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Oilers January NHLE - Scoring Depth Has Disappeared
When we tallied up the final NHLE numbers for the 2010-11 season, the Oilers had seven forward prospects with an equivalency of 30 points or better and that didn't include Tyler Pitlick or Teemu Hartikainen. This season, the scoring depth has disappeared. Linus Omark will still score 40-50 points...
Rookie Forward Deployments, League-Wide
Click here for the high-res image Each bubble in the graph above represents the the possession metrics of an NHL rookie. This chart is limited to rookies with a minimum of 25 games played. Those players include Gabriel Landeskog, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Sean Couturier, Adam Henrique, Matt Read,...
Comparing Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Gabriel Landeskog and Sean Couturier
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Gabriel Landeskog and Sean Couturier were three of the four most highly-ranked forwards in the prospect pool for the 2011 NHL draft. Hopkins went first overall, Landeskog second and Couturier mysteriously lasted until the Flyers selected him eighth overall. The three all...
Which Oilers Forwards Are Getting The Best Teammates And Toughest Opponents?
Get the full-sized chart here. The horizontal axis shows qualcomp, specifically Corsi relative quality of competition taken from the venerable and terrifying Gabriel Desjardins' behindthenet.ca. The vertical axis shows qualteam, specifically Corsi relative quality of teammates taken from...
How Does Tom Renney Use His Forwards?
Get the full-sized chart here. The horizontal axis shows qualcomp, specifically Corsi relative quality of competition taken from the venerable and terrifying Gabriel Desjardins' behindthenet.ca. The vertical axis shows percentage of percentage of faceoffs taken in the defensive zone, again from...
December NHLE - Injuries Are Slowing Everyone Down
December was a brutal month for the Oilers' prospect group. Injuries have hit the big club hard, but they're hitting the system even harder. I've been tracking thirty-three Oilers' prospects since October, the total includes nineteen forwards and thirteen defensemen. Of those thirty-three...
Are The 2011 Minnesota Wild Better Than Their 2010 Team?
"Puck possession is everything."--Mike Babcock One of central pillars of the arguments from those who believe the Wild are a legitimate top-tier team is shot quality. The argument says something to the effect that possession metrics don't explain the Wild because they get better shots and generate...
The Best Young Line In Hockey (It's Not Who You Think. Nope, Not Them Either.)
A few short years ago, the Colorado Avalanche were one of the worst possession teams in the NHL. They were extremely young and partly due to that, overwhelmed on a nightly basis. They were heavily outshot and spent an enormous amount of time digging pucks out of their own end. But they rode some...
November NHLE - We Have a Toni Rajala Sighting
Toni Rajala was drafted in the fourth round in 2009 as a little-known, but fast-moving winger from Finland with a reputation for international success. He came to North America after being drafted and played for the Brandon Wheat Kings in the Western Hockey League where he totaled 63 points in 60...
Nashville's Trouble In Generating And Preventing Shots
The Nashville Predators have some serious structural issues with the foundation of the team, and it's not just Pekka Rinne's contract causing cracks. Though the likelihood of Nashville seeing value out of Rinne's contract is near-zero... For his contract to be about about equal in value to other...
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