November Scoring

by Lowetide
  1. Connor McDavid 3.17 (1.21)
  2. Kasperi Kapanen 2.41 (four games)
  3. Mattias Janmark 2.32 (0.83)
  4. Leon Draisaitl 2.24 (2.04)
  5. Connor Brown 2.16
  6. Vasily Podkolzin 2.13 (1.00)
  7. Adam Henrique 1.49 (0.46)
  8. Zach Hyman 1.36 (0.47)
  9. RNH 1.03 (0.73)
  10. Derek Ryan 1.01
  11. Viktor Arvidsson 0.88 (1.13)
  12. Jeff Skinner 0.77 (1.93)
  13. Corey Perry 0 (1.02)
  1. Mattias Ekholm 59 pct (60 pct)
  2. Evan Bouchard 58 pct (59 pct)
  3. Darnell Nurse 57 pct (46 pct)
  4. Troy Stecher 52 pct (46 pct)
  5. Brett Kulak 43 pct (62 pct)
  6. Ty Emberson 35 pct (60 pct)
  7. Travis Dermott 29 pct (37 pct)
  8. Joshua Brown 28 pct
  1. Stuart Skinner .908 (.890)
  2. Calvin Pickard .893 (.943)

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oil-in-the-blood

Gotta love the fine skinner got for diving, lol. Good lord, that kind of play happens every game, the disciplinary committee always finds ways of making me laugh.

DevilsLettuce
Shamus23

Team is playing well. With the D and goalies pairing to play better it gives Bowman a chance to look for a D man to fit in without dealing from a point of Must Need and overpaying.
Henrique and Skinner aren’t producing goals and if they both do , that is a big bonus. Same with Hyman and Arvidson when they return. Kane as well when he returns 100% will be a great add for his toughness. Future is very bright with all those forwards coming back.

OriginalPouzar

Beau Akey has been invited to the World Juniors camp. Can’t imagine he makes the team but nice to see the invite.

OriginalPouzar

Paul Fischer with an invite to the US camp.

Elgin R

When the injured players (Kane, Hyman, Arvi) return, and assuming no further injuries, this is a really deep set of forwards. The issue is with the d pairings.

I agree with LT and would like to see Nurse – Kulak together full time for the month of December. The numbers (small sample size alert) are encouraging – let’s see what it is after a few hundred minutes.

Do we need Bowman to go out and get a 3LD to play with Emberson? The club does not have many assets for Bowman to use. Could Stecher or Dermott reliably fill that role? I, for one, would like to see a bigger man in that position.

Scungilli Slushy

Lots of road to travel, but the way Bowman talks give me confidence in their assessments. With LT’s numbers today it looks pretty obvious what is needed (another D), and as you said they have a lot of NHL forwards, maybe thin at centre

They will need 3 pairs playing well or well enough these playoffs

cowboy bill

Stecher is doing well, Dermott not so much. Dermott is a 3LD that can play RD, the problem is, he doesn’t fill that role for the team. If they could find an upgrade on Dermott, that would fix things. Then Nurse & Kulak could play full time together and they would have a 3LD to play with Emberson or Stecher. Or just play Nurse/ Stecher and Kulak/ Emberson.
then throw in some Nurse/Kulak and Kulak/Nurse for fun.

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cowboy bill

If only Josh Brown could play with Darnell Nurse.

leadfarmer

since we are talking prospects, I’m sure Sam Oreilly will have a fine 3rd line C career. But I prefer pics that swing for the fence. I know Lt and myself and a few other people were hoping for Nikita Artamanov which was a 1st line talent. Who by the way is killing it and ourscoring Demidov. And of course he gets plucked at 50 OV by Carolina. Le-sigh

Elgin R

Assuming that O’Rielly makes it, a 6-1 right-shot 3C is more valuable than a 5-11 left-shot winger. We are currently running a very old Derrick Ryan as 4C because he can win a face off on a regular basis. Don’t get me wrong, scoring wingers are a valuable commodity, but I would still have taken O’Rielly over the Russian who may or may not even come to the NHL.

Scungilli Slushy

Wingers are also the easiest position to fill. Drafting consensus with stats liking folks is take the BPA. However that becomes hard to distinguish after the cream of the crop is gone

The league also doesn’t have much player movement, so trading for what you need which is the logic behind BPA is hard. Especially when what teams usually need are the rare postions – ‘right handed’ players and goalies

The way the Oilers drafted for years created holes that they couldn’t fill well. Didn’t draft enough goalies, RHC or RHD. The Leftorium ended up not delivering much for all of those picks spent. Outside of the top 5 picks, draft for need and hope you find the right players

cowboy bill

Just draft RHC’s they can usually play either wing, heck maybe even on the blue line or in goal.

JJS

I agree in general apart from the comment about limited player movement. I feel there has been a tremendous increase in young talent being moved.

Seems the GMs have less loyalty/patience with top picks and are constantly looking to upgrade in real time.

OriginalPouzar

Things are looking up for the team and have been for a while. Some of the initial season production slumps are now gone and secondary/tertiary scoring has picked up.

The goaltending is settling in and the overall team defence is so much better than the general verbal – all the various models say so. Yes, the Oilers make big mistakes leading to 5-alarm chances against but guess what? ALL teams do that and it seems most at a higher rate of the Oilers – we just don’t pay attention to that as much.

This all bears out in 7-2-1 on their last 10 – with some real injuries testing depth.

Oh, and since starting 0-3, since October 14, the Oilers are a top 5 points percentage team.

Lots of room to improve still!

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