Oilers beat Stars 4-1; Secondary Scoring & Team Depth

It's great that with Hemsky out we're starting to see some of the other players pick up their game to exciting new levels, like Erik Cole, Sam Gagner, Liam Reddox, Dustin Penner, and Robert Nilsson.

But who is the most consistent Oiler outside of Hemsky? Horcoff, Visnovsky, Souray, Gilbert, Grebeshkov, and Pisani might have a chance - but I think it's clearly Andrew Cogliano.

He may not shoot out the lights - but he's the only guy I can remember bringing his A game every damn shift, PP, PK, or even strength.

He's a heckuva player.

Oilers @ Stars - Jeff Drouin-DesLauriers Starts

The good thing about a big goalie is that he can follow the play from above all the other players' heads. Another good thing about a big goalie is that he can be in the butterfly position and still cover a lot of the net. A bad thing about "dinosaur" goalies is that they have limited mobility. The good thing about Jeff Drouin-DesLauriers? He's not affected by limited mobility.

Lowetide suggests here that one of the goalies could be traded this week of Jeff Drouin-DesLauriers plays well. He probably meant Roloson, but right now I'm not so sure that it's not Garon. People speak about the showcasing aspect of playing Roloson a lot but we'll have to see about that.

Any way we look at it though, its the DesLauriers who stared down the Rangers we want to see today, and not the one who stared down the Leafs. Hopefully, the team can make it a two game winning streak and get some momentum for the home half of the home-and-home with Dallas.