrose beat the Mustangs 3-0 at the Father David Bauer Arena in NW Calgary. Dominant game by the Kodiaks, besides the 3rd period where the Mustangs outshot 13-4, but couldn't buy a goal. All 3 Kodiaks goals scored in the 2nd. Kodiaks G #35 Matthew Gibney with the shutout.
4. Bobcats beat Sherwood Park 4-1 in Lloydminster. Fairly even in shots until the 3rd, with a 12-5 period by the Cru. Loads of penalties, especially in the 3rd... the summary there is like a mile long... hehe! Bobcats F #7 Nolan Yaremchuk with 3 points (2G, 1A).

Wednesday scores:

1. Canmore beat the Dragons 5-1 in Drumheller. A very one sided game by... Drumheller, in shots. Not in score. Kind of a strange game in that regard. In other words - very rough game for Drumheller starter G #35 Adam Beukeboom, who allowed 5G on 18 shots, where as G #35 Ty Swabb on the other end, stopped 34 of 35. RW #17 Zack Rassell, with 3 points (1G, 2A).
2. Bonnyville beat the Storm 5-1 here in Grande Prairie. Close game in shots, not in score. Was your average close game, barring the score, for most of the game... there were penalties, but nothing like the last 12 seconds of game time... that was insane... took me like half an hour to get the penalties straight and get them updated properly onto the game sheet... hehe! Strangely, no one for the Pontiacs had more than 2 points.

PERIOD 3

Bonnyville Pontiacs at 19:48 - Alex Smith for Misconduct (10 Min.)

Grande Prairie Storm at 19:48 - Adam Boytinck for Game Misconduct (10 Min.)

Bonnyville Pontiacs at 19:48 - Alex Smith for Fighting (5 Min.)

Grande Prairie Storm at 19:48 - Jade McMUllen for Fighting (5 Min.)

Grande Prairie Storm at 19:48 - Adam Boytinck for Checking from behind (5 Min.)

Bonnyville Pontiacs at 19:48 - Alex Smith for Instigator (2 Min.)

Bonnyville Pontiacs at 19:59 - Christian Nypower for Goaltender interference (2 Min.)

Grande Prairie Storm at 19:59 - Brandon Hodge for Cross-checking (2 Min.)

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Changes:

Bonnyville:
*RW #12 Christian Nypower is up for and played last night & tonight, from the Cold Lake Ice (NEAJBHL).

*Cold Lake teammate RW #14 Thomas "T.J." Cunningham also up and played last night & tonight - a new AP/reserve listed. Cunningham, some AJHLer observers may remember, started the season with the Calgary Canucks playing 7 games, scoring 1 assist and adding 17 penalty minutes (as TJ Cunningham), on a now hidden AJHL profile separate from his current active one with the Pontiacs (as Thomas Cunningham). As far as what I've been able to find thus far and what Bonnyville play-by-play guy Robb Hunter (who's standing to my right as I update stats here for the Jan 23rd game in GP - I've kind of assumed the role of late) knows - Cunningham went directly to the Ice from the Canucks and played his first game for them Nov 28th, but if someone knows different feel free to drop me a line. Both Nypower & Cunningham will likely be back with the Ice for a game Friday.

*C #10 Marc Dubeau was/is sick & both games here in GP.

*C #18 Tommy Barszcz served the last game of his 2 game suspension and is in the lineup for today's game, Wednesday the 23rd, in the 2nd half of doubled header here in GP against the Storm.

Grande Prairie:
*C/RW #23 John Webb is up from Sexsmith Vipers (NWJHL) as I knew personally as I've seen him up in the booth here both nights.

*Captain RW #15 Taylor Cote as I've heard publicly and updated onto Storm AJ stats/roster - out for the season at least, with post-concussion symptoms.
*C #7 Sam Lawson, as according to what Jeff Henson said to Robb Hunter line on radio on the Kool FM Bonnyville broadcast, is out with his 3rd concussion of the season and is out indefinitely. Team is taking very cautious approach to his return, probably with thoughts of captain Cote's status on their minds pretty good.

*LD #4 Tyler Haiste left the game last night and went to hospital, and initially it sounded like a serious long term wrist injury. He ended up retweetingTerry Farrell (GP Daily Herald Tribune's sports reporter)'s tweet last night confirming the injury, though he also tweeted about it also from the hospital. As he said to Jeff in an intermission interview, and later confirmed to me himself - he's likely back in the lineup Saturday in Drayton Valley. I love being able to update injuries onto the Storm AJ stats/roster, not that I figured out how to - makes it look a bit better, and all I'm entering there is public knowledge also (if Jeff or Robb, for example, says it on air - it's public after all. I've still got to add guys with the "major junior" icon yet too).
*RW #16 Ryan Baskerville, took a bit of a slapshot in the mouth last night from teammate, assistant captain LD #3 Sasha Larocque. I was constantly hearing that he lost 3 teeth, but Terry Farrell (who took a chair between myself & Robb) assured me it was only 1 and that Basky tweeted a pic of it. True enough!
*C #18 Braeden Music returned from day-to-day back injury on Tuesday. He also originally wore #19 for the Storm, post-trade from Canmore.
*LW/C #27 Brett Printz, originally wore #18 when first acquired by Storm from Kindersley (SJHL).
*LW #24 Adam Boytinck left the game tonight with potential shoulder injury (according to what Jeff said on radio)... if not he could very well be suspended for a hit he made seemed to trigger the chaos that happened with 12 seconds left in the game tonight. In fact, after the game while talking with others within the organization, there's thought that the Storm could possibly have 3 guys suspended from what went on tonight... could be a very different lineup Saturday...
*D #25 Brandon Hodge, returned from Pneumonia, day-to-day, for game tonight.

Brooks:
*LW #37 Taylor Makin, returned from injury (Lower body injury suffered Jan 6th, expected back Jan 20th - Feb 3rd) last night.

Calgary Canucks:
*As expected, I got confirmation from G #1 Austin Hannaford's father that he's back in Calgary and should be in the lineup for their next game Friday night, with the CNHA Blazers Midget AAs (HCMAA).
*LD/F #5 Evan Reid made his AJHL debut for the Canucks last night/Tuesday, up from the Calgary Royals Midget AAAs (AMHL). He'll likely be back in the lineup next for the Royals on Feb 1st.
*More recent G #1 Cody Befus (presumably a 4th/5th/6th stringer), was the back up on Tuesday night. He'll likely be back for them on Friday's game.

Lloydminster:
*LD #27 Linden Springer was back in the lineup last night, from suspension (2 game suspension as a result of being assessed a major penalty for hitting from behind, eligible to return Jan 22nd).

Sherwood Park:
*Callup LW #25 Bryce Woodward played Tuesday night, but will likely be bac k to his Lloydminster Bobcats Midget AAA game in Tuesday night.

Canmore:
*LW/D #7 Colton Sandboe was up playing last night, from Grande Prairie Storm Midget AAAs (AMHL). He will likely be back with this Storm team, for their next game Feb 2nd.
*As far as I know former #7 LW Carter Jensen, has not been with his CalJHL Jr.B team., as he did not show on tonight's game sheet for the Jr. B CRAA Gold game.
*RW #16 Dylan Houston was back up in the Eagles lineup, up from the Three Hills Thrashers (HJHL). He will likely by back for the Thrashers game on Saturday.

Drumheller - no changes I'm aware of... which usually means they're healthy.

AJHL update Jan 14th-15th

It feels great to be starting this final catchup installment!!! It might sound kind of crazy to some, but I never once doubted I would finally get caught up, nor ever considered giving up and scrapping this blog.

Anyways, notes from the last 2 nights games and league news. I may wait to fully update injuries & suspension until tomorrow, depending on how fast I finalize the 4th-9th post, and the 11th-13th post.
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Scores for the quiet last 2 nights (which I took full advantage of, to get these 3 blog posts posted on Twitter, caught up on tonight!):

Jan 14th:

1. Drumheller beat the Mustangs 5-1 at the Father David Bauer Arena in NW Calgary.

Jan 15th:

1. Brooks beat the Grizzlys 2-1 in Olds.

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Changes:

Brooks:
*Hmm... looks as though RD #22 Maddison Smiley, might have been accidentally listed as back in the lineup early. As I had mentioned in the previous 11th-13th post, Maddison was listed on the game sheet for the 11th, but has since been removed. I noticed it looked funny when I was updating the Bandits player stats, as Smiley suddenly lost a game of stats, from 32 to 31. Oh well, minor, honest error, likely - it happens hey! The Mustangs ones below though... is a whole different story! Anyways, his injury status is back to "Upper body injury suffered Dec 11th, expected back Jan 22nd - Feb 5th" for me, on EP.

Calgary Mustangs (for the 2 following players - DO NOT go by their AJHL profile information now - I will screenshot them both in to show... the player data there is currently 100% incorrect & inaccurate, and I hope at least the game stats are accurate though! Either the coaching staff had next to no data on the players when they added them to AJHL profiles (which I cant figure out - heck, do an internet search - I was able to find all that I have on their EP profiles), or they were in a massive rush. I don't mean to sound harsh, but those profiles are embarrassing!):
*C #26 Matt MacNair (I think it's MacNair... the CSSHL profile for this season spells it that way, and just about everything else spells it MacNair. But I went with the current prominent league's spelling - if someone knows 100% which way his name is spelled, let me know! I'd definitely appreciate it!) was up & played last night for the Mustangs, up from Edge School (Prep) - which plays in both the CSSHL & MPHL.
Here is his badly incorrect 'basic' AJHL profile:

... Okay... to start off with the inaccuracies... he is most certainly not a '93 - he was born March 6, 1995 - per his MPHL profile. The size is horrendously off, by using a basic 6'0 180... he is really 5'7 150, as seen in the MPHL profile. He isn't from Calgary either, he's from Beiseker, as also seen on the MPHL profile. The only thing accurate there is his name (well, it's one of the possible spellings) and that he is indeed a froward (he's a centre).
*RW #29 Evan Pugh was up and also played last night for the Mustangs, up from the Calgary Flames Midget AAAs (AMHL). As I listed in the 11th-13th post, he was delisted likely sometime in January or even late December after the Mustangs 2012 season schedule ended. Strangely that old profile is still listing that he is with the Mustangs, but that profile is not connected to the Mustangs AJ roster or reserves.
Here is his badly incorrect 'basic' AJHL profile:

... Okay, as for the inaccuracies here... well, a person might notice the data is identical to the data in Matt's AJ profile (1st screenshot). The best way to see the inaccuracies are by comparing the screenshot above, to the further above mentioned hidden profile, that appears 100% accurate. Why the team staff (as the Whitecourt updater I am in touch with informer me, the updaters cannot add players to the AJHL database - I found this out personally when I tried to when updating stats for a couple Storm games a couple weeks ago) didn't use that profile.. I have no clue, but it does happen - I've seen it happen before. But since the old hidden profile was moved recently... a person would think the team would be aware of it? Anyways though .. enough time spent on this - all I can say about this, is I sincerely hope they update these profiles as soon as they can - because like I said, they are horribly inaccurate and pretty embarrassing to be listed as so.

Olds:
*F #9 Dylan Hubbs has committed to Univ. of Alaska Anchorage (NCAA) for 2013-14.

Sherwood Park:
*LD #17 Josh Healey has committed to Ohio State Univ. (NCAA) for 2013-14.
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Hellz yeah, I'm caught up on AJHL updating, finally!!! I will do a full league injury & suspension update tomorrow, as well, to get that caught up as well!

AJHL scores & changes - Dec 18th

Sorry about the holdup getting this fully complete until now... ended up getting tired suddenly and gradually faster last night, and been busy with other things most of the day, including shoveling out my Grandma's entire about 5 car capacity driveway, and large deck at -25 earlier... haha! Face was pretty warm for the next 30-60mins but oh well... haha! Anyways, though...

Scores:

1. Bandits beat Okotoks 4-2 in Brooks. Wow, what an effort by the Oilers in the 3rd. Brooks outshot marginally in the 1st and 2nd but the Oilers launched a 15-4 3rd period attack... just not enough to be the mighty Bandits though. Bandits G #30 (started with #30, then #33, then back to #30 lately, according to notes I had on his EP profile) Devon Fordyce earned home star probably for that 14/15 save 3rd period alone.
2. GP Storm beat Canucks 5-2 at Max Bell Centre not far south into SE Calgary (I think I'm almost certain I may have unintentionally said it was in the NE before on the blog here... it's so close to the NE divider road after all... haha!). Was a first 2 periods that seemed dominated by the Storm, but the 3rd period almost a full on attack from the Canucks (17-9 shots), but they just couldn't buy a goal.
3. Drumheller beat the Mustangs 2-1 at Father David Bauer Arena in NW Calgary. A close 2-1 game that the Mustangs dominated the first and the Dragons took the game over in the 2nd and 3rd. I personally noticed well what happened at 2:16 in the 3rd:

   PERIOD 3

   Calgary Mustangs at 2:16 - Jared Van Ree for Fighting (5 Min.)

   Calgary Mustangs at 2:16 - Blair Wentworth for Roughing (5 Min.)

   Drumheller Dragons at 2:16 - Tristan Reimer for Fighting (5 Min.)

   Calgary Mustangs at 2:16 - Chase McMurphy for Roughing (2 Min.)

   Calgary Mustangs at 2:16 - Blair Wentworth for Boarding (2 Min.)

   Calgary Mustangs at 2:16 - Jared Van Ree for Roughing (2 Min.)

   Drumheller Dragons at 2:16 - Adam Danyluk for Boarding (2 Min.)

   Drumheller Dragons at 2:16 - Adam Danyluk for Roughing (2 Min.)

   Drumheller Dragons at 2:16 - Tristan Reimer for Roughing (2 Min.)

4. Camrose beat Grizzlys 8-5 in Olds. Whoa... a track meet there alright! 4-2 Olds after 2 until Camrose totally caught fire, scoring 5 unanswered in the period, the last being an empty netter... lots of 3+ point players likely here... holy heck, before I get to that though - both teams were over 40% on the PP, Camrose scoring 5 times! AJHL rookie scoring leader, Kodiaks C #15 Tanner MacMaster with 5 points (3G, 2A) to definitely pad that lead, teammate RW #12 Brett Njaa (I always say to myself 'Ninja', even though have heard it said Nee-ya... hehe!) with 3 points (1G, 2A), and Olds' F #9 Dylan Hubbs also with 3 points (1G, 2A).

Changes:
Okotoks:
*Not a change, but C #12 Chris Collins still listed as suspended on AJHL Okotoks stats/roster listing, but he was only out from 12th-18th for a 1 game suspension and played last night against Brooks.
*Though still listed as injured on AJHL Okotoks stats/roster, Oilers LW #22 Colton Sheen played last night, for the first time in exactly one month.
*Okay... the Oilers AJ listing is getting really confusing to keep track of... okay so LD #3 Kyle Krabben was out of the lineup backdated to Nov 26th with an upper body injury, the he played Dec 11th, 13th and 15th with the injury still listed as active on the AJ stats listing, now didn't play last night, with the same previous injury still listed... uh... okay, unless someone tells me otherwise I'll consider him re-injured. So to try and logically make sense of this one... "Upper body injury (originally backdated to Nov 26th, but not removed from AJHL listing when returned Dec 11th, though did not play again Dec 18th), status uncertain" - onto EP. Think it might be worth asking Gino De Paoli about this one as well...
*LW #20 Sheldon Rempal is listed on Oilers active AJ stats/roster, but was back with the Calgary Buffaloes Midget AAAs (AMHL) for game Sunday.
*Hmm, not a change, but beginning to wonder if rookie C #25 Tanner Ockey is possibly signed to play with the Oilers for the rest of the season and/or injured. He hasn't been checked on any Calgary Royals Midget AAA (AMHL) game sheets since he first reappeared on the Oilers AJ active stats/roster. I'd link the AMHL sheets in, but nah... already closed them all - you guys reading can look if you want to see that proof (pending it doesn't get edited in later, of course.. haha!). Oh yeah, to add to the 'possibly signed for rest of season' theory/idea - he's also not listed as an AP on the AJ Oilers stats/roster currently.

Brooks:
*AP/reserve LD #25 Brett Schimmel,  played last night against Okotoks, from Southeast Tigers Midget AAA (AMHL - Medicine Hat) though he's 'from from' Brooks.
*C #25 Landon Welykholowa & LW #16 Ben Assad, have been back with Calgary Buffaloes Midget AAA (AMHL) since Sunday game.

Grande Prairie - listed on pre-game notes post last night.

Calgary Canucks - listed on pre-game notes post last night.
*Two move I didn't get to last night, RW #24 Alexander Mowbray & RD #7 Own Johnson went back to Calgary Buffaloes Midget AAA (AMHL) for Sunday game.

Drumheller:
*G Adam Beukeboom was #31, but now is listed with #35 - the same # he wore in his WHL time.

Camrose - Kind of a 'caught me by surprise', but 3 APs listed on reserve prior, played last night (they had maybe 1 or 2 all season til now):
*LW #22 Nick Harder, up from Sherwood Park Kinds Midget AAA (AMHL).
*C #27 Taylor Allan, up from Calgary Royals Midget AAA (AMHL).
*RD #5 Quinn Brown, up from Red Deer Chiefs Midget AAA (AMHL)

Olds:
*#-less RW/C Brendon Benson, now listed/AP/on reserve. Currently with Lethbridge Pronghorns Midget AAA (AMHL).
*F/RD #42 Austin Kernahan, now listed as out indefinitely with lower body injury, backdated to Dec 11th.

And finally... I'm done with yesterday's games!

AJHL scores & changes - Dec 16th

Well, I'm partly starting this earlier than usual, but considering the last game ended at around 9:30pm, I'm 2 hours late in starting. Last night's chaos killed a many hours on my end, which led to me getting yesterday's AJHL updates done super late, which well... went from there to produce a very buggered up Sunday for me.

Anyways though, onto the games...

Scores:

1. Whitecourt beat the Bobcats 5-2 in Lloydminster. Lots of penalties in this one... AJHL PIM leader Whitecourt LD/C #25 Mathieu Gagnon continued to pad to his lead with 30 mins more. I'm continuously impressed with the attendance figures from Lloyd and places like Camrose - per capita, they really come out in droves to support their teams! Especially in Lloyd with the rough season they're having and that near-move the last few seasons.
2. Crusaders beat Canmore 5-1 in Sherwood Park. Canmore really put up a battle for this one, but score wise it'd be overlooked; 42-28 shots for Canmore. Cru C #20 Bowen Croft with 2G, 1A - and granted a great game, but I personally have to wonder if their G for the night #31 Matt Tomkins might have got shafted for home star - stopped 41 of 42 in the game.
3. Drayton Valley beat the Pontiacs 1-0 in OT in Bonnyville. Wow, real goalie battle there - I don't even have to say it, but a very close game. In the shot department it appear DV barely showed in the first 2 periods with only 5 shots combined (both teams only had a 5-2 BON edge in shots in the 2nd) - granted they were shorthanded 3 times in the first; but they came alive when it really mattered, in the 3rd and OT. Drayton rookie C #19 Brayden Harris, with the winner.

Changes:
Whitecourt:
*Not a true change, but yes RD/F #9 Michael Claffey & LD #4 Landon Hall are playing after their signings/acquisitions, but are still listed on Wolverines reserves for some reason. Claffey I can see, as he is listed as an AP - but as for Hall, I have absolutely no clue why. Both players even had points tonight as well, with Claffey picking up 2A and 8PIM and Hall collecting an assist.

*LW #17 Jacques Bernier, was back with CAC Edmonton Canadians Midget AAA (AMHL) for the start of a road trip in Lethbridge yesterday.

Lloydminster:
*C #19 Ryley Wozniak, though still listed on the Bobcats AJHL stats/roster as active, was back in the lineup for the St. Paul Canadiens (NEAJBHL) Friday night.

Canmore:
*Not a change, but RW #7 Chance Thomas played again for Canmore, though listed on their reserve roster. Ouch... was pretty sure of it, but just confirmed - Canmore played games Friday, Saturday & Sunday... ouch! Gotta love the somewhat sometimes crazy AJHL schedule... I personally like/hate how uneven the schedule is - it seems the Storm, for example, seemingly have been have had at least 3 games in hand on every team in the North most of the season:

(And with this, I already included the standings in this post, but will update injuries later as well... haha!)
*G #39 Forrest Ayearst, who's from Canmore, was back as the backup again last night. This kind of backs up my theory that he likely went back home to Canmore after either quitting or being released by Cochrane (HJHL). As he hasn't been showing on any other junior/senior rosters anywhere else to my knowledge, this is why I've just kept him on the Canmore active status since his delisting from Cochrane. As for other G #39 of Canmore's James Fisk - his HJHL team, Airdrie Thunder, played this (Sunday) afternoon, but as of yet (1:14am local currently) the HJHL hasn't added in the game sheet from their game in Okotoks against the Bisons, so could very well have played/dressed there and 'officially' be back with Airdrie. It's definitely not something that only happens with the HJHL - a few teams' updaters (not naming names, nicely - as hey, it could be a # of reasons/factors for it) up here in the NWJHL do that as well - don't update some game sheets to the league stats site until the following day. hehe!
*G #35 Ty Swabb - injury update: not sure if I just badly miscalculated his estimated return date for his '6 week lower body injury' (currently would have been Dec 9th from day injury was dated to, according to the 'red cross' on him, on the Canmore AJHL stats/roster), or if it was updater by Canmore updater(s) and I possibly missed it - but regardless, according to what's there now he's now overdue in returning, by nearly a week... yikes! No wonder there's been that 'revolving door' backup goalie setup for Ayearst & Fisk. So yeah, changed Swabb injury listing on EP currently to "Lower body injury, status uncertain (was expected back by December 9th)".

Sherwood Park:
*LD #26 Tyler Dea recalled again from St. Albert Raiders Midget AAA (AMHL) and played yesterday.
*RD #25 Nick Charif, back down with SSAC Athletics Midget AAA (AMHL) and played with them yesterday.
*Captain F #19 Eric Liknes (if anyone reading knows his primary F position(s), drop me a message) now listed with a 2-3 week lower body injury dated to the 14th/Friday, joining D #44 Cody Bardock who I have listed on EP as "Lower body injury, status uncertain (was to be back by November 25th)" - another overdue injury return.... yikes!

Drayton Valley:
*RW #14 Braden Jakubowski, back playing with Leduc Oil Kings Midget AAA (AMHL) as of game yesterday.

Bonnyville:
*Not a change, but former Pontiac and current NEAJBHL leading scorer C #7 Dallas Ansell stays with the club to play a 2nd straight game (listed on reserve still, and not listed as an AP kind of strangely, but it could have just been neglected or accidentally left out). The main reason I mention him, is the fact that the Bonnyville updater lists him as an "RC" yet a left handed shot... which kind of makes me wonder. As far as I knew in the past RC and LC as positions stood for 'right handed or left handed' shots - as there obviously aren't players that just selectively take faceoffs on the right or left side of the ice (who would take them at centre, then? Haha!). But if this RC/LC deal stands for something else as well - please comment and let me know. Otherwise, it seems the updater might have just made a very simple, tiny, precise error - nothing major though.

*Regarding the AMHL schedule links I post in - I've been having this gut feeling with how they're listed, that all these 2012-13 links I hyperlink in, wont be active/correct for next season... but they're accurate as of now. Just a note for if someone was to come back next season and look at any of them - but chances are by that time if it happens, they'll see a post I didn't post this on anyways... haha! Oh well, cant say I didn't try... haha!

But, as for this post - all done! Like 8 hours earlier than Saturday's games... haha!

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Edit - league wide injury check update - others known that I came across:
*Brooks D # 22 Maddison Smiley injury now confirmed by Brooks updater(s). He's now listed as out with an upper body for 6-8 weeks, but I've listed it on EP as "Upper body (likely shoulder) injury, expected back January 22nd - February 5th".
*Brooks LW #14 Nick Newman, also now added to the injury list. A backdated injury to Dec 1st listed as a 4-6 weeks upper body one. My EP listing of it: "Upper body injury, expected back December 29th - January 12th".
*Not a change that I know of, but Brooks LW #9 Mark Logan listed as out for 6-8 weeks with lower body injury. I'm pretty sure the expected time frame expired before I started listing injuries differently (with expected return dates in brackets like this, if not back by that date), so this is just a change to my data/EP injury listing on Logan. Changed from "Lower body injury, out indefinitely" to "Lower body injury, status uncertain (was expected back November 12th-26th)".
*Grande Prairie Storm captain RW #15 Taylor Cote, confirmed to me in person at the Grande Prairie Kings  (NWJHL) game Saturday night, that he's out until at least the January games. I believe he said he wasn't even going on the 4 game (in 5 days) pre-Xmas southern road trip.. not good!
*Okotoks LD #18 Max Mowat, I believe was injured briefly (? - might have been another Oiler player, not going to worry about sifting through old blog posts now), but is now listed as out with upper body injury for 4-6 weeks as of Dec 13th... which to me means "Upper body injury, expected back January 10th-24th".


Current known # of active injury casualties, by team (whether listed by AJHL team updater or not, listed in brackets like this is) - complete list here, with our still out-of-date AJHL map...:

North Division:
*Bonnyville - 3 known (3 listed) - though offhand, reservist RW #12 Christian Nypower also hurt (but down with Cold Lake - NEAJBHL)
*Drayton Valley - 1 known, by radio source (0 listed)
*Fort McMurray - 5 known (5 listed) - all are overdue... a hurtin' case for the MOB!
*Grande Prairie - 4 known (0 listed), but still yet to dress an AP skater (one of the few, if not only, team in the league with that 'honour' as of yet) - all known either personally or from close trusted sources
*Lloydminster - 0 known (0 listed)
*Sherwood Park - 2 known (2 listed)
*Spruce Grove - 3 known (3 listed)
*Whitecourt - 0 known (0 listed)
South Division:
*Brooks - 3 known (3 listed)
*Calgary Canucks - 8 known (8 listed) - ouch!
*Calgary Mustangs - 0 known (0 listed)
*Camrose - 0 known (0 listed)
*Canmore - 6 known (6 listed) - another ouch!
*Drumheller - 0 known (0 listed)
*Okotoks - 3 out (4 listed) - complicated one there. Okay, Sheen & Swenson are definitely out. Krabben is still listed as hurt but has played the last 2 games. Mowat - I believe was out and came back to play on the 13th (it mighta been a different player, not 100% here), only to get reinjured/hurt again (I believe?). I'm pretty sure the old injury (if it indeed was him) stayed during the game he played, and the data has since then just been added/updated - now that I click his 'red cross' (info above with rest of changes/injuries).
*Olds - 0 known (0 listed)

And that's all for AJHL work for til likely Tuesday night, with today (Monday) off.

AJHL scores & changes - Dec 15th

Really late getting this done up, due to that mess from earlier...

Scores:

1. Saints beat Canmore 6-1 in Spruce Grove. Holy heck... I've got to wonder... what happened to the Eagles that started the season so well... total tailspin since around the Showcase. Saints outshot by a 2-1 margin. C #9 Dylan Richard with 3G, 1A and RD #6 Dustin Fostvelt with 4A.
2. Drumheller beat Oilers 6-2 in Okotoks. Wow, from the game sheet it looked closer than it was. Shots were close, but the Dragons laid a bit of a whopping by score, in a very balanced attack - no one with  even 3 points.
3. Bandits beat Olds 4-1 in Brooks. As usual, the Bandits keep winning - on pace for only 1 more loss, if even any at this rate. They outshot by almost double, but not a blowout by any means. C #21 Anthony Paskaruk with 2G, 1A.
4. Pontiacs beat Whitecourt 3-2 in a shootout in Bonnyville. Wow, Pontiacs laid waste of the Wolverines in shots... a crazy 56-31 and all (but a 4-1 OT for Whitecourt) were in regulation and heavily favouring the Pontiacs. I can definitely see why G #1 Jared Rathjen was road star - probably would have not even been close without him stopping as well as he did.
5. Kodiaks beat Calgary Canucks 3-1 in Camrose. A fairly close game overall, but the slight edge in shots, and ultimately goals, went to the Canucks. Low # of penalties and a close low scoring game.
6. Oil Barons beat Drayton valley 4-3 in a shootout in Fort McMurray. Wow, by the sheet - this was the closest game of the night by far! The MOB came out with the lead, and fought back in the 3rd to tie it. DV C #21 Eric Sieben 1G, 2A and relatively new MOB RW #8 Hayden Dawes with 3A.

Changes/moves:

Canmore:

*RW #7 Chance Thomas, recalled and played for Canmore Eagles tonight. Up from KC Colts Midget AA in NAMHL (N. AB Mdgt AA). Has been listed/reserve/AP since start of season, which I backdated in too.

*G #39 James Fisk - recalled & played tonight also. Back up from Airdrie Thunder (HJHL).

Spruce Grove:
*RD #4 (was #25) Graydon Smith, played last night, up from Leduc Oil Kings Midget AAA (AMHL).

*Also #4 (SG likes to recycle jersey #s.. hehe - but all levels seem to do it... New Jersey, probably the most infamous NHL team to do it - it was a serious pain in the arse when I used to update video game rosters back in the day, just to not have two wearing the same #!) RD Clayton Kirichenko, back with Sherwood Park Kings Midget AAA (AMHL) last night.

Drumheller - no known changes

Okotoks:
*C #12 Chris Collins - suspended for the game for a "Junior A Supplement" (which is good to see - the 2nd suspension of the season I remember that was listed on the AJHL stats/roster, with the suspension list almost always being out of date). I only mention it mainly, as the Okotoks updater was nice enough to add it on the AJHL's Okotoks roster/stats - nice! That, and it's a known reason why he missed the game.
*LW #20 Sheldon Rempal, played - up from Calgary Buffaloes Midget AAA (AMHL).

Olds:
*Newly listed/reserved/added D/LW #6 Chaydan Lauber, is up and played last night, from Southeast Tigers Midget AAA (Medicine Hat, AMHL).

Whitecourt:

*Newly acquired D Landon Hall, played last night wearing #4. Why he and RD/F #9 Michael Claffey are listed on the Whitecourt reserve roster on the AJHL stats/roster and not the main/active one, while playing even while being listed on that press release, is beyond me.

Bonnyville:
*Former Pontiac and current NEAJBHL (NE AB, Jr B) leading scorer by a fair margin (with 48pts in 19 games right now), C Dallas Ansell, now back up with the Pontiacs wearing #7 and played last night. He's also listed on the reserve - but it makes more sense as he's probably only a reserve/AP as a 20 year old but only time will tell. With #s like he has, I could definitely see him getting another Jr A shot though! I added in a backdated move for the fact he was listed since the start of the season on reserve.

Calgary Canucks:
*D #34 Zach Dietrich, RD #6 Deryk Sutherland have been back with the Calgary Northstars Midget AAA (AMHL) team since at least Friday night.

*RD #7 Owen Johnson has been added/recalled from Calgary Buffaloes Midget AAA (AMHL), and played last night.
*RW #24 Alexander Mowbray played last night as well, up from the Calgary Buffaloes Midget AAAs (AMHL) also.
*D #4 Jeffrey Wildeman, now listed with a week long concussion, backdated for the 11th, and should be back by that expectation as of the 18th (Tuesday).

Drayton Valley:
*RD/F #5 Joel Webb - back with MLAC Maple Leafs Midget AAA for game yesterday (even though still listed on active DV AJHL stats/roster).
*D/F #2 Jordan Thomas - back with CAC Edmonton Canadians Midget AAA for game last night.

*RW #22 Jody Sick - back with Red Deer Chiefs Midget AAA since Friday's game.

Fort McMurray - no known changes

AJHL scores & summary - Dec 14th

I'm dead tired, so I have a feeling I may try to rush this and may not link everything in or add labels until after I badly needed long sleep... but, here goes for now...

Games from tonight (summaries likely after sleep)

1. Bandits beat Drumheller 6-2 in Brooks.
2. Spruce Grove beat Crusaders 1-0 in Sherwood Park.
3. Storm beat Lloydminster 4-1 here in GP - a 'sort of' summary on the AJHL forum I typed earlier while still fairly more awake (if you're a Bobcat fan and know what happened in the 3rd, I wouldn't click this to relive it! You've been warned.).
4. Calgary Mustangs beat Olds 3-2 in OT at the Father David Bauer Arena in NW Calgary.
5. Kodiaks more than double up Canmore 7-2 in Camrose.
6. Whitecourt really did double up on Oil Barons 6-3 in Fort McMurray.

Changes/moves:
Drumheller - no known changes. Just thought I'd mention.

Brooks:
*#-less LW Kyler Nachtigall, now listed/AP-ed/on reserve... hmm, sounds like they maybe got some injuries  now... if there's 2 of the listed/AP-ed/reserve guys already up, and a new guy is added with the team. Will find out in moment if anyone else is listed with a 'known injury' by the Bandits updater(s) though.
*D #22 Maddison Smiley... not officially listed as hurt by a Brooks updater on the AJHL's Bandits roster... yet at least... but, he did not play tonight for the Bandits. Looks like mattie's post on the AJHL forum about him likely being out, was seemingly accurate!
*LW #16 Ben Assad  & C #25 Landon Welykholowa (who I only re-mention mainly as I accidentally forgot to enter their jersey #s on EP) as expected, played last night for the Bandits.

Spruce Grove:
*D #4 Kaleb Denham has been back with Red Deer Chiefs Midget AAA (AMHL) since Dec 9th.
*Also D #4 Clayton Kirichenko, back up with Saints last night and played, from Sherwood park Kings Midget AAA (AMHL).

Sherwood Park - no known changes I know of

Lloydminster - no known changes I know of either

Grande Prairie - who've yet to play an AP/reserve skater all season, do have 1 known change:
*C/RW #23 John Webb - out with an undisclosed injury. I didn't catch what or how long as I was so distracted by getting the FastHockey computer setup & working pre-game tonight I forgot to turn on the game radio broadcast until just before the 1st period. Awaiting a text/Twitter response about it though.

Olds - no known changes to my knowledge

Calgary Mustangs - no known changes to my knowledge

Canmore:
*G #39 Forrest Ayearst - I've spoke of his uncertain status a few times, since being de-listed by his HJHL team Cochrane Generals somewhere around Dec 3rd, but for the life of me cannot find the last blog post about it, probably because I'm crazy overtired. Anyways though, have a little theory about what may be going on with him... he had a rough ride in the HJ this season (3gms 5.80GAA .853sv%) so I've kind of been thinking he either quit the team and decided to go back home (which just so happens to also be Canmore) or likelier he was released and likely returned home. Both seem definitely possible. I wasn't able to find much for stats on him either... if I'm not mistaken I could swear I found information on him in an adult league (we don't really list adult league stats - senior league ones though - kind of a fine line between those) but never added it onto his profile. Not going to worry about it now though as I'm dead tired; but as for why I'm talking about him in this entry at all, which also supports both possible theories/scenarios if he returned to Canmore - he just so happened to play for the Eagles tonight... and he got roughed up pretty badly! A total of 6mins, 9.92GAA, and a hurtin' .500sv%... not that starter G #30 Cam Barnes had a much better night though... nearly 54mins with a 6.72GAA and a .7857sv%... Camrose really rolled over them last night!
*Their other G #39 James Fisk, was back with the Airdrie Thunder (HJHL) last night picking up a win against Three Hills.

Camrose - no known changes to my knowledge

Whitecourt:
*RD/F Michael Claffey has been given #9. He's listed on the Wolverines reserves now... so not sure if it's a sign he's back with the Spruce Grove Regals (CapJHL), or if he was just added to the roster on the reserve and will stay there while playing for the Wolverines - will be checked the Regals profile of his from now til he maybe returns there though anyhow.

Fort McMurray:
*No real/new changes at all, but as I mentioned in the last post (Fort McMurray section):
"*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..." - all 5 of them are now overdue... yikes!

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Also recent development I found involving player last know to be playing in the AJHL - Paul Lamoureux:

Well that final tweet of Paul's before I finally just resigned to the fact he wasn't going to be back with an AJHL team this season (at least right away - anything can happen between now and the deadline of course, and a person could even get released and re-signed after if I remember correctly) and finally removed him from the Spruce Grove 'list' on my AJHL inter-league trade/move .txt file; proved to be 100% reliable and accurate.

He did infact land in Ontario, as our NOJHL updater just posted on EP - he played his first game with North Bay Trappers last night.

And that is all for this post... finally!