20 games into his season, Alexei Yashin has scored 17 goals and 48 points for the Victoria Salmon Kings. That's good enough to lead the ZPHL in scoring and good enough for a 197 point season had he been healthy all year long.
Incredible numbers for a player once named the second best Ottawa Senator, after Alexandre Daigle, of all time by an NHL poll of Penguin GM Ulrik Kromnow.
After being persona non-grata for a few years in the OHL, Yashin has burst onto the ZPHL scene this season after being signed by good looking former Minnesota GM Dan Ramage.
In Victoria, Yashin forms a deadly 1-2 punch with workhorse Pavel Brendl. Between them, they have 84 points already. Which is a lot compared to the meager 2 assists Sven Butenschon has produced for the Hershey Bears. Who suck.
Look for Yashin to keep his torrid pace and set a whole slew of new scoring records this season. A slew!
Forget Sven Butenschon. Forget Dave Karpa. Forget Dallas Eakins. You may even forget Mathieu D. Roy.
The greatest defenseman of all time is, and will always be, Alex Henry - captain of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins.
This season the towering 6'6 Adonis has been enjoying one of his best seasons to date. 26 games into the season Henry leads the ZPHL in penalty minutes with 253 and fighting majors with 33. He also has 2 goals, 8 points and a +12 rating.
"I've never seen a player with such an aura of greatness around him. He steps out on the ice and it's like he's breaking a new world record of studness each and every time." said coach Bob Boughner.
Tonight Henry will once again lead his team into battle as the Penguins face the Calgary Hitmen and tough guy Dane Byers. You can be sure Henry will come looking for the ZPHL's fourth most penalized player early and often.
In the picture below above, you see Brooks Laich flanked by a couple of OHL defenders. One of them is Mike Green who has been the best offensive defenseman in the NHL for a couple of years now. The other guy is some dude you've never heard of.
Can you pick which defenseman you'd want on your team?
Pick the stud!
Back when music was brilliant and the elite GMs were just about to become toddlers, Uriah Heep released the brilliant song Wise Man. Bless em!
The OHL has a new GM in Florida this year and like a true connoisseur of the many great luxuries of life, he's owned the collected works of Uriah Heep since growing long hair and wearing spandex bodies to school at the age of 12.
Years later, here he is in the OHL reaping the benefits of his great taste in music as Stephen Weiss leads the Panthers in scoring as they own the best win percentage in the entire league.
The Panthers aren't a cute team any more. Not by any standards in fact. But they are once again a force to be reckoned with and Darren has not been shy of letting everyone know just how superior he is. And rightfully so. For now the Panthers are the best of the best and the odds on winner of their second Outlaw Cup at years end.
And they owe it all to Uriah Heep.
General Manager Lou Carollo is upset. His team is missing 5 players with injury and another 3 due to suspensions for playing dirtier than the genital hygiene of tribes of indians deep in the jungles of the Amazon.
"Whoever set the bar for injuries should be made to drink a bucket of pure Hemsky!!!", raged Carollo at a recent GM-meeting at the Zaidi mansion.
It's quite a coincidence then that the two teams struck hard by injuries this season are both from New York. Could it be that the people from that shithole of a city are the weakest and whiniest pieces of Sedin on the planet? Some say that is indeed the case. Others point to coincidence while a majority of people couldn't care less about the fortunes of Carollo and Zaidi in the world of organized Sim hockey.
One thing is clear though, teams wont stop running the Islanders to cause more damage. We asked Janne Qvickstrom of the New Jersey Devils, the team responsible for more injuries than any other club this season, to reveal his feelings on the injuries that has hit the team on the other side of the river.
"HAHAHAHAHA Look at the Penguins now with Crosby injured! They are still winning. Crosby is nothing! Canada primadonna TSN adding 10 assists to his totals to make him look good!!!"
There we are then. Injuries aren't the problem this season, Crosby is.
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The Montreal Canadiens won the Outlaw Cup, but that wasn't the only price they won last year. Head Coach Guy Carbonneau was named Coach of the Year while general manager Jeff Young was crowned GM of the Year.
