Leaders Updated

European hockey is in full swing and continues to get better and more exciting as leagues continue to add NHL players.  This could be a great season in many leagues in terms of point totals and overall scoring.  The nastiness is also heating up.  And away we go.

Only have the AHL and ECHL of course and most teams have yet to play ten games yet.  I wouldn't have been shocked if somebody cracked the leaderboard, but as of now they are still trailing.

The lockout players have easily made their way up the list.  It was only a matter of time even though most started the season late.  Both Evgeni Malkin and Ilya Kovalchuk have been on fire lately.

Alex Radulov is still hanging on to positions in both categories.  My guess is he will be knocked out of the penalty minute race by the next update.  Also I should mention that Damien Brunner who made the list in points last update technically qualifies as a lockout player.  He has never played in North America but was signed by Detroit this year.

Penalty list got a whole lot tighter and represents all five leagues.  Artyukin has kept his cool recently.  Ledin picked up half of those in one game.  The Austrian league is getting very physical.  In fact that is the league I would look to continue to see players climb the list.  Check this shit out.  The four players on the list that play in the Austrian league are all on the same team.  Have fun playing that squad.

For a little bonus feature, last year Barry Brust while playing in Germany put up the incredible total of 109 penalty minutes with an additional 29 in the playoffs.  He is a goalie.  I've never seen anything even close to that since I've compiled stats.  Hextall was the king of that in his day, but I was too young.  Brust ranked sixth in the entire league for penalty minutes.  Jerry Kuhn might try taking a run at that this season.  Playing for Olimpija in Austria he has 46 so far easily leading the team with a lot of the season yet to go.