Oscar Klefbom's silent elite defensive season

[OilCanada92]

I’m pretty sure he’s always had good underlying stats, maybe someone correct me, but I think last year is the only he’s really only struggled

And it was well known that he was playing hurt.

Rarely do players go from being as good as he was 2 years ago to being as bad as he was last season while in their prime for no reason.

 

[ChaoticOrange]

Klefbom and Elite is an oxymoron.

What’s the problem, has no one called the Flames defence elite in the last 16 seconds?

Don’t fool yourself. Klefbom is excellent.

 

[Oilwings]

I don't like his shot.. The whined up and follow thru sux.

Give me a Pulock, Shea Weber, Ellis, Parayko, Subban, Seabrook, Ekblad, Josi, Doughty, Keith, Dumba, etc... style type shot. Huge Whined up/back swing and a follow thru.

 

[Mcnotloilersfan]

I think the important thing is that it is proving that last year was really about the injury problems for him. He was a #1 dman for the Oilers 2 seasons ago, and hes playing like that again.

 

[McVespa99]

UNlucky? His shot is just bad.

He scored 15 2 years ago with his bad shot.....

 

[BoldNewLettuce]

I hated him to start the year. Kind of average and bumbling plays.

Hes been much better the pasr few games. Hes had some great scoring chances too jumping into the play.

Thank god.

 

[Oilwings]

Yup. Terrible shot.

How many bombs has he taken since then and has contributed to goals?

 

[Tobias Kahun]

How many bombs has he taken since then and has contributed to goals?

His issue isn’t shot velocity, it is accuracy or when he shoots, he almost never waits for traffic to get to the net

 

[Oilwings]

I want these type of shots from Klef.

 

[ESH]

And it was well known that he was playing hurt.

Rarely do players go from being as good as he was 2 years ago to being as bad as he was last season while in their prime for no reason.

It happened to Brodie

 

[T-Funk]

His issue isn’t shot velocity, it is accuracy or when he shoots, he almost never waits for traffic to get to the net

He has terrible timing. I would argue that his problem is he gives the opponents too much time to get into defensive position.

 

[ijk]

Does this mean that Nutivaara is good?

Edit: Not trying to bait compliments for a fellow Finn. I’m more interested in knowing how good these advanced metrics are at showing a player’s qulity of play since Nutivaara does not strike me as being the best in anything, which he seems to be according to this criterion.

 

[bert]

Season? we are like 10 games in. They haven't even played half the league yet.

Bingo

 

[thadd]

I've noticed that it's taken him considerably longer to get his slap shot off this season.

 

[General Disarray]

Guess it's a good thing the Oilers are in cap hell, otherwise Chia probably trades low on him after the season he had. (and probably adds the 1st which became Bouchard)

 

[covfefe]

What’s the problem, has no one called the Flames defence elite in the last 16 seconds?

Don’t fool yourself. Klefbom is excellent.

"Is" excellent, or has been excellent? Seems you weren't so sure of yourself just a few weeks ago...

Oilers:

Strengths:

McDavid
Centres generally
Bottom six depth
Toughness
Young, high ceiling defencemen

Weaknesses
Proven top six wingers
No #1 defenceman
Roster deadweight
Special teams

Unknowns
Which Talbot is the real Talbot
Can Klefbom/Larsson return to 16/17 form
Can at least 1 or 2 of Rattie/Puljujarvi/Yamamoto keep up their strong preseason play
Can the new coaches fix the special teams
Can Lucic just be sorta ****ty instead of completely ****ty

... well, yeah. Outside of a bunch of guys underperforming and some injury problems on the blueline our big flaws last year were no goaltending depth, no forward depth, and a lack of right shots.

Koskinen’s overpaid likely, but adding two of those three will help us. I know you’re hoping to see stupidity like us trading Draisaitl for Parayko but smart gambles on depth guys like Brodziak, Rieder, and Comeau is actually the smart move until we know what the full story is with guys like Talbot and Klefbom who had one excellent year and one meh year.

 

[FerrisRox]

Doesn't stop the "frontrunner for Vezina/Norris/etc threads, ha ha.

Nothing tops the thread asking if a team has ever had the top four scorers in the league that was posted.... five games into the season.

 

[ChaoticOrange]

"Is" excellent, or has been excellent? Seems you weren't so sure of yourself just a few weeks ago...

He was excellent in 16/17, pretty good his rookie season and when he had his season cut short by MRSA, not as good last year due to playing injured and pretty damn good so far this year. The question was whether he could bounce back from a meh year by his standards last year and so far he has and then some.

I’m not sure I’d give him #1 defenceman billing quite yet, but he’s definitely walking the walk this season.

 

[OilCanada92]

It happened to Brodie

Brodie has regressed but he's still a top 4 Dman that a lot of teams would gladly have on their team.

 

[The List Of Jericho]

Of all defenseman that's played 200 minutes 5on5, he has the 2nd best chance suppression relative metrics to his teammates behind only Nutivaara. Only difference is when Klefbom is on the ice his team allows less goals and scores more goals. He's also generating 3.25 shots per game in all situations, meaning he's been extremely unlucky scoring wise. All of the Oilers big guns both offensively and defensively suffer tremendously away from Klefbom as well. Yup even McDavid.

Second most important player on that team, not surprised that since he's doing well, the Oilers are playing better. D core lives and dies through him.

 

[McDNicks17]

Relative possession metrics mean nothing when Kris Russell and Matt Benning are on your team.

 

[MessierII]

Klefbom is a good player and is having a good season but it consistently overrated by the analytics community.

 

[A91]

He was excellent in 16/17, pretty good his rookie season and when he had his season cut short by MRSA, not as good last year due to playing injured and pretty damn good so far this year. The question was whether he could bounce back from a meh year by his standards last year and so far he has and then some.

I’m not sure I’d give him #1 defenceman billing quite yet, but he’s definitely walking the walk this season.

Never realized his infection was MRSA. Thats a bitch to treat

 

[Whiston532]

Contrary to what some think there are good players other than McDavid on the oilers, the problem is not all of them are good...

 

[ChaoticOrange]

Never realized his infection was MRSA. Thats a ***** to treat

Staph infection that morphed into MRSA. If I remember right it got into his system from a cut in his knuckle and a minor case of lace bite turned into 50 missed games, surgery, a skin graft and custom built skates. Frankly he’s probably lucky to be playing pro sports at all, never mind at his high level.