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Originally Posted by Alberta_Beef
In the 10 seasons since the Oilers Cup run Kruegers 2012-13 team ranked
3rd in Winning Percentage (only 07-08 and 08-09 were better)
3rd in Goals per Game (only 07-08 and 08-09 were better)
1st in Goals Against per Game
2nd in Powerplay Percentage (only 11-12 was better)
3rd in Penalty Killing Percentage (only 06-07 and 07-08 were better)
The Oilers may not have lit the world on fire but since they bottomed out that was clearly their best season, if was the only season that the Oilers didn't earn a top 5 pick in that time.
Also you keep bringing up soccer, so what if he is currently in soccer? The guy played hockey, spent 20+ years coaching hockey and is still coaching Team Europe at the World Cup, obviously he loves the game.
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The problem with this analysis is
- That was not a full 82 game season for the Oil to regress back to Oil ways... even this year's Oilers saw themselves in a playoff spot in December. Not only that, Hall + Hopkins + Eberle + Schultz had spent much of the season in the AHL and they were the only team that year in mid season form while other teams were using much of regular season as training camp.
- The 2012-13 Oilers were still a very poor corsi team. Their increased goal scoring correlated with their best shooting percentages. That sounds exactly like what Hartley was selling and what Treliving fired Hartley for.
- The "only" year that was better on the PP happened to be the year directly prior, suggesting Kreuger did nothing to really influence the PP positively - he just kept it from falling apart.
- Devan Dubnyk had a fantastic year. He happens to be a pretty damn good goalie. Goalies are great at influencing goals against.
- PK% was good - but is also a wildly inconsistent stat that varies from top 10 to bottom 10 for many a team from year to year. And again, back to the reduced sample size.