For Laughs

A Trip Around Town

I haven't been able to get as many videos up as I would like to lately.  There also hasn't been anything real worth while to put on.  Over the last few days there have been some solid fights in a variety of leagues that have all been great battles.  Why not share them all now.

Minor Notes:

At some point I lost count but since the NHL officially returned on Sunday, roughly 200 players have been recalled at some point since then.  I believe the stats I updated from last night had one team from the AHL play about five or six guys who hadn't been in a game all year.  Nothing like have a one week training camp right in the middle of the season.

I also will do my best to try and update the scoring and penalty totals.  However with the addition of another league and the unusual high amount of player movement I will try to keep an update list with only the North American leagues included.  The European leagues will get their own chart and then at the end of the season a total combined chart for everybody will be displayed to include all leagues whether it is AHL and NHL, NHL and KHL, or ECHL, AHL and NHL.  Even I have trouble with this many players and leagues.

To the Videos!

AHL:  Rechlicz-Gallant




OHL:  Clark-McGuire




WHL:  LeSann-Morse




QMJHL:  Lewis-McGrath

Haven't Had A Fight Tonight

The classic go-off-the-faceoff fight.  It is probably one of my favorites.  It has everything you look for in a tilt.  You get the short conversation, the look, the classic ditching of the gloves and chucking of the helmet and then the square off.  Any respected tilt should begin near center ice no matter where the faceoff takes place.

Kurtz and Nightingale lead the fun.  Kurtz is one of those guys I can get behind.  He was mainly a scorer in juniors but needed to add more to his game and now is predominantly a fighter and checker.  Nightingale too has worked hard for what he has had.  The fun begins after Kurtz dominates.




Neilson tries to spark the team after seeing the lopsided fight and then the rest.

Video Time

This league isn't known for their play other than they really enjoy fighting.  At this point in the game, if you call it that, the teams decide to forget the idea of going for goals.

Leaders - Thursday Night Edition

Here are your top ten.

I'm sure Sergei Mozyakin didn't expect to be playing alongside Evgeni Malkin, but here we are in January and Mozyakin is benefiting nicely.  Also nice to see Malkin doing well and not letting the league stoppage hurt him too much.

Every other name in the top is familiar except for two.  Jordan Eberle and Justin Schultz are the first full season AHL players to make the list.  Both represent the Edmonton Oilers organization and play together.  Not a surprise to see Eberle dominate the league.  He had 76 points in the NHL last season.  Schultz is a guy who makes me very interested in the Oilers next season.  When he left Wisconsin and could not agree to terms with the team that drafted him, Schultz became the biggest free agent of the summer without even playing a professional game.  Now we have an idea why.  The way he is going he could end up with 80 points and 30 goals as a defenseman.  Yikes.  If there isn't a season, I wonder if by dumb luck the Oilers get another top pick.

We have a nice battle going for top spot in the penalty total.  I'm not even including the European leagues since the only player above 100 is the same guy from the last time I updated this list.  Things have really slowed down there.  Rockford joined Bridgeport as the only two teams with multiple players over 100 from the AHL.  Fort Wayne is the only team to have two from the ECHL.  I'd give it the rest of the weekend before some team has three.  Robins has been out in front most of the season.  Let's see if he can keep his lead.