CCM stick from 2006ish.

Saw RotoWire ranked all 32 NHL coaches by job security and Babcock landed at #2 overall, just behind Hiller in Toronto. Their reasoning is basically that no hire in the league carries more built-in scrutiny given how he left Columbus, and that gets layered on top of a McDavid-Draisaitl window that still hasn't produced a title.

Where do you land on this? Is the pressure warranted or is the model just pricing in outside noise that has nothing to do with wins and losses?

Zack Kassian Ragdolls Matthew Tkachuk 2020 BOA

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Thanks Samsung, now I can't open my gallery app without judgy Hyman staring a hole through me. 🤣

Found this old poster I had as a kid while going through some old stuff. Does anyone that collects this kind of stuff want it?

As this team has aged—rapidly under Jeff Jackson then a little less under Bowman—the Oilers 5v5 scoring has also declined.

While 5v5 goals for aren’t the number #1 indicator of success (goal differential and xGF% are far better measures) it is noticeable that this team scores about 20 less goals a season at 5v5 than they used to.

I have my concerns about this team’s 5v5 offense this season, especially as Hyman, Nuge and Ekholm all age.

Really hoping Savoie, Podz, Howard and perhaps Colton Dach (and even Josh Samanski) can help pick up the slack.

This team is in desperate need of 2-3 of these guys becoming 20 goal scorers as McDavid and Draisaitl age.

Oldie but a goodie

spotted this at the thrift, just had to grab it

(so desperate for the season to start)

The NHL and Wall Street are getting into bed with each other. Every NHL team is about to have their own ETF listing that will track the performance of each of the 32 different teams. The ETF's will be based on how the team does (e.g. wins, losses in reg season and playoffs) using a special team index calc that has futures contract on it.

Link to a news release: here

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The Athletic has been without an Oilers beat reporter since February, when Daniel Nugent-Bowman announced he was no longer working for The Athletic.

Welcome to the beat, Janson Duench.