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Analyzing the performance of the (theoretical) secondary scorers on the Oilers.

Andrew Cogliano can't win a faceoff and it's killing the Oilers. Should he move to the wing or move to a new team?

Andrew Cogliano will live in infamy. He joins Mario Mendoza at the bottom of the record books.

The Edmonton Oilers penalty kill this season went to work at a 84.7% success rate, good for fifth in the league. Penalty-killing is historically a strength on a Craig-Mactavish coached team, going...

One of the statistics that the number crunchers on various Oilers blogs constantly refer to is shooting percentage. A high shooting percentage (compared to a player's career average) likely...

Andrew Cogliano, 25th overallThe 2005 NHL Entry Draft was the draft immediately following the lockout, and it was notable for two things: draft order and Sidney Crosby. Because no NHL hockey had...

This is Jarret Stoll, facing off against one Joe Sakic, in what must have been a pretty typical encounter when the Oilers played the Avalanche this season. Stoll led the Oilers this season with a...

Every so often, I get the fairy-tale notion in my head that the Oilers could contend next season. Lowe's ambiguous statements ("We wouldn't mind trying to get another top-end forward") can be...

I have some time this morning, and I thought it might be nice to have a look at the younger players entering their 2nd/3rd season, and trying to decide what a reasonable expectation for them would...

There’s a good discussion on-going at Lowetide’s site about what constitutes reasonable expectations for Andrew Cogliano in 2008-09. Given that the topic is the closest thing to a dead horse...