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Oilers Win Division!

Well, this is a little bit late, given that ESPN’s Scott Burnside posted his Summer Power Rankings back on July 25th, but when I saw them this morning, I simply had to pass the word on—he has Edmonton winning the Northwest Division.

Now, every year I see ridiculous forecasts in various sports journals (I’m particularly hard on The Hockey News since they should presumably know better) and disregard them, knowing that these largely-Eastern based columnists have a difficult time getting a read on the West. Read more...

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Northwest Standings

GP W L OTL PT
Vancouver 71 44 24 3 91
Colorado 70 40 24 6 86
Calgary 71 36 26 9 81
Minnesota 71 34 31 6 74
Edmonton 71 22 42 7 51

(updated 3.20.2010 at 1:16 AM PDT)

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Oilers Stats Leaders

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Forwards

Defense

TOI/G:

Horcoff (19:25)

Gilbert (22:10)

ESTOI/G:

Horcoff (14:29)

Grebeshkov (17:16)

Points:

Penner (53)

Visnovsky (32)

Goals:

Penner (26)

Visnovsky (10)

Assists:

Penner (27)

Visnovsky (22)

EV+/- /15

Penner (.145)

Smid (.090)

Shots:

Penner (178)

Gilbert (82)

Corsi/15:

Penner(.470)

Visnovsky (.460)

SCF/15:

Penner (5.011)

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Stortini (3.950)

Gilbert (4.279)

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