NHL Power Rankings: Which Metro Teams Are Poised for a Shocking Leap This Season?
22. Edmonton Oilers, 12-11-5
Last week: 27
Sean: 22
Dom: 22
If “the leap” is a young player jumping up several tiers, we need an opposite for an old player falling down several tiers. We’re proposing ‘the cliff,’ and there, Mattias Ekholm is on high alert. His Net Rating has been above plus-10 in each of the last three seasons with the Oilers, a top-pair rate. This year, he’s right at zero: exactly average. More troubling is a minus-1.7 Defensive Rating after averaging plus-5.0 over the last three years.
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