NHL Birthday Blog Battle: December 12th-18th

Welcome to a new spotlight blog, where we will be looking at birthday's of current/retired NHL players. As an added bonus, I will compare points between active players, and retired players. A Birthday Blog Battle of sorts. I personally think it is fun and interesting to find out when NHL players are born. Maybe you share a birthday with one of your favorite NHL stars! This will become a weekly blog article, so if you like this one, you will be happy to know that there will be more like it

This week we start off by looking at birthday's from players born between December 12th to 18th. First we start with a list of active players:

December 12th

-Andrew Ladd New York Islanders, 31 years old

-Kevin Labanc, San Jose Sharks, 21 years old

December 13th

-Dan Hamhuis Dallas Stars, 34 years old

-Kevin Klein New York Rangers, 32 years old

-Vladimir Tarasenko St.Louis Blues, 25 years old

December 14th

-Cory Conacher Tampa Bay Lightning, 27 years old

-A.J. Greer Colorado Avalanche, 20 years old

-Emile Poirer Calgary Flames, 22 years old

-Mike Santorelli, Anaheim Ducks, 31 years old

December 15th

-Mike Blunden Ottawa Senators. 30 years old

-Erik Gustafsson Chicago Blackhawks, 25 years old

December 16th

-Mikkel Boedker San Jose Sharks, 27 years old

-Mike Weber Washington Capitals, 29 years old

December 17th

-Gregory Campbell Columbus Blue Jackets, 33 years old

December 18th

-Brian Boyle Tampa Bay Lightning, 32 years old

-Victor Hedman Tampa Bay Lightning, 26 years old

-Charlie Lindgren Montreal Canadiens, 23 years old

Interesting that teammates Brian Boyle and Victor Hedman share the same birthday. Now I LOVE statistics, so let's have fun. Here is the combined total numbers of games, goals, assists, and points of the above players.

GP =6039

G = 821

A = 1449

Pts = 2270

Andrew Ladd leads the way, with 472 points to date.

Now here is a list of notable retired stars:

-Ted Kennedy (December 12th) passed away at 83 years old on August 14th 2009

-John McKenzie (December 12th) 79 years old

-Dan Bouchard (December 12th) 66 years old

-Billy Smith (December 12th) 59 years old

-Clint Smith (December 12th) passed away at 95 years old on August May 19th 2009

-Sergei Federov (December 13th) 47 years old

-Bob Gainey (December 13th) 63 years old

-Doug Mohns (December 13th) passed away at 80 years old on February 7th 2014

-Bill Ranford (December 14th) 40 years old

-Frank St.Marseille (December 14th) 77 years old

-Patrick Sundstrom (December 14th) 55 years old

-Peter Sundstrom ( December 14th) 55 years old

-Chris Therien (December 14th) 48 years old

-Art Jackson (December 15th) 56 years old

-Mario Marios (December 15th) 63 years old

-Eric Belanger (December 16th) 39 years old

-Craig Berube (December 17th) 51 years old

-Vincent Damphousse (December 17th) 49 years old

-Frantisek Musil (December 17th) 52 years old

-Sameul Pahlsson (December 17th) 39 years old

-Dave Poulin (December 17th) 58 years old

-Gilles Tremblay (December 17th) 76 years old

-Dan Cleary (December 18th) 38 years old

-Jean Pronovost (December 18th) 71 years old

How about we look at these players stats as well. See if they compare with those of active NHL players.

GP = 17,590

G = 3878

A = 5980

Pts = 9858

Once again, the retired stars win this round, and the battle birthday royal is now 2-0 for the retired stars.

I do hope that you enjoy this blog, and check back next week for more birthday blog battles.