Mass AJHL score catchup - Jan 29th - Feb 6th

Holy crap... am I that far behind?!? This is ridiculous... but it ends NOW...

I've got to start somewhere... and to do so am unfortunately going to have to make cutbacks... so, many many apologies, but I again will be cutting the game summaries to just post all the AJ scores from this crazy lengthy time it's been since I last managed a full league update...

Anyways, all the scores... from the last... week or so (Grr... that sounds pathetic on my part... but too much off-work BS of late! Some good off work stuff though.... it suddenly hasn't been all bad... haha!)... ah heck, we'll see how I feel... maybe I will post ultra-fast summaries...

Okay... I've resigned to the fact I'm not gonna get this posted NOW (4:45pm Feb 8th) unless I cut the short summaries... apologies... but you'll notice where I left off...
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Jan 29th - wow, every game went over 60mins (I just re-realized I had started a 29th post but re-drafted it... this is from it):

1.  Grande Prairie beat the Saints 2-1 in OT in Spruce Grove. I ended up catching most of the game in between loads of other stuff and a GP Kings home game tonight Wednesday, but wow... didn't think the Saints outshot anywhere near this heavy (38-24 - outshot heavy in all periods but OT, where the Storm were 1-0 and got the only shot of OT that mattered)! I've tweeted the Saints/Storm/Jeff Henson about this... so will see who replies first, about this sheet... am almost 100% Storm AP D #6 Allan MacPherson didn't play, but I could be mistaken. I'm just about certain Jeff didn't mention him on the pre-game. Game winner in OT went to RW #9 Gus Correale.
2. Eagles beat Mustangs 3-2, also in OT, in Canmore. Wow, relatively close first & 3rd periods with slight shots advantages to each team in those periods, but yikes... Mustangs had a shooting gallery going in the 2nd, outshooting 22-7. Wow, another impressive stat - Eagles went 2/3 on the PP, and the game winner in OT by F #21 Bryan Arneson (who also had a 3 point game with 2G, 1A) was one of their 2 PP goals of the game. G #35 Ty Swabb with a very well deserved home star, with a 50/52 save performance. Another huge stat of the game, Mustangs RW #18 (he's listed by league as #25, but on tonight's game sheet he's #18 - a little strange... perhaps it was 'jersey beyond repair' jersey change like that of Grande Prairie Kings' C #27, formerly #16, Lyndin Lewis, for tonight's NWJHL game at the Coca-Cola Centre in GP)... anyways Mustangs RW #18 Blair Wentworth with a whopping 27PIM.
3. Whitecourt beat the Pontiacs 5-4 in SO in Bonnyville. Overall, close game in shots - the 1st & OT close, then Bonnyville with big lead in 2nd & Whitecourt with big lead in 3rd. Very strange thing I'm noticing about attendances... Bonnyville with 6300+ people draws 566 in this game. Spruce Grove with over 31,000 people and only had I believe 330 some for game Wednesday hosting Storm. Sure it's close to Edmonton, but the lack of fans for the 1st place team in the north, is truly baffling to me! Whoa, Pontiacs went 3/9 on the PP - not too shabby! Wolverines LW #15 Mathieu Guertin with the SO winner. Somewhat surprisingly, no player with 3 points and/or 20PIM in the game.

Jan 30th:

1. Camrose beat the Canucks 6-2 at the Max Bell Centre in SE Calgary. Kodiaks LW #18 Tanner Tyndall was the lone 3 point player (1G, 2A), and no player cleared 20PIM.
2. Dragons beat Okotoks 6-3 in Drumheller. Drumheller outshot heavily (49-22). Surprisingly no 3 point players, but 3 players with 17PIM in the game - though no one over 20mins.
3. Oil Barons beat Sherwood Park 4-3 in a SO in #OldFortMcMurray (RM of Wood Buffalo). No 3 point players, no 20 PIM players, but MOB LW #24 Jetlan Houcher with the SO winner.
4. Bobcats beat Whitecourt 4-2 in Lloydminster. No 3 point players, no 20PIM players.

Feb 1st:

1. Sherwood Park beat the Saints 3-0 in Spruce Grove. No 3 point players, and no 20+ PIM players either. G #31 Matt Tomkins with the Cru shutout, and of note - Saints backup G, for the game, #31 Nathan Park went perfect in his playing stopping all 15 shots he faced.
2. Brooks beat the Bobcats 4-2 in Lloydminster. Bandits RW #15 Cam Maclise had 3 points (1G, 2A), and no 20+PIM players.
3. Storm beat Fort McMurray 2-1 in a SO here in GP (though I was in Fairview that night with the Kings). Uhh... not sure what in the heck our updater was thinking... but, I'm certain there was MORE than 2 people at the game... but... yeah! Haha! No 3 point players, no 20PIM ones either. Storm #17 LW/RW Ryan Matthews with the SO winner.
4. Thunder beat Bonnyville 4-0 in Drayton Valley. Hmm... according to this game sheet... no one attended... um... hehe! No player with 3 points, nor 20PIM. Thunder G #1 Mac Olivier Daigle with the shutout, and though he only played the last 5:43, Pontiacs backup G #35 Tyler Santos stopped all 5 he faced.
5. Kodiaks beat Canmore 6-2 in Camrose. Yikes... Camrose outshot badly (32-17). Kodiaks C #19 Tanner MacMaster (2G, 1A) & F #16 Connor Mailey (3A) both had 3 points.

Feb 2nd:

1. Fort McMurray beat the Saints 3-2 in OT in Spruce Grove. No 3 point players, no 20+ PIM guys. C #9 Mike Marianchuk had the OT winner.
2. Canucks beat the Mustangs 3-1 at the Max Bell Centre in SE Calgary. Mustangs with nearly twice the shots of the Canucks (34-19), but Canucks come out on top in the end. No 3 point players, nor 20+PIM guys.
3. Crusaders beat the Bandits 3-2 in OT in in Sherwood Park. Cru C #20 Bowen Croft with a 3 point game (1G, 2A), but no players over 20+ PIM. Cru LD #17 Josh Healey with the OT winner.
4. Oilers beat Drumheller 4-2 in Okotoks. In a game massively, nearly doubly, outshot by the Dragons (49-26), in just under 10 minutes of game time in the 1st & 2nd, Oilers C #12 Chris Collins scored a natural hat trick (3G total on the night also) - and was rewarded as home start of the game for his efforts. Oilers RD #4 Jordan Swenson led the game with points on all 4 Oilers' Gs (1G, 3A). Though no one made 20+ PIM, Dragons D #7 Brad Deagle had 19PIM.
5. Bonnyville beat Storm 2-1 here in Grande Prairie. Shots even at 31, no 3 points players, no 20 or more PIM players. Pontiacs' C #10 Marc Dubeau with unassisted game winner.
6. Wolverines beat Lloydminster 6-1 in Whitecourt. PIM galore, but somehow no one with more then 14 (achieved by 3 players total from both teams). Somehow no Wolverines' skater had over 2 points either.
7. Kodiaks beat Canmore 5-1 on the 2nd of back-to-back games in Camrose. Unfortunately for the Eagles, this bare a striking rebalanced to the game the night before, which again was one-sided in shots by the Kodiaks (41-21). No 3 point players, 4 with 15PIM & 1 with 17PIM (Canmore LD #27 Ashton McLeod).

Feb 3rd:

1.  Mustangs beat Canucks 8-2 at Father David Bauer Arena in NW Calgary. No 20PIM guys, but a multiple amount of 3+ points players for the Mustangs: RW #27 Chase McMurphy (3G, 1A) & F #21 David Norris (2G, 2A) were the lone 4 point players, F #22 Josh Clark (2G, 2A), F #18 Jamie King (2G, 2A), F #8 Joe Serpico (3A) & F/D #9 Joe Colborne - who I obviously need to add pasts stats for - (3A) all with 3 points.

 Feb 5th:

1. Drumheller beat the Eagles 5-0 in Canmore.
2. Oilers beat Brooks 3-2 in Okotoks.
3. Camrose beat the Mustangs 4-3 at Father David Bauer Arena in NW Calgary.
4. Thunder beat the Saints 1-0 in Spruce Grove.

Feb 6th:

1. Storm hammered the Grizzlys 7-1 in Olds.
2. Lloydminster @ Oil Barons in #OldFortMcMurray as I call it (RM of Wood Buffalo) cancelled due to fatal accident on Highway 881 between Anzac & Conklin I believe, that the Bobcats got caught behind. The highway ended up being closed all night from what I heard.

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And that is all for this post. I need to post this and boogie to find a ride to Sexsmith (Vipers) for Grande Prairie Kings game there tonight at 8pm

ESportsDesk hacked! - evening of Feb 1st

Well... posts will unfortunately be delayed yet again... even longer and this time they're "out indefinitely" - but for a nice change, it has absolutely nothing to do with me and either being overwhelmed, doing too WAY much work (like the certified workaholic I am... haha!), or well... having "my heart ripped out of my chest & ran through a cheese grater" as I quoted to a friend of mine earlier tonight... haha!

Anyways, incase anyone doesn't know about this yet who follows this blog, the AJHL or NWJHL especially, looking up any stats on either of those two leagues shows this currently:

This is just the N-dub view - the whole N-dub site is currently inaccessible. The AJHL website let's you view things, but when you get to stats/standings screens of any sort, you get the above message, just partially cutoff on the right, so hence why I copied you/this blog the N-dub site view.

Yeah, it was strange... tonight was my first roadtrip with the NWJHL's Grande Prairie JDA Kings since being added to the organization Sunday - and it was an awesome time for me! The Fairview Flyers organization treated me like a VIP, even letting me setup my laptop and electronics mess (cords, phone, etc) in their private team booth behind and above the player benches. Super cool of them! Maybe my family connections helped out (I was actually born in Fairview though never 'lived there' per say more than a few hours after entering the world; but I also am related to a huge amount of people from around the area), but nah... I think it was more about just all I do and will be doing with the Kings & league eventually. I've got some big plans on that end, that I wont get into here/now.

But anyways... I got the Kings roster updated onto the gamesheet on the N-dub/ESportsDesk hosted stats site login account (only my 2nd time doing stats updating for the Kings) maybe an hour or 40mins before puck drop, and do to well... my 'infamous' extreme multitasking, I didn't get the roster and start updating it fully for the Flyers until a few minutes into the 1st. Everything - but charging my laptop (which seems to have a batter life of like 30-90 minutes now depending on what you're doing on it - very pathetic... but what do you expect from a 2004 laptop hey? Haha! I plan to eventually buy a Macbook Pro, a long term laptop for me - but let's just say the one I want is a little out of my price range right about now... haha!), and my phone (when plugged into laptop to charge) was going wrong or not working for me... the Fairview Fairplex arena's WiFi - would not even show up on a signal search, my cell phone when unplugged, my brand new 160GB iPod Classic that I bought yesterday and was unable to take with me as I couldn't sync music onto the player yet (that from 3:30am yesterday until 4pm when I bused to the Coca-Cola Centre to catch the bus with the Kings to Fairview, only managed to convert/copy alphabetically up to "Radiohead", of my 34+ GB of music from formerly working 2008 Microsoft Zune 80GB MP3 player - which I absolutely loved until problems started in the last few months, that froze a couple weeks ago and will not turn on again ever since. "State of the art, my ass!" - as I jokingly have quoted repeatedly about iTunes, for the massive wait in converting/copying the audio files... haha!)... then the N-dub/ESportsDesk stats login site. To begin with, when I'd try to update in the Flyers roster, I'd just get a blank white screen... and between attempts at getting it to work off my cell phone, Twitter tweets on both the Kings game there, and the Storm game back in GP, and trying to write down & keep track of the stats... I eventually got so backed up and couldn't clearly/loudly enough hear goal/penalty announcements, which were very delayed to begin with - that I just said "to heck with the stats until the intermission". So yeah, walked around the Fairplex for that... had to use the back of an envelope to write down data from the first period as I couldn't find any paper at the time... and when I went back to try and get things working for the 2nd period on the N-dub/ESportsDesk login, that was when I first found out about the server hacking that happened.

Needless to say, I really hope the Kings last regular season game in Sexsmith, at least on the N-dub stats site/Twitter, etc end, goes off  'without a hitch' unlike these first two games (Tuesday at home, at the Coca-Cola Centre vs Fort St. John Huskies - I just couldn't keep up on tweeting both Storm & Kings games while updating Kings stats & listening to Storm game on earphones from my cell phone's radio app, and there being no shots updates at the Coke Centre until intermissions. It was too much for me to possibly manually keep track of shots myself... haha!)... but oh well, can only do my best right! Haha!


The Kings (or at least a 2/3's of a lineup of skaters - seriously... unfortunately only 12 skaters were available for tonight's game for the Kings due to either injury or work, and only 4 of them being defensemen!) by the way won 6-5 over the Flyers (who dressed only 16 skaters themselves). The Flyers, for the most part - were prepared for this game, they were very impressive for the most part for an expansion team! They trailed 4-3 after the first after outshooting 17-14, but due to taking a barrage of somewhat undisciplined penalties in the 2nd they trailed 6-3 after 2 periods as the Kings capitalized with 2 (I believe they were both 5 on 3 offhand... if I find out later from the copy of the paper game sheet I have and cannot update online, I'll strikethrough & edit that) 5 on 3 PP goals. They scored 2 relatively close together goals late in the 3rd to make it very interesting at the end, but the Kings survived the late attack for the W.  I'm 99.9% sure, that Kings assistant captain F #15 Nolan Trudeau was the only player in the game somehow, to register 3 or more points (with 3G, 1A). Nolan Trudeau, as I also heard while talking with the rest of the Kings staff post-game, unofficially (as it cant be 100% confirmed off league stats currently) took over the N-dub scoring lead.

Tomorrow is the 2nd of back to back home games for the Storm (who won 2-1 over the Fort McMurray Oil Barons in a shootout, ending the 21 game losing streak to the MOB finally - I was joking before & after the game about them winning because I wasn't at the game... haha! First Storm home game I missed since being added Aug 31st to the press box staff) against the Bonnyville Pontiacs, and I'll definitely be back to my regular post in the Storm press box tomorrow - no question there!