Game 26. Long post follows with base game statistics including some for the Columbus Blue Jackets. Read, don't read, up to you. These are BASE stats not detailed ones. My comments and observations at the end. Statistics for Columbus Blue Jackets at Edmonton Oilers December 5th, 2024 Edmonton Oilers: Hyman 2 Goals (including GWG) Draisaitl 2 Goals (1 PP) Ekholm 1 Goal (PP) J Skinner 1 Goal, 1 Primary Assist (PP) Bouchard 2 Secondary Assists McDavid 3 Primary Assist (1 PP), 1 Secondary Assist Henrique 1 Primary Assist, 1 Secondary Assist (PP) Janmark 1 Secondary Assist Nuge 1 Primary Assist, 1 Secondary Assist (PP) Pickard 19 Saves on 22 Shots = .864 Save %age Columbus Blue Jackets: Labanc 1 Goal Severson 1 Goal Sillinger 1 Goal, 1 Primary Assist Pyyhtia 1 Primary Assist Werenski 1 Secondary Assist Fantilli 1 Secondary Assist Harris 1 Primary Assist Christiansen 1 Secondary Assist Tarasov 31 Saves on 37 Shots = 0.838 Save %age Blue Jackets Oilers Shots on Goal 22 37 Hits 15 12 Faceoffs Won 20 34 PP 0/2 2/5 Penalty Mins 10 4 Giveaways 11 (6 per NST) 10 (7 per NST) Takeaways 4 (3 per NST) 2 Blocked Shots 16 (13 per NST) 16 (12 per NST) 3 Stars: 3-Draisaitl (2G (1PP)), 2-McDavid (4A (1PP)), 1-Hyman (2G including GWG) Player TOI PP TOI PK TOI SOG +/- PIM Hits Blocks Giveaways Takeaways Nurse 23:182:462:43 3 0 0 2 2 1 0 Bouchard 21:405:160:09 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 Ekholm 19:272:251:00 2 2 2 1 1 0 1 Kulak 18:210:160:37 5 0 0 0 4 0 0 Emberson 16:230:002:55 1 -1 0 2 4 0 0 Stecher 16:060:040:28 1 -1 0 0 1 0 0 Draisaitl 21:145:100:09 2 1 0 1 0 1 0 McDavid 20:365:100:16 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 Nuge 19:574:542:36 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 Hyman 19:055:070:00 5 3 0 0 0 1 0 Henrique 16:012:282:52 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Kapanen 13:210:030:31 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 J Skinner 13:192:420:00 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 Podkolzin 13:150:000:16 3 0 0 2 0 1 1 Janmark 11:460:000:00 0 -1 2 0 1 0 0 C Brown 11:220:000:48 2 -1 0 0 0 0 0 Perry 10:512:400:00 1 -1 0 0 0 1 0 Ryan 10:050:000:37 1 -1 0 4 1 0 0 Oilers Faceoff Breakdown: Won Lost Percent Draisaitl 13 5 72.2 Ryan 7 2 77.8 McDavid 7 7 50.0 Henrique 6 4 60.0 Nuge 1 0 100.0 Podkolzin 0 2 0.00 Blue Jackets's Faceoff Breakdown: Won Lost Percent Monahan 9 9 50.0 Danforth 7 8 46.7 Kuraly 2 1 66.7 Pyyhtia 1 0 100.0 Fantilli 1 11 8.3 Voronkov 0 1 0.00 Sillinger 0 1 0.00 Olivier 0 1 0.00 Marchenko 0 2 0.00
Surgery still postponed so here are some stats. Again, I can't watch the games. What follows is my opinion. This was the night the team celebrated Connor's 1000th point (99th player in NHL history, 4th fastest, 4th Oiler to hit the mark, etc.) that he scored back in November. His extremely talented (and attractive) wife Lauren, his dog Lenny, and his parents (Brian and Kelly) were there when he received a Rolex from Darnell, Leon, and Nuge for the team, a Tiffany Crystal from the NHL presented by GM Stan Bowman, a $50,000 donation from the Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation in Connor's name to the Ben Stelter Foundation, and a Gold Stick (and gold bone for Lenny) came from Jeff Jackson (and Leon for the Bone). As the bone was an inflated toy Lenny really wanted nothing to do with it (I mean you can't bury it and it isn't tasty). Now with the preliminary celebrations out of the way lets actually get to the game. The Oilers didn't score first, that was Kevin Lebanc just 2:31 into the first period. It's off of 2 skates and fluke goal getting past Pickard. Sometimes stuff happens and there is no way you can plan for 3 deflections in front of you. Second goal of the night, Hyman's BACK BABY. His first of 2 goals assists to Connor and Bouch. On to the second period all tied up at 1. Second period at 2:22 Leon gets his first of 2 on the night assist to, guess who, Connor and Bouch. Beautiful backhander. Columbus challenged the goal and lost so we get a power play. While the usual suspects were buzzing it's Mattias Ekholm that gets the first powerplay goal of the night (first of 2 for the Oilers), assists to Jeff Skinner and Adam Henrique both of whom had multipoint nights. This one is a lesson in follow up until it's in. So this power play goal came within 2 minutes of the first goal of the period by Leon. Just over 2 minutes AFTER this power play goal we get goal number 2 of the night (#5 of the season) for Zach Hyman (assists to Nuge and McDavid). Great shot too. Four minutes later the Blue Jackets strike again that was deflected through Pickard (again, bouncing puck) goal credited to Severson. Eight minutes later Jeff Skinner gets his 5th goal of the season (Same as Hyman but Skinner plays on the 3rd line not the first with McDavid) with assists to Adam Henrique and Mattias Janmark. Henrique can get them through and his line does contribute. Rico went 6 wins, 4 losses in the circle for a 60% in the dot night too. He was one of, GULP, SEVEN Oilers who had 2 or more points tonight. The Gulp was the hearts of anyone who supports the Blue Jackets. You get that much coming against you from that many people, you're not just toast, you're BURNT MELBA TOAST (and I thought that was the only way that stuff came). Top three lines scored but it's not like the fourth line didn't contribute. PK was 100% on the night. Ryan had the highest percentage in the faceoff dot tonight winning 7 and loosing 2 for a 77.8% faceoff percentage. Yes, Leon won and took more faceoffs but his faceoff percentage was 72.2% (exceptional but still a bit lower numerically). Faceoff wise the ONLY Oiler lower than 50% was Podkolzin (who went 0 for 2 tonight) and those 1 and 2 faceoff taken ones are tossup's with guys who normally don't take faceoff's. On to the third period. Columbus gets the first goal of the period (Sillinger) on a screen. There were three guys in front of Pickard including 2 Blue Jackets. Final goal of the night on the power play, Leon, assists to Connor and Nuge. One timer and BOOM, TWINE. Not from his normal spot either but who cares if you can shoot like that with a boat oar. Lets look at the base stats a bit for trends, first SEVEN Oilers got 2 or more points. That's a lot of guys getting a lot of points. Oilers had way more shots on goal, won way more faceoffs and took a lot fewer penalties. The rest was pretty much a wash, yes the Oilers hit less but giveaways / takeaways and same amount of blocks were close enough to be irrelevant to the overall picture (again this is looking at numbers from orbit, not what EACH number really meant in the game). Been noticing (bit of trend analysis) Ty Emberson plays the most of any D on the PK and the PK has been incredible for some time now. This seems to be a GREAT VALUE PICKUP. Derek Ryan hasn't been a great contributor to the score sheet but he sure wins a lot of difficult PK defensive zone faceoffs and does a great job making sure things are handled well when he's out there. Can he have off nights? Sure, all players do but the vets like Ryan, Perry, Henrique, they seem to have fewer of those nights. Things are more regressed to the mean than wildly skewed outliers. For those that don't speak math as a first language (sigh), I mean they're more stable most nights. You know what you're going to get and you do. Would I like him to score 10 or more this season, of course I would. Who knows, it can happen. Take care all.
Game 26. Long post follows with base game statistics including some for the Columbus Blue Jackets. Read, don't read, up to you. These are BASE stats not detailed ones. My comments and observations at the end.
Statistics for Columbus Blue Jackets at Edmonton Oilers December 5th, 2024
Edmonton Oilers:
Hyman 2 Goals (including GWG)
Draisaitl 2 Goals (1 PP)
Ekholm 1 Goal (PP)
J Skinner 1 Goal, 1 Primary Assist (PP)
Bouchard 2 Secondary Assists
McDavid 3 Primary Assist (1 PP), 1 Secondary Assist
Henrique 1 Primary Assist, 1 Secondary Assist (PP)
Janmark 1 Secondary Assist
Nuge 1 Primary Assist, 1 Secondary Assist (PP)
Pickard 19 Saves on 22 Shots = .864 Save %age
Columbus Blue Jackets:
Labanc 1 Goal
Severson 1 Goal
Sillinger 1 Goal, 1 Primary Assist
Pyyhtia 1 Primary Assist
Werenski 1 Secondary Assist
Fantilli 1 Secondary Assist
Harris 1 Primary Assist
Christiansen 1 Secondary Assist
Tarasov 31 Saves on 37 Shots = 0.838 Save %age
Blue Jackets Oilers
Shots on Goal 22 37
Hits 15 12
Faceoffs Won 20 34
PP 0/2 2/5
Penalty Mins 10 4
Giveaways 11 (6 per NST) 10 (7 per NST)
Takeaways 4 (3 per NST) 2
Blocked Shots 16 (13 per NST) 16 (12 per NST)
3 Stars: 3-Draisaitl (2G (1PP)), 2-McDavid (4A (1PP)), 1-Hyman (2G including GWG)
Player TOI PP TOI PK TOI SOG +/- PIM Hits Blocks Giveaways Takeaways
Nurse 23:18 2:46 2:43 3 0 0 2 2 1 0
Bouchard 21:40 5:16 0:09 2 2 0 0 0 1 0
Ekholm 19:27 2:25 1:00 2 2 2 1 1 0 1
Kulak 18:21 0:16 0:37 5 0 0 0 4 0 0
Emberson 16:23 0:00 2:55 1 -1 0 2 4 0 0
Stecher 16:06 0:04 0:28 1 -1 0 0 1 0 0
Draisaitl 21:14 5:10 0:09 2 1 0 1 0 1 0
McDavid 20:36 5:10 0:16 1 2 0 0 0 0 0
Nuge 19:57 4:54 2:36 4 1 0 0 0 0 0
Hyman 19:05 5:07 0:00 5 3 0 0 0 1 0
Henrique 16:01 2:28 2:52 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kapanen 13:21 0:03 0:31 1 0 0 0 2 0 0
J Skinner 13:19 2:42 0:00 3 0 0 0 0 1 0
Podkolzin 13:15 0:00 0:16 3 0 0 2 0 1 1
Janmark 11:46 0:00 0:00 0 -1 2 0 1 0 0
C Brown 11:22 0:00 0:48 2 -1 0 0 0 0 0
Perry 10:51 2:40 0:00 1 -1 0 0 0 1 0
Ryan 10:05 0:00 0:37 1 -1 0 4 1 0 0
Oilers Faceoff Breakdown:
Won Lost Percent
Draisaitl 13 5 72.2
Ryan 7 2 77.8
McDavid 7 7 50.0
Henrique 6 4 60.0
Nuge 1 0 100.0
Podkolzin 0 2 0.00
Blue Jackets's Faceoff Breakdown:
Won Lost Percent
Monahan 9 9 50.0
Danforth 7 8 46.7
Kuraly 2 1 66.7
Pyyhtia 1 0 100.0
Fantilli 1 11 8.3
Voronkov 0 1 0.00
Sillinger 0 1 0.00
Olivier 0 1 0.00
Marchenko 0 2 0.00
Surgery still postponed so here are some stats. Again, I can't watch the games. What follows is my opinion.
This was the night the team celebrated Connor's 1000th point (99th player in NHL history, 4th fastest, 4th Oiler to hit the mark, etc.) that he scored back in November. His extremely talented (and attractive) wife Lauren, his dog Lenny, and his parents (Brian and Kelly) were there when he received a Rolex from Darnell, Leon, and Nuge for the team, a Tiffany Crystal from the NHL presented by GM Stan Bowman, a $50,000 donation from the Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation in Connor's name to the Ben Stelter Foundation, and a Gold Stick (and gold bone for Lenny) came from Jeff Jackson (and Leon for the Bone). As the bone was an inflated toy Lenny really wanted nothing to do with it (I mean you can't bury it and it isn't tasty). Now with the preliminary celebrations out of the way lets actually get to the game.
The Oilers didn't score first, that was Kevin Lebanc just 2:31 into the first period. It's off of 2 skates and fluke goal getting past Pickard. Sometimes stuff happens and there is no way you can plan for 3 deflections in front of you. Second goal of the night, Hyman's BACK BABY. His first of 2 goals assists to Connor and Bouch. On to the second period all tied up at 1.
Second period at 2:22 Leon gets his first of 2 on the night assist to, guess who, Connor and Bouch. Beautiful backhander. Columbus challenged the goal and lost so we get a power play. While the usual suspects were buzzing it's Mattias Ekholm that gets the first powerplay goal of the night (first of 2 for the Oilers), assists to Jeff Skinner and Adam Henrique both of whom had multipoint nights. This one is a lesson in follow up until it's in. So this power play goal came within 2 minutes of the first goal of the period by Leon. Just over 2 minutes AFTER this power play goal we get goal number 2 of the night (#5 of the season) for Zach Hyman (assists to Nuge and McDavid). Great shot too. Four minutes later the Blue Jackets strike again that was deflected through Pickard (again, bouncing puck) goal credited to Severson. Eight minutes later Jeff Skinner gets his 5th goal of the season (Same as Hyman but Skinner plays on the 3rd line not the first with McDavid) with assists to Adam Henrique and Mattias Janmark. Henrique can get them through and his line does contribute. Rico went 6 wins, 4 losses in the circle for a 60% in the dot night too. He was one of, GULP, SEVEN Oilers who had 2 or more points tonight. The Gulp was the hearts of anyone who supports the Blue Jackets. You get that much coming against you from that many people, you're not just toast, you're BURNT MELBA TOAST (and I thought that was the only way that stuff came).
Top three lines scored but it's not like the fourth line didn't contribute. PK was 100% on the night. Ryan had the highest percentage in the faceoff dot tonight winning 7 and loosing 2 for a 77.8% faceoff percentage. Yes, Leon won and took more faceoffs but his faceoff percentage was 72.2% (exceptional but still a bit lower numerically). Faceoff wise the ONLY Oiler lower than 50% was Podkolzin (who went 0 for 2 tonight) and those 1 and 2 faceoff taken ones are tossup's with guys who normally don't take faceoff's.
On to the third period. Columbus gets the first goal of the period (Sillinger) on a screen. There were three guys in front of Pickard including 2 Blue Jackets. Final goal of the night on the power play, Leon, assists to Connor and Nuge. One timer and BOOM, TWINE. Not from his normal spot either but who cares if you can shoot like that with a boat oar.
Lets look at the base stats a bit for trends, first SEVEN Oilers got 2 or more points. That's a lot of guys getting a lot of points. Oilers had way more shots on goal, won way more faceoffs and took a lot fewer penalties. The rest was pretty much a wash, yes the Oilers hit less but giveaways / takeaways and same amount of blocks were close enough to be irrelevant to the overall picture (again this is looking at numbers from orbit, not what EACH number really meant in the game).
Been noticing (bit of trend analysis) Ty Emberson plays the most of any D on the PK and the PK has been incredible for some time now. This seems to be a GREAT VALUE PICKUP.
Derek Ryan hasn't been a great contributor to the score sheet but he sure wins a lot of difficult PK defensive zone faceoffs and does a great job making sure things are handled well when he's out there. Can he have off nights? Sure, all players do but the vets like Ryan, Perry, Henrique, they seem to have fewer of those nights. Things are more regressed to the mean than wildly skewed outliers. For those that don't speak math as a first language (sigh), I mean they're more stable most nights. You know what you're going to get and you do. Would I like him to score 10 or more this season, of course I would. Who knows, it can happen.
Take care all.
JEFFREY SKINNER