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In this edition of the blog, I want to take a glance at a four players who have spent a fair bit of time with the Oilers organization that might be moving on in the next few months:JEFF DESLAURIERS's injury, Deslauriers did give way to Devan Dubnyk for most of the year, but Deslauriers came up clutch when pressed into action due to an injury to Gerber late in the campaign. In the regular season, football statistics Deslauriers came up with 17 wins in 35 appearances with a .906 SV%. He went 7-2-2 in the team's final 11 games of the year.Consensus, I think, is that Deslauriers will look towards another organization with his Unrestricted Free Agency this summer. There's no room for him to be an everyday NHL goaltender here, and perhaps he can earn that nod on a low salary deal with a club that is in the market. football statistics Gerber, incidentally, is a sure bet to move on to another organization this off-season.Drafted 94th overall in 2003 out of Sudbury in the OHL, where he was the team captain, Stortini fought his way, literally, into the NHL in 2006-07. Consistently praised by every head coach he's had for a tremendous work ethic, Stortini has worked hard to improve the areas of his game that have been identified as football statistics weaknesses. To this day, I firmly believe that Stortini is one of the most reliable and defensively sound -tough guys- that I've seen play in the league. Problem is, Stortini didn't make it to the show because of his reliability or defensive play -- the brass tax is, he made it because he fights.The last fight of his NHL season was in Dallas on January 26, a curiously defensive effort against Kry football statistics s Barch, who had been beat up earlier in the game by Jim VandermeerSTEVE MACINTYRE had 10 and Zack StortiniJASON STRUDWICK football statistics
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