Hamilton Bulldogs New Breed of Dogs - EHM 1 Story

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Note: Fort this story I will be using the I will be using the 2006-2007 database however I have changed it up and created 32 NHL, 32 AHL and 32 ECHL teams. The database will also have 22 WHL teams

So with this update. Edmonton Oil Kings will be in WHL, Brampton would still be in OHL and North Bay will be the former Belleville Bulls since Belleville is now Ottawa AHL Team. The following is the new pools for the teams. Also we as having Atlanta be in the same as if they did not move to Winnipeg. So Quebec Nordiques and Winnipeg Jets will both be the expansion teams to make up for the 32 NHL teams.

Here is the update on the new Pools for each league:

Atlantic Division
Boston Bruins
Tampa Bay
Toronto
Florida
Montreal
Buffalo
Ottawa
Quebec (Expansion)

Metropolition Division
Washington Capitals
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Carolina
Atlanta Thrashers
NY Islanders
NY Rangers
New Jersey

Central
St. Louis
Detroit
Dallas
Winnipeg (Expansion)
Nashville
Minnesota
Chicago
Columbus

Pacific Division
Phoenix
Edmonton
Calgary
Vancouver
Colorado
Anaheim
Los Angeles
San Jose

American Hockey League Division Changes

Atlantic Division
Providence Bruins (BOS)
Hershey Bears (WAS)
Charlotte Checkers (CAR)
Hartford Wolfpack (NYR)
Springfield Thunderbirds (FLA)
Wilkes-Barre Scranton Penguins (PIT)
Lehigh Phantoms (PHI)
Bridgeport Sound Tigers (NYI)

North Division
Belleville Senators (OTT)
Rochester Americans (BUF)
Utica Comets (VAN)
Binghamton Devils (NJ)
Syracuse Crunch (TB)
Laval Rocket (MTL)
Toronto Marlies (TOR)
Hamilton Bulldogs (QUE)

Central Division
Milwaukee (NAS)
Iowa Wild (MIN)
Grand Rapids Griffins (DET)
Chicago Wolves (ATL)
Rockford IceHogs (CHI)
Texas Stars (DAL)
Cleveland Monsters (CBS)
Manitoba Moose (WPG)

Pacific Division
Tucan Roadrunners (PHO)
Colorado Eagles (COL)
Stockton Heat (CGY)
San Diego Gulls (ANA)
Bakersfield (EDM)
San Jose (SJ)
San Antonio Rampage (STL)
Ontario Reign (LA)

ECHL Changes:

South Division
Texas (DAL)
Columbia (CAR)
Florida (FLA)
Gwinett (ATL)
South Carolina (WAS)
Penscola (NYI)
Norfolk (MTL)
Augusta (TB)

North Division
Reading (LA)
Trenton (NYR)
Daytona (CBS)
Wheeling (PIT)
Toledo (DET)
Cincinnati (QUE)
Johnstown (BUF)
Lowell (NAS)

West Division
Victoria (VAN)
Las Vegas (WPG)
Utah (COL)
Alaska (ANA)
Idaho (STL)
Louisiana (MIN)
Mississippi (PHI)
St. John’s (TOR)

Pacific Division
Fresno (SJ)
Phoenix (PHO)
Omaha (CGY)
Peoria (CHI)
Long Beach (BOS)
Orlando (OTT)
Greenville (EDM)
Albany (NJ)

I will be simulating the 2006-2007 Season because the AHL teams are messed up due to the face of all loans and etc due to roster changes.

The Hamilton Bulldogs have announced Ron Stevens as their new GM. Being raised up in Hamilton, Ontario following the AHL when Hamilton was with Edmonton and Montreal as well as having the OHL team, it gave me an understanding of what it takes to win championships not just in the sport of hockey but in Football and Hamilton’s past of championships.

We will be working with a partner such as Quebec Nordiques. We will get a first look for next season of what the Quebec Nordiques have in store as in June when the AHL season is over we will be ending the loans from Montreal and we will be able to make room to start developing the Quebec Nordiques future prospects.

As the GM of the Hamilton Bulldogs which will be the development club of the Quebec Nordiques we will be looking to be to bring some youth and vets to Hamilton. With the prospects that Quebec drafts in June at the 2007 NHL draft, the UFAs that they sign, we will also be scouting players to sign to AHL contracts. My plan is to hire staff and start scouting players from OHL, WHL, QMJHL, ECHL or even CIS.

AHL Standings and Stats for the past season:

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American Hockey League - Sunday May 20th 2007
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2006-07 Tables
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Standings

Pos Team GP W L L O-SL Pct GF GA Pts
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1st PlHartford 82 64 13 13 13 0.811 312 175 133
2nd PlToronto 82 53 23 23 23 0.683 281 202 112
3rd PlSpringfield 82 60 19 19 19 0.750 309 191 123
4th PlHershey 82 59 18 18 18 0.750 335 193 123
5th PlRochester 82 52 22 22 22 0.683 295 199 112
6th PlBinghamton 82 50 22 22 22 0.671 305 216 110
7th PlProvidence 82 47 26 26 26 0.628 284 220 103
8th PlBelleville 82 47 26 26 26 0.628 242 205 103
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9th Wilkes-Barre-Scranton 82 47 28 28 28 0.616 284 229 101
10th Lehigh 82 46 29 29 29 0.604 265 215 99
11th Bridgeport 82 45 31 31 31 0.585 283 251 96
12th Syracuse 82 42 35 35 35 0.543 288 263 89
13th Hamilton 82 40 36 36 36 0.524 225 227 86
14th Utica 82 21 58 58 58 0.274 146 301 45
15th Charlotte 82 9 71 71 71 0.122 151 414 20
16th Laval 82 6 73 73 73 0.091 91 378 15


Standings

Pos Team GP W L L O-SL Pct GF GA Pts
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1st PlGrand Rapids 82 57 16 16 16 0.750 301 200 123
2nd PlTucson 82 54 24 24 24 0.683 275 210 112
3rd PlTexas 82 56 21 21 21 0.713 324 219 117
4th PlManitoba 82 52 23 23 23 0.677 315 232 111
5th PlSan Antonio 82 50 22 22 22 0.671 275 208 110
6th PlMilwaukee 82 50 24 24 24 0.659 261 195 108
7th PlStockton 82 45 27 27 27 0.610 255 209 100
8th PlIowa 82 46 30 30 30 0.598 282 233 98
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9th Ontario 82 45 29 29 29 0.598 283 239 98
10th Chicago 82 45 33 33 33 0.573 257 220 94
11th San Jose 82 41 38 38 38 0.518 244 230 85
12th Rockford 82 25 50 50 50 0.348 233 277 57
13th Bakersfield 82 22 55 55 55 0.299 217 366 49
14th Colorado 82 18 58 58 58 0.256 201 381 42
15th Cleveland 82 11 67 67 67 0.159 109 333 26
16th San Diego 82 7 72 72 72 0.104 114 411 17



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2006-07 Goals
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Pos Player Team GP G
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1st Jonas Johansson Hershey 82 45
2nd Nigel Dawes Hartford 82 45
3rd Dwight Helminen Hartford 82 42
4th Jannik Hansen Manitoba 82 41
5th Jesse Schultz Manitoba 82 41
6th Alexandre Giroux Hershey 76 41
7th Geoff Platt Syracuse 70 41
8th Grant Stevenson San Jose 79 40
9th Benoit Pouliot Iowa 80 38
10th Rob Globke Rochester 79 38
11th Jeremy Colliton Bridgeport 82 37
12th Brandon Yip Colorado 82 37
13th Alexander Suglobov Toronto 79 37
14th Blake Comeau Bridgeport 82 37
15th Yanick Lehoux San Antonio 82 37
16th Lauri Korpikoski Hartford 78 37
17th Mark Mancari Rochester 82 36
18th Alex Bourret Chicago 82 36
19th Krystofer Barch Texas 72 36
20th Chris Collins Providence 82 36
21st Luciano Aquino Bridgeport 77 35
22nd Chris Bourque Hershey 71 34
23rd Robbie Earl Toronto 82 34
24th Brooks Laich Hershey 82 34
25th Brian Maloney Belleville 82 34
26th Rick Rypien Manitoba 82 34
27th Justin Papineau Binghamton 73 34
28th Noah Clarke Ontario 82 34
29th Danny Stewart Bakersfield 82 34
30th Petr Taticek Hershey 82 33



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2006-07 Assists
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Pos Player Team GP A
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1st Bryce Lampman Hartford 69 66
2nd Petr Taticek Hershey 82 62
3rd Andy Delmore Tucson 78 61
4th Blair Jones Tucson 82 57
5th Tyler Redenbach Providence 82 57
6th Vojtech Polak Texas 82 56
7th Evan McGrath Grand Rapids 82 52
8th Kyle Brodziak Bakersfield 82 52
9th Benoit Pouliot Iowa 80 51
10th Alexander Edler Manitoba 81 51
11th Mike Rupp Binghamton 67 50
12th Jonas Johansson Hershey 82 49
13th Alexandre Picard Syracuse 73 49
14th Marty Sertich Texas 81 49
15th Yared Hagos Texas 82 48
16th Barry Tallackson Binghamton 82 48
17th Nate DiCasmirro Providence 82 48
18th Trevor Byrne Hershey 82 48
19th Matt Lashoff Providence 76 48
20th Tomas Kloucek Syracuse 75 48
21st Antti Laaksonen Avalanche 79 47
22nd Vadim Khomitski Texas 82 47
23rd Matt Ellis Grand Rapids 71 46
24th Garrett Stafford San Jose 81 46
25th Mike Card Rochester 82 46
26th Dwight Helminen Hartford 82 45
27th Kamil Kreps Springfield 56 45
28th Brad Moran Manitoba 65 45
29th Ryan Vesce Belleville 82 45
30th Hannu Pikkarainen Hartford 77 45



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2006-07 Points
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Pos Player Team GP P
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1st Petr Taticek Hershey 82 95
2nd Jonas Johansson Hershey 82 94
3rd Benoit Pouliot Iowa 80 89
4th Dwight Helminen Hartford 82 87
5th Tyler Redenbach Providence 82 87
6th Blair Jones Tucson 82 87
7th Jannik Hansen Manitoba 82 85
8th Jesse Schultz Manitoba 82 84
9th Nigel Dawes Hartford 82 83
10th Evan McGrath Grand Rapids 82 83
11th Grant Stevenson San Jose 79 80
12th Antti Laaksonen Avalanche 79 80
13th Vojtech Polak Texas 82 80
14th Alexandre Giroux Hershey 76 79
15th Bryce Lampman Hartford 69 79
16th Jeremy Colliton Bridgeport 82 78
17th Brandon Yip Colorado 82 78
18th Chris Bourque Hershey 71 78
19th Robbie Earl Toronto 82 78
20th Yared Hagos Texas 82 78
21st Mike Rupp Binghamton 67 77
22nd Kyle Brodziak Bakersfield 82 77
23rd Geoff Platt Syracuse 70 76
24th Brooks Laich Hershey 82 76
25th Alexandre Picard Syracuse 73 76
26th Alexander Suglobov Toronto 79 75
27th Brian Maloney Belleville 82 75
28th Mark Mancari Rochester 82 74
29th Barry Tallackson Binghamton 82 74
30th Rick Rypien Manitoba 82 73



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2006-07 Average Rating
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Pos Player Team GP Av R
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1st Arttu Luttinen Senators 14 8.29
2nd Jonathan Filewich Penguins 57 8.11
3rd Jeff Tambellini Islanders 49 8.10
4th Bryce Lampman Hartford 69 8.01
5th Chris Thorburn Penguins 46 8.00
6th Juraj Kolnik Springfield 26 7.96
7th Alexei Mikhnov Oilers 19 7.95
8th Pekka Rinne Milwaukee 57 7.91
9th Gregory Campbell Panthers 63 7.86
10th Lauri Tukonen Kings 29 7.83
11th Jean-Francois Jacques Oilers 16 7.81
12th Dan Ellis Texas 21 7.81
13th Jonas Johansson Hershey 82 7.80
14th Al Montoya Hartford 45 7.80
15th Rob Schremp Wilkes-Barre-Scranton 53 7.79
16th Josh Harding Iowa 57 7.79
17th Kamil Kreps Springfield 56 7.77
18th Jannik Hansen Manitoba 82 7.76
19th Anthony Stewart Springfield 19 7.74
20th Mike Rupp Binghamton 67 7.73
21st Niclas Bergfors Devils 17 7.71
22nd Tomas Kopecky Red Wings 79 7.70
23rd Jimmy Howard Grand Rapids 62 7.69
24th Michael Holmqvist Blackhawks 68 7.69
25th Chris Bourque Hershey 71 7.69
26th Matt Keith Blackhawks 16 7.69
27th Alexander Suglobov Toronto 79 7.68
28th Stephen Valiquette Hartford 41 7.68
29th Brent Krahn Stockton 25 7.68
30th Dmitri Patzold San Jose 39 7.67



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2006-07 First Star
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Pos Player Team GP FS
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1st Jonathan Filewich Penguins 57 13
2nd Jeff Tambellini Islanders 49 13
3rd Mike Rupp Binghamton 67 12
4th Brian Maloney Belleville 82 11
5th Benoit Pouliot Iowa 80 11
6th Jannik Hansen Manitoba 82 10
7th Lauri Korpikoski Hartford 78 10
8th Dwight Helminen Hartford 82 10
9th Krystofer Barch Texas 72 8
10th Alex Bourret Chicago 82 8
11th Nigel Dawes Hartford 82 8
12th Alexandre Giroux Hershey 76 8
13th Yanick Lehoux San Antonio 82 8
14th Jesse Schultz Manitoba 82 8
15th Alexander Suglobov Toronto 79 8
16th Chris Bourque Hershey 71 8
17th Robbie Earl Toronto 82 8
18th Jimmy Howard Grand Rapids 62 8
19th Barry Tallackson Binghamton 82 8
20th Troy Bodie Stockton 60 7
21st Barry Brust Ontario 62 7
22nd Gregory Campbell Panthers 63 7
23rd Darcy Hordichuk Milwaukee 78 7
24th Martin Houle Lehigh 50 7
25th Blair Jones Tucson 82 7
26th Brooks Laich Hershey 82 7
27th Olivier Latendresse San Antonio 78 7
28th Alexandre Picard Syracuse 73 7
29th Darren Reid Texas 79 7
30th Grant Stevenson San Jose 79 7

June 3rd

Texas Stars (Dallas) has won 4-3 over Springfield Thunderbirds (Florida) taking series 4-1 to win the 2007 Calder Cup

June 18th

Quebec has signed Rich Peverley to a contract.

June 22nd

Looking at the NHL Draft tab it was announced that Quebec Nordiques have the 1st overall pick. Quebec has all of their picks. One June 23rd, we will be reviewing all Quebec’s 2007 NHL draft picks.

June 23rd

Quebec 2007 NHL Draft Review

1st round (1st overall pick) – RW/LW Patrick Kane – London (OHL)
5`11 174lbs Age: 18 Buffalo, NY, USA
2006-2007 Season: 68gp 56g 51a 107pts +25 36 PIM 324 SOG 17.3 Sh % 8.32 AvR

2nd round (31st overall) – C Mikael Backlund – Vasteras (Swe-2)
6`0 191lbs Age: 18 Vasteras, SWE
2006-2007 Season: 38gp 13g 12a 25pts -3 16 PIM 88 SOG 14.8 Sh % 6.87 AvR

3rd round (63rd overall) – LW/C/RW – Viktor Tikhonov – Severstal (RSL)
6`1 185lbs Age: 19 Riga, LAT
2006-2007 Season: 35gp 4g 3a 8pts +13 20 PIM 45 SOG 11.1 Sh % 6.80 AvR

4th round pick (95th overall) G Mattias Modig – Lulea (SWE)
6`1 178lbs Age: 20 Lulea, SWE
2006-2007 Season: 13gp 1-10-2 3.69 GAA .878 Sv % 0 SO 6.00 AvR

5th round (127th overall) – RD Jarrett Toll – Tri-City (WHL)
6`0 165lbs Age: 18 Maple Ridge, BC, CAN
2006-2007 Season: 64gp 5g 28a 33pts +15 56 PIM 83 SOG 6.0 Sh % 6.72 AvR

6th round (159th overall) C/LW – Tangradi – North Bay (OHL)
6`4 213lbs Age: 18 Philadelphia, PA, USA
2006-2007 Season: 60gp 13g 13a 26pts +5 67 PIM 88 SOG 14.8 Sh % 6.68 AvR

7th round (191st overall) C/RW Roman Cervenka – Slavia (Cze)
6`0 196lbs Age: 21 Prague, CZE
2006-2007 Season: 50gp 20g 23a 43pts +19 24 PIM 98 SOG 20.4 Sh % 6.92 AvR

June 27th

Quebec has put in an offer for their prospect Roman Cevenka.

June 30th

Quebec has made contract offers to Mikael Backlund and Mattias Modig

Quebec has signed Patrick Kane to a contract

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July 1st

The AHL schedule was released. The Hamilton Bulldogs will be opening the 2007-2008 season with games against Manitoba (home), Utica (home) and San Jose (away) on October 7th, 12th and 14th respectively.

The schedule is broken down as follows:

October – 11
November – 14
December – 14
January – 12
February – 11
March – 15
April 5

July 4th

Quebec has officially Roman Cervenka to a contract

July 5th

Quebec has officially signed Mikael Backlund to a contract

Quebec has officially signed Mattias Modig to a contract

The Hamilton Bulldogs have signed 20 yr old goaltender Kyle Gajewski. In 54 games with Saulte Ste Marie of the oHL he had a record of 28-17-5 2.65 GAA .899 Sv % 0 SO 7.33 AvR.

Hamilton Bulldogs have signed 20 yr old defenseman Nick Holden to a contract. The 6`3 209lb defenseman spent last season with Chilliwack of the WHL. In 69 games he had 7g 25a for 32pts with a -8 41 PIM 84 SOG 8.3 Sh % 6.52 AvR.

July 11th

Hamilton Bulldogs have signed 20 yr old defenseman Bretton Stamler to a contract. The 6`1 200lb defenseman spent last season with Seattle of the WHL. In 48 games he had 2g 14a 16pts -1 62 PIM 49 SOG 4.1 Sh % and 6.58 AvR

Hamilton Bulldogs have signed Alexandre Picard-Hooper who played last season with Baie-Comeau in QMJHL. The 20 yr old forward played 60gp and had 19g 37a 56pts -13 48 PIM 134 SOG 14.2 Sh % 6.25 AVR

Hamilton Bulldogs have signed 20 yr old Center Mike Swift from Niagara Icedogs. The 5`9 176lb Center had 26g 31a 57pts with +8 30 PIM and 166 SOG 15.7 Sh % and 6.79 AvR in 67 games.

Quebec signed goaltender David Aebischer to a contract

July 18th

Hamilton bulldogs have signed 22 yr old Center Julian Talbot to a contract. The 22 yr old center had 12g 20a 32pts -15 56 PIM 84 SOG 14.3 Sh % and 6.31 AvR.

July 20th

Hamilton Bulldogs have named Gavin Dwyer as the club goalie coach

July 21st

The Hamilton Bulldogs have hired Sergi Montero as their defense coach

August 1st

Syracuse Crunch have hired Hamilton Bulldogs scout Steve Konowalchuk as a head coach

August 5th

The Hamilton Bulldogs have sold 1,167 season tickets

August 12th

The Hamilton Bulldogs have sold 1,273 season tickets

August 15th

Quebec Nordiques have signed Mike Dunham and Arron Asham to contracts

August 19th

The Hamilton Bulldogs have sold 1316 season tickets so far

August 26th

Hamilton Bulldogs have signed 26 yr old defenseman Chad Starling. The 6`6 defenseman spent last season with our ECHL farm club Cincinnati. In 42 games he had 2g 11a 13pts -13 26 PIM 24 SOG 8.3 Sh % and 6.52 AvR.

Laval Rocket has scheduled a pre-season game with us for September 16th

Hamilton Bulldogs have sold 1,334 season tickets

August 28th

Hamilton Bulldogs have signed 23 yr old defenseman Lane Manson. The 6`9 249lbs defenseman spent last season with Richmond of SPHL. In 60 games he had 7g 17a 24pts Even and 58 PIM 97 SOG and 7.2 Sh % and 8.10 AvR.

August 29th

Hamilton Bulldogs have signed 22 yr old forward Mark Lee. The 22 yr old spent last season with Charlotte of AHL. In 82 games, the 22 yr old center had 24g 21a for 45pts -74 78 PIM 190 SOG 12.6 Sh % 6.16 AvR.

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September 8th

Alexandre Picard-Hooper have been invited to the Buffalo Sabres training camp

September 16th

Hamilton Bulldogs won 3-1 over Laval Rocket in Pre-season action. Ryan Christie, Julian Talbot and Mark Lee scored the goals.

September 18th

Quebec has reassigned Goalie Mattias Modig to Hamilton

September 19th

Alexandre Picard-Hooper was cut by Buffalo at camp and rejoined Hamilton Bulldogs.

September 20th

Mattias Modig will get the start in goal today for the home pre-season game against Cleveland. The Monsters won by a score of 5-1

September 21st

Hamilton is up against Rockford IceHogs. The bulldogs lost 8-4.

All NHL teams have reassigned full squads where as Hamilton does not have a full squad from NHL team yet.

September 27th

Hamilton won a 3-0 shutout over Manitoba as Mike Swift, Mark Lee and Alexander Picard-Hooper scored the goals.

September 30th

Quebec signed Viktor Tikhonov who will be joining Quebec on May 1st 2009

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I really like EHM so good luck with this.

2008-09 was a good year for prospects IIRC.

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October 2nd

All 3 players have cleared through waivers and will be able to take part in their last pre-season game.

The ISS has announced their preliminary rankings for the 2008 NHL draft. The top prospect ranked prospect is Sarnia’s Steven Stamkos (5gp 2g 5a 7pts +3 4 PIM 13 SOG 15.4 Sh % 7.80 AvR), followed by Guelph Storm Defenseman Drew Doughty (5gp 1g 3a 4pts +3 0 PIM 8 SOG 12.5 Sh % 7.80 AvR) and Traktor’s defenseman Vyacheslav Voinov (DNP)

The AHL has released their top 10 per position as well as the top 10 prospects

Top 10 Goalies:

1. Pekka Rinne (Milwaukee)
2. Jaroslav Halak (Laval)
3. Devan Dubnyk (Bakersfield
4. Brian Elliott (Belleville)
5. Thomas Greiss (San Jose)
6. Hannu Toivonen (Providence)
7. Jeff Drouin-Deslauriers (Bakersfield)
8. Josh Tordjman (Tucson)
9. Joel Gistedt (Bridgeport)
10. Chris Holt (Hartford)

Top 10 Defense
1. James Wisniewski (Rockford)
2. Roman Polak (San Antonio)
3. Jonathan Ericsson (Grand Rapids)
4. Greg Zanon (Milwaukee)
5. Ryan Parent (Milwaukee)
6. Marc Methot (Cleveland)
7. Richie Regehr (Stockton)
8. Jussi Timonen (Lehigh)
9. Nathan Paetsch (Rochester)
10. Derian Hatcher (Lehigh)

Top 10 Left Wingers
1. James Van Riemsdyk (Lehigh)
2. Lauri Korpikoski (Hartford)
3. Vojtech Polak (Texas)
4. Curtis Glencross (San Diego)
5. Kris Chucko (Stockton)
6. Alexandre Picard (Cleveland)
7. Jean-Francois Jacques (Bakersfield)
8. Pat Leahy (Milwaukee)
9. Eric Nystrom (Stockton)
10. Lukas Kaspar (San Jose)

Top 10 Centers
1. Brian Boyle (Ontario)
2. Nick Foligno (Belleville)
3. David Bolland (Rockford)
4. Petteri Nokelainen (Bridgeport)
5. Peter Regin (Belleville)
6. Jakub Klepis (Hershey)
7. Geoff Platt (Cleveland)
8. Alexei Kaigorodov (Belleville)
9. Blair Betts (Hartford)
10. Kevin Doell (Chicago)

Top 10 Right Wingers
1. Tony Salmelainen (Rockford)
2. Matt Keith (Rockford)
3. Darren McCarty (Hershey)
4. Robert Nilsson (Bridgeport)
5. Ryan Shannon (San Diego)
6. Alex Bourret (Chicago)
7. Mikko Lehtonen (Providence)
8. Bjorn Melin (San Diego)
9. Junior Lessard (Texas)
10. Chris Bourque (Hershey)

Top 10 Prospects
1. C Alexandre Picard-Hooper (Hamilton)
2. C Tyler Haskins (Ontario)
3. G Kyle Gajewski (Hamilton)
4. RW Moises Gutierrez (Lehigh)
5. G Ryan MacDonald (Long Beach)
6. RW Josh Aspenlind (San Jose)
7. C Mike Swift (Hamilton)
8. LW Pierre-Luc Faubert (Stockton)
9. C Craig Voakes (Providence)
10. C Howie Martin (Texas)

October 2nd

The AHL kick off their 2007-2008 season with a single game with Rockford Icehogs (Chicago NHL) taking on Wilkes-Barre Scranton Penguins (Pittsburgh NHL). Rockford won by a score of 4-3.

October 4th

Hamilton Bulldogs 2007-2008 Roster

Goalies:

G – Mattias Modig – Signed by Quebec (NHL)
6`1 178lbs Age: 20 Lulea, SWE
Drafted: 4th round 95th overall in 2007 NHL Draft by Quebec Nordiques
2006-2007 Season: 13gp 1-10-2 3.69 GAA .878 Sv % 0 SO 6.00 AvR – Lulea (Swe)

G – Shawn Monette – Signed by Quebec (NHL)
5`11 218lbs Age: 20 St. Jean sur Richelieu, QC, CAN
Drafted: 9th round pick 130th overall in 2003 QMJHL by Victoriaville
2006-2007 Season: 8gp 5-3-0 3.76 GAA .864 Sv % 0 SO 6.50 AvR – Hamilton (AHL)
2006-2007 Season: 3gp 0-2-1 3.30 GAA .875 Sv % 0 SO 6.67 AvR – Cincinnati (ECHL)

G – Kyle Gajewski – AHL Contract
5`11 160lbs London, Ontario, CAN
Drafted: 4th round 79th overall in 2003 OHL Draft by Sault Ste. Marie
2006-2007 Season: 54gp 28-17-5 2.65 GAA .899 SV % 0 SO 7.33 AvR – SSM (OHL)

Defense:

D – Nick Holden – AHL Contract
6`3 209lbs Age: 20 Edmonton, AB, CAN
Drafted: N/A
2005-2006 Season – 69gp 7g 25a 32pts -8 41 PIM 84 SOG 8.3 Sh % 6.52 AvR – Chilliwack (WHL)

D – Lane Manson – AHL Contract
6`9 249lbs Age: 23 Watrous, SK, CAN
Drafted: 4th round 124th overall in 2002 NHL Draft by Atlanta Thrashers
2006-2007 Season: 60gp 7g 17a 24pts Even 58 PIM 97 SOG 7.2 Sh % 8.10 AvR – Richmond (SPHL)

D – Bretton Stamler – AHL Contract
6`1 200lbs Age: 20 Beaumont, AB, CAN
Drafted: 2nd round 21st overall in 2002 WHL Bantam Draft by Seattle Thunderbirds
Drafted: 7th round 214th overall in 2005 NHL Entry Draft by Detroit Redwings
2006-2007 Season: 48gp 2g 14a 16pts -1 62 PIM 49 SOG 4.1 Sh % 6.58 AvR – Seattle (WHL)

D – Chad Starling – AHL Contract
6`6 224 lbs Age: 27 Delisle, SK, CAN
Drafted: 6th round 102nd overall in 1996 WHL Bantam Draft by Kamloops
Drafted: 4th round 114th overall in 1999 NHL Entry Draft by St. Louis Blues
2006-2007 Season: 42gp 2g 11a 13pts -13 26 PIM 24 SOG 8.3 Sh % 6.52 AvR – Cincinnati (ECHL)

Forwards:

LW – Brett Maxwell – signed by Quebec (NHL)
5`11 202lbs Age: 23 Lake Francis, MB
Drafted: N/A
2006-2007 Season: DNP

C – Mark Lee – AHL Contract
5`11 180lbs Age: 23 Mount Pearl, Newfoundland, CAN
Drafted: N/A
2006-2007 Season: 82gp 24g 21a 45pts -74 78 PIM 190 SOG 12.6 Sh % 6.16 AvR – Charlotte (AHL)

C/LW – Alexandre Picard-Hooper – AHL Contract
5`10 171lbs Age: 20 Montreal, Quebec, CAN
Drafted: 6th round 81st overall in 2004 QMJHL Draft by Baie-Comeau
Drafted: 6th round 190th overall in 2007 NHL Draft by Buffalo Sabres
2006-2007 Season: 60gp 19g 37a 56pts -13 48 PIM 134 SOG 14.2 Sh % 6.25 AvR – Baie-Comeau (QMJHL)

C – Mike Swift – AHL Contract
5`9 176lbs Age: 20 Peterborough, Ontario, CAN
Drafted: 10th round 205th overall in 2003 OHL Draft by Niagara
2006-2007 Season: 67gp 26g 31a 57pts +8 30 PIM 166 SOG 15.7 Sh % 6.79 AvR – Niagara (OHL)

C – Julian Talbot – AHL Contract
6`0 174lbs Age: 22 London, Ontario, CAN
Drafted: 8th round 144th overall in 2001 OHL Draft by Ottawa
2006-2007 Season: 75gp 12g 20a 32pts -15 56 PIM 84 SOG 14.3 Sh % 6.31 AvR – Alaska (ECHL)

October 7th

We open the 2007-2008 Regular season at home against Syracuse Crunch. Kyle Gajewski will get the start in goal

Manitoba Moose (0-0-0) @ Hamilton Bulldogs (0-0-0)

Maxwell (1) (Talbot, Manson) 17:35 1-2
Picard-Hooper (1) (Holden) 24:01 2-3
Holden (1) (Lee) 39:26 3-4
Swift (1) (Starling) 33:25 4-4

Final: 7-4 L

Gajewski 8 of 12 saves; Modig 10 of 11 saves

Quebec has reassigned Greg Williams

October 12th

Quebec reassigns Cory Morgan and Ty Hennes to Hamilton

Utica Comets are in town as they take on the Hamilton Bulldogs. Mattias Modig will get the start in goal.

Utica Comet (1-1-0) @ Hamilton Bulldogs (0-1-0)

Maxwell (2) (Williams, Picard-Hooper)

Final: 4-1 L

Modig 20 of 23 saves

1st Star: J. Schultz (Manitoba) 1g 2a
2nd Star: N. Smith (Manitoba) 1g
3rd Star: MacIntyre (Manitoba) 22 of 23 saves

Stats:
Shots: UTI 24 – HAM 23
Shots Blocked: UTI 15 – HAM 12
PP: UTI 0 for 2 – HAM 0 for 3
PIM: UTI 8 – HAM 14
Hits: UTI 19 – HAM 20
FO Won: UTI 53.8 % - HAM 46.2 %

October 14th

Hamilton Bulldogs head on the road in San Jose. Kyle Gajewski will get the start in goal.

Hamilton Bulldogs (0-2-0) @ San Jose Barracuda (1-2-0)

Maxwell (3) (Hennes, Picard-Hooper) 19:29 1-0
Hennes (1) (Morgan, Swift) 31:16 2-2

Final: 4-2 L

Gajewski 27 of 30 saves

1st Star: Stevenson (San Jose) 1g 2a
2nd Star: Mink (San Jose) 1g 1a
3rd Star: T. Hennes (Hamilton) 1g 1a

Stats:
Shots: HAM 27 – SJ 31
Shots Blocked: HAM 27 – SJ 19
PP: HAM 0 for 9 – SJ 0 for 1
PIM: HAM 2 – SJ 28
Hits: HAM 22 – SJ 19
FO Won: HAM 31.4 % - SJ 68.6 %

Quebec has reassigned Joe Vandermeer and Wes Mason to Hamilton.

October 18th

Hamilton is on the road in Colorado as the Bulldogs take on the Eagles

Hamilton Bulldogs (0-3-0) @ Colorado Eagles (3-2-0)

Williams (1) (Swift, Stamler) 01:17 1-0
Hennes (2) (Lee, Vandermeer) 12:37 2-2
Morgan (1) (Swift, Maxwell) 15:05 3-2
Williams (2) (Picard-Hooper, Lee) 15:51 4-2
Morgan (2) (Maxwello, Starling) 24:13 5-3
Talbot (1) (Morgan, Swift) PP 57:08 6-6

Shootout:

Hamilton:
Morgan: Goal
Lee: Goal
Talbot: Goal

3 for 3

Colorado:

Murley: Goal
Parros: Goal
Yip: Miss

2 for 3

Final: 7-6 SOW

1st Star: Murley (Colorado) 1g 2a
2nd Star: Cumiskey (Colorado) 1g 1a
3rd Star: C. Morgan (Hamilton) 2g 1a

Stats:
Shots: HAM 36 – COL 37
Shots Blocked: HAM 11 – COL 14
PP: HAM 1 for 5 – COL 1 for 3
PIM: HAM 6 – COL 10
Hits: HAM 24 – COL 34
FO Won: HAM 62.5 % - COL 37.5 %

October 19th

Hamilton has their second game in 3 days as they are on the road against Ontario Reign. Mattias Modig will get the start in goal

Hamilton Bulldogs (1-3-0) @ Ontario Reign (6-0-0)

Picard-Hooper (2) (Hennes, Starling) 13:32 1-1
Swift (2) (Morgan, Holden) PP 18:23 2-2
Swift (3) (Hennes, Manson) 37:37 3-3
Morgan (3) (Vandermeer, Picard-Hooper) 42:09 4-3

Shootout:

Hamilton:
Talbot: Miss
Morgan: Miss
Lee: Miss
Vandermeer: Goal
Hennes: Miss
Starling: Goal

2 for 6

Ontario:
Kanko: Miss
Murray: Miss
Gauthier: Miss
Parse: Goal
Clarke: Miss
Hogeboom: Miss

1 for 6

Final: 5-4 SOW

Modig: 36 of 40 saves

1st Star: Lewis (Ontario) 1g 1a
2nd Star: Lukacevic (Ontario) 2g
3rd Star: Picard-Hooper (Hamilton) 1g 1a

Stats:
Shots: HAM 39 – ONT 41
Shots Blocked: HAM 9 – ONT 18
PP: HAM 1 for 9 – ONT 1 for 2
PIM: HAM 19 – ONT 23
Hits: HAM 18 – ONT 28
FO Won: HAM 41.5 % - ONT 58.5 %

October 20th

Hamilton Bulldogs are in their 3rd game in 3 days with a road game against Iowa Wild. Wes Mason has cleared waivers. Kyle Gajewski will get the start in goal

Hamilton Bulldogs (2-2-0) @ Iowa Wild (1-7-0)

Julian Talbot (2) (Wes Mason, Cory Morgan) PP 38:45 1-1

Final: 2-1 OTL

Gajewski 21 of 23 saves

1st Star: Morten Madsen (Iowa) 2a
2nd Star: Josh Harding (Iowa) 35 saves
3rd Star: Wes Mason (Hamilton) 1a

Stats:
Shots: HAM 36 – IOWA 23
Shots Blocked: HAM 8 – IOWA 14
PP: HAM 1 for 7 – IOWA 0 for 0
PIM: HAM 0 – IOWA 14
Hits: HAM 15 – IOWA 21
FO Won: HAM 75.0 % - IOWA 25.0 %

October 22nd

Tucson’s Patrick Fischer’s the AHL player of the Week. He had 6g 4a for 10pts in 3 games

Hamilton Bulldogs are at home against Rockford IceHogs

Rockford IceHogs (7-1-2) @ Hamilton Bulldogs (2-3-1)

Cory Morgan (4) (Talbot, Mason) 1-7
Ty Hennes (3) (Lee) 42:15 2-7
Mark Lee (1) (Stamler, Starling) PP 8-3

Final: 12-3 L

Gajewski 14 of 19 saves; Modig 26 of 33 saves

1st Star: Salmelainen (Rockford) 2g 3a
2nd Star: Blunden (Rockford) 3g
3rd Star: St. Pierre (Rockford 1g 3a

Stats:
Shots: RFD 52 – HAM 20
Shots Blocked: RFD 13 – HAM 13
PP: RFD 2 for 2 – HAM 1 for 5
PIM: RFD 25 – HAM 9
Hits: RFD 25 – HAM 15
FO Won: RFD 63.2 % - HAM 36.8 %

October 24th

Quebec has called up Joe Vandermeer and Cory Morgan

Hamilton Bulldogs are at home to take on Stockton Heat. Mattias Modig will get the start in goal

Stockton Heat (5-4-0) @ Hamilton Bulldogs (2-4-1)

Julian Talbot (3) (Maxwell, Hennes) 06:24 1-0
Brett Maxwell (4) (Williams, Stamler) 12:12 2-0
Alexandre Picard-Hooper (3) (Williams, Stamler) PP 14:32 3-0
Brett Maxwell (5) (Williams, Bennes) 22:45 4-1
Brett Maxwell (6) (Picard-Hooper, Manson) 29:21 5-1

Final: 5-2 W

Modig 24 of 26 saves

1st Star: Brett Maxwell (Hamilton) 3g 1a
2nd Star: Greg Williams (Hamilton) 3a
3rd Star: Alexandre Picard-Hooper (Hamilton) 1g 1a

Stats:
Shots: STK 26 – HAM 27
Shots Blocked: STK 20 – HAM 9
PP: STK 0 for 1 – HAM 1 for 7
PIM: STK 24 – HAM 12
Hits: STK 27 – HAM 13
FO Won: STK 58.1 % - HAM 41.9 %

October 27th

Hamilton Bulldogs are on the road in Manitoba to face the Moose. Mattias Modig will get the start in goal

Hamilton Bulldogs (3-4-1) @ Manitoba Moose (2-6-0)

Chad Starling (1) (Picard-Hooper) PP 1-3 18:25
Mark Lee (2) (Williams, Picard-Hooper) PP 2-3 20:27
Brett Maxwell (7) (Williams, Starling) 3-4 34:59
Mark Lee (3) (Picard-Hooper) PP

Final: 5-4 OTL

Modig 8 of 12 saves; Gajewski 11 of 12 saves

1st Star: R. Russell (Manitoba) 1g 2a
2nd Star: L. Pettersen (Manitoba) 1g 1a
3rd star: Alexandre Picard-Hooper (Hamilton) 3a

Stats:
Shots: HAM 37 – MAN 24
Shots Blocked: HAM 14 – MAN 13
PP: HAM 3 for 8 – MAN 2 for 2
PIM: HAM 6 – MAN 16
Hits: HAM 26 – MAN 35
FO Won: HAM 50.0 % - MAN 50.0 %

October 29th

Hamilton Bulldogs are at home against our QEW Arch Rivals Toronto Marlies. Kyle Gajewski will get the start in goal.

Toronto Marlies (5-4-1) @ Hamilton Bulldogs (3-4-2)

Greg Williams (3) (Holden, Stamler) 02:31
Julian Talbot (4) (Maxwell, Holden) 2-2 28:48
Greg Williams (4) (Mason, Picard-Hooper) 3-3 54:00

Gajewski 24 of 28 saves

After the game Quebec has reassigned us Joe Vandermeer back. As well They have recently signed Louis D’Avino who is a 21 yr old 6`3 229lb defenseman. The 21 yr old spent last season with Markham in the OPJHL league where he had 9g 10a 19pts +7 66 PIM 91 SOG 9.9 Sh % 6.82 AvR.

October 30th

Hamilton Bulldogs finish the month of October off with a road game against Belleville Senators

Hamilton Bulldogs (3-5-2) @ Belleville Senators (5-5-0)

Alexandre Picard-Hooper (4) (Maxwell, Holden) 1-0 05:59
Mike Swift (4) (Lee, Starling) 2-1 12:50
Alexandre Picard-Hooper (5) (Mason, Stamler) 3-1 16:46
Mark Lee (4) (Hennes, Williams) 4-1 26:08
Bretton Stamler (1) (Talbot) 5-1 34:10

Gajewski 28 of 29 saves; Modsig 1 of 1 saves

Brett Maxwell left the game with a fractured arm and will be out of action for 3 weeks. He was played on the 7 day IR

October 31st

October Month in Review

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American Hockey League - Wednesday October 31st 2007
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2007-08 Tables
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Standings

Pos Team GP W L L O-SL Pct GF GA Pts
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1st Hartford 12 9 3 3 3 0.750 48 35 18
2nd Utica 9 6 2 2 2 0.722 30 23 13
3rd Springfield 12 8 3 3 3 0.708 47 39 17
4th Bridgeport 13 8 5 5 5 0.615 47 40 16
5th Providence 12 7 4 4 4 0.625 46 40 15
6th Toronto 11 6 4 4 4 0.591 34 34 13
7th Hershey 9 5 2 2 2 0.667 28 27 12
8th Laval 12 5 5 5 5 0.500 30 28 12
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9th Charlotte 11 5 5 5 5 0.500 41 34 11
10th Belleville 11 5 6 6 6 0.455 31 28 10
11th Hamilton 11 4 5 5 5 0.455 40 51 10
12th Lehigh 13 4 7 7 7 0.385 36 45 10
13th Rochester 13 4 8 8 8 0.346 34 48 9
14th Binghamton 9 1 4 4 4 0.333 25 39 6
15th Wilkes-Barre-Scranton 12 3 9 9 9 0.250 26 48 6
16th Syracuse 12 1 11 11 11 0.083 24 56 2


Standings

Pos Team GP W L L O-SL Pct GF GA Pts
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1st Cleveland 12 11 1 1 1 0.917 45 29 22
2nd Tucson 13 10 3 3 3 0.769 51 39 20
3rd Rockford 14 10 2 2 2 0.786 67 33 22
4th San Diego 13 9 2 2 2 0.769 54 32 20
5th Ontario 11 9 1 1 1 0.864 50 35 19
6th Grand Rapids 12 8 3 3 3 0.708 51 44 17
7th Milwaukee 11 7 4 4 4 0.636 42 33 14
8th Texas 12 6 4 4 4 0.583 44 37 14
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9th San Antonio 12 6 5 5 5 0.542 41 36 13
10th Stockton 13 6 7 7 7 0.462 36 43 12
11th Chicago 10 5 4 4 4 0.550 30 33 11
12th Colorado 13 5 7 7 7 0.423 43 50 11
13th San Jose 11 4 5 5 5 0.455 29 32 10
14th Bakersfield 10 3 4 4 4 0.450 27 35 9
15th Manitoba 11 4 7 7 7 0.364 33 57 8
16th Iowa 14 3 11 11 11 0.214 25 52 6



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2007-08 Goals
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Pos Player Team GP G
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1st Martin St. Pierre Rockford 14 11
2nd Tony Salmelainen Rockford 14 10
3rd Kenndal McArdle Springfield 12 10
4th Martins Karsums Providence 12 10
5th Patrick Fischer Tucson 13 9
6th Alexandre Picard Cleveland 12 9
7th Gabe Gauthier Ontario 11 9
8th Janis Sprukts Springfield 12 8
9th Hugh Jessiman Hartford 12 8
10th George Parros Colorado 9 8
11th Mark Mancari Rochester 13 8
12th Matt Murley Colorado 13 7
13th Ryan O'Marra Bridgeport 13 7
14th Brandon Yip Colorado 13 7
15th Jesse Schultz Utica 9 7
16th Carl Soderberg San Antonio 12 7
17th Curtis Glencross San Diego 13 7
18th Michal Birner San Antonio 12 7
19th Peter Regin Belleville 11 7
20th Nick Oslund Grand Rapids 12 7
21st Jakub Petruzalek Hartford 12 7
22nd Jeff Hoggan Providence 12 7
23rd Brett Maxwell Hamilton 11 7
24th Michael Holmqvist Rockford 14 7
25th Stephen Werner Hershey 9 7
26th Nick Foligno Belleville 11 7
27th Roman Wick Belleville 11 7
28th Ryan Oulahen Grand Rapids 12 6
29th Lauri Tukonen Ontario 11 6
30th David Bolland Rockford 14 6



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2007-08 Assists
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Pos Player Team GP A
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1st Matt Murley Colorado 13 14
2nd Bryce Lampman Hartford 12 13
3rd Brett Skinner San Diego 13 13
4th Stefan Meyer Springfield 12 12
5th Yanick Lehoux Tucson 13 12
6th Filip Novak Cleveland 12 12
7th Martin St. Pierre Rockford 14 11
8th Ryan O'Marra Bridgeport 13 10
9th Jeremy Colliton Bridgeport 13 10
10th Rob Globke Springfield 12 10
11th Grant Stevenson San Jose 11 10
12th Peter Harrold Ontario 11 10
13th Jeremy Swanson Springfield 12 10
14th Jaroslav Mrazek Bridgeport 13 10
15th Matt Jones Tucson 13 10
16th Marty Sertich Texas 12 10
17th Marc Methot Cleveland 12 10
18th Nathan Paetsch Rochester 13 10
19th Tony Salmelainen Rockford 14 9
20th Brandon Yip Colorado 13 9
21st Ryan Oulahen Grand Rapids 12 9
22nd Eric Himelfarb Grand Rapids 12 9
23rd Alexandre Picard-Hooper Hamilton 11 9
24th Tyler Redenbach Providence 12 9
25th Pascal Pelletier Providence 12 9
26th Doug Lynch San Antonio 12 9
27th Richard Petiot Ontario 11 9
28th Dustin Kohn Bridgeport 13 9
29th Jakub Sindel Rockford 9 9
30th Tim Ramholt Stockton 13 9



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2007-08 Points
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Pos Player Team GP P
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1st Martin St. Pierre Rockford 14 22
2nd Matt Murley Colorado 13 21
3rd Tony Salmelainen Rockford 14 19
4th Kenndal McArdle Springfield 12 17
5th Patrick Fischer Tucson 13 17
6th Ryan O'Marra Bridgeport 13 17
7th Alexandre Picard Cleveland 12 16
8th Gabe Gauthier Ontario 11 16
9th Brandon Yip Colorado 13 16
10th Stefan Meyer Springfield 12 16
11th Bryce Lampman Hartford 12 16
12th Janis Sprukts Springfield 12 15
13th Carl Soderberg San Antonio 12 15
14th Jesse Schultz Utica 9 15
15th Ryan Oulahen Grand Rapids 12 15
16th Yanick Lehoux Tucson 13 15
17th Martins Karsums Providence 12 14
18th Peter Regin Belleville 11 14
19th Curtis Glencross San Diego 13 14
20th Nick Oslund Grand Rapids 12 14
21st Michal Birner San Antonio 12 14
22nd Lauri Tukonen Ontario 11 14
23rd Eric Himelfarb Grand Rapids 12 14
24th Alexandre Picard-Hooper Hamilton 11 14
25th Tyler Redenbach Providence 12 14
26th Rob Globke Springfield 12 14
27th Jeremy Colliton Bridgeport 13 14
28th George Parros Colorado 9 13
29th Hugh Jessiman Hartford 12 13
30th Jakub Petruzalek Hartford 12 13



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2007-08 Average Rating
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Pos Player Team GP Av R
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1st Greg Moore Hartford 4 9.00
2nd Junior Lessard Jets 3 8.67
3rd Jesse Schultz Utica 9 8.56
4th Daniel Widing Milwaukee 6 8.50
5th Tony Salmelainen Rockford 14 8.36
6th Tomas Kopecky Grand Rapids 6 8.33
7th Peter Sejna Nordiques 3 8.33
8th Pat Leahy Milwaukee 5 8.20
9th Bryce Lampman Hartford 12 8.17
10th Ryan Shannon Ducks 7 8.14
11th Curtis Glencross San Diego 13 8.00
12th Stefan Meyer Springfield 12 8.00
13th Lauri Tukonen Ontario 11 8.00
14th Martins Karsums Providence 12 8.00
15th Enver Lisin Coyotes 8 8.00
16th Bjorn Melin San Diego 13 8.00
17th George Parros Colorado 9 8.00
18th Matt Murley Colorado 13 7.92
19th Kenndal McArdle Springfield 12 7.92
20th Filip Novak Cleveland 12 7.92
21st Troy Bodie Bakersfield 10 7.90
22nd Jaroslav Halak Canadiens 10 7.90
23rd Alexandre Picard Cleveland 12 7.83
24th Bryan Bickell Rockford 11 7.82
25th Craig Weller Hartford 11 7.82
26th Trent Whitfield San Antonio 10 7.80
27th Martin St. Pierre Rockford 14 7.79
28th Jakub Sindel Rockford 9 7.78
29th Moises Gutierrez Lehigh 13 7.77
30th Luke Fritshaw Rockford 4 7.75



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2007-08 First Star
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Pos Player Team GP FS
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1st Tony Salmelainen Rockford 14 4
2nd Kenndal McArdle Springfield 12 3
3rd Alexandre Picard Cleveland 12 3
4th Jesse Schultz Utica 9 3
5th Shawn Thornton San Diego 13 3
6th Jeremy Colliton Bridgeport 13 2
7th Stephen Dixon Wilkes-Barre-Scranton 12 2
8th Brian Elliott Belleville 11 2
9th Nick Foligno Belleville 11 2
10th Kris Hogg Charlotte 11 2
11th Jeff Hoggan Providence 12 2
12th Michael Lambert Laval 12 2
13th Martin St. Pierre Rockford 14 2
14th Grant Stevenson San Jose 11 2
15th Stephen Valiquette Hartford 10 2
16th Craig Weller Hartford 11 2
17th Brandon Yip Colorado 13 2
18th Michal Birner San Antonio 12 2
19th Lars Eller Texas 12 2
20th Jesse Joensuu Bridgeport 13 2
21st Jaroslav Halak Canadiens 10 2
22nd Bjorn Melin San Diego 13 2
23rd Carl Soderberg San Antonio 12 2
24th Patrick Fischer Tucson 13 2
25th Noah Clarke Ontario 11 2
26th Gabe Gauthier Ontario 11 2
27th Rob Globke Springfield 12 2
28th Matt Murley Colorado 13 2
29th Nick Oslund Grand Rapids 12 2
30th George Parros Colorado 9 2

AHL Player of the Month: Hartford’s Greg Moore 4gp 4g 3a 7pts
AHL Rookie of the Month: Rockford’s Jakub Sindel 9gp 9a 9pts

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November 1st

The Hamilton Bulldogs open up the month of November with a road game against Laval Rocket. The battle of the Quebec parent clubs. Kyle Gajewski will get the start in goal

Hamilton Bulldogs (4-5-2) @ Laval Rocket (5-5-2)

Julian Talbot (5) (Swift, Holden) PP 1-0 03:03
Alexandre Picard-Hooper (6) (Williams) PP 2-0 18:19
Julian Talbot (6) (Vandermeer, Holden) PP 3-0 24:38
Gary Williams (5) (Hennes, Stamler) 4-3 55:17

5-4 OTL

Gajewski 23 of 28 saves; Modig 2 of 2 saves

November 2nd

Cory Morgan was reassigned back to Hamilton

November 4th

Hamilton Bulldogs (4-5-3) @ Utica Comets (7-2-1)

Wes Mason (1) (Morgan, Talbot) PP 1-0 02:56
Bretton Stamler (2) (Swift) PP 2-2 20:41
Alexandre Picard-Hooper (7) (Manson, Mason) 3-4 57:49

Final: 4-3 L

Wes Mason 1st star 1g 1a; Mattias Modig 43 of 47 saves

November 5th

Hamilton Bulldogs return home to take on the Lehigh Valley Phantoms

Lehigh Valley Phantoms (4-8-2) @ (4-6-3)

Julian Talbot (7) (Morgan, Holden) PP 1-0 08:15
Alexandre Picard-Hooper (8) (Starling, Stamler) PP 2-0 18:41
Mark Lee (5) (Hennes) 3-0 21:08
Bretton Stamler (3) (Lee, Swift) PP 4-0 32:41
Wes Mason (2) (Talbot, Morgan) EN 5-3

Final: 5-3 W

Gajewski 26 of 29 saves; Modig 1 of 1 saves

November 6th

Quebec has reassigned Cory Murphy to the Hamilton Bulldogs. The 31 yr old defenseman had 1g 2a 3pts -2 9 PIM 15 SOG 6.7 Sh % and 6.71 AvR in 14 games. Finally got my cannon on the PP

The Quebec NHL squad also reassigned Brandan Buckley. In 11 games with Quebec he had 0g 1a 1pt -5 16 PIM 1 SOG 0.00 Sh % for a 6.18 AvR.

With 2 Vet dman sent down Hamilton has reassigned Chad Starling to Cincinnati. In 14gp he 1g 7a 8pts -13 16 PIM 7 SOG 14.3 Sh % 6.14 AVR

November 8th

Cory Murphy has cleared waivers and will be making his debut today for the Bulldogs against the Syracuse Crunch

Syracuse Crunch (2-13-0) @ Hamilton Bulldogs (5-6-3)

Wes Mason (3) (Morgan, Lee) 1-0 07:17
Wes Mason (4) (Vandermeer, Murphy) PP 2-0 18:17

Final: 2-1 W

Gajewski 22 of 23 saves

1st Star: Wes Mason (Hamilton) 2g
2nd Star: N. Milley (Syracuse) 1a
3rd star: Adam Henrich (Syracuse) 1g

Stats:
Shots: SYR 23 – HAM 28
Shots Blocked: SYR 21 – HAM 12
PP: SYR 0 for 1 – HAM 1 for 6
PIM: SYR 27 – HAM 7
Hits: SYR 44 – HAM 12
FO Won: SYR 44.4 % - HAM 55.6 %

After the game Brendan Buckley has cleared waivers

November 12th

Quebec has placed on Waivers Steve Gainey in the intentions of reassigning him to

We are back in Lehigh Valley to take on the Phantoms

Hamilton Bulldogs (6-6-3) @ Lehigh Valley Phantoms

Talbot (8) (Swift, Stamler) 1-0 03:52
Lee (6) (Holden, Bickley) PP 2-0 19:41
Talbot (9) (Vandermeer, Mason) PP 3-3 39:47
Hennes (4) (Williams, Murphy) 4-3

Final: 7-4 L

Gajewski 22 of 28 saves

November 13th

We continue our road trip as we take on the Bruins in Providence. Mattias Modig will get the start in goal.

Hamilton Bulldogs (6-7-3) @ Providence Bruins (12-5-1)

Mason (5) (Talbot, Morgan) PP 1-0 27:33
Williams (6) (Picard-Hooper, Manson) 2-4 52:26

Final: 5-2 L

Due to 5 Pro limit we have reassigned Joe Vandermeer to Cincinnati. In 11 games with the Bulldogs he has 0g 5a 5pts -20 0 PIM 14 SOG 5.91 AvR

November 14th

Steve Gainey has cleared waivers and will appear in our next game

November 16th

We have returned home to play our long time arch rivals of the AHL Rochester Americans (Buffalo AHL). Steve Gainey will be making his Bulldogs debut and Kyle Gajewski will be making his return in goal.

Rochester Americans (7-11-1) @ Hamilton Bulldogs (6-8-3)

Talbot (10) (Mason) 1-0 04:06
Morgan (5) (Mason, Murphy) PP 2-1 11:00
Swift (5) (Williams) 3-2 13:10
Picard-Hooper (9) (Hennes, Swift) 4-3 37:05
Lee (7) (Hennes, Manson) 5-3 44:07

Final: 5-3 W
Gajewski 20 of 23 saves

November 18th

Brett Maxwell is going to be returning next week on the 25th of November and will miss the next 4 games

Today the Hamilton Bulldogs are on the road against Hartford Wolf Pack. Kyle Gawejski will get the start in goal.

Hamilton Bulldogs (7-8-3) @ Hartford Wolf Pack (15-4-0)

Murphy (1) (Talbot, Mason) PP 1-1 21:44
Holden (2) (Picard-Hooper) PP 2-1 23:32
Picard-Hooper (10) (Lee) 3-2 36:07
Lee (8) (Buckley) 4-4 44:52

Hamilton:
Murphy: Miss
Talbot: Miss
Morgan: Miss

0 for 3

Hartford:
Pikkarainen: Goal
Lampman: Miss

Final: 5-4 SOL

Gawejski 41 of 45 saves

November 19th

We head home to take on the Ottawa Senators AHL team the Belleville Senators

Belleville Senators (7-9-1)) @ Hamilton Bulldogs (7-8-4)

Swift (6) (Holden, Lee) 1-0 09:48
Williams (7) (Gainey, Stamler) 2-0 15:14
Morgan (6) (Holden, Hennes) 3-0 15:46
Williams (8) (Swift, Gainey) 4-1 41:10

Final: 4-3 W

Gajewski 23 of 26 saves

Syracuse Crunch has fired former Hamilton Bulldogs scout Steve Konowalchuk as HC. As HC of the Crunch Konowalchuk had a record of 2-17-1

Hamilton Bulldogs have released Chad Starling from Contract

November 22nd

Hamilton is on the road in Bridgeport to take on the Sound Tigers

Hamilton Bulldogs @ Bridgeport Sound Tigers

Williams (9) (Gainey, Buckley) 1-2 32:30
Lee (9) (Muephy, Maxwell) 2-2 34:56
Swift (7) (unassisted) 3-2 37:19

Final: 5-3 L

Gajewski 29 of 33 saves

Wilkes-Barre/Scranton have fired their HC Hunter Boehm. During the tenure he had a record of 41-51-3

Ty Hennes suffered a twisted knee and will be out of action for 2 weeks

November 24th

The Hamilton Bulldogs finish out their road trip with a road game in Syracuse against the Crunch

Hamilton Bulldogs @ Syracuse Crunch

Williams (10) (Gainey, Swift) 1-2 18:18
Maxwell (8) (Picard-Hooper, D'Avino 2-2 28:41
Talbot (11) (Morgan, Lee) 3-3 42:58

Shootout:

Hamilton:
Murphy: Miss
Talbot: Goal
Morgan: Goal

2 for 3

Syracure:
Hrdel: Goal
Kvapil: Miss
Tarnasky: Miss

1 for 3

Final: 4-3 SOW

Mattias Modig 21 of 24 saves

Brendan Buckley will be out of action for 3 months after suffering a torn ACL

November 26th

AHL Player of the Week: Texas's BJ Crombeen 2gp 1g 5a 6pts

Hamilton Bulldogs are at home to take on the Colorado Eagles. Kyle Gajewski makes his return in goal and Ray Schultz makes his deubt

Colorado Eagles (11-12-2) @ Hamilton Bulldogs (9-9-4)

Morgan (7) (Murphy, Talbot) 1-0 06:25
Picard-Hooper (11) (Lee, Murphy) PP 2-1 10:12

Final: 4-2 L

Gajewski 29 of 33 saves

Quebec has reassigned Mathieu Biron another Vet down to our club after the game. It's 48 hour wait before he can dress for us

November 28th

The Hamilton Bulldogs plays baby Sharks as San Jose Barracuda

San Jose Barracuda (10-9-5) @ Hamilton Bulldogs (9-10-4)

Gainey (1) (Morgan, Mason) 1-0 02:46
Holden (3) (Swift, Lee) PP 2-0 16:21
Lee (10) (D'Avino) 3-1 31:39
Swift (8) (Gainey, Manson) EN 4-1 58:52

Final: 4-1 W

Gajewski made 22 of 23 saves

November 30th

We finish the month of November off with a road game against our QEW Archi Rivals Toronto Marlies.

Ray Schultz will be a healthy scratch as Mahtieu Biron makes his Bulldogs debut

Hamilton Bulldogs (10-10-4) @ Toronto Marlies (12-7-3)

Talbot (11) (Morgan, Mason) 1-0 2:18
Morgan (8) (C. Murphy, Talbot) 2-0 08:29
Picard-Hooper (12) (Holden, Swift) 3-0 14:30
Gainey (2) (Williams, Murphy) 4-0 20:47
Biron (1) (Morgan, Talbot) PP 5-0 30:57
Gainey (3) (Williams, Murphy) 6-0 32:50
Lee (11) (Picard-Hooper) PP 7-1 59:12

Final: 7-1 W

Gajewski 20 of 21 saves

Month of November in Review

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American Hockey League - Friday November 30th 2007
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2007-08 Tables
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Standings

Pos Team GP W L L O-SL Pct GF GA Pts
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1st Providence 27 20 5 5 5 0.778 115 76 42
2nd Utica 23 15 7 7 7 0.674 67 61 31
3rd Hartford 26 19 7 7 7 0.731 103 76 38
4th Bridgeport 26 17 7 7 7 0.692 105 76 36
5th Springfield 24 13 8 8 8 0.604 78 77 29
6th Laval 25 13 9 9 9 0.580 73 64 29
7th Hershey 22 12 6 6 6 0.636 72 69 28
8th Toronto 23 12 8 8 8 0.587 72 73 27
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9th Charlotte 23 12 9 9 9 0.565 80 69 26
10th Hamilton 25 11 10 10 10 0.520 93 101 26
11th Lehigh 27 11 13 13 13 0.463 78 86 25
12th Belleville 23 10 12 12 12 0.457 66 61 21
13th Rochester 25 9 14 14 14 0.400 63 84 20
14th Binghamton 24 7 12 12 12 0.396 68 93 19
15th Syracuse 25 5 19 19 19 0.220 60 104 11
16th Wilkes-Barre-Scranton 27 4 21 21 21 0.185 54 121 10


Standings

Pos Team GP W L L O-SL Pct GF GA Pts
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1st Cleveland 26 21 4 4 4 0.827 95 62 43
2nd San Diego 27 19 5 5 5 0.759 105 63 41
3rd Rockford 26 18 4 4 4 0.769 124 76 40
4th Ontario 26 16 8 8 8 0.654 101 85 34
5th Tucson 26 16 8 8 8 0.654 94 78 34
6th Grand Rapids 26 15 8 8 8 0.635 102 99 33
7th San Antonio 28 14 11 11 11 0.554 94 88 31
8th Texas 25 14 9 9 9 0.600 83 80 30
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9th Milwaukee 24 13 10 10 10 0.563 88 75 27
10th San Jose 26 11 10 10 10 0.519 78 84 27
11th Stockton 27 13 14 14 14 0.481 72 83 26
12th Colorado 28 12 14 14 14 0.464 88 100 26
13th Bakersfield 27 10 12 12 12 0.463 79 94 25
14th Chicago 22 10 10 10 10 0.500 65 71 22
15th Manitoba 25 7 16 16 16 0.320 64 111 16
16th Iowa 26 6 19 19 19 0.250 58 97 13



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2007-08 Goals
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Pos Player Team GP G
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1st Gabe Gauthier Ontario 26 19
2nd Jeff Hoggan Providence 27 19
3rd Tony Salmelainen Rockford 25 17
4th Carl Soderberg San Antonio 28 17
5th Martins Karsums Providence 24 17
6th Luciano Aquino Bridgeport 26 16
7th Matt Murley Colorado 28 15
8th Brandon Yip Colorado 28 15
9th Mark Hartigan Cleveland 19 15
10th Viktor Aleksandrov San Antonio 28 15
11th Kenndal McArdle Springfield 24 15
12th Martin St. Pierre Rockford 24 14
13th Stephen Werner Hershey 22 14
14th Troy Bodie Bakersfield 27 14
15th Bjorn Melin San Diego 27 14
16th Curtis Glencross San Diego 27 14
17th John Lammers Texas 25 14
18th Peter Regin Belleville 23 14
19th Hugh Jessiman Hartford 25 14
20th Mark Mancari Rochester 22 14
21st Paul Brown Milwaukee 19 14
22nd Petr Kalus Providence 24 13
23rd Patrick Fischer Tucson 26 13
24th Petr Vrana Binghamton 24 13
25th David Van Der Gulik Stockton 27 13
26th Patrick Dwyer Charlotte 23 13
27th Michael Blunden Rockford 26 13
28th Steve Downie Lehigh 27 13
29th Ryan O'Marra Bridgeport 26 12
30th Martin Kariya Rockford 26 12



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2007-08 Assists
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Pos Player Team GP A
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1st Yanick Lehoux Tucson 26 23
2nd John Vigilante Milwaukee 24 22
3rd Bryce Lampman Hartford 26 22
4th Jeremy Colliton Bridgeport 26 21
5th Jesse Joensuu Bridgeport 26 21
6th Ryan O'Marra Bridgeport 26 20
7th Tyler Redenbach Providence 27 20
8th Doug Lynch San Antonio 27 20
9th Peter Harrold Ontario 26 20
10th Matt Murley Colorado 28 19
11th Ryan Oulahen Grand Rapids 26 19
12th Chris Collins Providence 27 19
13th David Desharnais Milwaukee 24 19
14th Martin St. Pierre Rockford 24 18
15th Derick Brassard Cleveland 25 18
16th Jaroslav Mrazek Bridgeport 26 18
17th Dustin Kohn Bridgeport 26 18
18th Brett Skinner San Diego 27 18
19th Janis Sprukts Springfield 24 17
20th Pascal Pelletier Providence 27 17
21st Trevor Lewis Ontario 26 17
22nd James Van Riemsdyk Lehigh 26 17
23rd James Wisniewski Rockford 26 17
24th Ryan Potulny Lehigh 27 17
25th Jeremy Swanson Springfield 24 17
26th Filip Novak Cleveland 26 17
27th Brian Salcido San Diego 27 17
28th Tony Salmelainen Rockford 25 16
29th Brandon Yip Colorado 28 16
30th Martin Kariya Rockford 26 16



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2007-08 Points
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Pos Player Team GP P
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1st Gabe Gauthier Ontario 26 34
2nd Matt Murley Colorado 28 34
3rd Tony Salmelainen Rockford 25 33
4th Martin St. Pierre Rockford 24 32
5th Ryan O'Marra Bridgeport 26 32
6th Carl Soderberg San Antonio 28 31
7th Brandon Yip Colorado 28 31
8th Jeremy Colliton Bridgeport 26 30
9th John Vigilante Milwaukee 24 30
10th Luciano Aquino Bridgeport 26 29
11th Stephen Werner Hershey 22 29
12th Jesse Joensuu Bridgeport 26 29
13th Bjorn Melin San Diego 27 28
14th Troy Bodie Bakersfield 27 28
15th Martin Kariya Rockford 26 28
16th Alexandre Picard Blue Jackets 25 28
17th Janis Sprukts Springfield 24 28
18th Tyler Redenbach Providence 27 28
19th Jeff Hoggan Providence 27 27
20th Martins Karsums Providence 24 27
21st Mark Hartigan Cleveland 19 27
22nd Viktor Aleksandrov San Antonio 28 27
23rd John Lammers Texas 25 27
24th Peter Regin Belleville 23 27
25th Curtis Glencross San Diego 27 27
26th Petr Kalus Providence 24 27
27th Patrick Fischer Tucson 26 27
28th Michal Birner San Antonio 28 27
29th Derick Brassard Cleveland 25 27
30th Chris Collins Providence 27 27



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2007-08 Average Rating
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Pos Player Team GP Av R
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1st Greg Moore Hartford 6 8.33
2nd Tony Salmelainen Rockford 25 8.24
3rd Ryan Shannon Ducks 7 8.14
4th Daniel Widing Milwaukee 15 8.07
5th Bryan Bickell Rockford 23 8.04
6th Lauri Tukonen Kings 13 8.00
7th Enver Lisin Coyotes 8 8.00
8th Mike Brown Utica 12 7.92
9th John Vigilante Milwaukee 24 7.92
10th Jaroslav Halak Canadiens 10 7.90
11th Curtis Glencross San Diego 27 7.85
12th Nick Tarnasky Syracuse 6 7.83
13th Bjorn Melin San Diego 27 7.81
14th Martin Kariya Rockford 26 7.81
15th Bryce Lampman Hartford 26 7.81
16th Luke Fritshaw Rockford 5 7.80
17th Michael Leighton San Diego 19 7.79
18th Troy Bodie Bakersfield 27 7.78
19th Luciano Aquino Bridgeport 26 7.77
20th Don MacLean Coyotes 8 7.75
21st Mark Hartigan Cleveland 19 7.74
22nd Martins Karsums Providence 24 7.71
23rd Noah Clarke Ontario 26 7.69
24th Justin Keller Syracuse 12 7.67
25th Derrick Walser Hurricanes 9 7.67
26th Petr Kalus Providence 24 7.67
27th Jarkko Immonen Hartford 15 7.67
28th Rob Globke Springfield 24 7.67
29th Jesse Joensuu Bridgeport 26 7.65
30th Jesse Schultz Utica 23 7.65



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2007-08 First Star
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Pos Player Team GP FS
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1st Tony Salmelainen Rockford 25 6
2nd Jesse Joensuu Bridgeport 26 5
3rd Derick Brassard Cleveland 25 4
4th Jeremy Colliton Bridgeport 26 4
5th B.J. Crombeen Texas 25 4
6th Alexandre Giroux Hershey 22 4
7th Mark Hartigan Cleveland 19 4
8th Jeff Hoggan Providence 27 4
9th Michael Lambert Laval 25 4
10th Jesse Schultz Utica 23 4
11th Brandon Yip Colorado 28 4
12th Petr Kalus Providence 24 4
13th Bjorn Melin San Diego 27 4
14th Noah Clarke Ontario 26 4
15th Gabe Gauthier Ontario 26 4
16th Paul Brown Milwaukee 19 3
17th Derek Dorsett Cleveland 26 3
18th Darren Helm Grand Rapids 23 3
19th Kris Hogg Charlotte 23 3
20th Martin Houle Lehigh 20 3
21st Martin Kariya Rockford 26 3
22nd John Lammers Texas 25 3
23rd Kenndal McArdle Springfield 24 3
24th Alexandre Picard Blue Jackets 25 3
25th Grant Stevenson San Jose 26 3
26th Shawn Thornton San Diego 27 3
27th Stephen Valiquette Hartford 21 3
28th Craig Weller Hartford 24 3
29th Petteri Wirtanen San Diego 27 3
30th Andrei Taratukhin Stockton 26 3

[NCAAFBall00]

December 1st

AHL Player of the Month: Hartford's Jarkko Immonen 4gp 3g 3a 6pts
AHL Rookie of the Month: Cleveland's Derick Brassard 13gp 7g 10a 17pts

Syracuse Crunch has named Seth Appert as their new Head coach

December 2nd

Hamilton Bulldogs open up the month of December with a game against the Baby Penguins at home. Ty Hennes is making his return to the line up

Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins (4-21-2) @ Hamilton Bulldogs (11-10-4)

Talbot (13) (Williams, Holden) 1-0 04:21
Hennes (5) (Williams) 2-3 25:02
Maxwell (9) (Swift, Holden) 3-3 28:13
Williams (11) (Talbot, Manson) 4-4 39:01
Picard-Hooper (13) (Lee)

Final: 6-5 L

Gajewski 11 of 15 saves; Modig 8 of 10 saves

December 3rd

The Hamilton Bulldogs head out on the road against Charlotte Checkers. Mattias Modig will get the start in goal

Hamilton Bulldogs (11-11-4) @ Charlotte Checkers (12-9-3)

Picard-Hooper (14) (Maxwell, Lee) 1-2 10:08
Morgan (9) (Murphy, Talbot) PP 2-2 14:38
Lee (12) (Swift, Stamler) PP 3-2 20:57
Swift (9) (Stamler, Holden) PP 4-2 32:56
Morgan (10) (Talbot, Murphy) PP 5-2 33:53

Final: 5-2 W

Modig 24 of 26 saves

December 5th

Cory Murphy will be out of action for a few days after suffering a superficial laceration in practice today.

December 6th

Cory Murphy will be a scratch and Ray Schultz will be in the line up

Hamilton Bulldogs play host to Lehigh Valley Phantoms at home. Mattias Modig will get the start in goal.

Lehigh Valley Phantoms (11-15-3) @ Hamilton Bulldogs (12-11-4)

Talbot (14) (Biron, Holden) PP 1-0 09:20
Picard-Hooper (15) (Holden, Lee) 2-0 10:43
Hennes (6) (Williams, Gainey) 3-0 26:40
Picard-Hooper (16) (unassisted) 4-0 29:30
Picard-Hooper (17) (Lee, Maxwell) 5-0 30:18

Final: 5-1 W

Mattias Modig 20 of 21 saves

Mathieu Biron will be out of action for about a month with a hip flexor strain in tonights win

Lehigh Valley have fired their HC Tim Linder. Mr. Linder had a 47-49-16 record at Lehigh Valley

December 8th

Bakersfielder Conadors are in town to take on the Hamilton Bulldogs. Cory Murphy returns from injury and in back in line up with Birons injury.

12th West Bakersfield Conadors (11-14-5) @ 8th East Hamilton Bulldogs (13-11-4)

Swift (10) (Williams, Stamler) 1-2 22:14
Morgan (11) (Gainey, Talbot) 2-2 25:01
Hennes (7) (Stamler) 3-2 29:20
Lee (13) (Maxwell, Holden) 4-4 41:01

Final: 5-4 OTL

Modig 24 of 29 saves

Iowa WIld has fired their HC Rob Daum. During his season and a half he had a record of 96-104-24 as HC

December 9th

Quebec has reassigned Matt Bradley to Hamilton

December 10th

The Hamilton Bulldogs play host to the Hartford Wolfpack (Rangers AHL)

Hartford Wolfpack (21-9-0) @ Hamilton Bulldogs (13-11-5)

Final: 5-0 L

Gajewski 32 of 37 saves

December 11th

Matt Bradley has cleared waivers and will join us in our next game on the 14th against Milwaukee

December 13th

Binghamton Devils have fired their Head Coach Kurt Kleinendorst. In his tenure as HC he had a record of 55-42-15

December 14th

Matt Bradley makes his Hamilton Bulldogs debut as they are on the road against Milwaukee Admirals. Mattias Modig will get the start in goal

Hamilton Bulldogs (13-12-5) @ Milwaukee Admirals (18-10-2)

Holden (4) (Lee, Picard-Hooper) PP 1-0 14:30
Williams (12) (Hennes, Holden) 2-0 27:37
Braldey (1) (Hennes, D'Avino) 3-0 35:52

Final: 3-2 W

Modig 23 of 25 saves

Julian Talbot will be out of action for about a week after suffering thigh contusion in the game tonight

December 16th

We have been sold that Julian Talbot, Mark Lee, Bretton Stamler and Lane Manson contract expire in 6 months as we start to review who we want to resign to AHL contracts

Tucon's Lance Monych was named the AHL player of the Week. In 3 games he has 4g 3a 7 pts

Quebec has reassigned 27 yr old Eric Chouinard to us. He will go through the waivers and if he clears will be playing for us next game after he clears.

December 17th

Lehigh Valley Phantoms have hired San Antonio's assistant coach Adam Deadmarsh as their new HC

Hamilton Bulldogs head out on the road against Texas Stars

Hamilton Bulldogs (14-12-5) @ Texas Stars (17-13-2)

Picard-Hooper (18) (Lee, Bradley) PP 1-4 20:38
Bradley (2) (Hennes, Holden)

Final: 6-2 L

Modig made 14 of 19 saves; Gajewski 21 of 22 saves

December 18th

Hamilton Bulldogs continue their road trip as they take on the Griffins in Grand Rapids

Hamilton Bulldogs (14-13-5) @ Grand Rapids Griffins (17-11-4)

Morgan (12) (Gainey, Talbot) 1-2 14:23
Gainey (4) (Morgan, Hennes) 2-2 21:55
Bradley (3) (Picard-Hooper) PP 3-2 32:40
Picard-Hooper (19) (Maxwell) 4-2 35:49
Morgan (13) (Swift, Talbot) PP 5-4 48:35

Final: 6-5 OTL

Gajewski 31 of 37 saves

December 19th

Iowa Wild have named their new GM Don MacAdam who is from Dayton Dombers

Eric Chouinard has cleared waivers and will be able to play in our next game

Wes Mason has been reassigned to Cincinnati. This allows him to develop as we wait for a vet position to open up. In 25 games with the Bulldogs he has 5g 11a for 16pts -10 4 PIM 111 SOG 4.5 Sh % and 6.88 AvR.

Chicago Wolves have fired their Head Coach John Anderson

Binghamton Devils have hired Gary Harker as their new HC

December 20th

Tucson Roadrunners are in town to take on the Hamilton Bulldogs. Mattias Modig will get the start in goal and Eric Chouinard will make his Hamilton Bulldogs debut.

4th West Tucson Roadrunners (22-9-2) @ 9th East Hamilton Bulldogs (14-13-6)

Maxwell (10) (Williams, Manson) 1-0 6:12
Williams (13) (unassisted) 2-1 13:48
Lee (14) (Picard-Hooper, Murphy) 3-3 45:49
Lee (15) (Murphy, Modig) PP 4-3 51:31

Final: 4-3 W

Modig 21 of 24 saves

December 22nd

Springfield Thunderbirds are in town to take on the Hamilton Bulldogs. Mattias Modig will get the start in goal.

5th East Springfield Thunderbirds (19-12-4) @ 8th East Hamilton Bulldogs (15-13-6)

Gainey (5) (Hennes) 1-2 23:39
Morgan (14) (Gainey, Hennes) 2-2 43:58

Final: 5-2 L

Modig 27 of 31 saves

Julian Talbot suffers a lower leg contusion and will be out of action for a few days

Mark Lee has resigned with Hamilton. The contract will see him go from 16.5k to 18k on a 1 yr extension. In 35 games with the Bulldogs this season he has 15g 18a for 33pts -11 4 PIM 93 SOG 16.1 Sh % 6.69 AvR

December 23rd

Utica’s Josh Green was named the AHL Player of the Week. In 3gp he had 5g 4a 9pts

December 24th

We have 6 games over the next days

Dec 26th vs. Iowa Wild (MIN AHL)
Dec 27th @ Hartford Wolf Pack (NYR AHL)
Dec 29th vs. Binghamton Devils (NJ AHL)
Dec 31st @ San Diego Gulls (ANA AHL)

Lane Manson Signed a 1 year extension with the Hamilton Bulldogs. In 35gp he has 0g 9a 9pts -3 144 PIM 13 SOG 0.0 Sh % 6.66 AvR

Bretton Stamler signed a 1 year deal extension until June 2009. In 35 games he has 3g 14a 17pts -6 23 PIM 33 SOG 9.1 Sh % 6.54 AvR

Cory Morgan suffered a bruised ankle and will be out of action for about a week. He will miss our next two games on 26th and 27th and will allow Matt Bradley to get some games in.

December 26th

Iowa Wild is in town as they take on Hamilton Bulldogs. Matt Bradley returns to the lineup as Mattias Modig will get the start in goal

15th West Iowa Wild (11-23-2) @ 9th East Hamilton Bulldogs (15-14-6)

Bradley (4) (Williams, Schultz) 1-0 07:36
Gainey (6) (Bradley, Talbot) 2-4 59:24

Final: 4-2 L

Modig made 20 of 24 saves

December 27th

Hamilton Bulldogs look to end their 2 game losing streak against Hartford Wolf Pack on the road as Kyle Gajewski gets the start in goal

Hamilton Bulldogs (15-15-6) @ Hartford Wolf Pack

Williams (14) (Bradley, Murphy) 1-0 02:22
Swift (11) (Bradley, Talbot) 2-2 11:24
Maxwell (11) (Picard-Hooper, Stamler) 3-2 17:45
Picard-Hooper (20) (Holden, Schultz) 4-2 20:23
Talbot (15) (Stamler, Murphy) 5-3 25:54
Picard-Hooper (21) (Williams, Murphy) 6-5 42:14
Chouinard (1) (Williams, Bradley) 7-5 55:20

Final: 7-5 W

Gajewski 42 of 47 saves

December 28th

Stockton Heat has fired their HC Chris Cichocki. During his tenure his record was 108-102-34 in 1 and half seasons

December 29th

Binghamton Devils are in town to take on Hamilton Bulldogs

Binghamton Devils (11-18-7) @ Hamilton Bulldogs (16-15-6)

Swift (12) (Chouinard) 1-0 17:50
Picard-Hooper (22) (Maxwell, Lee)
Lee (16) (Swift, Talbot) PP 3-3 40:16
Lee (17) (Talbot, Murphy) PP 4-3 43:13
Chouinard (2) (D’Avino) 5-5 56:30

Shootout:

Binghamton:
Vrana: Goal
Tallackson: Miss
Murphy: Miss
Oduya: Miss

1 for 4

Hamilton:

Murphy: Miss
Talbot: Miss
Lee: Goal
Schultz: Goal

2 for 4

Final: 6-5 SOW

Gajewski 21 of 26 saves

Ontario Reign (LA AHL) has fired their HC Mark Morris. During his tenure he had a record of 58-47-17

December 30th

AHL Player of the Week: Binghamton’s Petr Vrana 3gp 1g 6a 7pts

December 31st

Hamilton Bulldogs finish the Year 2007 off with a road game against San Diego Gulls. Cory Morgan will be returning to the line up tonight. Mathieu Biron also will be returning to the line up. Ray Schultz will be reassigned to Cincinnati.

8th East Hamilton Bulldogs (17-15-6) @ 1st West San Diego Gulls (29-5-5)

Williams (13) 1-0 12:49
Swift (13) (Morgan, Talbot) PP 2-0 15:55
Talbot (16) (Morgan, Swift) PP 3-1 36:33
Hennes (8) (Maxwell, Gainey) 4-1 39:43
Morgan (15) (Bradley, Hennes) 5-2 46:35

Final: 5-2 W

Gajewski 27 of 29 saves

Cory Murphy will be out of action for ten days with a twisted ankle which he suffered tonight

Mid-Season Review

Month of December – 39gp 18-15-6 .538 Pct 148 GF 158 GA 18.4 % (43/234) (23rd) PP 67.6 % (31st) PK 42 Pts – 8th East
Overall Record – 39gp 18-15-6 .538 Pct 148 GF 158 GA 18.4 % (43/234) (23rd) PP 67.6 % (31st) PK 42 Pts – 8th East

Player POS GP G A PTS +/- PIM SOG SH% ATOI AVR
A.Picard-Hooper C/LW 39 22 17 39 -6 16 119 18.5 20:14 6.67
Julian Talbot C 39 16 21 37 -6 10 114 14.0 20.28 6.46
Mark Lee C 39 17 19 36 -8 4 101 16.8 19:03 6.69
Greg Williams RW 38 15 20 35 -7 28 138 10.9 21:05 6.97
Cory Morgan RW/C 29 15 16 31 -2 4 126 11.9 21:13 7.31
Mike Swift C 39 13 18 31 -6 2 121 10.7 20:37 6.74
Ty Hennes C/LW 34 8 18 26 -7 2 60 13.3 15:44 6.62
Nick Holden LD 39 4 21 25 -5 18 48 8.3 21:13 6.79
Brett Maxwell LW 30 11 12 23 -2 4 78 14.1 15:22 6.97
Bretton Stamler RD 39 3 16 19 -8 25 38 7.9 24:13 6.54
Cory Murphy LD 24 1 17 18 0 23 44 2.3 24:09 7.04
Steve Gainey LW 22 6 10 16 0 8 37 16.2 19:49 7.14
Matt Bradley LW/RW 7 4 6 10 0 4 30 13.3 20:53 7.86
Lance Manson LD 39 0 9 9 -6 161 15 0.00 19:07 6.62
Louis D’Avino RD/LD 29 0 4 4 -9 24 20 0.00 16:44 6.41
Brendan Buckley RD 7 0 3 3 +1 6 5 0.00 21:25 7.14
Eric Couinard C 5 2 1 3 -3 2 11 18.2 19:45 6.20
Mathieu Biron RD/LD 5 1 1 2 +4 6 8 12.5 24:35 7.00

Goalies

Player POS GP W L T MINS GAA SV% SO EN AVR
Mattias Modig G 25 7 8 1 955 3.83 .870 0 4 6.56
Kyle Gajewski G 27 11 7 5 1407 3.80 .875 0 3 6.67

Players @ Cincinnati on NHL/AHL Contracts

Player POS GP G A PTS +/- PIM SOG SH% ATOI AVR
Joe Vandermeer RD 22 1 12 13 -1 2 23 4.3 25:21 6.23
Wes Mason LW/RW 5 1 1 2 +1 14 7 14.3 20:28 7.00
Ray Schultz LD 1 0 0 0 -4 2 0 - 25:14 5.00

Goalies:

Player POS GP W L T MINS GAA SV% SO EN AVR
Scott Bowles G 40 23 16 1 2261 3.29 .876 1 6 6.63
Shawn Monette G 10 0 1 0 205 4.68 .824 0 2 6.40

Quebec Prospect Watch:

[table]
Player POS GP G A PTS +/- PIM SOG SH% ATOI AVR
Jarrett Toll (TC/WHL) RD 35 3 19 22 -7 82 39 7.7 - 6.74
Viktor Tikhonov LW/RW/C 25 5 7 12 -6 10 78 6.4 - 6.72
Eric Tangardi (NB/OHL) C/LW 35 8 10 18 +10 8 46 17.4 - 6.86

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American Hockey League - Monday December 31st 2007
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2007-08 Tables
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Standings

Pos Team GP W L L O-SL Pct GF GA Pts
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1st Providence 42 31 8 8 8 0.774 176 114 65
2nd Utica 37 24 11 11 11 0.676 110 100 50
3rd Hartford 40 28 12 12 12 0.700 145 113 56
4th Springfield 40 24 12 12 12 0.650 129 117 52
5th Bridgeport 38 24 11 11 11 0.671 146 116 51
6th Laval 38 20 13 13 13 0.592 115 101 45
7th Hershey 36 19 13 13 13 0.583 117 110 42
8th Hamilton 39 18 15 15 15 0.538 148 158 42
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9th Toronto 37 17 15 15 15 0.527 108 115 39
10th Belleville 36 17 17 17 17 0.500 102 97 36
11th Lehigh 40 16 20 20 20 0.450 112 126 36
12th Charlotte 38 16 19 19 19 0.461 124 129 35
13th Binghamton 39 13 18 18 18 0.436 105 138 34
14th Rochester 40 13 24 24 24 0.363 99 137 29
15th Wilkes-Barre-Scranton 40 10 26 26 26 0.300 97 174 24
16th Syracuse 39 9 29 29 29 0.244 92 162 19


Standings

Pos Team GP W L L O-SL Pct GF GA Pts
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1st San Diego 40 29 6 6 6 0.788 146 88 63
2nd Cleveland 39 30 7 7 7 0.795 140 104 62
3rd Rockford 39 27 7 7 7 0.756 182 113 59
4th Tucson 38 24 11 11 11 0.671 137 111 51
5th Texas 39 24 13 13 13 0.641 136 114 50
6th San Jose 41 22 13 13 13 0.610 129 125 50
7th Grand Rapids 39 21 14 14 14 0.590 148 150 46
8th Milwaukee 39 20 13 13 13 0.590 136 121 46
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9th Ontario 41 21 17 17 17 0.549 147 141 45
10th San Antonio 44 19 20 20 20 0.489 135 136 43
11th Colorado 40 19 18 18 18 0.512 129 130 41
12th Bakersfield 40 16 18 18 18 0.475 112 129 38
13th Stockton 43 18 25 25 25 0.419 111 130 36
14th Chicago 38 16 19 19 19 0.461 111 121 35
15th Iowa 37 12 23 23 23 0.351 87 123 26
16th Manitoba 40 11 25 25 25 0.325 100 168 26



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2007-08 Goals
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Pos Player Team GP G
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1st Tony Salmelainen Rockford 38 26
2nd Martins Karsums Providence 37 25
3rd Matt Murley Avalanche 39 24
4th John Lammers Texas 39 24
5th Mark Hartigan Cleveland 32 23
6th Carl Soderberg San Antonio 44 23
7th Peter Regin Belleville 36 23
8th Hugh Jessiman Hartford 39 23
9th Jeff Hoggan Providence 42 23
10th Gabe Gauthier Ontario 37 22
11th Luciano Aquino Bridgeport 38 22
12th Alexandre Picard-Hooper Hamilton 39 22
13th Mark Mancari Rochester 37 22
14th Kenndal McArdle Springfield 40 21
15th Petr Kalus Providence 39 21
16th Michael Blunden Rockford 39 20
17th Brandon Yip Colorado 40 19
18th Patrick Fischer Coyotes 35 19
19th Troy Bodie Bakersfield 40 19
20th Janis Sprukts Springfield 40 19
21st Paul Brown Milwaukee 34 19
22nd Juraj Mikus Laval 38 19
23rd Pascal Pelletier Providence 42 18
24th Martin Kariya Rockford 39 18
25th Grant Stevenson San Jose 41 18
26th Petr Vrana Binghamton 39 18
27th Roman Wick Belleville 36 18
28th Curtis Glencross San Diego 40 18
29th B.J. Crombeen Texas 39 18
30th Viktor Aleksandrov San Antonio 44 18


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2007-08 Assists
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Pos Player Team GP A
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1st Bryce Lampman Hartford 40 34
2nd John Vigilante Milwaukee 39 33
3rd Pascal Pelletier Providence 42 30
4th Ryan O'Marra Bridgeport 38 30
5th Yanick Lehoux Tucson 38 30
6th Matt Murley Avalanche 39 29
7th Niklas Hjalmarsson Rockford 39 29
8th Jesse Joensuu Bridgeport 38 28
9th Ryan Oulahen Grand Rapids 39 28
10th Petr Taticek Hershey 34 28
11th Stefan Meyer Springfield 40 28
12th Martin St. Pierre Rockford 37 27
13th Matt Lashoff Providence 42 27
14th Brian Salcido San Diego 40 27
15th Tony Salmelainen Rockford 38 26
16th Martin Kariya Rockford 39 26
17th Derick Brassard Blue Jackets 34 26
18th Chris Collins Providence 42 26
19th Jeremy Swanson Springfield 40 26
20th Filip Novak Cleveland 37 26
21st Brandon Yip Colorado 40 25
22nd Grant Stevenson San Jose 41 25
23rd Jeremy Colliton Bridgeport 33 25
24th Tyler Redenbach Providence 39 25
25th Brad Staubitz San Jose 41 25
26th Jaroslav Mrazek Bridgeport 38 25
27th Nathan Paetsch Rochester 40 25
28th Matt Jones Coyotes 33 25
29th Kenndal McArdle Springfield 40 24
30th Matt Ellis Grand Rapids 39 24



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2007-08 Points
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Pos Player Team GP P
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1st Matt Murley Avalanche 39 53
2nd Tony Salmelainen Rockford 38 52
3rd John Vigilante Milwaukee 39 50
4th Pascal Pelletier Providence 42 48
5th John Lammers Texas 39 45
6th Gabe Gauthier Ontario 37 45
7th Kenndal McArdle Springfield 40 45
8th Ryan O'Marra Bridgeport 38 45
9th Brandon Yip Colorado 40 44
10th Martin Kariya Rockford 39 44
11th Martin St. Pierre Rockford 37 44
12th Carl Soderberg San Antonio 44 43
13th Mark Hartigan Cleveland 32 43
14th Grant Stevenson San Jose 41 43
15th Jesse Joensuu Bridgeport 38 42
16th Yanick Lehoux Tucson 38 42
17th Roman Wick Belleville 36 41
18th Petr Vrana Binghamton 39 41
19th Derick Brassard Blue Jackets 34 41
20th Chris Collins Providence 42 41
21st Peter Regin Belleville 36 40
22nd Patrick Fischer Coyotes 35 40
23rd Jonas Johansson Hershey 36 40
24th Ryan Oulahen Grand Rapids 39 40
25th Alexandre Picard-Hooper Hamilton 39 39
26th Luciano Aquino Bridgeport 38 39
27th Janis Sprukts Springfield 40 39
28th Troy Bodie Bakersfield 40 39
29th Curtis Glencross San Diego 40 39
30th Michal Birner San Antonio 44 39



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2007-08 Average Rating
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Pos Player Team GP Av R
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1st Tony Salmelainen Rockford 38 8.32
2nd Daniel Widing Predators 18 8.17
3rd Ryan Shannon Ducks 7 8.14
4th Greg Moore Hartford 16 8.13
5th Lauri Tukonen Kings 13 8.00
6th Enver Lisin Coyotes 8 8.00
7th Mike Brown Utica 26 8.00
8th Curtis Glencross San Diego 40 7.97
9th John Vigilante Milwaukee 39 7.92
10th Martin Kariya Rockford 39 7.87
11th Matt Bradley Hamilton 7 7.86
12th Michael Leighton San Diego 32 7.84
13th Bryan Bickell Rockford 36 7.81
14th Bryce Lampman Hartford 40 7.80
15th Don MacLean Coyotes 8 7.75
16th Derick Brassard Blue Jackets 34 7.74
17th John Lammers Texas 39 7.72
18th Jaroslav Halak Laval 23 7.70
19th Jonas Johansson Hershey 36 7.69
20th Mark Hartigan Cleveland 32 7.69
21st Matt Murley Avalanche 39 7.67
22nd Jesse Joensuu Bridgeport 38 7.66
23rd Troy Bodie Bakersfield 40 7.65
24th Bjorn Melin San Diego 40 7.65
25th Martins Karsums Providence 37 7.65
26th Dan Ellis Texas 11 7.64
27th Rob Globke Springfield 40 7.63
28th Bill Thomas Coyotes 8 7.63
29th B.J. Crombeen Texas 39 7.62
30th Filip Novak Cleveland 37 7.59



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2007-08 First Star
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Pos Player Team GP FS
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1st Tony Salmelainen Rockford 38 10
2nd Gabe Gauthier Ontario 37 7
3rd Mark Hartigan Cleveland 32 6
4th Jeff Hoggan Providence 42 6
5th Martin Kariya Rockford 39 6
6th Kenndal McArdle Springfield 40 6
7th Jonas Johansson Hershey 36 6
8th Derick Brassard Blue Jackets 34 5
9th Jeremy Colliton Bridgeport 33 5
10th Alexandre Giroux Hershey 36 5
11th Curtis Glencross San Diego 40 5
12th Michael Lambert Laval 38 5
13th John Lammers Texas 39 5
14th Jesse Schultz Utica 37 5
15th Shawn Thornton San Diego 40 5
16th Stephen Valiquette Hartford 35 5
17th Brandon Yip Colorado 40 5
18th Petr Kalus Providence 39 5
19th Jesse Joensuu Bridgeport 38 5
20th Matt Murley Avalanche 39 5
21st John Vigilante Milwaukee 39 5
22nd B.J. Crombeen Texas 39 4
23rd Derek Dorsett Cleveland 39 4
24th Josh Green Utica 31 4
25th Darren Helm Grand Rapids 35 4
26th Kris Hogg Charlotte 36 4
27th Corey Locke Laval 38 4
28th Mark Mancari Rochester 37 4
29th Lance Monych Tucson 38 4
30th Grant Stevenson San Jose 41 4

AHL Player of the Month: Rockford’s Tony Salmelainen 13gp 9g 10a 19pts
AHL Rookie of the Month: Bridgeport’s Jesse Joensuu 12gp 6g 7a 13pts

Keep in mind NHL Trade deadline is on February 23rd so we will be keeping a close eye on Quebec’s roster and players who they will be recalling and sending over within the next month or two.

[NCAAFBall00]

January 1st

Hamilton Bulldogs open the 2008 Year with a road game against Tucson Roadrunners. Kyle Gajewski will get the start in goal. Ray Schultz has been recalled from Cincinnati

8th East Hamilton Bulldogs (18-15-6) @ 4th West Tucson Roadrunners (24-11-3)

Swift (14) (Morgan, Biron) PP 1-0 26:56
Swift (15) (Morgan, Talbot) PP 2-0 31:07

Final: 4-2 L

Gajewski 19 of 23 saves

Ray Schultz and Alexandre Picard-Hooper left the game with injuries.

Ray Schultz left the game with a stubbed finger

Alexandre Picard-Hooper will be out of action for about ten days with a groin strain

The ISS has announced their mid-season rankings for the 2008 NHL draft. The top prospect ranked prospect is Sarnia’s Steven Stamkos (36gp 10g 34a 44pts +3 8 PIM 95 SOG 10.5 Sh % 7.69 AvR), followed by Guelph Storm Defenseman Drew Doughty (35gp 4g 24a 28pts +7 12 PIM 47 SOG 8.5 Sh % 7.63 AvR) and Windor’s Center Adam Henrique (35gp 8g 27a 35pts +12 24 PIM 52 SOG 15.4 Sh % 7.51 AvR)

January 3rd

The Hamilton Bulldogs head out on the road as they take on the Rampage in San Antonio. Ray Schultz still remains in the line up. Kyle Gajewski will get the start in goal.

8th East Hamilton Bulldogs (18-16-6) @ 10th West San Antonio Rampage (Blues AHL) (18-16-6

Morgan (16) (Bradley, Talbot) 1-2 16:45
Talbot (17) (Maxwell) 2-5 29:26
Biron (2) (Talbot) PP 3-5

Final: 8-3 L

Gajewski 11 of 15 saves; Modig made 10 of 14 saves

January 5th

The Hamilton Bulldogs head on the road as they take on the Heat in Stockton. Mattias Modig will get the start in goal.

9th East Hamilton Bulldogs (18-17-6) @ 13th West Stockton Heat (19-25-0)

Lee (18) (Morgan, Biron) PP 1-2 09:11
Morgan (17) (Swift, D’Avino) 2-2 15:54
Hennes (9) (Stamler, Maxwell) 3-2 26:05
Swift (16) (Williams, Bradley) PP 4-2 34:57
Morgan (18) (Lee) PP 5-2 43:25
Maxwell (12) (Hennes, D’Avino) 6-2 59:02

Final: 6-2 W

Modig 20 of 22 saves

January 7th

The Bulldogs continue their road trip as they are in Bakersfield to take on the Condors

9th East Hamilton Bulldogs (19-17-6) @ 12th West Bakersfield Condors (17-19-7)

Morgan (19) (Talbot, Biron) 1-0 00:30
Bradley (5) (Williams, Talbot) 2-3 39:11
Williams (16) (Gainey, Manson) 3-3 55:59

Shootout:

Murphy: Miss
Talbot: Miss
Morgan: Goal
Lee: Miss
Bradley: Miss
Hennes: Miss
Gainey: Goal
Williams: Miss
Manson: Miss
Biron: Miss
Swift: Miss
Maxwell: Goal

3 for 12

Bakersfield:

Brodziak: Miss
Syvret: Miss
Rowe: Goal
Sestito: Miss
McConnachie: Miss
Stewart: Miss
Bodie: Goal
Goulet: Miss
Reid: Miss
Reddox: Miss
Stortini: Miss
Spurgeon: Miss

2 for 12

Final: 4-3 SOW

Modig 39 of 42 saves

AHL Player of the Week: Bridgeport’s Blake Comeau 3gp 3g 3a 6pts

Ontario Reign has named WBS Penguins Scout Donald Marier as their new HC

January 9th

Matt Bradley was called up to Quebec

Alexandre Picard-Hooper has begun light training

Russia U20 won World Juniors with Czech Rep finishing 2nd and Canada winning 3rd

Viktor Tikhonov took part in the tournament. In 7gp 1g 5g 6pts +3 22 SOG 4.5 Sh % 18:11 7:14 AvR

January 10th

Hamilton Bulldogs head on the road trip to NY with a road trip to Syracuse Crunch

8th East Hamilton Bulldogs (20-17-6) @ 16th East Syracuse Crunch (9-32-1)

D’Avino (1) (Hennes, Maxwell) 1-1 06:02
Gainey (6) (Picard-Hooper, Biron) 2-1 20:45
Picard-Hooper (23) (Lee, Williams) pp 3-1 26:31

Final: 4-3 OTL

Gajewski 24 of 28 saves

January 11th

Hamilton Bulldogs returns home to finish out the home and home with NY state teams as the Hamilton Bulldogs play host to Rochester Americans. Reassigned Ray Schultz to Cincinnati

14th East Rochester Americans (16-25-3) @ Hamilton Bulldogs (20-18-6)

Morgan (20) (Picard-Hooper, Swift) 1-2 37:24
Morgan (21) (Swift, Biron) PP 2-2 49:01
Talbot (18) (Swift, Morgan) PP 3-2 50:58

Final: 3-2 W

Gajewski 1 of 1; Mattias Modig 27 of 29 saves

Kyle Gajewski will be out of action for about a week after he suffered a thigh contusion in the game tonight

January 13th

AHL All-Star rosters will be announced next week

WB Penguins have fired their GM Alex Ferraro

Stockton Heat has hired Dean Lombardi as their new GM, Cleveland Monsters will be searching for a GM

January 14th

Hamilton Bulldogs play host to the Hershey Bears. Mattias Modig will get the starts until Kyle Gajewski is 100%.

7th East Hershey Bears (22-15-6) @ 8th East Hamilton Bulldogs (21-18-6)

Swift (17) (Talbot, Morgan) PP 1-1 06:54
Morgan (22) (Gainey, Holden) 2-3 25:08
Talbot (19) (Morgan) 3-3 30:04

Final: 5-3 L

Modig 36 of 41 saves

January 16th

The Hamilton Bulldogs play host to the Providence Bruins. Mattias Modig continues the starts in goal until Kyle Gajewski fully recovers

Providence Bruins (36-8-4) @ Hamilton Bulldogs (21-19-6)

Gainey (7) (Morgan, Murphy) 1-0 05:16
Morgan (23) (Gainey, Hennes) 2-0 14:05
Picard-Hooper (24) (Chouinard, Holden) 3-0 18:05
Talbot (20) (Morgan, Gainey) 4-0 21:43
Hennes (10) (Morgan, Maxwell) 5-0 25:11
Chouinard (3) (Swift, Picard-Hooper) EM 6-4 58:24

Final: 6-4 W

Modig 31 of 35 saves

January 18th

Kyle Gajewski will serve as backup after fully recovered as we head on the road in Cleveland to take on the Monsters

Hamilton Bulldogs (22-19-6) @ Cleveland Monsters (34-9-3)

D’Avino (2) (Chouinard, Manson) 1-0 03:03
Williams (17) (Chouinard, Stamler) 2-2 09:16
Gainey (8) (Manson, Talbot) 3-3 28:47
Gainey (9) (Hennes) 4-4 43:09
Gainey (10) (Murphy, Stamler) – OT Winner 5-4 61:56

Final: 5-4 OTW

Modig 9 of 13 saves; Gajewski 14 of 14 saves

January 19th

The Hamilton Bulldogs are home to take on Charlotte Checkers. Kyle Gajewski will get the start in goal.

Charlotte Checkers (23-22-3) @ Hamilton Bulldogs (23-19-6)

Talbot (21) (Swift, Biron) PP 1-0 09:58
Chouinard (4) (Swift, Gainey) 2-0 22:41
Williams (18) (Maxwell, Holden) 3-0 28:21
Biron (3) (Murphy, Morgan) PP 4-1 36:43

Shootout:

Charlotte:

Walser: Goal
Gove: Goal

2 for 2

Hamilton:

Murphy: Miss
Talbot: Goal
Chouinard: Miss

1 for 3

Final: 5-4 SOL

Gajewski 25 of 29 saves

The trades for the deadline begin as New Jersey acquired Dan Boyle from Tampa Bay for Niclas Bergfors, rights to Eric Doyle, rights to Aleksandr Vasyunov and a 1st in 08

Cleveland has named Peter DeBoer as their GM. Kitchener Rangers begin their search for their GM.

January 21st

Hamilton Bulldogs are on the road as they take on San Antonio Rampage

San Antonio Rampage (24-21-6) @ Hamilton Bulldogs (23-19-7)

Swift (18) (Talbot) PP 1-0 02:43
Williams (19) (Maxwell, Biron) 2-2 23:45
Picard-Hooper (25) (Chouinard, Holden) PP 3-2 28:33
Maxwell (13) (Chouinard, Lee) 4-3 33:17

Final: 6-4 L

Gajewski 26 of 32 saves

AHL Player of the Week: Binghamton’s Ryan murphy 2gp 3g 1a 4pts

January 23rd

Matt Bradley reassigned to Hamilton

NHL Trade Deadline is exactly in 1 month

Brett Maxwell will be out of action for ten days

January 24th

We have a home and home with one of our rivals Laval today and on the 28th of January. Mattias Modig will get the start in goal

Hamilton Bulldogs (23-20-7) @ Laval Rocket (24-17-8)

Morgan (24) (Bradley, Stamler) 1-0 03:57
Williams (20) (Gainey, Manson) 2-1 06:35
Hennes (11) (Talbot, Williams) 3-3 39:18

Shootout:

Hamilton:

Murphy: Miss
Lee: Miss
Morgan: Goal
Hennes: Goal

2 for 4

Laval:

Locke: Goal
Lambert: Miss
Benoit: Miss
Lapierre: Miss

1 for 4

Final: 4-3 SOW

Modig 33 of 36 saves

January 28th

Hamilton Bulldogs finish the month of January off with the second half of the home and home as Laval is in Hamilton to take on the Bulldogs.

Laval Rocket (24-17-9) @ Hamilton Bulldogs (24-20-7)

Gainey (11) (Williams, Manson) 1-0 17:54
Hennes (12) (Morgan, Bradley) 2-3 52:02
Morgan (25) (Talbot, Gainey) 3-3 52:21

Final: 4-3 OTL

Modig 27 of 31 saves

Nashville Predators traded Anders Lindback and Alexander Radulov to Anaheim Ducks for Ryan Getzlaf

January 31st

Month of January Review

Month of January – 13gp 6-5-2 50 GF 54 GA 14 Pts
Overall Record – 52gp 24-20-8 .538 Pct 198 GF 212 GA 17.7 % (57/322) (26th) PP 68.4 % (32nd) PK 58 Pts – 9th East

Player POS GP G A PTS +/- PIM SOG SH% ATOI AVR
Cory Morgan RW/C 42 25 27 52 -2 22 202 12.4 21:45 7.50
Julian Talbot C 52 21 31 52 -5 12 163 12.9 20:30 6.67
A.Picard-Hooper C/LW 49 25 20 45 -16 16 144 17.4 19:39 6.57
Greg Williams RW 51 20 25 45 -11 42 171 11.7 20:44 6.94
Mike Swift C 52 18 25 43 -12 4 172 10.5 20:38 6.71
Mark Lee C 52 18 22 40 -15 8 124 14.5 19:03 6.46
Ty Hennes C/LW 47 12 22 34 -9 4 84 14.3 15:20 6.64
Brett Maxwell LW 42 13 18 31 -7 4 97 13.4 15:23 6.98
Steve Gainey LW 35 12 17 29 +3 12 59 20.3 19:58 7.23
Nick Holden LD 52 4 25 29 -10 32 57 7.0 20:23 6.71
Bretton Stamler RD 52 3 20 23 -4 31 48 6.3 23:53 6.54
Cory Murphy LD 35 1 20 21 -7 30 60 1.7 24:14 6.91
Matt Bradley LW/RW 13 5 10 15 +1 4 56 8.9 21:06 7.62
Lance Manson LD 52 0 14 14 -3 173 21 0.00 18:58 6.65
Mathieu Biron RD/LD 18 3 8 11 -4 8 26 11.5 25:03 7.17
Eric Couinard C 9 4 6 10 -4 2 27 14.8 20.00 7.11
Louis D’Avino RD/LD 42 2 6 8 -14 34 29 6.9 16.15 6.36
Brendan Buckley RD 7 0 3 3 +1 6 5 0.00 21:25 7.14

Goalies

Player POS GP W L T MINS GAA SV% SO EN AVR
Mattias Modig G 34 12 9 2 1451 3.80 .874 0 4 6.59
Kyle Gajewski G 36 12 11 6 1710 3.89 .870 0 3 6.56

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American Hockey League - Thursday January 31st 2008
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2007-08 Tables
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Standings

Pos Team GP W L L O-SL Pct GF GA Pts
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1st Providence 53 39 9 9 9 0.783 219 144 83
2nd Utica 49 32 15 15 15 0.673 153 135 66
3rd Hartford 51 37 14 14 14 0.725 187 141 74
4th Bridgeport 50 30 15 15 15 0.650 188 156 65
5th Springfield 51 29 17 17 17 0.618 160 153 63
6th Hershey 50 28 16 16 16 0.620 165 148 62
7th Laval 51 25 17 17 17 0.578 154 147 59
8th Belleville 48 27 19 19 19 0.583 145 121 56
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9th Hamilton 52 24 20 20 20 0.538 198 212 56
10th Toronto 50 23 20 20 20 0.530 144 152 53
11th Charlotte 51 25 23 23 23 0.520 169 168 53
12th Lehigh 50 21 24 24 24 0.470 138 158 47
13th Rochester 50 18 29 29 29 0.390 126 163 39
14th Binghamton 49 14 25 25 25 0.388 132 177 38
15th Wilkes-Barre-Scranton 53 12 36 36 36 0.274 126 226 29
16th Syracuse 51 11 38 38 38 0.235 115 207 24


Standings

Pos Team GP W L L O-SL Pct GF GA Pts
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1st San Diego 51 38 8 8 8 0.794 188 107 81
2nd Cleveland 52 36 12 12 12 0.731 183 152 76
3rd Rockford 49 33 11 11 11 0.724 221 149 71
4th San Jose 52 32 13 13 13 0.683 173 154 71
5th Tucson 52 31 16 16 16 0.644 172 148 67
6th Texas 50 32 16 16 16 0.660 177 145 66
7th San Antonio 53 26 21 21 21 0.547 173 158 58
8th Ontario 50 27 20 20 20 0.570 182 163 57
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9th Milwaukee 49 24 19 19 19 0.551 168 157 54
10th Colorado 51 25 22 22 22 0.529 166 164 54
11th Grand Rapids 52 25 23 23 23 0.519 192 196 54
12th Bakersfield 51 19 22 22 22 0.471 143 166 48
13th Chicago 49 19 24 24 24 0.449 140 159 44
14th Stockton 53 21 31 31 31 0.406 130 165 43
15th Iowa 51 17 29 29 29 0.382 116 163 39
16th Manitoba 52 13 33 33 33 0.308 129 218 32

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2007-08 Goals
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Pos Player Team GP G
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1st Peter Regin Belleville 48 30
2nd Hugh Jessiman Hartford 50 30
3rd Tony Salmelainen Rockford 48 29
4th Brandon Yip Colorado 51 28
5th Petr Kalus Providence 50 28
6th Jeff Hoggan Providence 53 28
7th Martin Kariya Rockford 49 27
8th Grant Stevenson San Jose 52 26
9th Roman Wick Belleville 48 26
10th Mark Hartigan Cleveland 44 26
11th John Lammers Texas 50 26
12th Viktor Aleksandrov San Antonio 53 26
13th Carl Soderberg San Antonio 53 26
14th Martins Karsums Providence 48 26
15th Juraj Mikus Laval 51 26
16th Eric Himelfarb Grand Rapids 52 25
17th Cory Morgan Hamilton 42 25
18th Mark Mancari Rochester 47 25
19th Alexandre Picard-Hooper Hamilton 49 25
20th Gabe Gauthier Ontario 46 24
21st Matt Murley Avalanche 39 24
22nd Bjorn Melin San Diego 51 24
23rd Luciano Aquino Bridgeport 50 24
24th John Vigilante Milwaukee 49 23
25th Pascal Pelletier Providence 53 23
26th Kenndal McArdle Springfield 51 23
27th Michal Birner San Antonio 53 23
28th Cody McLeod Colorado 49 23
29th Petr Kanko Ontario 50 23
30th Daniel Winnik Tucson 52 23



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2007-08 Assists
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Pos Player Team GP A
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1st Bryce Lampman Hartford 51 44
2nd Tony Salmelainen Rockford 48 39
3rd Petr Taticek Hershey 48 37
4th Jesse Joensuu Bridgeport 50 37
5th John Vigilante Milwaukee 49 36
6th Stefan Meyer Springfield 51 36
7th Brandon Yip Colorado 51 35
8th Grant Stevenson San Jose 52 35
9th Pascal Pelletier Providence 53 35
10th Ryan O'Marra Bridgeport 50 35
11th Ryan Oulahen Grand Rapids 50 35
12th Matt Lashoff Providence 53 35
13th Filip Novak Cleveland 48 35
14th Brad Staubitz San Jose 52 34
15th James Wisniewski Rockford 49 33
16th Roman Wick Belleville 48 32
17th Jonas Johansson Hershey 50 32
18th Niklas Hjalmarsson Rockford 49 32
19th Martin Kariya Rockford 49 31
20th Matt Ellis Grand Rapids 52 31
21st Julian Talbot Hamilton 52 31
22nd Peter Harrold Ontario 50 31
23rd Eric Himelfarb Grand Rapids 52 30
24th Martin St. Pierre Rockford 47 30
25th Yanick Lehoux Tucson 43 30
26th Doug Weight San Antonio 39 30
27th Brian Salcido San Diego 51 30
28th Nathan Paetsch Rochester 50 30
29th Gabe Gauthier Ontario 46 29
30th Matt Murley Avalanche 39 29



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2007-08 Points
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Pos Player Team GP P
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1st Tony Salmelainen Rockford 48 68
2nd Brandon Yip Colorado 51 63
3rd Grant Stevenson San Jose 52 61
4th John Vigilante Milwaukee 49 59
5th Martin Kariya Rockford 49 58
6th Roman Wick Belleville 48 58
7th Pascal Pelletier Providence 53 58
8th Peter Regin Belleville 48 56
9th Eric Himelfarb Grand Rapids 52 55
10th Ryan O'Marra Bridgeport 50 54
11th Petr Taticek Hershey 48 54
12th Jesse Joensuu Bridgeport 50 54
13th Matt Murley Avalanche 39 53
14th Gabe Gauthier Ontario 46 53
15th Matt Ellis Grand Rapids 52 53
16th Jonas Johansson Hershey 50 53
17th John Lammers Texas 50 52
18th Mark Hartigan Cleveland 44 52
19th Cory Morgan Hamilton 42 52
20th Martin St. Pierre Rockford 47 52
21st Julian Talbot Hamilton 52 52
22nd Janis Sprukts Springfield 51 51
23rd Bjorn Melin San Diego 51 50
24th Kenndal McArdle Springfield 51 50
25th Petr Kalus Providence 50 49
26th Carl Soderberg San Antonio 53 49
27th Viktor Aleksandrov San Antonio 53 49
28th Michal Birner San Antonio 53 49
29th Bryce Lampman Hartford 51 49
30th Mark Mancari Rochester 47 48



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2007-08 Average Rating
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Pos Player Team GP Av R
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1st Tony Salmelainen Rockford 48 8.35
2nd Daniel Widing Predators 18 8.17
3rd Lauri Tukonen Kings 13 8.00
4th Martin Kariya Rockford 49 7.96
5th Michael Leighton San Diego 43 7.95
6th Mike Brown Utica 38 7.95
7th Curtis Glencross San Diego 51 7.84
8th John Vigilante Milwaukee 49 7.84
9th Tomas Kopecky Grand Rapids 35 7.74
10th Greg Moore Hartford 27 7.74
11th Derick Brassard Blue Jackets 34 7.74
12th Bryce Lampman Hartford 51 7.69
13th Bjorn Melin San Diego 51 7.67
14th Matt Murley Avalanche 39 7.67
15th Jesse Joensuu Bridgeport 50 7.66
16th Brian Elliott Belleville 44 7.66
17th Brandon Yip Colorado 51 7.65
18th Peter Regin Belleville 48 7.65
19th Noah Clarke Ontario 50 7.64
20th Bryan Bickell Rockford 46 7.63
21st B.J. Crombeen Texas 50 7.62
22nd Matt Bradley Hamilton 13 7.62
23rd John Lammers Texas 50 7.60
24th Michael Holmqvist Rockford 49 7.59
25th Filip Novak Cleveland 48 7.56
26th Alexandre Picard Blue Jackets 25 7.56
27th Rob Globke Springfield 47 7.55
28th Barry Tallackson Binghamton 49 7.55
29th Troy Bodie Bakersfield 51 7.55
30th Thomas Greiss San Jose 41 7.54



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2007-08 First Star
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Pos Player Team GP FS
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1st Tony Salmelainen Rockford 48 11
2nd Martin Kariya Rockford 49 9
3rd Brandon Yip Colorado 51 9
4th Jeff Hoggan Providence 53 7
5th Kenndal McArdle Springfield 51 7
6th Peter Regin Belleville 48 7
7th Andrei Taratukhin Stockton 52 7
8th Jonas Johansson Hershey 50 7
9th Gabe Gauthier Ontario 46 7
10th Jeremy Colliton Bridgeport 45 6
11th Curtis Glencross San Diego 51 6
12th Mark Hartigan Cleveland 44 6
13th Shawn Thornton San Diego 51 6
14th Stephen Valiquette Hartford 44 6
15th Petr Kalus Providence 50 6
16th Marius Holtet Texas 39 6
17th John Vigilante Milwaukee 49 6
18th Derick Brassard Blue Jackets 34 5
19th Dan Carcillo Wilkes-Barre-Scranton 47 5
20th Blake Comeau Bridgeport 48 5
21st Alexandre Giroux Hershey 50 5
22nd Michael Lambert Laval 51 5
23rd John Lammers Texas 50 5
24th Mark Mancari Rochester 47 5
25th Lance Monych Tucson 52 5
26th Cory Morgan Hamilton 42 5
27th Jesse Schultz Utica 49 5
28th Grant Stevenson San Jose 52 5
29th Jesse Joensuu Bridgeport 50 5
30th Viktor Aleksandrov San Antonio 53 5

AHL Player of the Month: Grand Rapids Tomas Kopecky 5gp 5g 6a 11pts
AHL Rookie of the Month: Springfield’s Tyler Plante 5gp 4 wins

Cleveland Monsters hire Belleville’s scout Kevin Colley as their new HC