NHL Birthday Blog Battle: January 23rd - January 29th

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 23rd-29th. First we start with a list of active players:

January 23rd:

-Leo Komarov Toronto Maple Leafs, 30 years old

-Lucas Lessio Montreal Canadiens, 24 years old

-Cristoval Nieves New York Rangers, 23 years old

January 24th:

-Jack Hillen Carolina Hurricanes, 31 years old

-Zack Kassian Edmonton Oilers, 26 years old

-Matt Puempel New York Rangers, 24 years old

-Griffin Reinhart Edmonton Oilers, 23 years old

January 25th

-Jared Cowen Toronto Maple Leafs, 26 years old

-Noah Hanifin Carolina Hurricanes, 20 years old

January 26th:

-none

January 27th:

-Carlo Colaiacovo Buffalo Sabres, 34 years old

-Tim Heed San Jose Sharks, 26 years old

January 28th:

-Daniel Carcillo Chicago Blackhawks, 32 years old

-Colin Fraser St,Louis Blues, 32 years old

January 29th:

-Joel Eriksson Ek Minnesota Wild, 20 years old

-Thomas Greiss New York Islanders, 31 years old

-Kevin Shattenkirk St,Louis Blues, 27 years old

-Drew Shore Calgary Flames, 26 years old

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

GP = 3295

G = 306

A = 667

Pts = 973

Those are the weakest we have seen. Not a good week for active players...

Now here is a list of notable retired stars:

-Scott Hannan (January 23rd) 38 years old

-Tomas Holmstrom (January 23rd) 44 years old

-Brendan Shanahan (January 23rd) 48 years old

-Guy Charron (January 24th) 68 years old

-Chris Chelios (January 25th) 55 years old

-Fern Flaman (January 25th) passed away on June 22nd 2012 at 85 years old

-Randy McKay (January 25th) 50 years old

-Paul Ranheim (January 25th) 51 years old

-Esa Tikkanen (January 25th) 52 years old

-Wayne Gretzky (January 26th) 56 years old

-Frank Nighbor (January 26th) passed on April 13th 1966 at 73 years old

-Dale McCourt (January 26th) 60 years old

-Patrice Brisebois (January 27th) 46 years old

-Terry Harper (January 27th) 77 years old

-Dave Manson (January 27th) 50 years old

-Rhett Warrener (January 27th) 41 years old

-Paul Henderson (January 28th) 74 years old

-Mark Napier (January 28th) 60 years old

-Michal Pivonka (January 28th) 51 years old

-Stan Smyl (January 28th) 59 years old

-Sean Burke (January 29th) 50 years old

-Mike Foligno (January 29th) 58 years old

-Dominik Hasek (January 29th) 52 years old

-Joe Primeau (January 29th) passed away on May 15th 1989 at 83 years old

-Pat Quinn (January 29th) passed away on November 23rd 2014 at 71 years old

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

GP = 22,666

G = 4783

A = 8540

Pts = 13,323

Another complete blowout by the retired stars. Wayne Gretzky's totals alone surpass that of the combined active players!

See you next Monday, for another Blog Birthday Battle!