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Is there any good news about the Edmonton Oilers power play?
Linus Omark is creating a lot of chances, but that’s about it . . . Show me a man who is cheerful about the Edmonton Oilers power play and I’ll show you a paid employee of the Edmonton Oilers. The...
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Oilers power play crashes and burns. Can it rise again?
Kurtis Foster and Oilers power play quarterbacks dropped the ball (or puck) this year No one Edmonton Oilers attacker produced at a decent rate on the Oilers awful power play this year. It connected...
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Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Jordan Eberle are killing it on the power play
Oilers power play much improved over last season. Can it last? Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Jordan Eberle run the Edmonton Oilers power play like great shooting guards in the NBA. They can either pull-up...
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The Oilers power play is outstanding, but only when RNH is directing traffic
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, the straw that stirs the drink In the unremittingly grim news that is the Oilers third straight mega-losing season, there’s one bit of good news, the team’s power play. At its...
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With Linus Omark, the Edmonton Oilers have enough for two excellent power...
With Omark or Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, the NHL’s power play mutant, on the right half-wall, the Oilers are set With Linus Omark’s arrival in Edmonton, the Oilers have enough strong power play specialists...
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Oilers becoming regular penalty box visitors
There might be an inclination to suggest that it’s early in the season and that there are a lot of penalties being handed down around the league but here are some numbers to chew on: The Oilers have...
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Peckham back on Oilers roster; not yet in lineup
As far as Theo Peckham is concerned, rumors of his fitness demise have been greatly exaggerated. “People were asking if I was 265 (pounds). Not even close,” the Edmonton Oilers defenceman said before...
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Ryan Nugent-Hopkins has never scored a power play goal in the NHL from the...
So why does he always set up in that spot? Oilers power play primary assists location 2013 In 2011-12, when Ryan Nugent-Hopkins burst on to the NHL season, much of his scoring success came on the power...
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Ales Hemsky and Sam Gagner ripping it up on the Edmonton Oilers power play
The Edmonton Oilers power play is rolling along, sixth overall in the NHL, with a 21.5 success rate. This high success rate represents an improvement over last season, when the hot Oilers power play...
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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....
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The 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...
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Oilers 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...
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DeBrusk 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...
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The 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,...
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Why 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...
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The 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...
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Edmonton 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,...
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Edmonton 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...
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Cult 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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