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!

Definite final AJHL post of 2012

Wow... definitely never would of thought I could be away from blog posts for 4 days, but hey it happened! I guess I got a good unintentional break the last few days, but I've really got to start taking advantage of this final week off before it is totally over!

Anyways, brief notes I've come across, listed on a sticky note here in front of me (besides the final 2 bits):

Okotoks:
*C #25 Tanner Ockey was carded and added for rest of season, from Calgary Royals Midget AAA (AMHL), but is out 3-6wks with lower body injury, per Gino De Paoli Twitter Direct Message to me (as of the 19th, therefore: Lower body injury, expected back Jan 9th-30th). He had 12 points (6G, 6A) in his 18 AMHL games this season, along with 10 PIMs.
*He, Gino, also told me that Kyle Krabben was a healthy scratch their 2nd last game and played their final game of the season.

Olds:
*D #5 Connor Bass, normally a D, played F for the final AJHL game of the 2012 season last Sunday, per Galen Hartviksen per radio broadcast of game I tuned into online.

Whitecourt:
*Per that same Wolverines stats updater via Twitter DM's that I mentioned in the 21st-23rd posts - currently unlisted callup for that game, as the 18th skater (as he doesn't have ability to add new players to roster, only coaching staff does from what he told me); LW Jacob Schofield, wore #5 and from a later DM from the Wolverines stats updater, Schofield had no recorded points or penalty minutes in that game. Hopefully the coaching staff will get to adding him onto the game sheet/roster/stats though, to give him credit for the game played/callup on the AJHL website - but for now, he at least is getting that credit on EP.


***Possible free agent RW Jayden Hart (probably already carded) - who is a former AJHL one-gamer (Spruce Grove Saints in 2010-11) likely coming [back] to the AJHL. From a very trusted reliable source of mine, Hart has left the Medicine Hat Tigers and returned home to Spruce Grove. He played that one game in  2010-11 as what should have been an AP (it's not marked on that profile, but as he played Midget AAA with the AMHL's St. Albert Raiders for all but that game, and two with the WHL's Medicine Hat Tigers - one can presume he was AP). So because of that, no guarantee he's signed/carded by the Saints, but as he's from Spruce Grove - one can only guess he'll likely make a 2013 AJHL debut with the Saints.

Also, though he never did play in the AJHL - G Liam Liston, from St. Albert, has retired from the Vancouver Giants. I first found out Boxing Day from a tweet from reporter Steve Ewen, which was retweeted late that night by Liston himself, and confirmed in a media release by the Giants the following day. The same source as above, said Liston has indicated plans to attend the U of A, but I'm not 100% sure if it means student or student/athlete for the Golden Bears - though have added it as a possible rumour onto EP for now.

And that's all for the AJ in 2012. Now, here's REALLY hoping I'll get done a whole heck of a lot of catchup in the last week off, out of GP til the Storm are back playing at least... oh crud, I knew there was at least a game on Thursday the 3rd, but turns out there's only 1 game on the previous day (Wednesday, then 2nd), then 2 on Thursday, then likely all the other teams that didn't get back playing Wednesday and Thursday will be back by Friday's game and almost certainly Saturday's.

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 scores & changes - Dec 20th

Sorry about this one being so held up... still not feeling the best, and been busy and super distracted today besides that.

Anyways though... scores from last night:

1. Eagles beat Olds 4-2 in Canmore. Eagles appear back from near death after that 13 game losing streak, and playing great with the 3-0 shutout over the Storm 2 nights ago, then this victory - outshooting Olds 31-20 in the game too. A load of penalties in the game, but no one with over 17 PIM and no one with over 2 points.
2. Fort McMurray beat Dragons 1-0 in a shootout in Drumheller. Besides a marginal lead in shots by the MOB in the 3rd, the Dragons outshot 35-14 in the other 3 periods (including OT) - probably deserved a better fate. MOB G #30 Ethan Wood with the complete shutout, and Drumheller G #31 Adam Beukeboom with the regulation shutout (though listed with a T on the game sheet as they list OTLs like that on the Esportsdesk sites).
3. Calgary Mustangs beat Calgary Canucks 7-3 at their home arena Father David Bauer Arena in NW Calgary. A very dominant game by the Mustangs who outshot 54-27. Three Mustangs with 3 or more points - RW #27 Chase McMurphy with 4 points (1G, 3A), and 3 points each for LD #28 Austin Frank (1G, 2A) & RD #20 Stefan Virtanen (3A).

Changes:
Olds:
*LW #17 Chase Paylor, now listed out indefinitely with a lower body injury backdated to... I assume Dec 14th. The date on the 'red cross' there is listed as 12-Dec-14, kind of backwards, but whatever works hey.
*D/LW #26 Chaydan Lauber went back to Southeast Hounds Minor Midget AAA (AMMHL) for game Sunday.

Fort McMurray:
*#-less G Robert Gillard, now added to MOB reserve roster, from Fort McMurray Barons Midget AA (NAMHL).

Drumheller:
*G #31 Garrett Storms was backup for the Dragons on the 15th, back with KC Colts Midget AA (NAMHL) on the 16th, back up with Dragons for 18th & 20th; and will all but be back down with the KC Colts for a game tomorrow night (but I am way too tired now to wait for the slow net, to post it as a rumour onto EP).
*RW #24 Tristan Reimer, switched from #29 recently.
*Correction on my last post - it appears LD #2 Shayne Gwinner was taken off the game sheet for that game last night - so is still in the dub. I'm just about 100% certain I saw him on the game sheet when I checked them on my cell last night, but of course don't believe I even can screenshot on the cell.

Calgary Canucks:
*RD #6 Deryk Sutherland (yes I know he's listed as "Dyrek" on the AJHL profile - not my doing/mistake) & D #34 Zach Dietrich & RW #35 Justin Peers, were down with the Calgary Northstars Midget AAA (AMHL) on the 19th, then the first 2 (no Peers) back up with the Canucks for last night's game.
*RD/F #40 Erik Kardash, played last night - up from Calgary Flames Midget AAA (AMHL).
*RD #7 Owen Johnson, played last night also, up from Calgary Buffaloes Midget AAA (AMHL).

Pre-game changes: GP vs Okotoks - Dec 21st:

Grande Prairie:
*LW/C #29 Mike Forsyth suspended 2 games for check from behind on Canmore RD #4 John Stevens, on Wednesday night - though he currently is erroneously listed on game sheet for tonight (Forsyth's listing was eventually removed):

*Also not listed on the above game sheet and (Later was added to game sheet with #26 ) more or less in the lineup for Forsyth, is W #21 Dylan Thudium's younger brother C/RW #26 Chase Thudium. No idea what # he is wearing, but Jeff's mentioned him numerous times, and just said seconds ago "2 Thudium brothers playing tonight. Chase called up from Red Deer" [Chiefs Midget AAA] (AMHL). Lots of errors from the Okotoks stats updater(s) of late as I got into on Dec 18th post, but at least these have been fixed up now. Hopefully these ones will be fixed up soon... 

Okotoks:
*LD #3 Kyle Krabben who I had listed on EP as "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" - is also still listed as injured currently on AJ Okotoks stats/roster, but is playing in tonight's game vs GP.
*RD #4 Jordan Swenson, out til 'late Jan to early Feb' with lower body injury, according to Gino De Paoli interview with Jeff Henson in one of the intermissions tonight.
*Also as I just found out from Gino's twitter, LD #18 Max Mowat is off the Oilers roster.

Sorry to say, but this will be all until I get more sleep... this flu, or whatever the heck it really is, is beating on me pretty good!

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 score from tonight & changes/moves - Dec 13th

Only 1 AJHL game tonight and it was something else!

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

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

Re: tonights game

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Roster changes from the game:

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

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


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

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

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

Canmore - 6 still out

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

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

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

AJHL roster moves/changes - Dec 11th & 12th

My apologies for my usual daily post not happening til now... was out all day, and then when I got to work, suffered from horribly slow wireless at the library this afternoon, along with my 7 year laptop freezing up partly due to the net problem, that is surprisingly also still baffling computer techies by it's insane longevity!

Likely going to be many tonight combined on the 11th & 12th games, starting off with the badly depleted Canucks - likely going be a lot from them alone...

Geez, just when I thought my Twitter addiction was under control... hours wasted later [this morning], and I still haven't finished this post... haha! Anyways... only teams that played last 2 night, with changes are listed below.

Calgary Canucks:
*G #1 Cody Befus, finally showed on a CBHA Rangers Jr B (CalJHL - Jr B) game sheet again - so he's definitely been reassigned there as of at least the 9th.
*D #10 Alex Marcinew, now listed as being out day-to-day with an elbow injury.
*C/LW #21 Ty Morgan, back from a day-to-day concussion (so yeah, 1 more out, one back - they still had 9 regulars out of the lineup in the absolutely thrashing handed to them against the Bandits... geez! Crazyness!) to play last night.
*D #34 Zach Dietrich played for the Canucks on the 8th, played for the Calgary Northstars Midget AAA (AMHL) on the 9th, and back with the Canucks last night.
*RD #6 Deryk Sutherland - exactly the same story as Dietrich, move for move.
*RW #24 Alexander Mowbray, played in last night's game, from Calgary Buffaloes Midget AAA (AMHL).
*LW #3 Jack Berezan, same exact story as Mowbray - dang this team makes these massive amounts of moves, easier at least... hehe!
I think that all for the Canucks... hopefully... that was more than enough hey!
*Oops, I did forget one thanks to my massive distractions the last few hours... RW #35 Justin Peers went back to Calgary Northstars Midget AAA (AMHL) for game Nov 9th and has yet to return to Canucks lineup.

Brooks:
*Crap... I should have kept my original Brooks 'usual lack of changes, due to being almost 100% healthy in known injuries this season thusfar - which could possibly also show in their phenomenal record so far this season' lines and crossed them out, but too late to salvage them now... damn! Oh well! Anyways, as listed in my earlier Bandits recall post tonight (for the day after what I'm actually posting on this this post... haha - hope my 'time travelling' wont mess with anyone too badly... haha!). But anyhow:
Brooks have recalled LW #16 Ben Assad - who's up from Calgary Buffaloes Midget AAA (AMHL) & C #25 Landon Welykholowa - also from the Buffaloes. (As of at least Dec 12th)

Okotoks:
*D #3 Kyle Krabben - still listed on AJHL's Oilers roster as hurt (Upper body injury, status uncertain, as I had on EP), but played last night.
*C #25 Tanner Ockey - surprisingly didn't play for Calgary Royals Midget AAA on the 8th and appears to have stayed with the Oilers to also play last night. Maybe he's been signed for remainder of season too?
* As I posted on last blog post, G #39 James Fisk was up and played last night for Canmore getting the T (as the AJHL doesn't list OTL's properly through Esportsdesk sites).
*Also G #39 Forrest Ayearst - absolutely no clue what's going on with him. As I posted on the 3rd on EP and mentioned before on the blog (at least I thought so... cant find it for the life of me... maybe just too overtired... only been awake over 24hrs as of 7pm MST - it might have been an AJHL forum post, but I've wasted enough time today to want to scour through there now... haha!), his HJHL team Cochrane Generals delisted him/presumable released him from their roster. Online search comes up with no new team. Hmm.. my trusty friend Twitter comes up with absolutely nothing on his either... bummer! Usually Twitter is my salvation... haha! Anyways, for now at least - Ayearst is staying on active in my books.
*RW #13 Nils Moser - now listed as out for an "undetermined" length of time (AKA - status uncertain in my books) with a lower body injury as of Dec 8th.
*D/F #6 Nikolas Kosman - now listed as out for an "undetermined" length as well w/upper body injury, but injury was backdated to Nov 17th, strangely. In my progressively tired stupor I keep mixing up Moser & Kosman [lower/upper body] injuries... oy!

Drumheller:
*#-less Matthew Sozanski, was listed/AP-ed/added to Drumheller reserves. Currently with Calgary Buffaloes Midget AAA.

Olds:
*#-less D/LW Chaydan Lauber was listed/AP-ed/added to Grizzlies reserves. Current playing with Southeast Tigers Minor Midget AAA (AMMHL).

Whitecourt:
*LW #17 Jacques Bernier, since my post yesterday about the massive # of errors on the Whitecourt roster & GP/WC game sheet (game #5 on post) from last night, has now officially been added to last night's game sheet and the #17 was also added to him. My faith in the AJHL website's stats accuracy is back pretty strongly thanks to the fixes! They still never did get Baskerville goal to the start of the 2nd when it was actually scored (not early 1st as currently listed on game sheet, but meh... whatever! I'm not gonna nitpick about it... in the end if affects nothing but exact 100% accuracy. As long as the proper players/stats are listed and the guys get the credit they deserve for playing - fine by me!

Bonnyville:
*LW #17 Connor Garden, now listed as out with a day-to-day lower body injury, as of the 8th.
*C #16 Travis Wellman, now listed as out with a day-to-day upper body injury, as of the 8th.

Sherwood Park:
*LD #26 Isaac Farrah, back with MLAC Maple Leafs Midget AAA (AMHL) as of Dec 9th game.
*RD #25 Nick Charif, up and played last night for Crusaders, from SSAC Athletics Midget AAA (AMHL).

Lloydminster:
*G #1 Joey Desrosiers, up as backup last night for Lloyd, and made AJHL playing debut as well. Not bad at all debut either - 24Mins, 2.50GAA, .900 Save %. he came in after starter G #33 Devin Green got shelled by the Thunder... I was it might have been a data entry mistake to begin with because of how Green #s plummeted. He went from 5Gms 1.76GAA .925Sv% to 6Gms 2.63GAA .888Sv%, after an extremely rough night for him - 33mins, 5GA 8.44GAA stopped 9/14shots for a .643sv%... OUCH! Green also switched jersey #s for the game from #1 to the same #33 he wore in Okotoks, but first wore it in game action Nov 23rd - I just missed the # change til now.
*Also, as seen in following screenshot of current Lloyd roster - C #19 Ryley Wozniak, back up from St. Paul Canadiens (NEAJBHL Jr B) but didn't play last night for Bobcats according to game roster.

Drayton Valley:
*RW #22 Jody Sick up and played last night for Thunder... as #2 actually... this roster is getting confusing... going to screenshot it in to try and keep up. It appears that DV updaters definitely aren't listing injuries, because with this much movement they'd have to have guys hurt, unless at least 4 or 5 got suspended in one stretch, which is isn't probable but I guess possible.

*Okay...D #2 Jordan Thomas never played w/ CAC Edmonton Canadians Midget AAA (AMHL) since his last Thunder game... so he stays the same as active.
*RW #14 Braden Jakubowski was down with Leduc Oil Kings Midget AAA (AMHL), so he's back up for last night but didn't dress.
*RD #5 Joel Webb was down with MLAC Maple Leafs Midget AAA (AMHL), so as he's listed on the roster in the screenshot - he's back up.
*Then there's G #31 Wyatt Dewan - he didn't dress, and I'm pretty sure since he went back to St. Paul Canadiens (NEAJBHL Jr B) he never was removed from active AJHL Drayton stats/roster... but at this point I'm just saying he's back up with the Thunder, as the screenshot (above) makes it look like he is.
*DV regulars that didn't play and likely either hurt or suspended (and possibly healthy scratches, but with the callups/APs I have my doubts anyone was an actual 'healthy scratch'): F #12 Mason Malkowich, D #4 Tyler Hart (who I know for sure has been hurt), F #15 Jayson Ness, and D #5 Colton Cassidy (who I have no clue what his status is as he hasn't played Jr B since end of September)
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Going back to the Whitecourt game sheet errors for a brief moment though...

Oh well... At least the AJHL has...  never had (actually I kind of remember some funky ones showing back in the day on the AJHL stats site, but it was years back if I remember correctly) well anyways, at least the AJHL doesn't have an '8 year old' listed as playing in the league currently, like the SJHL... hehe!

He (La Ronge D #4 Owen Solecki) was actually born on that date in 1994, but shhh.... don't tell the SJHL that! Haha! ;). Sadly, I've seen numerous profiles with 2000s birth dates in the past on the SJHL stats... but I'm pretty sure they were all AP/callups... not higher profile 'lineup regulars' like Solecki.

And... pfft.... enough of this for the night... I am so going for a long sleep now! Crazy amount of things to try and make sense of in all the above...