Through sixteen games, the Edmonton Oilers were 9-5-2 and cruising. We knew it wasn't sustainable, but we didn't know it would be this bad. Beginning with a 6-3 loss to Chicago on November 13th, the Oilers went 7-17-1 over their next 25 games. The raw scoring chance carnage is after the jump.
All data recorded and compiled by the indomitable Dennis King at mc79hockey.com
I'm going to present this data without comment. Remember this is all raw data, nothing is adjusted for zonestart. First up is the regular forward crew:
Player | TSC | TSCA | CH% |
Taylor Hall | 84 | 75 | 0.528 |
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins | 89 | 87 | 0.506 |
Jordan Eberle | 90 | 100 | 0.474 |
Ryan Smyth | 95 | 107 | 0.470 |
Ales Hemsky | 86 | 98 | 0.467 |
Fwd Average | 0.450 | ||
Shawn Horcoff | 88 | 109 | 0.447 |
Sam Gagner | 72 | 90 | 0.444 |
Ryan Jones | 65 | 84 | 0.436 |
Ben Eager | 33 | 43 | 0.434 |
Magnus Paajarvi | 23 | 32 | 0.418 |
Eric Belanger | 53 | 78 | 0.405 |
Anton Lander | 28 | 46 | 0.378 |
Then the regular defensemen:
Player | TSC | TSCA | CH% |
Tom Gilbert | 95 | 89 | 0.516 |
Andy Sutton | 41 | 40 | 0.506 |
Ladislav Smid | 90 | 111 | 0.448 |
Def Average | 0.447 | ||
Colten Teubert | 44 | 55 | 0.444 |
Corey Potter | 47 | 60 | 0.439 |
Theo Peckham | 80 | 109 | 0.423 |
Jeff Petry | 92 | 130 | 0.414 |
Ryan Whitney | 41 | 60 | 0.406 |
And the goaltenders, if that's your thing:
Player | TSC | TSCA | CH% |
Nikolai Khabibulin | 168 | 205 | 0.450 |
Devan Dubnyk | 97 | 132 | 0.424 |
The irregulars:
Player | TSC | TSCA | CH% |
Alex Plante | 8 | 5 | 0.615 |
Ryan O`Marra | 2 | 2 | 0.500 |
Teemu Hartikainen | 5 | 8 | 0.385 |
Josh Green | 5 | 11 | 0.313 |
Taylor Chorney | 5 | 13 | 0.278 |
Lennart Petrell | 9 | 26 | 0.257 |
Darcy Hordichuk | 3 | 17 | 0.150 |
And finally, again, without comment:
Player | TSC | TSCA | CH% |
Team | 273 | 337 | 0.448 |
Tom Gilbert | 95 | 89 | 0.516 |
w/o Gilbert | 178 | 248 | 0.418 |