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Oilers Summer Camp, Day Two: Skills & Drills
Short and sweet this time as I was only able to take in the last hour or so of today's workout down at Clareview Arena. Today they had the prospects do the skating drills on the Olympic-sized Arena A before coming across to the NHL-sized Arena B for the remainder of the workout, and I timed my...
Oilers Draft Success: 2006-2009
I've written recently about measuring draft success by counting the "career players" that come out of each draft and each round or group of rounds. When I looked at the Oilers' draft picks from 2005-2009, I found that they were about three career players short of league average, and two of those...
2009 Draft - Forwards
The 2009 draft has come and gone. Those who spoke excitedly of Tavares, Hedman and Duchene now whisper the names Seguin, Hall and Fowler. With the Oilers only two points out of dead last it's hard not to join in, especially with Jonathan Willis having already started prepping us for the big day...
"Power Forward" Cameron Abney
It's occasionally fun to read articles out of training camp, especially articles where it's pretty clear that the writer is going to great lengths to talk up the subject. Today's example comes to us courtesy of the Edmonton Sun's normally excellent Derek Van Diest, who gives us a really...
Watch Out Jordan Bendfeld - Matt Nickerson Is On The Roster
I was a little surprised to find Matt Nickerson over at HF's list of Oilers prospects a few minutes ago, mostly because I'd never heard of the guy. Turns out there's a good reason for that; Nickerson was such a low-key free agent signing (this summer, believe it or not) that all Google News has...
Fun Comparables For Cameron Abney
All of the numbers here come from the draft years of these players: Georges Laraque: 62GP - 19G - 22A - 41PTS (31st overall) Zack Stortini: 62GP - 13G - 16A - 29PTS (94th overall) Derek Boogaard: 61GP - 1G - 8A - 9PTS (202nd overall) Scott Parker: 64GP - 3G - 4A - 7PTS (63rd overall) Cameron...
2009 NHL Entry Draft: Initial Impressions
This is a hodge-podge of my initial thoughts on the entry draft; I've been out of town so these really aren't based on a ton of post-draft research, but mostly on stuff done going in. Obviously the most important part of any draft is the first pick made, and Magnus Paajarvi-Svensson is pretty much...
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