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 16th

[Sorry people, have not slept in like 40 hours straight, and the girlfriend has talked me into going to sleep... will finish this in the morning!]

Finally, I am able to do a single day's update, on the same day of the games played [at least start it on that day, that is... haha!]... for the first time since the 4th I believe!

This will be the first update in my new colour theme... thanks to a friend/contact for bugging me about it, to remind me to finally change it from that somewhat hard to read, blah looking colour scheme! It's a massive change from the lame/ugly/somewhat unreadable old view, as seen below... I love the new view, besides that puke pink bar at the top I cannot figure out how to change for some annoying reason. Will maybe figure it out in the morning eventually, also.

Essentially, this post is complete - only data yet to be added is the game scores & summaries from last night, and a few hyperlinks.

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Scores & YES - summaries, for the first time since the early 2013 games... haha!
[to come...]

1. Crusaders beat Lloydminster 6-1 in Sherwood Park. A fairly even game in shots, not in score. LW #16 Dillon Massie have 5 points (2G, 3A) for the Cru and C #20 Bowen Croft added 3 assists.
2. Dragons beat the Mustangs 4-1 in Drumheller. Wow... was all I could think when I saw the shots! Very uneven, with Drumheller more than double the Mustangs.

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Suspension update since my last suspension post (for ones before since the 8th - I apparently was sleeping when I typed that last night... haha!)

January 14, 2013 - Whitecourt player, Steven Alldridge, has been suspended for one (1) game as a result of being assessed his fifth fighting major of the season during a January 13, 2013 game in Sherwood Park.  The suspension is to be served during the Wolverines’ next regularly scheduled League game.

January 14, 2013 - Calgary Canucks player, Ty Morgan, has been suspended for one (1) game as a result of being assessed his fifth fighting major of the season, during a January 13, 2013 game in Spruce Grove.  The suspension is to be served during the Canucks’ next regularly scheduled League game.

January 12, 2013 - Drayton Valley Assistant Coach, Mike Mueller, has been suspended for one (1) game as a result of being assessed a game misconduct during a January 12, 2013 game in Canmore.  The suspension is to be served during the Thunders’ next regularly scheduled League game.

January 12, 2013 -  Lloydminster player, Linden Springer, has been suspended for two (2) games as a result of being a major penalty for hitting from behind during a January 12, 2013 game in Lloydminster.  The suspension is to be served during the Bobcats’ next two (2) regularly scheduled League games.

January 11, 2013 - Camrose player, Dallas Bergstrom, has been suspended for two (2) games as a result of being assessed a major penalty for boarding, during a January 11, 2013 game in Camrose.  The suspension is to be served during the Kodiaks next two (2) regularly scheduled League games.

January 11, 2013 - Calgary Mustang player, Stefan Virtanen, has been suspended for one (1) game as a result of being assessed his fifth fighting major of the season, during a January 11, 2013 game in Olds.  The suspension is to be served during the Mustangs’ next regularly scheduled League game.

January 11, 2013 - Grande Prairie player, Sam Lawson, has been suspended for one (1) game as a result of being assessed his second instigator penalty of the season, during a January 11, 2013 game in Bonnyville.  The suspension is to be served during the Storms’ next regularly scheduled League game.

So, in backwards/chronological order... Storm C #7 Sam Lawson served suspension on 12th & eligible to return tomorrow. Mustangs RD #20 Stefan Virtanen served his suspension on the 12th & returned on the 14th. Kodiaks RD #2 Dallas Bergstrom served the suspension on the 12th, and will finish it tomorrow. Bobcats LD #27 Linden Springer served his suspension on the 16th and will finish it Saturday. We don't have the option to list coach suspensions on EP, but here is Assistant GM/Associate Coach Mike Mueller's profile on EP from what I was able to just add to his already existing profile. Canucks C/LW #20 Ty Morgan, served his suspension tonight and is eligible to return Saturday. Wolverines F #21 Steven Alldridge will serve his suspension Saturday, and can return Sunday.
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Changes:

Lloydminster - crap, I had Lloyd already listed at home but forgot to save... haha! Oh well, just gotta type over now...
*D #26 Stefan Freter (I believe... this library wireless in crap today!) was back up and in the lineup last night, up from Lloydminster Bobcats Midget AAAs (AMHL).
*Newly AP'd/reserve LD #8 Taylor Mulder also played last night, up from the Blackfalds Wranglers (HJHL).

Sherwood Park - it seems strange typing this... but they had no changes I'm aware of.

Calgary Mustangs:
*As I posted in the last post, from the 14th-15th... do NOT go by the AJHL profile information for RW #29 Evan Pugh & C #26 Matt MacNair McNair (likely it's McNair, but I'm going by his prominent league - CSSHL's spelling of his name until I get conformation - his name is spelled McNair. A source of mine found his Facebook account) - I've tweeted them about the badly incorrect profiles, but thus far haven't got a response, let alone have they updated them... come on guys, get with it! I don't know... it's probably my perfectionist ways here... but those basic identical profiles for Pugh & MacNair/McNair claiming/showing they were both born 1993-01-01, are 6'0 180, and from Calgary (when MacNair/McNair is from Beiseker)... really bugs me... haha! It should be proper, for the players hey.


Drumheller
LD #23 Tyler Poskus, was added to the team from the Estevan Bruins (SJHL) and played tonight, according to a friend/close Dragons source, though he has been yet to get added with an AJHL profile or onto tonight's game sheet for the Dragons. He is also added on the AJHL Dragons roster now with a profile. My friend/Dragons contact is certain he dressed and played last night, though, so the game will likely be credited to him eventually.
*F #19 Rory Davidson was up playing again last night, from Red Deer Chiefs Midget AAA (AMHL).
*LW #11 Bryton Mills is back from his 3 game suspension and played last night.

This [library] connection is sickening... I've ran out of time, so will hyperlink and add game summaries after I get home tonight after my Thursday night bowling league.


[Sorry people, have not slept in like 40 hours straight, and the girlfriend has talked me into going to sleep... will finish this in the morning!]

AJHL combined Dec 21-23 post pt. 2

Sorry everyone, but pt. 1 had to become a split version of the original attempted post. I am literally falling asleep at the computer... eyes are so hazy I can barely type right now, and am yawning profusely... so this will be 'to be continued', unfortunately, tomorrow!
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Okay, so here goes part 2... a little later than planned as I really slept in for Xmas Eve.. haha! Here goes though...

Drumheller - they have been off since Thursday, but...
*3rd stringer & recent backup G #31 Garrett Storms, was back with KC Colts Midget AA (NAMHL) for game Saturday.

Fort McMurray:
*RW #17 Adam Wilcox, according to a Friday tweet from Tyler King/Kinger, responding to an inquiry on Wilcox' status, was "ill" that night and did not play for the MOB. Not exactly sure about what sort of illness, or if it's just a day-to-day thing, but unless/until I find out more, I've listed it as "Illness, status uncertain" - for the time being. Anyways - he played Thursday, missed Friday, and was back to play Saturday's game... yikes 3 straight game nights would be tiring!

Grande Prairie:
*LW/C #29 Mike Forsyth - served "Two game suspension for check from behind on Canmore D John Stevens Dec 19th, eligible to return Jan 4th" and even though there's no games til Jan I may as well take it down. Regarding RD #4 Stevens, from a tweet I received that night, Stevens sounded alright but had a 'black eye' - so good to hear there, and he ended up not missing any games playing again for Canmore Thursday.
*LD #6 Allan MacPherson, back playing with Calgary Flames Midget AAA (AMHL) on Saturday.
*C/LW #26 Chase Thudium, younger brother of current Storm regular W #21 Dylan Thudium, scored his first career AJHL goal in 2nd game on Saturday. His Red Deer Chiefs Midget AAA (AMHL) team has been off since Thursday, so to me/what I have listed on EP - he is still unofficially on the Storm roster over the holidays.

Lloydminster:
*Must have missed posting it, but G #1 Joey Desrosiers has been back with Leduc Oil Kings Midget AAA (AMHL) since last Sunday, the 16th.
*C #19 Ryley Wozniak... I'm not 100% on it, but am just about certain he was kept on the active AJ Bobcats stats/roster since going back and playing for St. Paul Canadiens (NEAJBHL Jr B) for the 14th & 19th, so for that reason alone I'm going to leave him as is on EP (active w/St. Paul) and not bother with a recall that likely didn't actually happen since playing there on the 14th.

Okotoks:
*LD #3 Kyle Krabben is still listed as injured on AJ Oilers stats/roster, but played in their last 2012 game Friday.
*Absolutely no idea about what is going on with C #25 Tanner Ockey. As seen on a previous post, Ockey appeared to be recalled Dec 7th as he was added to the Oilers active stats/roster (as I screenshot there). He then played for the Oilers on the 8th & 11th and hasn't played with the Oilers or Calgary Royals Midget AAA (AMHL) he was recalled from, either/since. He's not listed with an AP on the Oilers roster, so it appears he was still up with the Oilers but either hurt (and it didn't get added/listed) or he's been a healthy scratch for them since.

Olds:
*D #25 Cale Brown recalled from Mountainview Colts (HJHL) to play Friday (wearing the same #24 he did in earlier callup) and Saturday (wearing #25).
*D/LW #26 Chaydan Lauber recalled from Southeast Tigers Minor Midget AAA (AMMHL) for game today for Grizzlys and playing.

Sherwood Park:
*LD #26 Tyler Dea, back playing with St. Albert Raiders Midget AAA (AMHL) on Saturday.

Spruce Grove:
*RD #4 Graydon Smith, I must have missed before, has been down with Leduc Oil Kings Midget AAA (AMHL) since last Sunday, the 16th.
*LW #14 (formerly #25) Kevin Yasinski, recalled & played Saturday for Saints. From Grande Prairie Storm Midget AAA (AMHL).
*Another #4, LD Connor James, was recalled & played Saturday for Saints as well, but was back with Lloydminster Bobcats Midget AAA (AMHL) for game Sunday.

Whitecourt:
*LD/C #55 Mathieu Gagnon has returned to the Shawinigan Cataractes (QMJHL) as of game on Friday. Looks like that creates another vacancy in assistant captains now, as I believe C #19 Jerome Raymond is captain and the only 'official' A left now is recently named (on the 14th) D #6 Dalton Olsen. As it stands, Gagnon currently has a 66PIM lead for most in the league (with 259mins), with 4 less games played than next nearest - Olds F #9 Dylan Hubbs (with 193mins) - with about 20 games left, I can definitely see Hubbs taking that 'title' over.
*LW #17 Jacques Bernier, was back playing with CAC Edmonton Canadians Midget AAA (AMHL) for game Sunday.
*According to tweets from an updater for the Wolverines - only the coaching staff has the ability to add new players on the AJHL Wolverines roster, or he would have already added currently #-less C Charles Inglis to their AJ stats/roster page.
*Also according to same updater, the Wolverines 18th player Friday night was currently unknown #'d LW Jacob Schofield, but as I said above - only the coaching staff have the ability to add players, so this updater was unable to add him to the Wolverines game sheet for that game as of yet.
*According to a tweet from the Wolverines, their new assistant captain (with departures of former captain C #16 Jamie Johnson, and assistant captain LD/C #55 Mathieu Gagnon) is LD #24 Matthew Abt.

And that concludes my likely final AJHL update for 2012.

Happy holidays to you & yours - and it will 'back to our regularly scheduled programming' here for me, January 3rd, 2013!

AJHL update(s) postponed til after final game of 2012

Hey again loyal viewers... I absolutely hate to do this yet again, but it's already after 3:30am 5:53am and I've made next to nothing for progress on AJHL update for Dec 21st-22nd. Because of that, I've [extremely] reluctantly decided (as well... if any of you out there reading my blog out there haven't noticed - I am an extreme workaholic if I love what I'm doing - and the work on Elite Prospects, here on my blog, and in the press box with the GP Storm definitely fits the bill!)... to again postpone my update until after the final 2012 game tomorrow at 1pm local in Olds between the Lloydminster Bobcats and the Grizzlies. I'm also going to try to listen to the game tomorrow [on the internet] on 96.5 CKFM in Olds, from Olds play-by-play Galen Hartviksen & colour guy Jamieson Brown - it will be the first AJHL game (as far as I know) in memory I will get to listening to, not done by Jeff Henson (though I've heard Robb Hunter plenty of times on The AJHL This Week with Jeff, and I basically heard the whole Wolverines broadcast from Chris Colwill (who hasn't seemed to use his Twitter since moving to Whitecourt) once or twice this season as I was standing next to him doing the Storm PPV at least once when the Wolverines were in town... haha!).

Anyways, I desperately need to go to bed so I can even be awake for that game this (tomorrow to me, as I haven't slept yet) afternoon.

Before I forget, as I tweeted earlier:

Jay Deléy (Jayrox28) ‏@jayrox28

~>Just unfollowed over 50 inactive/pointless or 'not following me' accounts to try and add more- dang Twitter better give me 2K exception!

...then... 

Jay Deléy (Jayrox28) ‏@jayrox28

~>Need more peeps to drop me a follow to help me out too! Feel free to spread the word - thanks in advance for any help!

If anyone can help me out, maybe retweet me if they so please - I'd definitely appreciate it and thank you when I can! Thanks in advance though, for now!

Edit: Also as I've been kind of quoting myself on this all over the net lately - to all you reading this or mentioned/quoted/labeled in the last 2 tweets especially: "Happy holidays, and all that good stuff" to you & yours!

And now... FINALLY to sleep tonight... yeesh, up this late and I barely got anything accomplished today... absolutely hate it, but I am fairly sick still, so I'll let it slide and not 'kick myself in the rear' too hard for it.

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 & 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!

- - - -
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!

AJHL scores - Dec 12th

Scores:

1. Bonnyville beats Crusaders 6-2 in Sherwood Park. Shots are only currently listed for first 2 periods on game sheet, but Bonnyville offensive attack very spread out - no one with more than 2 pts.
2. Thunder defeat Lloydminster 6-1 in Drayton Valley. Drayton never trailed in the game, and had a big 2nd with 4 goals alone there. Thunder RW #20 Nathan Smith with a 4 point night (1G, 3A). 

I'm going to start making a point of listing off any player with at least 3pts in games from now on in my summaries.

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 scores & changes from Dec 9th

Standings & known injuries:
http://www.eliteprospects.com/league_home.php?leagueid=91
There's been a lot of North movement between 3rd to 7th in the last few nights. Yes, I do know our AJHL map is out of date... been messaging/emailing about it since shortly after the Steel became Whitecourt Wolverines, and it still hasn't been updated by those on EP that can do it... yeesh!

Scores:

1. Drumheller beat Bonnyville 3-1 in Drumheller. All scoring in the 3rd period. Dragons also outshot the Pontiacs heavily throughout the game.
2. Camrose beat Drayton Valley 2-1 in Camrose. Kodiaks outshot even more noticeably than Dragons in above game, by nearly twice as many. A whole slough of penalties in that one as well.
3. Fort McMurray beat Lloydminster 6-2 in Fort Mac. MOB go a perfect 2 for 2 on the power play. Shots were pretty even, but a rough night for Lloyd starter Chase Martin, allowing 5 goals in 2 periods.

Roster moves/changes:

Drayton Valley:
*RD/F #5 Joel Webb, back with MLAC Maple Leafs Midget AAA (AMHL)  for game Sunday.
*RW #22 Jody Sick, back with Red Deer Chiefs Midget AAA (AMHL) for game Sunday.
*D/F #2 Jordan Thomas - who's listed as a D everywhere but his AJHL profile, was recalled/listed AP-ed and played last night for DV
*Not changes but hoooooooooo-ly... 2 guys with over 30PIM in the game last night (only 1 over 10 mins on Camrose: C #23 Ryan Huolt with 15 mins) - C #28 Neil Tarnasky with 32mins and F/RD #12 Mason Malkowich with 34mins.

Here's everything those 3 were included in:
1st period:

Drayton Valley Thunder at 6:57 - Mason Malkowich for Roughing (2 Min.)

Drayton Valley Thunder at 17:41 - Neil Tarnasky for Misconduct (10 Min.)

Camrose Kodiaks at 17:41 - Ryan Huolt for Game Misconduct (10 Min.)

Camrose Kodiaks at 17:41 - Ryan Huolt for Checking from behind (5 Min.)

2nd period:

Drayton Valley Thunder at 19:06 - Mason Malkowich for Game Misconduct (10 Min.)

Drayton Valley Thunder at 19:06 - Mason Malkowich for Game Misconduct (10 Min.)

Drayton Valley Thunder at 19:06 - Mason Malkowich for Fighting (5 Min.)

Drayton Valley Thunder at 19:06 - Mason Malkowich for Cross-checking (5 Min.)

Camrose Kodiaks at 19:06 - Tanner MacMaster for Fighting (5 Min.)

Drayton Valley Thunder at 19:06 - Mason Malkowich for Instigator (2 Min.)

3rd period:

Drayton Valley Thunder at 16:22 - Neil Tarnasky for Misconduct (10 Min.)

Drayton Valley Thunder at 16:22 - Neil Tarnasky for Game Misconduct (10 Min.)

Drayton Valley Thunder at 16:22 - Neil Tarnasky for Cross-checking (2 Min.)

Camrose Kodiaks at 16:22 - Matt Waseylenko for Unsportsmanlike conduct (2 Min.)

Hehe... talk about a heated game!

Fort McMurray:
*RW #15 Doug Jones, returned the 2nd last game for MOB (Dec 8th) - might've missed that one. Cant remember the injury, but he was supposed to be out til between mid December and January if I'm not mistaken... strangely quick return.
*RW #22 Scott Pooley, returned last night for MOB. Yet another guy that was listed by MOB updater as going to be out a while (Shoulder injury, expected back between Dec 20th & Jan 3rd). Funny thing is Kinger  (Tyler King - MOB play-by-play) also said he'd be out 2-4 weeks on the AJHL forum only days ago... guess they got some good news to change that fast!

Lloydminster:
F #21 Tanner Clarkson added to the Bobcats. He started the season with the Trail Smoke Eaters, then moved to Langley Rivermen, before being released around the 4th. Total stats in the BCHL this season include 14 games and 2 goals.

And that's all from yesterday, and today just so happens to be a usual Monday AJHL night off.

AJHL roster moves from Dec 5th

Fort McMurray Oil Barons changes:
*#-less LW Matthew/Matt Cooper, added to the Fort McMurray Oil Barons as a reserve, currently playing with SSAC Athletics Midget AAA.

Calgary Canucks moves/changes:
*This one is strange and not sure what the heck is going on with it, but #7 C/RW Gui Glasspoole, has been moved to Canucks reserves. He has 23 points in 29 games, and not listed as injured... so this one is baffling! (Hope the image below shows bigger on the blog than in the draft here, cause it looks microscopic... haha! Good, after posting I seen a person can click it to see it closer.)

*RW #24 Alexander Mowbray played last night, up from the Calgary Buffaloes
*F # 23 Joel Rogers back from injury. He was out day-to-day with a pulled stomach muscle, but he played last night.
*D #29 Logan Wall back from a day-to-day wrist injury, played last night.
*G #31 Andrew Guglielmin served his 4 game suspension for "fighting" (like I said on AJHL forum before, this is the first time this season I've seen a suspension listed on the AJHL stats/rosters and not just later listed on the suspension list) and is eligible to return tonight.
*D #6 Deryk Sutherland & F #35 Justin Peers, both listed on reserve now (as seen on the reserve screenshot above) - both played last night.
*G #1 Cody Befus - again, no proof he's back with the CBHA Rangers Jr. B... as I listed pre-blog on the AJHL forum, he wasn't listed on the roster of the Dec 2nd game for the Rangers and only 1 goalie was (Robinson), and as you can see in the following, the CalJHL (as we call it on EP - Calgary Junior B Hockey League) don't even have the stats or game sheet for the Dec 3rd Rangers game listed yet... oh, Jr B problems... hehe! (If anyone wonders about this statement, comment and I'll let you in on it... hehe! It's not ALL Jr B leagues to group them all together, but the errors and such from some leagues is seriously amusing!) Anyways, here's the screenshot of the Rangers schedule to show you what I mean, highlighted in the red square, as of a shot I just took:

*Also G #1 Jeff Orser, though also listed on reserve (as seen on first screenshot), was again Canucks backup in last night's game.
*D #36 Nicholas Herman, has been back down with Calgary Buffaloes Midget AAA since Dec 1st game.

Yeesh... and that's just ONE freakin team! Haha!

Bonnyville moves/changes:
*RW #12 Christian Nypower, has still yet to dress again for the Cold Lake Ice (NEAJBHL Jr. B), so even though the AJHL Pontiacs updater has him on reserve, I still have him as active for Bonnyville on EP. Edit - Just been informed by Robb Hunter that Nypower was hurt in the game with Bonnyville and was sent back down to Cold Lake but is still injured.

Calgary Mustangs ultra-minor change:
*G #31 Talor Joseph - switched to #31 yesterday, from #30 on the 2nd - I thought something was fishy while updating the stats... haha!

Lloydminster Bobcats changes:
*F #17 Dustin Lebrun & D #3 Jordyn Wozniak, back from 'Undisclosed injury, status uncertain', to play last night. I'm not exactly sure about the injuries as I'm pretty sure they were never listed by the Lloyd updater onto the team stats/roster - I just overheard them from Jeff Henson on the broadcast of the Storm game in/against Lloyd last Thursday on Free FM. Random q for anyone reading - anyone know if Jordyn & Ryley Wozniak are brothers, if not cousins? I have Jordyn as from Elk Point on EP, and Ryley as from St. Paul. I've never been to either place (some of the rare places in Alberta I've never been to), but from maps and TV I know they're not too far apart... half hour drive maybe?

Drumheller Dragons changes:
*G #31 Garrett Storms added on Drum reserve right now. If anyone's been closely following the Dragons, they'd know that Storms was with the Dragons to start the season and played Sept 8th, wearing #30 and the profile has been hidden since he was cut/reassigned.He had a rough welcome to the AJHL allowing 2 goals in 4:35, for a 27.59 GAA and a .333 Save %. Just did a checkup to see if maybe he was a backup lately, and sure enough - he was a backup to Adam Beukeboom, on December 1st game. This must have just been added by a Drum updater though, because I keep an eagle eye on rosters and he was never listed on the Dragons stats/roster or reserve before I updated stats from Drum's last game prior on the 2nd. Storms is a rare Midget AA player on reserve and having played this season in the AJHL, as he's been in KC Colts Midget AA team (NAMHL)'s lineup since October 2nd, besides this one game callup. I tried to see if he backed up on the Dragons 29th game, but it has an error for me when I look, once I get past the scoring summary:

*As expected to me and probably many others, D #2 Shayne Gwinner is gone by to the dub after that trade that sent him to the Saskatoon Blades, and played last night for them in Saskatoon
*Long listed on the active roster for Drumheller (since Nov 1st to my knowledge) even while was playing for the Southeast Tigers Midget AAA (AMHL - Medicine Hat), RW #23 Logan Aasman really was up last night for Drumheller.

And that concludes yesterday's crazy amount of movement.

Injury post to come.