North America On Top

The rise of Colorado forward Chad Costello continued over the past two weeks.  He now leads all leagues I cover in points and also with it earned a promotion to the AHL.  Costello is also joined by teammate Jack Combs in the top ten, who coincidentally also earned an AHL promotion and coincidentally again moves up to the same team as Costello.  The rest of the list looks similar except in the NHL department.  Malkin is back in while Seguin moves out.


It was a race to see who would get to 100 penalty minutes first.  It seemed like a European would be a sure thing except it never materialized.  The first European made it this weekend in the German league.  It would not have been my first or second guess.  However, both the AHL and ECHL have been on a run since the last time I posted.  In fact, out of the now 14 players now above 100, only two got there on a minor penalty.  Every other player received some sort of combination or a major, misconduct or game misconduct.  Got to get there in style.

In other notes my next race would have been to see which team will get two players above 100 but that already went to Bridgeport with Gallant and McIver at one and three.  Seems a bit early to ask for three guys on one team.  Maybe the next race can be to 150 since they have been rocketing since getting past 100.

Here is the new list.