Scoring By Forwards: Last Ten Games

by Jonathan Willis on Mar 15, 2009 11:16 AM MDT

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 12:28 PM MDT reply actions

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 12:43 PM MDT reply actions

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 12:46 PM MDT reply actions

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 1:24 PM MDT reply actions

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Northwest Standings

	GP	W	L	OTL	PT
Vancouver Nucks Misconduct	53	33	15	5	71
Minnesota Hockey Wilderness	53	25	20	8	58
Colorado Mile High Hockey	55	27	25	3	57
Calgary Matchsticks and Gasoline	53	24	22	7	55
Edmonton The Copper & Blue	53	21	27	5	47

(updated 2.8.2012 at 7:10 AM MST)

21 - 27 - 5

Streak: Lost 1

Oilers Schedule

Next 5 Games

@ Detroit Winging It In Motown	Wed 02/08	5:30 PM MST
@ Ottawa Silver Seven	Sat 02/11	12:00 PM MST
Toronto Pension Plan Puppets	Wed 02/15	8:00 PM MST
Colorado Mile High Hockey	Fri 02/17	7:30 PM MST
Vancouver Nucks Misconduct	Sun 02/19	7:00 PM MST

Last 5 Games

@ Toronto Pension Plan Puppets	Mon 02/06	L 3 - 6
Detroit Winging It In Motown	Sat 02/04	SO - W 5 - 4
Chicago Second City Hockey	Thu 02/02	W 8 - 4
Colorado Mile High Hockey	Tue 01/31	W 3 - 2
@ Vancouver Nucks Misconduct	Tue 01/24	SO - L 2 - 3