The Copper & Blue, an Edmonton Oilers community

Over the last two years, 32 players have played the toughest minutes for their team, the Copper & Blue breaks down the best forwards in the NHL.

In my post about the players that play the tough minutes, I found the numbers show that there are seventeen bonafide tough-minute outscorers in the league right now. They are rare and they are...

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...

No, not Garon. The player taking the shot is 2-time 57-point scorer Martin Erat, who was due to be a restricted free agent. No longer.TSN is reporting that Erat today signed a seven year,...

Shawn Horcoff is a legitimate number one centre in the National Hockey League. Those who say otherwise are either uninformed or willfully ignorant. There is simply no basis for claiming anything...

What they really need is the main man in the middle of the first line, scoring 40-plus goals and 50-plus points.Terry, Shawn Horcoff has been, and continues to be, the main man down the middle. The...

One of the more popular assumptions among those who follow the Oilers is that the powerplay was bad early on and that it came to life down the stretch, meaning that despite its 16.6% execution rate...

Shawn Horcoff has signed a 6-year, 33-million dollar contract with the Edmonton Oilers.Needless to say, I'm thrilled about this going forward. As I've noted previously, Horcoff is an in-his-prime,...

This is a quick look at the Oilers' Corsi ratings over the last ten games, courtesy of Vic Ferrari's indispensable Time On Ice program:Gagner: +15Pouliot: +15Nilsson: +9O'Sullivan: +4Penner: +1C...