NHL Birthday Blog Battle: February 20th - February 26th

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 February 20th- February 26th. First we start with a list of active players:

February 20th:

-Martin Hanzal Arizona Coyotes, 30 years old

-Ben Lovejoy New Jersey Devils, 33 years old

-Jarred Tinordi Arizona Coyotes, 25 years old

February 21st:

-Ian Cole Pittsburgh Penguins, 28 years old

-Jake Muzzin Los Angeles Kings, 28 years old

-James Wisniewski Carolina Hurricanes, 33 years old

February 22nd:

-Chris Bigras Colorado Avalanche, 22 years old

-Nicolas Deslauriers Buffalo Sabres, 26 years old

-Curtis McKenzie Dallas Starts, 26 years old

-Andrej Nestrasil Carolina Hurricanes, 26 years old

-Paul Postma Winnipeg Jets, 28 years old

February 23rd:

-Kevin Connauton Arizona Coyotes, 27 years old

-Stefan Matteau Montreal Canadiens, 23 years old

-Marco Scandella Minnesota Wild, 27 years old

-Nick Schmaltz Chicago Blackhawks, 21 years old

February 24th:

-Tyler Bertuzzi Detroit Red Wings, 22 years old

-Phillip Danault Montreal Canadiens, 24 years old

February 25th:

-Justin Abdelkader Detroit Red Wings, 30 years old

-Jamie McBain Arizona Coyotes, 29 years old

-Joakim Nordstrom Carolina Hurricanes, 25 years old

-Jeff Schultz Los Angeles Kings, 31 years old

-Lukas Sedlak Columbus Blue Jackets, 24 year old

February 26th:

-Barclay Goodrow San Jose Sharks, 24 years old

-Mikael Granlund Minnesota Wild, 25 years old

-Jacob Trouba Winnipeg Jets, 23 years old

Arizona has 4 players that celebrate their birthday's this week. That is alot of cake for one team!

Let's see how their point total amount to.

GP: 5774

G: 571

A: 1348

Pts: 1919

Those are some pretty weak totals. One of the lowest recorded. It's not looking good for the active players.

Now here is a list of notable retired stars:

-Phil Esposito (February 20th) 75 years old

-Christian Ruuttu (February 20th) 53 years old

-Brian Rolston (February 21st) 44 years old

-Ryan Smyth (February 21st) 41 years old

-Sid Abel (February 22nd) passed away at 81 years old on February 7th, 2000

-Eddie Gerard (February 22nd) passed away at 47 years old on December 7th, 1937

-Pat Lafontaine (February 22nd) 52 years old

-Jeff O"Neill (February 23rd) 41 years old

-Murray Costello (February 24th) 82 years old

-Alex Kovalev (February 24th) 44 years old

-Mike Vernon (February 24th) 54 years old

-King Clancy (February 25th) passed away at 83 years old on November 8th, 1986

-Anders Hedberg (February 25th) 66 years old

-Joe Mullen (February 26th) 60 years old

And let's have a look at their totals:

GP: 11,233

G: 3776

A: 4771

Pts: 8547

Not many players, but an average of 610 points per player. That is pretty impressive! Once again, another victory by the retired stars. (and this one was a total KO)

See you next Monday, for another Blog Birthday Battle!