Season So Far

#	POS	PLAYER	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%
14	R	JORDAN EBERLE	52	25	30	55	5	8	8	0	3	122	20.5
4	L	TAYLOR HALL	46	20	22	42	1	24	10	0	5	150	13.3
89	C	SAM GAGNER	49	13	24	37	3	28	5	0	0	103	12.6
94	L	RYAN SMYTH	56	16	20	36	-5	45	4	0	4	137	11.7
93	C	RYAN NUGENT-HOPKINS	40	13	22	35	-3	8	3	0	1	81	16.0
10	C	SHAWN HORCOFF	56	10	18	28	-17	12	4	0	0	91	11.0
83	R	ALES HEMSKY	43	4	20	24	-15	25	1	0	0	74	5.4
28	L	RYAN JONES	56	12	11	23	-5	32	1	2	1	97	12.4
44	D	COREY POTTER	41	3	14	17	-16	16	1	0	0	67	4.5
77	D	TOM GILBERT	42	3	13	16	-2	12	2	0	1	50	6.0
58	D	JEFF PETRY	49	2	13	15	-11	16	1	0	0	73	2.7
20	C	ERIC BELANGER	53	2	9	11	-15	28	1	0	0	87	2.3
25	D	ANDY SUTTON	34	3	7	10	2	58	0	0	1	27	11.1
55	L	BEN EAGER	43	7	2	9	-6	84	0	0	2	45	15.6
6	D	RYAN WHITNEY	25	1	8	9	-9	6	1	0	0	16	6.3
5	D	LADISLAV SMID	56	3	5	8	-3	36	0	0	0	30	10.0
37	C	LENNART PETRELL	38	3	4	7	-7	38	0	1	0	20	15.0
91	L	MAGNUS PAAJARVI	36	1	6	7	-7	4	0	0	0	71	1.4
57	C	ANTON LANDER	52	2	4	6	-7	10	0	1	0	50	4.0
24	D	THEO PECKHAM	46	1	2	3	-1	74	0	0	0	22	4.5
12	C	JOSH GREEN	7	1	1	2	-6	7	1	0	0	14	7.1
13	D	CAM BARKER	17	2	0	2	0	16	1	0	1	28	7.1
16	L	DARCY HORDICHUK	23	0	1	1	-4	28	0	0	0	17	0.0
42	C	RYAN O'MARRA	7	0	1	1	0	4	0	0	0	3	0.0
48	D	ALEX PLANTE	3	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0.0
33	D	COLTEN TEUBERT	20	0	1	1	-4	18	0	0	0	11	0.0
51	L	PHILIPPE CORNET	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0
41	D	TAYLOR CHORNEY	3	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	1	0.0
23	L	LINUS OMARK	5	0	0	0	-2	2	0	0	0	7	0.0

#	GOALIE	GPI	GS	MIN	GAA	W	L	OT	SO	SA	GA	SV%	G	A	PIM
35	NIKOLAI KHABIBULIN	33	33	1873	2.56	12	16	5	2	938	80	.915	0	0	0
40	DEVAN DUBNYK	27	23	1496	3.01	10	12	1	0	812	75	.908	0	0	0

Data is taken from the Oilers site.

A few things of note, just looking at what's in front of us now....

• Jordan Eberle's S% - 20%. That's unsustainable, but snipes, like the one last night, show why it's high. A beautiful goal.
• Ales Hemsky's S% - His career S% is 11.4%, it's 5.4% right now. People who think he's washed up are ignorant.
• Magnus Paajarvi's S% - 1.4%. Do I need to even talk about this?
• Shawn Horcoff, Ales Hemsky, Corey Potter and Eric Belanger's plus/minus - People say it's a flawed stat and unreliable. But there comes a point where red flags need to be raised. I understand the zone starts, but Manny Malhotra (with the toughest job in hockey) has a 12.6 O-zone start% and he's minus10, What I'm saying is that there's more than a 30% difference in how frequent the Oilers quartet starts in the Offensive zone compared to Malhotra. I don't expect them to have a positive plus/minus, but an average of -15.75 on a team with a -16 even-strength goal differential is bad.
• Jeff Petry isn't far behind the four either at -11, but he's young, and by my eye, has showed improvement this year. He has improved in both years playing with the Oilers, and I hope he can emerge as a top 4 option soon. By that, I mean, is by playing those minutes effectively and being a difference maker in a positive way.
• Taylor Hall is 61st in the league in shots. I was surprised, I thought he would be higher. He is 22nd in Shots/G, though. I would wager that in the coming years he will be in the NHL's top 30 in shots if he doesn't miss more than 10 games, he loves to shoot.
• Hall is tied for 41st in goals, Eberle is a whopping 12th. But to put it in perspective, Hall's 22nd (ironically) in Goals/G. His BFF is 13th.
• 169 points in 187 games for the kids (Gagner, Eberle, Nugent-Hopkins, and Hall). Every other forward who has played a NHL game this year for the Oilers has a total of 156 points. Ouch. The games played for the other forwards isn't fair to factor in, due to opportunity. But come on, story of the 2011/12 season has to be the lack of secondary scoring, mostly due to Hemsky's off year. Poor Hemmer.
• Ben Eager averages 8:07/G. I thought the total was lower, but that seems like a good amount for him. I feel like he should be getting more opportunity/rewarded when he plays well. He seems very effective when on his game.
• Our goaltending regressed to below league average - An average goalteder's SV% is said to be .916. That seems right. Nikolai's is .915 and Devan's is .908. Dubnyk's 5 game stretch brought it up, hopefully it continues to rise because he hasn't been good this year.

Those are some quick hits I threw together. You can find more, looking at stats in more than one way can uncover lots of cool tidbits.

Thanks for reading

Keep on keeping on....