The National Strat-O-Matic Hockey League Newsletter League Established May 1, 1997 Volume #11, Issue #18 - May 2, 2008 ********************************************************************* Current League Officers: Commissioner: Doug Norris Vice-Commissioner: Brian Leahy (7/15/07 to present) Email the whole league: mailto:nshl at yahoogroups dot com NSHL Chat List: mailto:nshlchat at yahoogroups dot com Web Page Administrator: Guy Caron League Web Site: http://nshl.org Files Adminstrator: Brian Leahy / Tom Vinacci League Files Site: http://www.highrantdistrict.com/SOM/NSHL Team Websites: Capital City Cougars: http://members.tripod.com/~CapCity/ Seattle Rainiers: http://math.colorado.edu/~norrisdt/rainiers/rainiers.html ********************************************************************* NSHL REGISTER NOW UPDATED! It's on the website - http://nshl.org. Enjoy! For those of you who haven't seen the register, it's an Excel workbook that contains as much of the league's history as I can fit in there. Here are instructions on how to install the register: Download the following files: http://nshl.org/register/NSHLRegister2008.zip http://nshl.org/register/Photos1.zip http://nshl.org/register/Photos2.zip http://nshl.org/register/Photos3.zip Uncompress the first file (the Excel file) and put it in a directory on your hard drive. In that directory, create a subdirectory called "register". Open the Excel file (NSHL Register 2008.xls) and enable macros. Go for it! If you find an error or problems, please let me know. Thanks and enjoy! ********************************************************************* 2008 NSHL AWARDS NOMINEES: This is for the first part of our two-part voting procedure, in order to narrow down the finalists for our league awards. Please vote for as many candidates as you would like (including write-in votes if you desire) up to the maximum number for each category. Votes are due by one week from the date of this newsletter (or Friday, May 9, 2008). All owners and associates are encouraged to vote. The categories are deliberately open-ended to allow each voter to decide what he feels is important. Use statistics to guide you, but your vote should be based on whom you honestly feel deserves the award based on the season just completed. Candidates may be written in if you so desire. A high percentage of owners didn't bother to send in nominees - since this raised the level of involvement which I had to take, I'll remind you that I will have no sympathy if and when I chose players whom you do not approve of. You are encouraged to consult the NSHL Register and the league file for statistics, as well as your own recollections of games. Please do *not* consider postseason games in your voting. If you have questions, please contact the commissioner. (vote for up to three of the following) GRETZKY TROPHY (Awarded to the league's most valuable player) SES Rod Brind'amour PIT Martin Brodeur VAW Sidney Crosby SEA Dany Heatley FGF Marian Hossa PIT Saku Koivu SHS Henrik Lundqvist FGF Roberto Luongo BRK Alexander Ovechkin STM Brad Richards BUF Martin St. Louis CCC Joe Sakic CGC Daniel Sedin MON Alexander Semin NEV Mike Sillinger FGF Joe Thornton (vote for up to three of the following) SAWCHUK TROPHY (Awarded to the league's top goaltender) PIT Martin Brodeur BUF Rick DiPietro FLO Ray Emery NEV Jean-Sebastien Giguere MAN Dominik Hasek CGC Nikolai Khabibulin NCH Miikka Kiprusoff BRK Olaf Kolzig SHS Henrik Lundqvist FGF Roberto Luongo CGC Chris Mason STM Tim Thomas (vote for up to three of the following) ORR TROPHY (Awarded to the league's top defenseman) VAW Jay Bouwmeester SES Dan Boyle LIB Zdeno Chara CGC Kim Johnsson QCP Tomas Kaberle HOU Nicklas Lidstrom PIT Scott Niedermayer BUF Dion Phaneuf SEA Brian Rafalski FGF Kimmo Timonen FLO Lubomir Visnovsky NEV Sergei Zubov (vote for up to three of the following) LEMIEUX TROPHY (Awarded to the league's top first-year player) VAW Niklas Backstrom MIN Phil Kessel MIN Anze Kopitar LIB Evgeni Malkin TPK Alexander Radulov MON Alexander Semin LYN Mike Smith BUF Jordan Staal PIT Paul Stastny BUF Marc-Edouard Vlasic SEA Wojtek Wolski MON Travis Zajac (vote for up to three of the following) BLAKE TROPHY (Awarded to the league's top coach) QCP Jean-Francois Boutet NEV Dan Irvine VAW Junu Kim HOU Michael Kuduk CCC Brian Leahy FGF Murray Moman SEA Doug Norris FLO Robert Ryan SES Scott Shigemi HRH George Torres BRK Jeff Tsuruoka BUF Tom Vinacci (vote for up to three of the following) GAINEY TROPHY (Awarded to the league's top defensive forward) ESA Sean Avery SES Rod Brind'amour CGC Kris Draper SEA Chris Drury SEA Mike Fisher MAN Samuel Pahlsson STM Brad Richards NEV Brian Rolston NEV Mike Sillinger FGF Joe Thornton STM Antoine Vermette (vote for up to three of the following) HARVEY TROPHY (Awarded to the league's top defensive defenseman) LIB Zdeno Chara BRK Mike Commodore CGC Kim Johnsson HOU Nicklas Lidstrom FGF Willie Mitchell PIT Scott Niedermayer BUF Dion Phaneuf HOU Chris Pronger SES Ruslan Salei SES Colin White (vote for up to three of the following) PARENT TROPHY (Awarded to the comeback player of the year) SES Radek Bonk HRH Cristobal Huet BUF Chad Kilger FGF Roberto Luongo SES Ruslan Salei MON Alexander Semin (vote for up to three of the following) NORRIS TROPHY (Awarded to the owner/associate who best exemplifies the spririt of the league and its members) QCP Jean-Francois Boutet MON Guy Caron CGC Robert Karlsson VAW Junu Kim CCC Brian Leahy NCH Jason McCorrister TPK Doug North SES Scott Shigemi BUF Tom Vinacci MAN Lee Yelshin (vote for up to four of the following) 2007-08 ALL-STAR LEFT WING: NCH Alexander Frolov HOU Simon Gagne MIN Niklas Hagman LYN Scott Hartnell SES Kristian Huselius LIB Trent Hunter HRH Paul Kariya BUF Ilya Kovalchuk CCC Vyacheslav Kozlov FLO Chris Kunitz SEA Patrick Marleau BRK Alexander Ovechkin TPK Corey Perry NEV Brian Rolston CGC Daniel Sedin FGF Ryan Smyth MAN Marco Sturm QCP Petr Sykora PIT Keith Tkachuk SHS Thomas Vanek STM Antoine Vermette ESA Radim Vrbata VAW Henrik Zetterberg MON Nikolai Zherdev (vote for up to four of the following) 2007-08 ALL-STAR CENTRE: QCP Daniel Briere VAW Sidney Crosby CGC Matt Cullen SEA Chris Drury PIT Saku Koivu MIN Anze Kopitar FLO Daymond Langkow LIB Vincent Lecavalier SHS David Legwand BRK Michael Nylander ESA Johnny Pohl MON Steven Reinprecht BUF Mike Ribeiro STM Brad Richards LYN Derek Roy CCC Joe Sakic SES Marc Savard TPK Henrik Sedin NEV Mike Sillinger NCH Jason Spezza HRH Eric Staal HOU Mats Sundin FGF Joe Thornton MAN Dainius Zubrus (vote for up to four of the following) 2007-08 ALL-STAR RIGHT WING: CCC Daniel Alfredsson VAW Patrice Bergeron FLO Brad Boyes ESA Erik Cole HOU Shane Doan LIB Marian Gaborik NEV Bill Guerin QCP Martin Havlat SEA Dany Heatley SES Milan Hejduk STM Nathan Horton FGF Marian Hossa PIT Jarome Iginla MIN Phil Kessel MAN Mike Knuble BRK Matt Pettinger LYN Jason Pominville TPK Alexander Radulov BUF Martin St. Louis MON Alexander Semin SHS Lee Stempniak HRH Jozef Stumpel NCH David Vyborny CGC Ray Whitney (vote for up to four of the following) 2007-08 ALL-STAR LEFT DEFENSE: MON Keith Ballard CCC Philippe Boucher SHS Matt Carle NEV Sergei Fedorov VAW Hal Gill MAN Roman Hamrlik CGC Kim Johnsson SEA Ed Jovanovski QCP Tomas Kaberle STM Duncan Keith MIN Lukas Krajicek HOU Nicklas Lidstrom BRK Marek Malik SES Andrei Markov PIT Mattias Norstrom ESA Petteri Nummelin TPK Wade Redden NCH Sheldon Souray HRH Mark Streit LYN Henrik Tallinder FGF Kimmo Timonen FLO Lubomir Visnovsky BUF Marc-Edouard Vlasic LIB Ryan Whitney (vote for up to four of the following) 2007-08 ALL-STAR RIGHT DEFENSE: QCP Kevin Bieksa VAW Jay Bouwmeester SES Dan Boyle LIB Zdeno Chara FLO Christian Ehrhoff BRK Sergei Gonchar HRH Niclas Havelid MIN Toni Lydman LYN Bryan McCabe STM Andrej Meszaros FGF Zbynek Michalek SHS Derek Morris PIT Scott Niedermayer BUF Dion Phaneuf HOU Chris Pronger SEA Brian Rafalski CGC Craig Rivet MAN Michal Rozsival CCC Mathieu Schneider TPK Wade Redden ESA Dennis Wideman NCH Alexei Zhitnik MON Marek Zidlicky NEV Sergei Zubov (vote for up to four of the following) 2007-08 ALL-STAR GOALTENDER: VAW Niklas Backstrom TPK Ed Belfour PIT Martin Brodeur QCP Peter Budaj BUF Rick DiPietro FLO Ray Emery SES Marc-Andre Fleury NEV Jean-Sebastien Giguere MAN Dominik Hasek HRH Cristobal Huet NCH Miikka Kiprusoff BRK Olaf Kolzig CCC Manny Legace ESA Kari Lehtonen SHS Henrik Lundqvist FGF Roberto Luongo CGC Chris Mason LIB Evgeni Nabokov MIN Antero Niittymaki MON Fredrik Norrena LYN Mike Smith STM Tim Thomas SEA Veas Toskala HOU Tomas Vokoun ********************************************************************* NSHL CAREER LEADERS: GAMES PLAYED: 868 Jaromir Jagr 858 Chris Gratton 842 Nicklas Lidstrom 831 Tony Amonte 827 Sergei Zubov 824 Brendan Shanahan 820 Scott Niedermayer 817 Sergei Gonchar 817 Jason Smith 811 Miroslav Satan GOALS: 615 Jaromir Jagr 446 Peter Bondra 435 Joe Sakic 402 Teemu Selanne 401 Brendan Shanahan 345 Miroslav Satan 332 Mats Sundin 331 Jarome Iginla 330 Daniel Alfredsson 327 Markus Naslund ASSISTS: 626 Nicklas Lidstrom 597 Jaromir Jagr 559 Mats Sundin 557 Joe Sakic 512 Brian Leetch 493 Peter Forsberg 487 Sergei Zubov 477 Paul Kariya 468 Daniel Alfredsson 463 Sergei Fedorov POINTS: 1212 Jaromir Jagr 992 Joe Sakic 891 Mats Sundin 800 Peter Bondra 798 Daniel Alfredsson 793 Nicklas Lidstrom 790 Paul Kariya 787 Teemu Selanne 784 Brendan Shanahan 755 Mike Modano PLUS-MINUS: +338 Nicklas Lidstrom +262 Mats Sundin +235 Joe Sakic +222 Alexei Zhitnik +221 Jaromir Jagr +215 Zigmund Palffy +210 Rob Blake +202 Teppo Numminen +196 Peter Bondra +192 Scott Stevens PENALTY MINUTES: 1241 Bryan McCabe 1133 Bill Guerin 1126 Brendan Shanahan 1064 Keith Tkachuk 1024 Chris Pronger 1023 Owen Nolan 1011 Zdeno Chara 1007 Brendan Witt 1005 Chris Gratton 943 Matthew Barnaby POWER-PLAY GOALS: 159 Jaromir Jagr 147 Joe Sakic 145 Brendan Shanahan 131 Teemu Selanne 122 Peter Bondra 116 Keith Tkachuk 108 Bill Guerin 104 Jarome Iginla 101 Miroslav Satan 100 Markus Naslund SHORTHANDED GOALS: 39 Peter Bondra 35 Craig Conroy 28 Brian Rolston 23 Rod Brind'amour 23 Greg Johnson 22 Kris Draper 21 Daymond Langkow 20 Mike Modano 20 Michal Handzus 19 Jarome Iginla 19 Miroslav Satan 19 Michael Peca GAME-WINNING GOALS: 100 Jaromir Jagr 60 Joe Sakic 58 Miroslav Satan 55 Brendan Shanahan 51 Jarome Iginla 49 Mark Recchi 49 Keith Tkachuk 48 Marian Hossa 47 Tony Amonte 46 Glen Murray SHOTS ON GOAL: 3836 Jaromir Jagr 3143 Joe Sakic 3098 Brendan Shanahan 3060 Peter Bondra 2751 Teemu Selanne 2722 Bill Guerin 2716 Jarome Iginla 2683 Miroslav Satan 2682 Daniel Alfredsson 2622 Mats Sundin SHOOTING PERCENTAGE (1000 shots minimum): 16.1% Mario Lemieux 16.0% Jaromir Jagr 15.8% Pavel Bure 14.8% Henrik Zetterberg 14.6% Teemu Selanne 14.6% Peter Bondra 14.6% Markus Naslund 14.4% Mark Messier 14.2% Eric Lindros 13.8% Joe Sakic ACTION CARDS (2004-present): 11844 Scott Niedermayer 11641 Zdeno Chara 10852 Bryan McCabe 10815 Sergei Zubov 10711 Nicklas Lidstrom 10514 Sergei Gonchar 10411 Jay Bouwmeester 10284 Chris Pronger 10235 Rob Blake 10188 Dan Hamhuis TAKEAWAYS (2004-present): 274 Nicklas Lidstrom 260 Scott Hannan 251 Kimmo Timonen 242 Kim Johnsson 237 Tomas Kaberle 232 Scott Niedermayer 223 Sergei Zubov 218 Mattias Norstrom 217 Chris Pronger 215 Zdeno Chara HITS (2004-present): 335 Zdeno Chara 257 Jason Smith 253 Adam Foote 238 Chris Pronger 237 Hal Gill 235 Mattias Norstrom 233 Brendan Witt 220 Dan Hamhuis 215 Philippe Boucher 209 Chris Phillips 209 Robyn Regehr SUCCESSFUL PENETRATIONS (2004-present): 264 Ilya Kovalchuk 244 Marian Hossa 235 Jaromir Jagr 234 Jarome Iginla 229 Miroslav Satan 224 Brad Richards 212 Daniel Alfredsson 209 Joe Thornton 209 Teemu Selanne 203 Brian Gionta 203 Milan Hejduk ANY-PLAYER SHOTS (2004-present): 570 Ilya Kovalchuk 479 Erik Cole 468 Radim Vrbata 466 Jaromir Jagr 425 Jarome Iginla 419 Sergei Gonchar 404 Olli Jokinen 392 Brad Richards 392 Vincent Lecavalier 390 Miroslav Satan FACEOFFS TAKEN (2004-present): 2670 Joe Thornton 2609 Rod Brind'amour 2498 Joe Sakic 2455 Mats Sundin 2400 Chris Drury 2012 Vincent Lecavalier 1979 Brendan Morrison 1975 Kris Draper 1963 Eric Staal 1851 Olli Jokinen FACEOFFS WON (2004-present): 1559 Rod Brind'amour 1490 Joe Sakic 1469 Joe Thornton 1400 Mats Sundin 1370 Chris Drury 1111 Jason Spezza 1100 Saku Koivu 1088 Kris Draper 1069 Jarret Stoll 1038 Pavel Datsyuk FACEOFF PERCENTAGE (2004-present, 1000 shots minimum): 73.9% Yanic Perreault 64.2% Matt Cullen 64.1% Saku Koivu 62.4% Jason Spezza 62.2% Jarret Stoll 61.8% Bobby Holik 60.6% Derek Armstrong 59.8% Rod Brind'amour 59.6% Joe Sakic 58.8% Mike Sillinger GOALTENDER GAMES PLAYED: 713 Martin Brodeur 606 Olaf Kolzig 504 Ed Belfour 496 Dominik Hasek 438 Curtis Joseph 415 Roberto Luongo 406 Tommy Salo 385 Patrick Roy 376 Jose Theodore 363 Evgeni Nabokov GOALTENDER MINUTES PLAYED: 41873 Martin Brodeur 36122 Olaf Kolzig 29573 Dominik Hasek 29281 Ed Belfour 25227 Curtis Joseph 24566 Roberto Luongo 23814 Tommy Salo 22194 Jose Theodore 22172 Patrick Roy 21565 Evgeni Nabokov GOALTENDER WINS: 312 Martin Brodeur 307 Olaf Kolzig 246 Dominik Hasek 225 Roberto Luongo 213 Jose Theodore 206 Tommy Salo 200 Ed Belfour 194 Jean-Sebastien Giguere 187 Nikolai Khabibulin 177 Curtis Joseph GOALTENDER LOSSES: 326 Martin Brodeur 233 Ed Belfour 226 Olaf Kolzig 201 Dominik Hasek 200 Curtis Joseph 167 Evgeni Nabokov 163 Roberto Luongo 159 Patrick Lalime 150 Tommy Salo 149 Tomas Vokoun GOALTENDER WINNING PERCENTAGE (100 decisions): 63.6% Cristobal Huet 61.4% Tom Barrasso 61.2% Jose Theodore 60.7% Chris Osgood 60.1% Martin Gerber 59.3% Miikka Kiprusoff 59.2% Manny Legace 58.2% Jean-Sebastien Giguere 57.5% Roberto Luongo 57.1% Tommy Salo GOALS AGAINST: 1975 Martin Brodeur 1441 Ed Belfour 1437 Olaf Kolzig 1302 Dominik Hasek 1171 Curtis Joseph 1094 Tommy Salo 1063 Evgeni Nabokov 1059 Roberto Luongo 990 Nikolai Khabibulin 976 Jose Theodore GOALS-AGAINST AVERAGE (10000 minutes): 2.39 Olaf Kolzig 2.44 Jeff Hackett 2.47 Manny Legace 2.56 Patrick Roy 2.59 Roberto Luongo 2.61 Steve Shields 2.62 Stephane Fiset 2.63 Manny Fernandez 2.64 Jose Theodore 2.64 Chris Osgood SHUTOUTS: 60 Olaf Kolzig 47 Martin Brodeur 41 Chris Osgood 39 Jose Theodore 38 Ed Belfour 37 Roberto Luongo 35 Dominik Hase 33 Patrick Roy 29 Nikolai Khabibulin 27 Tommy Salo SAVE PERCENTAGE (10000 minutes played): 91.8% Olaf Kolzig 91.8% Jeff Hackett 91.6% Manny Legace 91.2% Roberto Luongo 91.2% Manny Fernandez 91.2% Tomas Vokoun 91.1% Dominik Hasek 91.1% Jean-Sebastien Giguere 91.0% Ron Tugnutt GOALIE RATING SAVE PERCENTAGE (2004-present, 500 goalie ratings faced): 74.7% Roberto Luongo 74.7% Cristobal Huet 74.3% Tomas Vokoun 73.5% Ray Emery 73.1% Manny Legace 72.9% Miikka Kiprusoff 72.8% Olaf Kolzig 72.7% Henrik Lundqvist 71.2% Tim Thomas 70.9% Martin Brodeur ********************************************************************* ASSOCIATE LIST: SINCE GP Dean Engemoen June 16, 2007 17 Francois Lessard December 10, 2006 8 Steve Kramer December 13, 2004 0 Greg Ralls December 14, 2004 0 Andrew Smith November 19, 2005 0 J.J. Schrems May 1, 2006 0 Scott Bruner June 18, 2007 0 Dale Ripley September 11, 2007 0 Steve Beren February 2, 2008 0 If you're still an active associate, and aren't on this list, please get in contact with me. Thanks! Doug ********************************************************************* League Governing Boards Responsibilities of the following governing boards are outlined in the Constitution. Review Board Tom Vinacci, Buffalo Bulldogs Patrick Shea, Long Island Berserkers Mark McNeil, Lyndonville Blades Constitutional Council Head: Patrick Shea (patrickjshea at verizon dot net) Doug Norris, Commissioner Brian Leahy, Vice-Commissioner Andy Bartalone, St. Michael's owner (vacant) *********************************************************************