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Secondary scorers: analysis by microstat
66 games into this sorry, lost season, the Edmonton Oilers stand, er, lie in 30th place overall, 6 points in arrears of dismal Toronto and fully a dozen points back of the 28th place Islanders. It's a...
Edmonton's Left Wing Problems And The Impact On Shawn Horcoff
It's en vogue to bash Shawn Horcoff for his play this year, and the more ignorant media types bash his "seven million dollar cap hit", but allow me to mount a defense of the man. Bear with me wh...
Individual Point Percentage and/or Points Per Goal
In my recent article on Sam Gagner I mentioned his "individual point percentage" as one of the reasons to see him as progressing rather than stagnating over his first three seasons. So what isindividu...
Edmonton's Top 25 Under 25: #4 Ladislav Smid
Ladislav Smid takes the fourth slot in Copper & Blue’s top-25 under 25. He’s an excellent young player and he fills a role that is in short supply on the Oilers’ blue-line: defen...
Edmonton's Top 25 Under 25 - #5 Andrew Cogliano
The Top 25 Under 25 continues today with Andrew Cogliano. In the off-season, Cogliano was very nearly traded along with Dustin Penner and Ladislav Smid for Dany Heatley. Both Penner and Sm...
Trade Target - Brandon Dubinsky (C - NYR)
Once again, I've decided to steal from Fear The Fin's outstanding trade targets idea. You can see all of The Copper & Blue's trade targets here. The first trade target that The Copper & Blue...
I Need A Coach That Won't Drive Me Crazy
I was one of Craig MacTavish's foremost critics for the way he managed his team last season. While he self-admittedly lost control of the team and burned bridges with a number of players, he mai...
Trade Target - Stephen Weiss (C - FLA)
Fear The Fin has been publishing an ongoing series about players that the Sharks may target at the trade deadline to solidify the team for a Stanley Cup run. It's such a good idea that I've deci...
Olli Jokinen - Performing as expected
Olli Jokinen was once the darling of certain Oilers message boards and blogs, and was the topic of conversation around more than one Edmonton water cooler. He was the "big scoring center" that w...
More On J.F. Jacques
I posted an article yesterday about Jean-Francois Jacques and his effect on Shawn Horcoff and Patrick O'Sullivan. The final conclusion was that Jacques' game is not suited to NHL play at this po...
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