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Oscar Klefbom is either insanely unlucky or insanely bad. His scoresheet totals still show a giant zero. For comparison's sake, Johan Motin has 1 assist in 30 games in the SEL. Motin is a rugged, own-zone only defender. Klefbom is a wizard with puck and passing skills. Something is surely wrong with his season.
For a complete look at all of the Oilers' prospects and their NHL numbers, we can use Gabriel Desjardins' NHL Equivalency. Gabe's methodologies are described on his translations page:
One way to evaluate the difficulty of one league relative to another is to examine the relative performance of players who have played in both leagues. Players rarely play significant time in two leagues in the same year, but they often play in one league in one year and in another the next. As long as a player’s skill level is approximately constant over this two year period, the ratio of his performance in each league can be used to estimate the relative difficulty of the two leagues.
After the jump is the full list of skating prospects with their NHL Equivalency and full season projections.
| Player - League | League | DOB | Drafted | NHL82 G | NHL82 A | NHL82 P | Change |
| Linus Omark | AHL | 2/5/87 | 97 | 12 | 22 | 34 | -7 |
| Kellen Jones | NCAA | 8/16/90 | 202 | 13 | 21 | 34 | 5 |
| Tobias Rieder | CHL | 1/10/93 | 114 | 16 | 15 | 31 | 0 |
| Toni Rajala | SM-Liiga | 3/29/91 | 101 | 14 | 11 | 25 | -2 |
| Philippe Cornet | AHL | 3/28/90 | 133 | 17 | 8 | 25 | -1 |
| Mark Arcobello | AHL | 8/12/88 | Und | 8 | 15 | 23 | 2 |
| Teemu Hartikainen | AHL | 5/3/90 | 163 | 11 | 11 | 22 | -2 |
| Drew Czerwonka | CHL | 7/1/92 | 166 | 8 | 11 | 19 | 0 |
| Kristians Pelss | CHL | 9/9/92 | 181 | 10 | 8 | 18 | 1 |
| Ryan Martindale | ECHL | 10/27/91 | 61 | 5 | 7 | 12 | -1 |
| Tyler Pitlick | AHL | 11/1/91 | 31 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 1 |
| Antti Tyrvainen | AHL | 4/3/89 | Und | 3 | 8 | 11 | 1 |
| Chris VandeVelde | AHL | 3/15/87 | 97 | 3 | 7 | 10 | -1 |
| Curtis Hamilton | AHL | 12/4/91 | 48 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 0 |
| Travis Ewanyk | CHL | 3/29/93 | 74 | 0 | 8 | 8 | - |
| Cameron Abney | ECHL | 5/23/91 | 82 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 |
- "NHLE is stupid!", they said. "Kellen Jones will never score 30 in the NHL!" "Calm down," I said. "Conference play is around the corner," thinking he would get torn up in conference. Kellen Jones - 11 points in his last 8 games. Either Little Scrappy has some game or NHLE is broken.
- Except for Jones, who jumped from 29 to 34, the forward group is in the midst of a three-month slide. The "incredible prospect depth" narrative may be overdone.
| Player | League | DOB | Drafted | NHL82 G | NHL82 A | NHL82 P | Change |
| Jeremie Blain | CHL | 3/19/92 | 91 | 4 | 18 | 22 | 0 |
| Martin Gernat | CHL | 4/11/93 | 122 | 4 | 18 | 22 | 0 |
| Kyle Bigos | NCAA | 5/12/89 | 99 | 5 | 15 | 20 | 0 |
| Taylor Chorney | AHL | 4/27/87 | 36 | 3 | 15 | 18 | 1 |
| Brandon Davidson | CHL | 8/21/91 | 162 | 5 | 12 | 17 | 1 |
| Martin Marincin | CHL | 2/18/92 | 46 | 4 | 12 | 16 | 2 |
| Dillon Simpson | NCAA | 2/10/93 | 92 | 1 | 14 | 15 | -1 |
| Alex Plante | AHL | 5/9/89 | 15 | 1 | 12 | 13 | -1 |
| David Musil | CHL | 4/9/93 | 31 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 2 |
| Colten Teubert | AHL | 3/8/90 | 13 | 2 | 7 | 9 | -4 |
| Ryan Lowery | AHL | 9/6/88 | Und | 1 | 8 | 9 | 0 |
| Kirill Tulupov | AHL | 4/23/88 | 67 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 1 |
| Kevin Montgomery | AHL | 4/4/88 | 110 | 1 | 7 | 8 | -1 |
| Oscar Klefbom | SEL | 7/20/93 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Taylor Fedun | AHL | 6/4/88 | Und | Inj | Inj | Inj | - |
- Oscar Klefbom is either the world's most unlucky defenseman or he has no idea where the offensive zone is. 30 games without a point is kind of crazy for a guy purported to have sublime puck-moving ability.
- Oklahoma City fans should get used to hearing Kyle Bigos' name. He's going to arrive as soon as Merrimack is eliminated and he's going to be featured early and often next season. If he is a 20 point NHL defenseman, he's going to be a 40 point AHL defenseman. At 6'5, 230 pounds.