• The 2005-06 Oilers: Not A Fluke

    by Tyler Dellow • May 21, 2013 • 11 Comments

    Change of pace today. I’m a big fan of the Marek v. Wyshynski podcast but those guys have, occasionally, discussed the 2005-06 Edmonton Oilers with something less than the reverence I believe to be appropriate. Indeed, the f word has been used: fluke. It always bugs me when people call that team a fluke...

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    Taylor Hall and the World Championships

    by Tyler Dellow • May 16, 2013 • 24 Comments

    The Edmonton Oilers have been awfully supportive of Hockey Canada over the years. I was curious so I went and looked at the past decade or so and Edmonton’s sent 25 players to the World Championships for Team Canada in that time. Second best is Carolina, with 13. If you look at it on...

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    Big Oilers Data VIII: Examining Ales

    by Tyler Dellow • May 15, 2013 • 9 Comments

    This is part of a series looking for reasons for the Oilers Corsi% collapse in 2012-13 by examining things on a shift-by-shift basis. Part 1 can be found here. Part 2 can be found here. Part 3 can be found here. Part 4 can be found here. Part 5 can be found here. Part...

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    Once in Sixty Lifetimes

    by Tyler Dellow • May 14, 2013 • 33 Comments

    If you watched the end of last night’s Meltdown in Beantown, you probably wondered a little bit about what the odds of such thing happening were. Tom Tango took a stab at estimating it on his blog – I thought I’d push it a little further and try and come up with an estimate...

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    Multimedia

    by Tyler Dellow • May 13, 2013 • 1 Comment

    I’ve been doing some podcasting/radio lately. If that’s your kind of thing, feel free to check it out: 1. CanucksArmy podcast with Thomas Drance: Link 2. Oilers Now with Bob Stauffer (no direct link – scroll down to May 10): Link 3. The Lowdown with Lowetide: Email Tyler Dellow at mc79hockey@gmail.com

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    Big Oilers Data VII: Sam Gagner II

    by Tyler Dellow • May 9, 2013 • 13 Comments

    This is part of a series looking for reasons for the Oilers Corsi% collapse in 2012-13 by examining things on a shift-by-shift basis. Part 1 can be found here. Part 2 can be found here. Part 3 can be found here. Part 4 can be found here. Part 5 can be found here. Part...

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    Big Oilers Data VI: Sam Gagner

    by Tyler Dellow • May 7, 2013 • 10 Comments

    This is part of a series looking for reasons for the Oilers Corsi% collapse in 2012-13 by examining things on a shift-by-shift basis. Part 1 can be found here. Part 2 can be found here. Part 3 can be found here. Part 4 can be found here. Part 5 can be found here. There’s...

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    Big Oilers Data V

    by Tyler Dellow • May 6, 2013 • 4 Comments

    This is part of a series looking for reasons for the Oilers Corsi% collapse in 2012-13 by examining things on a shift-by-shift basis. Part 1 can be found here. Part 2 can be found here. Part 3 can be found here. Part 4 can be found here. I’m going to shift gears a little...

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    Big Oilers Data IV

    by Tyler Dellow • May 2, 2013 • 31 Comments

    This is part of a series looking for reasons for the Oilers Corsi% collapse in 2012-13 by examining things on a shift-by-shift basis. Part 1 can be found here. Part 2 can be found here. Part 3 can be found here. I want to provide a bit of a roadmap as far as where...

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    Big Oilers Data III

    by Tyler Dellow • May 1, 2013 • 11 Comments

    This is part of a series looking for reasons for the Oilers Corsi% collapse in 2012-13 by examining things on a shift-by-shift basis. Part 1 can be found here. Part 2 can be found here. I’m going to move now from discussing Shot Attempts Allowed (SAA) to discussing Shot Attempts For (SAF). The observant...

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    Big Oilers Data II

    by Tyler Dellow • April 30, 2013 • 10 Comments

    This is part of a series looking for reasons for the Oilers Corsi% collapse in 2012-13 by examining things on a shift-by-shift basis. Part 1 can be found here. In the first part of this series, I examined the performance of Oilers forwards in 2012-13 through three distinct lenses: the percentage of shifts on...

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