Player Stats, Games 11-20: November gales came early for the Edmonton Oilers

Let’s dig a little deeper. It’s an undeniably grueling schedule, featuring a lot of Eastern his conference power, including his grueling four gamers in five and a half days in the Southeast, two homestands, followed by another transcontinental trip. I was there. All opponents are either his team in the playoffs last year or are currently sitting in a strong position in the playoffs. In theory, the “easy” game was paired with the New Jersey Devils. The New Jersey Devils are an up-and-coming force seeking a 13-game winning streak. Bad timing, but even amid a demanding schedule, you might expect a playoff team to see off with both wins and goals, but the Oilers have been second to his best on too many nights. rice field. The main culprit was the missed and missed penalty kills, especially those that botched his 5-for-5 play. Review goals by manpower intensity (including penalty shots) on the segment.As the subtotal shows, the Oilers were able to wipe out their penalty kick deficit with decent performances from their own power plays and a solid handful of results in other manpower situations. The entire -15 goal difference came in his 5v5!Keep in mind here that in prime game conditions he accounted for 481 minutes of playing time. Combined with all other manpower situations, it was only 120 minutes. This means that 80% of the time the oil was pulverized.

drill down specifically 5v5 head-to-head in the last 10 games for each teamEuler’s rank:

• 32nd in goal difference (-15)
• GF 31st (12)
• GA’s T-29th (27)
• 32nd in goal share (GF%=30.8%)
• Shot share 29th (SF%=45.6%)
• 32nd in shooting percentage (5.26%)
• Save rate 25th place (90.1%)
• 32nd in PDO (.953)

Again, overall lower quartile.

Although the most volatile element in short-term results, the percentages at the bottom of that bulleted hail are particularly troubling. scored nine fewer goals than expected, but the Oilers goalkeeper allowed three more than expected. This is a target difference of -12 that can be explained by percentage alone. Clean up that PDO to an average of 1.000 and things get pretty close to truncation.

ourselves hockey cult Oilers show they’re pretty close to production after Wednesday’s failed onslaught on Island Grade A shot (92 in favor, 98 against) and 5 alarm chances (48-49), but that only highlights the dismal conversion rate, especially on the attacker side.

In conclusion, a rough patch, very rough. Is it the end of the world? No, it’s not remote. Is it the end of the season? No. This team has a lot of in-house experience coming out of the other end of a stretch of corruption. But in the highly competitive NHL, it’s never been the right time to head in the right direction.

Since we have a long review of the team’s performance, I’ll keep the commentary on individual performances short, but not sweet.

goal

As usual, start between the pipes where the rookie is Stuart Skinner This time we received a heavier workload.His percentage remained superior to the starter contenders Jack Campbell, although neither set was very impressive. Whether it’s an indecisive goalkeeper, poor team defense, lousy penalty kills, or (my choice) all of the above, allowing four goals in a game is death in this league.

defense

Decent aggressive numbers especially from the rear guard couple Tyson Barrybut all those red numbers in the +/- column show that the minute-devouring D-Men caved in, with one notable exception. Cody Cesi Throughout this stretch, I was isolated across the team as a plus player.

Of particular concern are the Evan Bouchard on both ends of the sheet. Bauchi managed the only second assist on a power play while recording a rare double-digit minus in 10 games. This includes his share of 5-5 goals with 0 for and 9 against. 0-9. Bouchard went 5-5 and played his full period nearly eight times, but the Oilers didn’t score a single one of his. It is worth noting that he had the highest his Corsi (>52%) among the group. [sic]or yelling “SEE??!!” All those analyzes are utterly nonsensical!!”

Up front, we can see, once again, that the bulk of the scoring is shared by just five players. Warren Fogel Doing my best to fill the huge hole left by my injury Evander Kane in game 14. Connor McDavid from 22 points to 13 points, Leon dry cite From 21:00 to 10:00 Ryan Nugent Hopkins 12:00 to 9:00, Zach Hyman From 12:00 to 7:00.

Falling below these top five scorers is almost unproductive. His 10 forwards in a total of 67 GPs during the segment produced 1 goal, 9 assists and 10 points. And there’s a sea of ​​red negative numbers from top to bottom, topped by a handful of players who’ve even broken even after playing five games or less.

player record

Here we conclude in our usual fashion by reviewing the set of 10 games through the lens of our own subjective evaluation. hockey cultRegular readers know that we rate the performance of every Edmonton Oilers player in every game the team plays on a scale of 1 to 10 based on a combination of observations and interpretation of statistical outputs. I guess. Below are the average results for games 11-20 and the usual thumbnail comments summarizing each player’s contribution during that period.