Welcome to Oilersnation’s annual player review series, where we dive into the Edmonton Oilers season player by player. We’ll look back at the season that was, what kind of impact each player had, and what we could see from them next season. You can read about the analytics behind my analysis here.

What can be said about Darnell Nurse that a drunken fan hasn’t already shouted from the nosebleeds of Rogers Place? Nurse’s failure to live up to the $9.25 million payday he negotiated in 2021 has drawn an increasingly loud reaction across Oil Country throughout the years. It will define his career with the Edmonton Oilers, and potentially cut it short.

If we put aside the cap hit for a moment and focus on Nurse’s game, the results don’t look quite as disastrous as one might think. HockeyViz’s model ranks Nurse as a below-average second-pairing........

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