NHL Birthday Blog Battle: December 26th-January 1st

Welcome to another Birthday Blog Battle, 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 26th to January 1st. First we start with a list of active players:

December 27th:

-Christopher Gibson NY Islanders, 24 years old

-Jon Marchessault Florida Panthers, 26 years old

-Patrick Sharp Dallas Stars, 35 years old

-Paul Stastny St.Louis Blues, 31 years old

December 28th:

-Curtin Glencross Washington Capitals, 34 years old

-Tomas Jurco Detroit Red Wings, 24 years old

December 29th:

-Sean Collins Washington Capitals, 28 years old

-Derek Ryan Carolina Hurricanes, 30 years old

December 30th:

-Jakub Nakladal Carolina Hurricanes, 29 years old

-Rod Scuderi Los Angeles Kings, 38 year old

Decemeber 31:

- Corey Crawford Chicago Blackhawks, 32 years old

- Dennis Everberg Colorado Avalanche, 25 years old

- Brandon Tanev Winnipeg Jets, 25 years old

January 1st:

- Jeff Carter Los Angeles Kings, 32 years old

-Patrick Hornqvist Pittsburgh Penguins, 30 years old

-Devin Setoguchi Los Angeles Kings, 30 years old

So the Kings have 3 players that celebrate their birthday this week. That's alot of cake for one team.

Here are the combined total number of games, goals, assists, and points of the above players.

GP = 5463

G = 1269

A = 1598

Pts = 2867

Pretty decent total, given the small amount of players.

Now here is a list of notable retired stars:

-Norm Ullman (December 26th) 81 years old

-Jay Pandolfo (December 27th) 42 years old

-Mickey Redmond (December 27th) 69 years old

-Bryan Smolinski (December 27th) 45 years old

-Ray Bourque (December 28th) 56 years old

-Harry Howell (December 28th) 84 years old

-Rob Niedermayer (December 28th) 42 years old

-Terry Sawchuk (December 29th) passed away at 40 years old on May 31st,1970

-Filip Kuba (December 29th) 40 years old

-George Parros (December 29th) 37 years old

-Nels Stewart (December 29th) passed away at 54 years old on August 21st,1957

-Lester Patrick (December 30th) passed away at 76 years old on June 1st, 1960

-Charlie Gardiner (December 31st) passed away at 29 years old on June 13th, 1934

-Rene Robert (December 31st) 68 years old

-Terry Ruskowski (December 31st) 62 years old

-Bobby Holik (January 1st) 46 years old

-Dave Hunter (January 1st) 59 years old

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

GP = 14,764

G = 3055

A = 5034

Pts = 8089

So once again the retired stars pull out another victory, and are 4-0 in the Birthday Blog Battle. The streak continues!