Recapping The Oilers Season Recaps

Just a little under two months ago the NHL playoffs kicked off. It was an exciting time with the fans of 16 teams dreaming of their team hoisting the Stanley Cup in a couple months time. With the Oilers long since eliminated from the playoffs those of us here at the Copper and Blue decided that rather than just watching the playoffs and having a good time we'd much rather keep the wounds of the 2010/11 season wide open and provide all or readers a three part review of every player.

Because there is only so much we can do alone this project was was a joint effort between the writers of the Copper and Blue and Bruce McCurdy from the Cult of Hockey. Derek introduced each player with a breakdown of their cumulative scoring chances courtesy of Dennis King's work at mc79hockey.com. Bruce followed with more analysis of the scoring chances and a look at the advanced stats at the Cult of Hockey, and finally Scott and I closed out each player with an overview and a look ahead for each player.

For those of you with masochist tendencies like us who enjoy recapping a second straight 30th place season I would like to personally thank you for reading and contributing your many comments. For those of you who missed a story or two while having a life that doesn't revolve around the Oilers what follows are links to all 78 stories - just imagine how many stories we'd write if this team was any good.

Jim Vandermeer - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, He is Who We Thought He Was

Taylor Hall - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, Simply Outstanding

Ladislav Smid - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, Just Keeps On Keeping On

Ryan Whitney - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, Offensive Defenceman

Shawn Horcoff - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, Like The Oilers, Horcoff Could Only Go Up

Andrew Cogliano - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, Stuck In The Middle

Jordan Eberle - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, Great Expectations

Colin Fraser - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, Low Event

J.F. Jacques - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, Eight Is Enough

Linus Omark - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, Power Play Specialist

Kurtis Foster - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, Not As Advertised

Dustin Penner - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, Fat, Slow, and Lazy

Ryan Jones - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, When Effort and Luck Collide

Steve MacIntyre - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, Paid To Hurt People

Nikolai Khabibulin - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, Somehow Still The Number 1

Devan Dubnyk - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, The People's Choice

Jason Strudwick - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, The Oilers Seventh Defenceman

Zack Stortini - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, What's Done Is Done

Theo Peckham - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, A Lot More Bash Than Flash

Jeff Petry - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, Taking Advantage

Gilbert Brule - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, What A Difference A Year Makes

Liam Reddox - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, He Will Be Missed

Tom Gilbert - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, Unappreciated By Some, Recognized As Awesome By Others

Ales Hemsky - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror, Dehumanized and Commodified

Sam Gagner - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror*, Just Give It Time

Magnus Paajarvi - Scoring Chances, Rear View Mirror*, Yet Another Sign of Hope

Contained in those stories are a lot of predictions for what lies ahead for the Oilers. Feel free to let us know when we're right; when we're wrong I'll break the links.

*Bruce has yet to post these stories, when he does I'll include links