The title of the article says it all. Linus Omark was demoted to Oklahoma City this week and immediately the decision was defended by diehard fans. The argument goes something like this, paraphrased:
"Linus Omark isn't good enough to play in the Oilers top six, he's not a checker so he can't play the checking line, and he doesn't make the team harder to play against, so he's useless on the fourth line."
393 forwards have played at least 5 games so far this season. Presented without comment:
| ACorsi RK |
Forward | Team |
GP | TOI/G | Adj Corsi/60 |
| 261 | Linus Omark | EDM | 5 | 11.77 | -6.12 |
| 384 | Joakim Lindstrom | COL | 10 | 11.68 | -26.41 |
| 385 | Tim Connolly | TOR | 5 | 12.54 | -27.38 |
| 386 | Nicklas Bergfors | NSH | 6 | 6.78 | -28.01 |
| 387 | Andrew Gordon | ANA | 14 | 9.76 | -29.52 |
| 388 | Kenndal McArdle | WPG | 6 | 6.37 | -30.78 |
| 389 | Lennart Petrell | EDM | 12 | 9.27 | -31.61 |
| 390 | Ben Eager | EDM | 10 | 6.91 | -34.58 |
| 391 | Anton Lander | EDM | 13 | 8.8 | -37.46 |
| 392 | Rod Pelley | N.J | 5 | 6.79 | -37.49 |
| 393 | Michael Blunden | MTL | 5 | 5.53 | -50.78 |
Again, presented without comment, except to say the Qualcomp numbers are based on a very small sample size and may be well off:
| Name | CORSI Rel QoC Rk |
| Ryan Smyth | 1 |
| Shawn Horcoff | 2 |
| Ryan Jones | 3 |
| Ryan Nugent-Hopkins | 4 |
| Same Gagner | 5 |
| Jordan Eberle | 6 |
| Taylor Hall | 7 |
| Linus Omark | 8 |
| Eric Belanger | 9 |
| Magnus Paajarvi | 10 |
| Anton Lander | 11 |
| Lennart Petrell | 12 |
| Ben Eager | 13 |