nhl-equivalency Stories - The Copper & Blue
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...
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...
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...
Oilers' October NHLE - The Early Games Show Promise
The Oilers have either graduated or cut ties with the top five guys on the final NHLE list from 2010-11. Anton Lander and Linus Omark are with the big club, Robby Dee was not offered a contract, Liam Reddox set sail for Vaxjo, and Alexei Mikhnov is doing something somewhere. Those five, along...
Silver Nuggets: What is Kaspars Daugavins offensive potential?
Kaspars Daugavins was called up to the Ottawa Senators for the 3-2 win over the Carolina Hurricanes. It was only his second career NHL game but he has played 189 AHL games. He had 54 points in 73 games last season (0.74 points per game), which was a better point per game total than Bobby Butler had...
For Hartikainen, Winter & Spring Are The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
I've previously written about the change in Teemu Hartikainen's game once winter rolls around and thought the announcement of his #9 ranking in the Top 25 Under 25 was a good time to update those numbers. He's credited the change in his game to more energy after leaving the military, and jokingly...
Defensemen at the Draft
On Sunday, I looked at several of the top forwards available in the upcoming NHL entry draft in order to see which players the Oilers might target with the 19th overall pick. This time, I'll take a look at defensemen, and even though offense tends to be a less important consideration for the...
Forwards at the Draft
With the NHL draft coming up in just a few short weeks, I thought it might be fun to start looking a little bit more at some of the players that could be available to the Oilers with the 19th overall pick. In that I haven't seen many of these players actually play, I decided that a nice place to...
Oilers' March NHLE - Wrapping up 2010-2011
The CHL and European leagues have put the wraps on their regular seasons. The AHL will finish up in the next week and Barons' fans hope they can put together a winning streak to make the playoffs. Edmonton fans eagerly await the arrival of a number of young men, especially Anton Lander, to the...
The League of Extraordinary Statisticians: Sample Size
Steve Mason had a wicked awesome year in 2008-09. We loved him. We bought his jersey. We named our children Steve Mason Wendorf and Mason Steve Wendorf and wrote little stories with matriarchal characters named Ma Steveson (okay, not everybody did that last one, but I know one person who did). ...
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