The Hartnell comparison seems more sensible since Foligno is riding the comet that is Johansen similar to how Hartnell caught on with the superstars on the Flyers but that comparison isn't necessarily accurate. That Flyer team was loaded when Hartnell finally broke out in 2008-09.

The Penner comparison isn't perfect either. He led the Oilers in scoring by more than 20 points that season. His breakout was all him and a mountain of flapjacks worth of puck luck.

Both Hartnell and Penner had 20-goal seasons before breaking out for real. Foligno hasn't reached 20 goals in a season yet but he's already halfway there. Doesn't seem like there's a perfect comparison. Maybe Foligno is just one of a kind! But if there's a lesson here it's that big-bodied net-front guys like Foligno don't typically score more than 60 points in a season, even when all the puck luck goes their way so make that your high side projection for Foligno going forward.

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God bless Milan Lucic. Only he would engage in some extracurriculars at the end of overtime to earn himself (and his fantasy owners) a PIM-boosting game misconduct. He may be scoreless in four straight now but he finds a way to contribute. You can blame the injuries to David Krejci and many other Bruins for the slow start for Lucic.

Actually, looking at things, the Bruins have it about as bad as the Blue Jackets do on the injury front. Talk about a battle of the walking wounded.

Alexander Khokhlachev made his season debut last night but skated less than 10 minutes. He did score the shootout winner but I doubt that earns him significantly more ice time. I like Khokhlachev as a prospect but this isn't his time to contribute just yet.

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Cory Schneider pulled off the perfect quarter season starting all of the Devils' first 20 games this season. He capped it off with a shutout of the Oilers, which is both impressive and unimpressive at the same time.

Schneider's numbers haven't been all that impressive this season and you can pick your excuse as to why. He's either been overworked, let down by the skaters in front of him, been unlucky or simply played poorly. It's probably some combination of the above. I just know we expect him to be better going forward. He's already got two shutouts in the last four games. It might be turning for him already.

You can give up one breakaway in a game and get away with it. Two is too many, or at least it was last night as Henrique opened the scoring by finishing his second breakaway opportunity of the match.

When he has played, Henrique has played well with 10 points in 14 games this season. That's while riding a 19.2% shooting percentage but it's not as high as you'd think. Henrique has always been a high percentage shooter, with a career average of 15.1%. He's like Tyler Bozak without the media spotlight or super linemates.

Henrique has done fairly well in the linemate department recently, centering Patrik Elias and Martin Havlat (who hasn't been as bad as you'd imagine.) It had previously been centering the Newfies, Ryane Clowe and Michael Ryder before the former went down with injury. If Henrique can stick with Elias (who is due some puck luck soon, I swear) then I'm optimistic about his chances of remaining productive. Otherwise, he probably reaches that 35-45 range that has modest value but isn't exciting.

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Watching the Edmonton power play last night, dreadful as ever I couldn't help but think about how the Oilers managed excellent power plays during the Ralph Krueger era, both when he was an assistant under Renney and then as head coach in 2013. The Oilers power play clicked at an efficient 20% during those two years ranking as high as third in the league in 2011-12.

This year, the Oilers rank 26^th at 13.4%. They were only marginally better last season ranking 21^st at 17.0%. Unlike a lot of Oiler fans, I don't hate Dallas Eakins' coaching. But it sure feels like he could use a hand managing the X's and O's on the power play.

What's interesting is if you take a deeper dive into the stats. The Oilers ranked 29^th in both 2011-12 and 2013 in shot attempts per 60 minutes with the man advantage. There have been a number of studies demonstrating why shot attempts are the better measure of power play efficacy because we know that shooting percentages often fluctuate widely.

Obviously it hasn't helped the Oilers become a better team but under Eakins they have improved widely in terms of generating shot attempts on the power play. Last season showed only marginal improvement ranking 24^th in shot attempts/60 but this season they are all the way up to eighth even while their efficiency lingers near the bottom.

So is this power play a sleeping giant? If you watched the Oilers' four-minute power play in the third period where they managed just two SOG you'd certainly have to argue for no. They went 0/4 against the worst penalty-killing team in the league, well second worst after last night. And really, if you've been watching all season then you'd have a tough time arguing that this power play is good and that we just don't know it yet but I think we can be too results based in our opinions. Even though I don't think it looks good I'm open to the possibility that the Oilers are doing things "the right way" and simply aren't seeing results yet.

That doesn't do us much good as fantasy owners though. It's not enough to be generating shot attempts at a high rate. We need closer's, which reminds me of one of my favourite movie scenes (warning NSFW language).

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The dream appears to be dead, Daniel Alfredsson is reportedly on his way to retirement. I just dumped him in the Experts League. A sad day for sure.

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Check out Dobber's latest for Puck Daddy.

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May as well check out the latest from our friend at The Hockey Writers, Anatolyi Metter as he looks at the top defensemen under 25% owned.

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Some tasty nuggets in Elliotte Friedman's latest 30 Thoughts:

15. It seems like James Neal is shooting more than ever, but the numbers don't back up that assertion. His 82-game pace is 289 shots for this year, better than 2012-13 (279), but lower than 2011-12 (337) and last season (331). What he does say is the mentality is different. "When you're playing with Crosby or (Evgeni) Malkin, it's hard not to be looking for them. Now, I'm not thinking that way."

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If you haven't checked it yet I broke down the Dillon-Demers trade yesterday.

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