GO TIME
BY SCOTT HADDOW
Howdy hockey fans. Time for another heap of
OHL news, stats and other interesting notes.
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Let's start with some Sudbury Wolves
stuff first.
Is everyone sitting down for this
blockbuster? The Wolves are the most penalized team in the OHL
with 885 minutes. The next closest is Mississauga with
822.
One would think this would be devastating to
most clubs, but over the last three seasons, the Wolves have
learned to play against the grain and come up with solid stats
to back up their wild play.
The Wolves own the eight best penalty killing
unit, which kills off penalties at a sharp 82.3
proficiency.
They also have a few weapons that can burn
other team's power plays. Ben Pouliot and Kevin Baker are
tied for second, with eight other players, in the OHL for short
handed goals with three each.
Overall, Sudbury has allowed 50 goals against
on 283 chances while short handed.
The Wolves power play is plugging along with
similar results. Sudbury has the eight best power play in the
league, which operates at a 20.0 percent efficiency rate.
Anton Hedman leads the Wolves with 10 power
play goals. Overall, the Wolves have scored 51 power play goals
on 255 chances.
Owen Sound winger Mike Angelidis is the power
play king, with 23 power play goals so far this season.
Angelidis has scored 29 goals overall.
The Americans have taken over the OHL.
London's Rob Schremp, from Fulton, NY and
Owen Sound's Bobby Ryan from Collingswood, NJ, are making
the OHL scoring race a heated battle.
Schremp recently became the OHL scoring
leader (wrestling the title away from teammate David Bolland)
with 30 goals and 73 points in 25 games. Schremp was also the
first OHLer to hit the 30-goal mark.
Ryan is tied for second in scoring with 23
goals and 71 points in 29 games.
Bolland also has 71 points.
Plymouth's James Neal is the OHL Player
of the Week after recording one goal and six points in two wins
last week. Neal, 18, has 35 points in 30 games so far this
season.
It looks like John Tavares is holding up
quite nicely in his rookie season so far. Tavares, the player
the OHL made a rule for to get him drafted as a 14 year old in
2005, has been consistently putting up great numbers and
showing people he could be indeed the next big thing in
hockey.
Tavares has 19 goals and 35 points in his
first 31 games, and is second in the rookie scoring race behind
London's Sergei Kostitsyn, who has 45 points. Tavares is 15
and Kostitsyn is 18.
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