Merry Christmas

The Blackhawks Organization would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. Hope everyone has a good one.

Also...Everyone is available in The Windy City.

Oilers Trade Block

Oilers looking to move a R.W. in exchange for a decent D-man. One of these two are available.

57 Nicklas Bergfors 0 R RW 4 6 8 5 6 6 8 6 9 5 9 72

3 Akim Aliu 0 L RW 5 7 7 7 7 5 9 4 6 8 6 71

Everything down on the farm (Crunch) is up for grabs as well if interested. Not much available, but let us know. You will need to contact the Americans if interested. Thanks.
Scott ....Americans / Oilers

Bruins and Americans Pull the Trigger

The Boston Bruins and Brooklyn Americans have pulled the trigger, swapping two under performing Centermen....

Boston sends Brandon Sutter to the Americans for Phil Mcrae.

7 Brandon Sutter 1+ R C 7 9 6 5 6 3 7 8 9 9 7 76

for

16 Philip McRae 2- R C 8 7 6 6 8 2 9 9 9 9 5 78

Sutter was acquired in the PHL8 Waiver draft from the Edmonton Oilers. The young two way pivot has never lived up to his potential.

American Trade Block

Okay gents......I realize there are only a limited amount of days remaining before the trade deadline. It helps to know there will be a league next season....Big thanks Mich by the way. Now we have an idea of what directions we can take. So here is the long anticipated American trade block.

16 Philip McRae R C 8 7 6 6 8 2 9 9 9 9 5 78
6 Dany Sabourin R G 9 8 8 8 9 9 7 8 7 - - 73
17 Frank Hoerdler R D 8 8 9 8 8 2 9 2 6 9 5 74
41 Jack Johnson R D 2 9 9 8 8 9 9 4 4 9 5 76
0 Roman Josi L D 2 5 8 7 7 9 6 3 7 9 7 70

Looking for replacement players for these underachievers. A changes of environment might be what we both are looking for.

Farm players from the Pats are available as well, if you think you have what it takes to make that last ditch effort to win it all.

Thanks guys. Scott.....Americans

Bruins Avails....

Gents...

Here are the Bruins Availables....

7 Brandon Sutter 1+ R C 7 9 6 5 6 3 7 8 9 9 7 76
19 Tim Gleason 1- L D 1 7 7 7 7 9 8 8 9 6 5 74
1 Matthew Stajan 1- L C 3 7 2 4 6 8 7 9 9 2 7 64 (Hawks)

Picks, Farmers, TC's etc will grab these studs...

Cheers....

Blue Jackets trade block

Looking for TC's or a pick.



15 Justin McCrae 0 R C 5 9 7 6 5 4 9 2 5 8 8 68

HOF for trade

The Stars need help at Center or D and would like to trade

99 Stephane Richer 0 R LW 4 8 4 6 6 8 9 7 9 4 8 73 to get it. Holla back

Whalers Trade Block

The Whalers management team has calmed down and are just offering up a few players. Those players being offered up are:

7 Evgeni Malkin         2-     L  C    4  8  9  9  7  5  7  8  9  7  6  79
18 Kim Karlsson          1-     L  LW   9  7  7  6  3  1  3  8  9  8  8  69
53 Daniel Alfredsson     1+     R  RW   5  9  6  8  7  5  8  3  6  3  9  69
82 Joe Lavin             1-     R  D    1  9  8  9  8  9  8  6  9  9  8  84


Looking to swap starting G
35 Daren Machesney       1+     R  G    2  9  9  9  9  7  5  7  9  -  -  66

Let's see if there are any offers.

Whalers Trade Block

THIS JUST IN. FIRESALE IN HARTFORD. JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING MUST GO!!!!!

New York Rangers - GAZZETTE

                           PATRICK Division


           GP   W   L   T   GF   GA   PTS    PCT  LAST 10  STREAK
RANGERS    40  23  15   2  157  129    48   .600   8-2-0   5G winning
NORTHSTARS 39  22  14   3  159  145    47   .603   7-3-0   1G winning
AMERICANS  40  21  15   4  160  147    46   .575   7-3-0   2G winning
ISLANDERS  40  19  17   4  152  148    42   .525   7-3-0   1G winning
FLYERS     38  17  18   3  143  164    37   .487   5-3-2   1G winning


                                4th Best - TEAM POWER PLAY


             --- OVER-ALL ---         --- HOME ---         --- ROAD ---
  TEAM       GP  ADV  GF   PCT      GP  ADV  GF   PCT    GP  ADV  GF   PCT
  ---------  -----------------      -----------------    -----------------
  RANGERS    40  179  40  22.3      23  105  27  25.7    17   74  13  17.6

                                3rd Best - TEAM PENALTY KILLING


             --- OVER-ALL ---         --- HOME ---         --- ROAD ---
  TEAM       GP  TSH  GA   PCT      GP  TSH  GA   PCT    GP  TSH  GA   PCT
  ---------  -----------------      -----------------    -----------------
  RANGERS    40  202  33  83.7      23  116  16  86.2    17   86  17  80.2

                      The BEST - TEAM PENALTY MINUTES

                    TEAM       GP  PIM   AVG
                    RANGERS    40 1020  25.5
                   

This has to be HUGE NEWS in the hockey world as no one would have guessed that the Rangers would be
the 2nd Best Team in the WALE CONFERENCE and tops in their division.

The play of the 2 goalies has something to do with it as Unice has been filling in for an
"under the weather" Peters who will start the next set of games for the Rangers.

The Rangers have Dmitri Kazionov who after 40 games (half way point of the seaon) has 56 points (20G and 36A).
Scottie Upshall (in 11th place overall in points) also has 42 points (23G and 19A).

The whole starting lineup for the Rangers has either a +17, +18, or +19 Rating.

If this keeps up the PHL CUP for this year could belong to the NEW YORK RANGERS!!!

Hell has frozen over!

People have said that it will never happen, but that myth has been proved wrong. Hell has indeed frozen over as this seasons Columbus Blue Jackets are on a three game winning streak.














Cupp A Joe

PRO HOF'ers

Pro Hall of Fame Players......LaFontaine tears it up, former Leafs Clark and Gilmour playing like minor leaguers!

P Player GP G A PTS +/- PP SH GW GT S PIM PCT

F Pat Lafontaine 23 11 21 32 12 6 1 0 0 86 31 12.8
F Bernie Federko 23 7 20 27 7 5 0 2 0 79 50 8.9
F Dino Ciccarelli 24 11 13 24 15 1 0 2 0 79 52 13.9
F Russ Courtnall 22 15 4 19 9 2 0 3 0 68 17 22.1
F Mike Gartner 24 8 7 15 -11 1 0 0 0 66 30 12.1
D Dave Babych 21 1 14 15 -4 0 0 0 0 27 29 3.7
D Rod Langway 22 2 13 15 11 0 0 0 0 15 27 13.3
F Stephane Richer 24 9 5 14 0 6 0 1 0 90 30 10
F Tim Kerr 22 6 7 13 -6 4 0 1 0 45 57 13.3
D Zarley Zalapski 21 3 9 12 -4 1 0 0 0 34 15 8.8
F Neal Broten 15 4 7 11 -1 2 1 1 1 41 34 9.8
F Rick Vaive 22 6 4 10 -5 2 0 1 0 61 71 9.8
F Hakan Loob 22 5 5 10 8 2 0 1 0 73 13 6.8
D Dave Manson 23 0 9 9 11 0 0 0 0 12 33 0
F Steve Larmer 23 7 1 8 1 2 0 1 0 66 13 10.6
F Joe Mullen 23 3 5 8 -11 1 0 0 0 50 58 6
D Doug Wilson 22 0 7 7 -8 0 0 0 0 6 47 0
F Wendel Clark 7 2 0 2 3 2 0 0 0 19 2 10.5
F Dougie Gilmour 20 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 28 64 0

Pro Rookies at the Quarter Pole

The story of the rookie leaders.....where is Jesse Laaksonen? Leading the way, American's stud D'man, Simon Bertilsson, with his fellow twin tower Alex Urbom way down the list. Lots of teams happy with the performance of their kids so far. A few others....not so much.

P # Player GP G A PTS +/- PP SH GW GT S PIM PCT
D 3 S. BERTILSSON 22 6 14 20 -3 1 0 1 0 40 70 15
F 87 Cody EAKIN 20 9 8 17 2 6 0 0 0 66 32 13.6
F 19 Chris KREIDER 21 4 13 17 15 0 0 1 0 40 24 10
D 36 Jeremy PRICE 21 4 11 15 15 0 0 1 0 24 31 16.7
F 14 Phil PARADIS 21 2 13 15 13 0 0 1 0 47 38 4.3
D 29 A. KLEMENTYEV 20 1 11 12 -2 0 0 0 0 14 37 7.1
F 18 Jeese LAAKSONEN 21 9 3 12 -3 6 0 0 0 56 37 16.1
D 15 Kyle BIGOS 21 2 10 12 6 0 0 1 0 10 8 20
D 32 Eric KNODEL 22 0 10 10 1 0 0 0 0 14 65 0
D 28 Justin WELLAR 21 1 9 10 3 0 0 0 0 11 50 9.1
D 5 Jared COWAN 21 0 10 10 -15 0 0 0 0 9 9 0
D 3 Patrick WEY 21 0 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 7 29 0
D 2 Alexander URBOM 22 2 6 8 3 0 0 0 0 33 13 6.1
F 10 Ryan O'REILLY 20 2 4 6 -2 1 0 1 0 28 33 7.1
F 20 Ethan WEREK 11 0 1 1 -1 0 0 0 0 11 17 0
F 10 Joonas NATTINEN 8 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 4 20
D 5 Ben CHIAROT 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0

Medical Room Overflowing

The Seals and Gamblers are having a disastrous season injury wise. With Patrick O'Sullivan knocked out for 9 games on opening night, and Andrei Mikhnov done for 10 after the last game, the Seals organization has more games lost more games to injury than they have played as an organization. Mikhonov's injury puts them in the 45 man games lost territory. Without changes, look for the Seals to fire the fitness staff.

Ron Chipperfield
Oakland Free Press

Quarter Report Tidbits

ST.LOUIS - Well a quarter of the season has passed and there have been quite some surprises.

• The Blues currently sit first in the league playing more offensive than defensive as they did in the previous year. 
• They are  followed by the usual teams like the Leafs who have turned around their slow start, and the Bruins and Seals. 
• The Rangers are a huge surprise having turned their team around and sit first in the division.
• The same can't be said about the Americans who stocked up with some mighty fine defensemen in the draft. Unfortunately they aren't quite there defensively just yet.
•  The Sabres, stanley cup finalists last year are dead last. The rebuild was expected but to have only 2 wins after the quarter mark and a 12 game losing streak is unlike GM Edwin. 
• The Oilers have finally played up to expectations while the Blackhawks who started strong have fallen fast. 
• Other notable teams that have done better than expected are the Red Wings and Senators. 
• Disappointment would be the Whalers, Jets and even Canadiens.

Next tidbit report will be the halfway mark as that seems to be where some teams do a 180 and play opposite of how they did the first half. Perhaps the GM's will also be more lively with some trades. It has been quite quiet.

Mark Spector

RANGERS Surprising all but their Head Coach and GM.

The New York Rangers fans have something to smile about recently. Their team is on a tear right now. With a 10-6-2 record in 18 games they see their team sitting first in the PATRICK division and tied for 2^nd in the WALES CONFERENCE.

The New York Rangers are posting the BEST Power Play (@ 24.1 %) and Penalty Kill (@ 87.5%) in the league. I am not sure the Rangers have ever hold such a prestigious placing before.

Goaltender Justin Peters is a big reason for the team’s success. He has a 2.51 GAA (best in the league for all goalies) and a .912 Save % (Best in the league as well).

If this keeps up the Rangers could play spoilers for allot of teams this year. We could be seeing a new power unfolding in the WALES CONFERENCE.

All other GMs need to beware of the Rangers.

Special Sabres

When we mean special its not a complement. The sabres are so horrible the league is looking at the possibility if some players have possible brain injuries. GM MacDougall had nothing good to say about the sabres play this season - "PHL Cup!!!PHL Cup!!!..christ these guys can't win a game and your talking about the PHL Cup!!! I could bring in a bunch of chimp and put red light racicot in net and have more then 2 wins. Jesus my expansion sabres weren't even this bad and they were nothing but a bunch of hacks and hillbillies."

The sabres are rumored in possibly moving some of there players and looking at the future. If you have any interests let us know. thanks

Whalers PR

THE WHEELS ARE FALLING OFF THE BUS IN HARTFORD!!!!

TRADE EVERYONE!!!!!!

FIRESALE!!!!! FIRESALE!!!!!


No not really but those are the words in my head, lol.

Blues GM does not knew to stop!

That really hurts C.C. But I guess after you look in the mirror, you lose all sense of motor control. That blue pill you were talking about is my anger control medicine. Funny how it's blue!

Another reply to the Jackets GM

You sure you can find them without bifocals and a bottle of the blue pills? LOL.