As the Edmonton Oilers looked to improve their forward depth this offseason, a trade with the Carolina Hurricanes materialized that saw the Oilers acquire Warren Foegele from the Hurricanes, while Ethan Bear headed to Raleigh. With less than 15 games played with their new teams, let’s take a much too early look at the trade returns for both teams.
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Regular Season Report Card: Edmonton Oilers (6 GP)
start the season 5-0-0 before taking their first loss of the season at the hands of the Flyers. Let’s take a closer look at the Oilers’ early season results.
2021-2022 Regular Season Update: Oct 27
After last night’s games, 30 of the league’s 32 teams have played at least five games. While it’s still too early to get a good sense of which early season performances are sustainable over the long haul, we’re starting to get a better picture of how the 2021-2022 standings may look.
2021-2022 Season Preview: Edmonton Oilers
For all my season previews, we’ll be utilizing my 2021-2022 team and player projections. You can find much more background on these models here, along with more on assessing value of contracts here. We’ll preview the Edmonton Oilers in this post.
Visualizing Roster Strength
roster strength plots that I’ve added to the team projections. I thought I’d provide a bit of explanation on how the plots are built up to provide a better understanding.
2021 Offseason Update: Jul 30 – Aug 9
me interesting roster moves. Let’s take a look at a few of the more notable ones.
2021 Offseason Update: July 27-29 – Western Conference
With the free agent frenzy starting to subside, I’m looking through each team’s moves over the past few days and analyzing their roster as it sits now. While we should expect a few more notable roster moves before training camps open, we probably have a reasonable picture of how things will look at this point.
2021 Offseason Update: July 22-26
In this update, we’re covering the period over the NHL Entry Draft, leading up to free agency. There were some impactful roster moves so let’s dig right into some of the notable ones.
2021 Offseason Update: July 7-13
With the Stanley Cup awarded and the expansion draft only a week away, the 2021 NHL offseason is starting to heat up. Let’s jump in and take a look at some of the notable moves over the past week.
Offseason Update: June 23-29
With still over three weeks to go until the expansion draft, it was a fairly quiet week for offseason moves in the NHL. We saw a few RFAs re-sign in depth roles over the week and two pending UFAs came off the board on Tuesday, re-signing with their respective teams. Let’s take a look at the most notable moves from the past week.