Restoring the Rosters: Edmonton Oilers
Based on Matthew Pouliot’s series on Circling the Bases, I have decided restore the rosters for every NHL team. Like Pouliot, I have established some ground rules for my selections.
- Each team contains players they originally drafted or signed before any other NHL team. This includes players drafted and not signed, as well as European free agents coming over at an older age.
- I have chosen to leave retired players off the list, and lean toward players in the AHL rather than those deported (KHL, SEL, DEL, etc.).
Essentially I am choosing the best available players for a team to succeed in the current NHL season. All 30 teams will be covered, with grades assigned to forwards, defense and goaltending. After all 30 articles are written, they will be ranked in order. This series’ intent is to reward or shame NHL scouts.
Categories: 30 Team Series, NHLHS Features, Restoring the Rosters Tags: Ales Hemsky, Alex Plante, Andrew Cogliano, Andy Moog, Danny Syvret, Devan Dubnyk, Fernando Pisani, Georges Laraque, Grant Fuhr, Jake Allen, Jari Kurri, Jason Arnott, Jason Chimera, Jeff Deslauriers, Jeff Petry, Jordan Eberle, Kevin Lowe, Marc-Antoine Pouliot, Mark Messier, Mathieu Roy, Matt Greene, Matthew Lombardi, Mike Comrie, Miroslav Satan, Nikolai Khabibulin, Olivier Roy, Paul Coffey, Rob Schremp, Ryan Smyth, Sam Gagner, Shawn Horcoff, Taylor Chorney, Theo Peckham, Tom Poti, Wayne Gretzky, Zack Stortini
The Flyers Black and Blue Line
With injuries to Danny Syvret and Ryan Parent on top of the poor play of the defensive units, the Philadelphia Flyers are currently in the hunt to fix the issues.
Categories: Atlantic, By Teams, Eastern Conference, NHLHS Features, Philadelphia Flyers Tags: Aaron Ward, Brendan Witt, Chris Pronger, Danny Syvret, Denis Bodrov, Dennis Seidenberg, Dennis Wideman, Dion Phaneuf, Garnet Exelby, Joe Corvo, Kimmo Timonen, Marek Zidlicky, Mike Commodore, Milan Jurcina, Niclas Wallin, Pavel Kubina, Philaelpphia Flyers, Ryan Parent, Sheldon Souray
