Building the perfect Edmonton Oilers power play, Part 1
Where the Oilers power play goals came from in 2013 The Edmonton Oilers power play was ranked 8th best in the NHL in 2013, cashing in on power plays at a rate of 20.1 per cent. Not bad at all....
View ArticleThe Oilers power play must better utilize snipers Nail Yakupov and Taylor Hall
Ovechkin and Stamkos do it. Why not Yakupov and Hall? The Edmonton Oilers have two elite shooters on the team, Nail Yakupov and Taylor Hall. On the power play in 2013-14, these two shooters should be...
View ArticleOilers power play could learn a trick from Wayne Gretzky and Jari Kurri
Buildng the perfect Edmonton Oilers power play, Part 3. The Edmonton Oilers have had a solid power play for two seasons now, which is no surprise, given the raw attacking talent on the club. But how to...
View ArticleDeBrusk lets slip with a blast of Oilers’ handling of Nail Yakupov on power play
Yes, it was a seemingly inadvertent criticism of Eakins and his staff, but perhaps all the more biting as a result… Louie DeBrusk was always a team player in his NHL days, always willing to step up...
View ArticleThe power play that Nail Yakupov and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins deserve
This morning fans of the Edmonton Oilers might be wondering whether they should praise coach Dallas Eakins or give him another blast of criticism. After weeks of seeing the Oilers power play struggle,...
View ArticleWhy the Edmonton Oilers power play was once again a mess, this time against...
Let us start this latest look at the mess that is the Edmonton Oilers power play with some praise: for one of the first times this year, the Oilers had star scorer Taylor Hall starting each power play...
View ArticleThe power play of the Edmonton Oilers is starting to make folks a little bit...
In the first period of their Saturday night game against the Philadelphia Flyers, the Edmonton Oilers had more than five minutes of power play time. It was five more minutes of agony for Oilers fans...
View ArticleEdmonton Oilers power play about the same under Eakins as it was under...
If Oilers GM Craig MacTavish had a dollar for every time an Edmonton Oilers hockey fan said or wrote that the Oilers power play under Ralph Krueger was better than the power play under Dallas Eakins,...
View ArticleEdmonton Oilers power play leaks goals and scoring chances against under...
Can the Oilers figure out a way to stop one of the most demoralizing plays in hockey? Few things in hockey are more demoralizing than the shorthanded goals against, but that particular brand of...
View ArticleCult of Hockey: Far more problems with Oilers power play than Justin Schultz
The Edmonton Oilers power play needs a major overhaul. But what to do? The power play is now ranked 18th overall in the National Hockey League. It has an 18 per cent success rate with 19 goals on 104...
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