We had a great start to the season even though Sam Gagner and Ryan Nugent Hopkins started as injured players following the 2012-13 season which was a bit of a disaster. After the first month of the season, we were 2nd overall and stayed close to that heading into the all-star break. However, after said break, things started to be broken down and we hung on to a 7th place finish.
We made some moves durinng the season picking up Derek Roy and Mark Fistric. Botheer were solid pick ups but Derek Roy missed 13 games late in the season when we were struggling and Fistric missed close to half the season.
We managed to get a huge season out of Nuge as he led the team after coming back from injury and led the team with 22 goals and 52 assists and 79 points in his 79 games. Nail Yakupov and Taylor Hall were the big scorers this past season with Yakupov scoring 35 in his 64 games and Hall scored 34 in his 74 games. Jordan Eberle also had a very solid season with 33 goals and 22 assists in his 68 games.
Injuries certainly didn't help at all down the stretch as I said, we had a load of injuries to deal with and at one point we had Eberle, Hall, Yakupov and Fistric all out of the lineup. Scrivens was solid but got lit up anyways because of the lack of ability when we lost our solid players.
Our defense was fairly solid led by Captain Andrew Ference (4-44-48) with Justin Schultz (15-41-56) as the leading scorer on the back end. Jeff Petry (3-34), Oscar Klefbom (1-30-31 in his 59 games), Anton Belov (2-12-14), Mark Fistric (1-9-10), Matt Fraser (0-10-10) and Martin Marincini (0-4-4).
Overall we finished 40-32-10 with 90 points. Finished 7th in the Conference and played Anaheim in the first round of the playoffs. Anaheim however was a lot better than us in that series and beat us pretty bad. We mmanaged to win 1 game in that series but sadly, couldnt muster anything else.
Nashville Predators were the team that won the Stanley Cup.
Phil Kessel and Alex Ovechkin both led the league in scoring with 53 goals a piece for the shared Rocket trophy. Okposo also hit the 50 mark with 51 goals. Okposo ended up leading the league in scoring with 102 points in a great season for him. Duncan Keith who won the Norris this season finished with a +37 to lead in that stat. King Henrik won 47 games for the Rangers to help the get the the finals but fell short. Carter Hutton, rookie from Nashville was the best in the goals against average stat with his 2.40 gaa coming out this season and helping the Predators win the Cup.
Here is the Oilers scoring
