Ryan Stone: Stop Breaking Down

Ryan Stone is the last of the forwards I'll look at using this format. Ryan Jones and the rest played too few games as Oilers to have a long look at, but we'll talk about them later in the spring. Boxcars: 27gp, 0-6-6 Shots: 25 Plus Minus: +2 Corsi (Rel): 14.7 (2nd among F, DNQ)GF/GA ON: 16-14 5x5/60: 1.54 (5th among F's, DNQ)5x4/60: nil Quality of Competition: 12th toughest among F's Quality of Teammates: 11th best among F's FO %: 33.3% in 21 FO's Offensive Zone Start FO %: 52.7% (easiest among F's, DNQ)Cap Hit: $600,000 (UFA)What do these numbers tell us? Not a lot. He played with good linemates (despite the qual/qual #'s) for many of the 27 games but there's not enough here to draw grand conclusions. Excellent Corsi, passable 5x5/60 and the cap hit was on the way to making this a value contract before injury.How could these numbers be better? He needed to get more at-bats in order to establish himself as an Oiler, and he neede...