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Scoring By Forwards: Last Ten Games

What follows is a list of Oilers’ forwards and their offensive production over their last ten games.

Some caveats first: everybody gets cold, so this isn't intended to make any grand statements about the players listed, just show slumps/hot streaks.

There's lots of interesting stuff here, though - the top name and bottom three names on the list, and where the fourth line slot in all jumped out at me.

Sam Gagner: 4G – 4A – 8PTS, +5
Ales Hemsky: 3G – 3A – 6PTS, EV
Shawn Horcoff: 1G – 5A – 6PTS, -3
Andrew Cogliano: 3G – 2A – 5PTS, +3
Zack Stortini: 2G – 2A – 4PTS, +2
Kyle Brodziak: 2G – 2A – 4PTS, +2
Liam Reddox: 1G – 3A – 4PTS, +2
Fernando Pisani*: 1G – 3A – 4PTS, +1
Marc Pouliot: 1G – 2A – 3PTS, +2
Patrick O’Sullivan: 1G – 2A – 3PTS, -2
Robert Nilsson: 2G – 0A – 2PTS, +2
Ethan Moreau: 0G – 2A – 2PTS, +1
Ales Kotalik: 1G – 1A – 2PTS, -4
Dustin Penner: 0G – 0A – 0PTS, +3

To make it fair (so that everybody had ten games) I used each player’s last ten games rather than the last ten games the Oilers have played. The asterix on Fernando Pisani’s name indicates that 2 of his 10 games came before his recent injury.

Oh, and over at OilersNation I discuss the penalty kill and take shots at the print media.

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Ales Kotalik: 1G – 1A – 2PTS, -4

Seems to be dragging

Shawn Horcoff: 1G – 5A – 6PTS, -3

down.


Dustin Penner: 0G – 0A – 0PTS, +3

Funny line that backs up the makes people better argument.

by Coach pb9617 on Mar 15, 2009 11:28 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

In fairness to Kotalik, half of those ten games came with Buffalo. I'd guess that the time in the defensive zone is what's killing Horcoff.

by Jonathan Willis on Mar 15, 2009 11:43 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Makes you wonder what Zack Stortini did to "earn" his seat in the pressbox.

After watching the Oilers' lacklustre performances in the two games since he got yanked -- uninspired home losses to sadsack Atlanta and Colorado -- I can only hope he's back in there sooner rather than later.

by Bruce on Mar 15, 2009 11:46 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Makes you wonder what Zack Stortini did to "earn" his seat in the pressbox.

Yeah, I don't get it at all. J-F Jacques showed well in his three games, too. I'd be happy with:

O'Sullivan - Horcoff - Hemsky
Nilsson - Gagner - Penner
Brodziak - Cogliano - Pisani
Moreau - Pouliot - Stortini

or something like that; sub Nilsson out, put Pouliot there as needed and dress Jacques/Reddox/Kotalik.

If Kotalik isn't producing on the powerplay, he isn't a top-12 forward on this team, IMO.

It's not going to happen though; the optics are all wrong.

by Jonathan Willis on Mar 15, 2009 12:24 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

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Oilers Stats Leaders

Stat

Forwards

Defense

TOI/G:

Horcoff (19:37)

Souray (22:46)

ESTOI/G:

Horcoff (14:59)

Grebeshkov (17:23)

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Penner (44)

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Penner (22)

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Penner (22)

Visnovsky (20)

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Penner (.190)

Visnovsky(.137)

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Penner (153)

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Penner(1.26)

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