Boys on the Bus » A treatise on the Edmonton Oilers

Relative Strength of Cup-Winning Teams Since 1968

I recently started a new series of posts tabulating Corsi data for notable games in Oilers history, beginning with their 1987 Game 7 Stanley Cup …

Game Stats: Oilers/Flyers, Game 7 Stanley Cup Finals, May 31 1987

With the Oilers 2012-2013 season left on the scrap-heap of history, I’ll get to undertake a series I’ve long planned to do, which is to …

Formulating a New Statistic for Team Luck, Part II

This post continues a series of examinations into the concept of team ‘luck’. I initially wrote a three part series on team PDO, testing both …

Formulating a New Statistic for Team Luck, Part I

Previously on this blog I’ve completed a three-part series that looked at team PDO critically to understand whether it truly is a measure of “team luck”. …

Game Stats: Oilers/Canucks Apr 27

And it ended not with a bang, but with a slightly meaningless bang. In the last game of the season, the Oilers torched the visiting …

Game Notes: Oilers/Wild Apr 26

Some things just seem like they’re preordained. The Oilers lose in Minnesota on the best of days, but sans Ales Hemsky and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, and …

Game Notes: Oilers/Hawks Apr 24

This season is well past the point of mattering in any sense beyond getting to cheer when Yakupov does something awesome, and the game tonight …

Investigation into Team Percentages, Part III: Shooting Percentage

In previous installments in this series I’ve broken down the history of team PDO and team save percentages — today I will concentrate on team …

Game Stats: Oilers/Ducks Apr 22

Here are tonight’s game stats. I had this game on in the background while having company over, and I won’t be watching the PVR recording. …

Game Stats: Oilers/Ducks Apr 21

I only watched half this game (the last half), so I won’t be adding notes to this report. I will just add for posterity that …