Shot Location: A Breakdown of Shots by Edmonton Oilers Forwards

Edmonton Oilers scored 3.48 goals/game last season. The team's offence improved after the arrival of Jay Woodcroft and Dave Manson. Florida, Toronto, St. Louis, Calgary and Vancouver also improved their scoring. Sports Logictracks tracks the value of shots in the inner and the slot. Inner slot shots are #1 in green and slot shot goals are number 2 in blue. Zack Kassian is now in Arizona. He played the most games for the Oilers last year. His team won the Stanley Cup. It's good to see that goal scoring increased in last few months of the season, as it usually does in previous seasons.

Leon Draisaitl and Evander Kane were efficient from the inner slot scoring on over 30% of their shots. Devin Shore and Ryan McLeod didn't shoot as much, but when they did they were effective. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins struggled with only four goals on 36 shots, he will need to bury more of his high-danger chances this season. Zach Hyman was 2nd in the NHL with 100 inner-slotted shots and only Brady Tkachuk was better with triple-digit inner slots.

McDavid and Draisaitl had the most shots by a significant margin. Derek Ryan scored five goals on 13 shots. Puljujarvi struggled at scoring from the slot. RNH needs to score more goals. He has a good snapshot but needs more chances.

Draisaitl, Kane, Yamamoto, Ryan and Shore were all 24%+ from the slot. Ryan, Shore and Puljujarvi combined for 14 goals on 51 shots from slot, but were 11th and 12th in SH%.

Edmonton Oilers forwards took 509 shots from zones 3-5 and scored 12 goals. For non-elite players scoring from those zones is very rare. For elite players it is even more difficult. Brad Holland used to think shot share was a great stat to look at, but it's not as accurate as he originally thought.

Edmonton signed Jake Virtanen and Jason Demers to PTOs. They have to sign Ryan McLeod. Dylan Holloway impressed in the preseason games. He will try to earn a spot in training camp. The trip is from January 12th to January 15th. They are flying to Vegas on Thursday, January 11th and then flying back on Sunday, the 15 th. After landing in Vegas, they will jump on the free shuttle to Park MGM. On the 12 th they'll make their way to Edmonton. Then they're flying from Edmonton to Las Vegas. It's from there that they are going to the training camps.

Edmonton Oilers forwards are going to Las Vegas on January 12th and coming back on Sunday evening. The trip costs $1499 per person. The tickets are available now. They include roundtrip flight, hotel, shuttle, viewing party (Friday night), game entry, and exclusive entry into pre-trip ‘get to know everyone’ event.