Hey OHL fans! It's time for another heap of
news, happenings and stats. Let's start with some award
winners. The OHL Player of the Week is Brampton's Daren
Machesney. The 19-year-old goalie was unreal last week, posting
a 2-0 record and a sharp 0.50 goals-against-average (GAA) and a
sizzling .982 save percentage.
Machesney started the week by stopping 26
shots in a 5-1 win over Guelph, and then thwarted 29 shots in a
1-0 win over Sudbury.
The Washington Capitals fifth-round draft
choice has won four straight games, and is 15-12-0-1, with a
3.15 GAA and a .904 save percentage, this season.
December award winners were recently
announced and it was more good news for Brampton as their top
player, Wojtek Wolski, was named OHL Player of the Month for
December.
Wolski leads all OHL scorers in the month
with eight goals and 25 points in just 12 games.
Overall, Wolski has 16 goals and 47 points in
27 games.
The OHL Rookie of the Month was Oshawa's John
Tavares. The slick 15-year-old led all rookies with seven goals
and 14 points in nine games. Tavares leads all rookies in goal
scoring with 25 in 37 games. He's second in rookie league
scoring with 42 points in 37 games. London's Sergei Kostitsyn,
19,
leads all rookies in overall scoring with 50
points in 34 games.
Sudbury Wolves rookies, Matt Dias (27 points)
and Anton Hedman (26 points), are eighth and ninth respectively
in rookie scoring.
The Top Defenceman was Kitchener's Matt
Lashoff. The 19-year-old defender pumped in one goal and 11
points in seven games in December, along with a solid
plus/minus rating of +9.
The Top Goalie was Guelph's Ryan MacDonald,
who went 5-3-0-0 with a crisp 1.82 GAA and a .930 save
percentage. He also posted two shut outs.
The OHL trade deadline passed on Tuesday at 6
pm. As of Northern Life's press deadline, here are some of the
more significant moves made:
- Barrie beefed up by acquiring defenceman
David Pszenyczny, Jordan Grant and Jeremy Whelan from
Mississauga for Nathan Martine and Brett Oliphant.
- Ottawa shipped six-foot-four forward Bryan
Bickell to Windsor for Brett Liscomb and a second-round draft
pick.
- Belleville sent Ryan Berard and a draft
pick to Saginaw for Steve Whitely and a draft pick.
- Sudbury's J.F. Houle was traded from
Brampton to Kingston for a fourth-round pick.
