Recapping The Oilers Season Recaps
by ryanbatty on Jun 6, 2011 6:30 AM MDT
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Just a little under two months ago the NHL playoffs kicked off. It was an exciting time with the fans of 16 teams dreaming of their team hoisting the Stanley Cup in a couple months time. With the Oilers long since eliminated from the playoffs those of us here at the Copper and Blue decided that rather than just watching the playoffs and having a good time we'd much rather keep the wounds of the 2010/11 season wide open and provide all or readers a three part review of every player.
Because there is only so much we can do alone this project was was a joint effort between the writers of the Copper and Blue and Bruce McCurdy from the Cult of Hockey. Derek introduced each player with a breakdown of their cumulative scoring chances courtesy of Dennis King's work at mc79hockey.com. Bruce followed with more analysis of the scoring chances and a look at the advanced stats at the Cult of Hockey, and finally Scott and I closed out each player with an overview and a look ahead for each player.
For those of you with masochist tendencies like us who enjoy recapping a second straight 30th place season I would like to personally thank you for reading and contributing your many comments. For those of you who missed a story or two while having a life that doesn't revolve around the Oilers what follows are links to all 78 stories - just imagine how many stories we'd write if this team was any good.
Jim Vandermeer - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, He is Who We Thought He Was
Taylor Hall - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, Simply Outstanding
Ladislav Smid - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, Just Keeps On Keeping On
Ryan Whitney - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, Offensive Defenceman
Shawn Horcoff - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, Like The Oilers, Horcoff Could Only Go Up
Andrew Cogliano - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, Stuck In The Middle
Jordan Eberle - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, Great Expectations
Colin Fraser - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, Low Event
J.F. Jacques - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, Eight Is Enough
Linus Omark - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, Power Play Specialist
Kurtis Foster - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, Not As Advertised
Dustin Penner - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, Fat, Slow, and Lazy
Ryan Jones - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, When Effort and Luck Collide
Steve MacIntyre - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, Paid To Hurt People
Nikolai Khabibulin - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, Somehow Still The Number 1
Devan Dubnyk - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, The People's Choice
Jason Strudwick - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, The Oilers Seventh Defenceman
Zack Stortini - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, What's Done Is Done
Theo Peckham - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, A Lot More Bash Than Flash
Jeff Petry - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, Taking Advantage
Gilbert Brule - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, What A Difference A Year Makes
Liam Reddox - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, He Will Be Missed
Tom Gilbert - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, Unappreciated By Some, Recognized As Awesome By Others
Ales Hemsky - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, Dehumanized and Commodified
Sam Gagner - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror*, Just Give It Time
Magnus Paajarvi - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror*, Yet Another Sign of Hope
Contained in those stories are a lot of predictions for what lies ahead for the Oilers. Feel free to let us know when we're right; when we're wrong I'll break the links.
*Bruce has yet to post these stories, when he does I'll include links
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Phenomenal work, all four of you, and a sincere thanks for all the hard work that must go into these articles. Do you guys ever reach the point where you just want to meet Tambellini and show him all the stats and stuff (particularly with regards to players like Penner) just to try and help him with the “decision-making process”?! If its frustrating for us fans, it must be infuriating for you writers who “uncover” all this info! Whilst I know the math isn’t infallible, it is definitely invaluable and correct much more often than not, so I do hope that the team uses it in some form or another (I seem to remember a David Staples article on Cult of Hockey a few weeks ago talking about some teams using advanced stats).
Do you guys ever reach the point where you just want to meet Tambellini and show him all the stats and stuff (particularly with regards to players like Penner) just to try and help him with the "decision-making process"?
Every now and then I get the overwhelming urge to just give up completely. I get the sense that management doesn’t get it so if we’re ever going to be good it’ll be the result of pure luck more than anything else. The Penner trade was a perfect example of this. But there is always something that brings me back.
My wife once compared being an Oiler fan to golfing. I hate that damn game about 95% of the time I’m playing but the couple good shots are what bring me back. Pretty much how I feel about the Oilers a lot of the time too.
Everyone knows rock attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact.
Writer for The Copper & Blue and a frequenter of the time waster that is Twitter.
Do you guys ever reach the point where you just want to meet Tambellini and show him all the stats and stuff (particularly with regards to players like Penner) just to try and help him with the “decision-making process”?
Is it sad that when I play the “What I would do if I were a billionare” game, I often dream of buying the team, kicking Tambellini out, and hiring the Oilogosphere writers to run the Oilers? Cause it seems to me like you all put in 10x the effort ST does, and know more about building a team than he does.
Insert Witty Comment Here
On a serious note, I believe it’s only a matter of time until something like this (on a smaller scale) happens. Theo Epstein was hired a decade after Billy Beane, and I think we’ll see something similar in the NHL in the next decade.
Editor of The Copper & Blue, and leader of The Cult Of Hartikainen.
A guy who’ll join a massive-market team and spend hundreds of millions of dollars chasing big, famous names who gets the “sabermetric” rep because he found David Ortiz?
Manager at Vancouver Whitecaps and western Canadian soccer website Eighty Six Forever and infrequently-posting flunky at Edmonton Oilers blog The Copper & Blue.
by Benjamin Massey on Jun 8, 2011 2:37 PM MDT up reply actions
I know the Oilers hired a guy with a comp sci and mathematics background who did work in stats previously. I also know he’s doing some interesting stuff. What I don’t know is if the Oilers are listening to him. Given the extended timeline for a rebuild, I can say it doesn’t matter at this point, at least in their eyes.
Editor of The Copper & Blue, and leader of The Cult Of Hartikainen.
Thank you sir. We’ll have some stuff reviewing the Barons up soon.
Editor of The Copper & Blue, and leader of The Cult Of Hartikainen.
#42
Reruns are great as Compared to;
1.How I will feel if the Winnipeg team is called the Polar bears.
2. Search for cancer in the male body.
3. Canucks……(Fill In)
4. Flames…….(Fill In)
5.
by Sheldon Oilers Fan for Life on Jun 6, 2011 1:28 PM MDT reply actions
When it comes to “filling in” Canucks and Flames, that’s what MacIntyre is for.
Writer for The Cult of Hockey, The Copper & Blue, and primary shareholder of Zorg Industries
"Never be ashamed of who you are" -- Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg
by Bruce McCurdy on Jun 6, 2011 3:02 PM MDT up reply actions
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