NHL Birthday Blog Battle: January 9th - January 15th

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 January 9th-15th. First we start with a list of active players:

January 9th:

-Jack Campbell Los Angeles Kings, 25 years old

-Radek Faksa, Dallas Stars, 23 years old

January 10th:

-John Carlson Washington Capitals, 27 years old

-Tom Gilbert Los Angeles Kings, 34 years old

-Martin Jones San Jose Sharks, 27 years old

-Tobias Rieder Arizone Coyotes, 24 years old

January 11th:

-Mark Pysyk Florida Panthers, 25 years old

January 12th:

-Claude Giroux Philadelphia Flyers, 29 years old

-Marian Hossa Chicago Blackhawks, 38 years old

-Niklas Kronwall Detroit Red Wings, 36 years old

January 13th:

-Kyle Clifford Los Angeles Kings, 26 years old

-Jack Johnson Columbus Blue Jackets, 30 years old

-Connor McDavid Edmonton Oilers, 20 years old

-Ivan Provonov Philadelphia Flyers, 20 years old

-Ryan Sproul Detroit Red Wings, 24 years old

-Marc Staal New York Rangers, 30 years old

-Austin Watson Nashville Predators, 25 years old

January 14th:

-Connor Brown Toronto Maple Leafs, 23 years old

-Peter Holland Arizona Coyotes, 26 years old

January 15th:

-none

-So for the first time ever, we don't have an active NHL player who celebrates their birthday on a day.

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

GP = 6658

G = 1129

A = 2233

Pts = 3362

Now here is a list of notable retired stars:

-Radek Bonk (January 9th), 41 years old

-Bruce Boudreau (January 9th) 62 years old

-Mathieu Garon (January 9th) 39 years old

-Scott Thornton (January 9th) 46 years old

-George Hay (January 10th) passed away at 77 years old on July 13th, 1975

-Normand Leveille (January 10th) 54 years old

-Frank Mahovlich (January 10th) 79 years old

-Dave Burrows (January 11th) 68 years old

-Dave Kerr (January 11th) passed away at 68 years old on May 11th. 1978

-Rob Ramage (January 11th) 58 years old

-Ron Stern (January 11th) 50 years old

-Ulf Dahlen (January 12th) 50 years old

-Tim Horton (January 12th) passed away at 44 years old on February 21st, 1974

-Jocelyn Thibault (January 12th) 42 years old

-Sergei Brylin (January 13th) 43 years old

-Kelly Hrudey (January 13th) 56 years old

-Cesare Maniago (January 13th) 78 years old

-Mike Palmateer (January 13th) 63 years old

-Art Ross (January 13th) passed away at 79 years old on August 5th, 1964

-Bob Essensa (January 14th) 52 years old

-Sergei Nemchinov (January 14th) 53 years old

-Babe Siebert (January 14th) passed away at 35 years old on August 25th, 1939

-Adam Burt (January 15th) 47 years old

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

GP = 14,622

G = 2108

A = 5368

Pts = 7476

Another victory by the retired stars, but the active NHL players did put up a good fight. This was due mainly to two players. (Claude Giroux and Marian Hossa) Who together have contributed 1664 points! They also share the same birthday. Interesting..

Check back next week, for another Blog Birthday Battle!