Like the NHL regular season, the AHL regular season is nearly over. Teams have seven to thirteen games left in the AHL season. It is quite likely that Corey Locke of the Binghamton Senators (Ottawa farm affiliate) will win the scoring title. With ten games left in this season, Locke has 80 points so far this season. He projects to 93 points. Second in the scoring race is Alexandre Giroux of the Oklahoma City Barons (Edmonton affiliate), who is currently in the NHL and Darren Haydar of the Chicago Wolves (Atlanta affiliate). They are tied with 67 points. They are far enough behind Locke that it is quite likely Locke wins the scoring title.
Locke projects to be the lowest scoring AHL top scorer since 2003/04. In part this is because of callups of top scorers this season and part because scoring is slowly dropping in the AHL since the lockout rule changes were instituted.
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