NHL2-1

The first project undertaken at the Cosmic Data-Bank was the analysis of 761 members of the National Hockey League taken from the 2000 - 2001 season. This is a newer look at the National Hockey League with a total of 1,267 players including all the players of the 2005 - 2006 season.

The player in this study with the most life experience is Igor Larionov born December 3, 1960 and the player in this study with the least life experience is Sidney Crosby born August 7, 1987. Included in this project are 142 players born in the 1960s, 712 born in the 1970s and 413 born in the 1980s. The players were distributed by birth through the months as shown below.

MONTH OF BIRTH	NUMBER OF PLAYERS	% OF TOTAL
January	141	11.1 high
February	128	10.1
March	122	9.6
April	120	9.5
May	117	9.2
June	122	9.6
July	95	7.5
August	91	7.2
September	80	6.3
October	89	7.0
November	74	5.8 low
December	88	6.9

There are 1,267 players in this study and 365 days in all years except those with a February 29th date, the Leap Years. If one divides 1267 by 365 the result is 3.5 players born each and every day of the year as an average. But in this study I found some days when none of the players was born. These are shown in the table below.

A problem with counting by month arises because the months are not of equal length. February has only 28 days in most years while many others have 31 days every year. It is not an equal playing field so the most informative look is obtained when we look at the position of the planet Earth in the 360° circle around the Sun at the time of birth for each players. The setup can be 12 sectors each of 30° or 36 smaller sectors each of 10° in the circle around the Sun and these can be used as addresses for the planets.

RESEARCH NOTE: Some researchers propose that elite hockey players are the result of an "age advantage" because they are born in the early parts of the year.

I found the study interesting and it concludes that there is a physical development advantage to be born early in the year rather than later in the year if you are all going to be playing on the same hockey team. However, I think it is just one possible part of the answer as to what contributes to "excellence and achievement". The physical difference advantage would soon disappear as the children matured.

Another proposal, put forth by Dr. Anders Ericsson, is that "practice makes perfect" and there is no dispute about that. But it does not explain why anyone would aspire to be involved in a sport that has potentially serious physical danger present at all times, even before it became such an extremely high paying career choice.

The table below shows the distribution by sector for planet Earth in the heliograms of the 1,267 NHL players. Of the four planets used in this study, Earth's position in the heliogram is the only one that can be associated with the seasons of the year. Earth in sector 8 indicates that the player was born in the second sector of the Spring season. Planets Mercury, Venus or Mars in sector 8 does not indicate a direct relationship to the Spring season. Please keep this in mind.

SECTOR	SEASON	COUNT	% OF TOTAL
1	Autumn	88	6.9
2	A	74	5.8 low
3	A	74	5.8 low
4	Winter	125	9.9
5	W	135	10.6 high
6	W	122	9.6
7	Spring	133	10.5
8	S	110	8.7
9	S	123	9.7
10	Summer	104	8.2
11	Su	85	6.7
12	Su	94	7.4

These 1,267 players were more likely to be born when the planet Earth was in sectors 4 - 9 with the highest percentage of players born with Earth in sector 5. Sector 7 has a total that comes a close second to sector 5 in frequency counts for players. Sector 5 relates to all calendar dates between January 21st and February 20th of most years. Sector 7 relates to a calendar date of March 21st through April 20th. This distribution of Earth in the 12 sectors confirms the same low and high frequency sectors as the original study done in 2000 with 761 players.

The table below shows the distribution by sector for planet Mercury in the heliograms of the 1,267 NHL players. Since Mercury does not travel in a circular orbit around the Sun it is very useful to know the number of births for each day that Mercury is in a sector.

SECTOR	PLAYER COUNT	DAYS IN SECTOR	BIRTHS PER DAY
1	68	6	11.3 low
2	83	5	16.6
3	73	4	18.2 high
4	62	5	12.4
5	75	6	12.5
6	99	7	14.1
7	127	8	15.9
8	146	10	14.6
9	160	11	14.5
10	138	10	13.8
11	143	9	15.9
12	93	7	13.3

The results show that 73 players were born with Mercury in sector 3. We also know that Mercury spends only 4 days in sector 3 giving a per day average of 18.2, much higher than any other sector. This information differs slightly from the first study in 2,000 which showed sector 11 as the sector with the highest count but it does confirm sector 1 as the low count sector.

The table below shows the distribution by sector for planet Venus in the heliograms of the 1,267 NHL players. The orbit of Venus is almost perfectly circular and Venus spends 19 days on average in each sector. The distribution of Venus in the heliograms of the 1,267 players is shown in the table below.

In this group of 1,267 players Venus is found most often in sector 6 (the same result as in the first NHL study) but the lowest count for Venus is found in sector 2 this time and not in sector 5 as was found in the earlier study. It is also true that in the first study sector 5 has the lowest count with sector 2 close behind.

The table below shows the distribution by sector for planet Mars in the heliograms of the 1,267 NHL players. The orbit of Mars is elliptical and it does not spend the same amount of time in each sector as it orbits the Sun. The table below shows all the details. The Player Count column tallies all the NHL players in this project who were born when Mars was in each sector. The Days in Sector column lists the average number of days Mars spent in each sector during the period including 1960 through 1990.

SECTOR	PLAYER COUNT	DAYS IN SECTOR	BIRTHS PER DAY
1	98	49	2.0 high
2	88	53	1.70
3	99	58	1.70
4	116	64	1.80
5	114	68	1.70
6	132	68	1.94
7	129	65	1.98
8	112	61	1.80
9	96	55	1.70
10	99	50	1.98
11	93	48	1.93
12	91	47	1.94

Mars spends only 49 days in sector 1 but has the highest rate of births per day contributing to the player's rosters in the NHL. The lowest rates of births per day were found in sectors 2, 3, 5 and 9. While the highest number of players were born with Mars in sector 6, that is also the sector where Mars spends the most orbital time. The highest count sectors are 1, 6, 7, 10, 11 and 12. In the original NHL study the high sector was 10 and the low sector was 2.

I have identified 8 major heliogram types in previous projects and the counts for the 1,267 NHL players are shown in the table below. There are other types of heliograms but these are the most frequently seen.

* Any planet can be the solo planet in the Solo Type heliogram but in this study 70 (22.4%) of the 312 players showed Mars as the solo planet. Saturn was seen to be the solo planet 17% of the time, second only to Mars. In the Olympic swimmers study the most frequent solo planet was also Mars (11.1% of the time) with planet Earth as the next most frequently seen solo planet. The solo type heliogram is seen in 13.5% of the general population.

I have identified 5 major planetary patterns in previous projects. These planetary patterns are those which are seen most often within the heliogram types. It is possible for a heliogram to have many different planetary patterns within it.

Of the 1,267 NHL players in this study, 73.8% of them had at least one stellium pattern on their heliogram. They may have other patterns as well. One player has a t-square + a kite + a stellium on his heliogram and there are other players with even more complex combinations of patterns. The t-square is seen in 30% of the general population but is seen in 57% of the 1,267 NHL players. In the original NHL study (Project 1 on this website) the t-square was found in 53% of the heliograms.

Listed below are the members of the men's 2006 Olympic hockey team from Canada. The following players did not play in the Olympics due to injury: Scott Niedermayer and Ed Jovanovski. The columns give the name of the player, the position of Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars in the sectors, the heliogram type and any planetary patterns.

NAME	ME IN SECT.	VE IN SECT.	EA IN SECT.	MA IN SECT.	H - TYPE	PLAN. PATRNS.
Bertuzzi, Todd	4	1	5 *	9	solo	K, S
Blake, Rob	11	8	3	1 *	bowl	S
Boumeester, Jay	2	1	1	5	butterfly	GT, S, T
Boyle, Dan	4	5	10	6	bowl	2S, T
Brodeur, Martin	10	7	8	4	bowl	K, S, T
Doan, Shane	4	10	1	8	bowl	K, S, T
Draper, Kris	11	1	9	10	bowl	S, T
Foote, Adam	7	3	10	10	wasp	K, S
Gagne, Simon	5	4	6	6	train	S
Heatley, Dany	12	9	5 *	11	bowl	K, 2S, T
Iginla, Jarome	4	12	10	1 *	bowl	GX, K
Jovanovski, Ed	1	4	10	6	bowl	K, 2T
Lecavalier, Vincent	11	6 *	8	7	hemispheric	S
Luongo, Roberto	8	10	7	12	bowl	S, T
McCabe, Bryan	9	7	9	12	solo	S, T
Nash, Rick	2	3	9	9	wasp	S
Niedermayer, Scott	6	9	12	12	bowl	2T
Pronger, Chris	11	7	1	7	solo	S, T
Redden, Wade	12	11	9	1 *	bowl	K
Regehr, Robyn	11	6 *	7	6	hemispheric	S
Richards, Brad	12	7	8	7	solo	S, T
Sakic, Joe	1	12	10	10	bowl	S
Smyth, Ryan	8	9	6	4	solo	K, S, T
Spezza, Jason	11	8	9	3	solo	K, 2S
Staal, Eric	9	11	2	12	hemispheric	S, T
St. Louis, Martin	10	8	9	12	solo	K, T
Thornton, Joe	8	3	10	2	bowl	K, T
Turco, Marty	7	11	11	1 *	bowl	S

Mercury is most often found in sector 3 for NHL players. None of the players on this Olympic hockey team had Mercury in that sector when they were born. In their personal heliograms only two of the players had Venus in a high count sector, two had the Earth in a high count sector and four players had Mars in a high count sector. This is a count of 8 points out of a possible 112 which is very low.

The column on the extreme right shows the planetary patterns that each player in this Olympic team has in his heliogram. The codes are as follows:

The frequency of the seven major heliogram types in the Olympic team reflects the overall frequency of these types within the NHL. For example, in the Olympic team the "solo type" heliogram accounts for 25% of the team and in the NHL total the solo type is found in 24.6% of the players' heliograms.

Canada's men's Olympic hockey team lost to Russia in the quarter-final round and that ended their chance of winning a medal.