The NHL strike ends this week. This is going to cause some interesting changes in our minor league hockey league. We're two steps down from the NHL, but the strike has allowed both the level above us as well as some teams at our level to sign NHL players causing a shuffling of rosters. Alaska signed some NHL players, and have the best record in the whole league.
Some interesting times are ahead as everyone will shuffle up, replacing the NHL players who have to report to their teams. Rosters will return to 'normal'.
It's also just about mid-season, with the all star game in two weeks. I think a comparison of records from the first half vs second half may show that some teams were propped up during the strike.
In the West, our standings as of today are:
Team GP W L OL SL Pts GF GA
Alaska 37 28 8 0 1 57 125 89
Idaho 34 22 7 1 4 49 137 94
Colorado 37 18 16 1 2 39 134 124
Utah 33 14 14 2 3 33 108 126
Ontario 35 24 9 1 1 50 135 97
Stockton 38 19 12 4 3 45 129 125
Las Vegas34 15 15 1 3 34 89 98
San Fran 35 13 17 1 4 31 101 134
Bakerfld 36 8 25 1 2 19 86 146
So, I hope to revisit this at the end of the season and compare. I believe each team plays 72 games.
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