shawn-horcoff Stories - The Copper & Blue
The Best
Gabriel Desjardins has helped hockey fans to quantify something that coaches have always done to varying degrees of success, determine who is best-suited to play the difficult minutes on the ice. In the course of writing my entry on Martin Hanzal, I did some work with the BTN numbers and saw that...
The First Losers
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 expensive. I came to this conclusion:There are very few bargains in the world of tough minutes, and even...
Shooting Percentage, 2007-08
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 indicates that the player's goal production is unsustainable, while a low percentage likely means that the...
Contracts That Make Dustin Penner Look Cheap
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, 31.5-million dollar contract extension, for an average cap hit of 4.5million/year. Erat set a career high this...
Things I Shouldn't Have To Say
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 else. To demonstrate this, let's compare Horcoff statistically with some of the big guns in the Western...
Terry Jones on Saying Stupid Things
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 big hole is on LW. Oh, and that trade that you suggest elsewhere in your column- Rick Nash for a...
You Want The Numbers? You Can’t Handle The Numbers!
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 (21st in the NHL), it could be a significantly better unit next year. How much truth is there to that...
Shawn Horcoff- 6 More Years
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, legitimate number one centre, and he contributes nothing but positives in every aspect of the...
Oilers Corsi Over the Last Ten
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: +1Cogliano: -2Moreau: -3Kotalik: -12Hemsky: -13Stortini: -23Pisani: -27Reddox: -30Horcoff: -33Brodziak:...
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