as per Natural Stat Trick.<\/a><\/p>\nDraisaitl hasn\u2019t killed many penalties over his career, but when you have the role and reputation he does as one of the League\u2019s top offensive players, it\u2019s hard to get him more involved in that department \u2013 though he does own nine career shorthanded goals.<\/p>\n
When he\u2019s operating from The Spot\u2122 located inside the right circle for one-timers on Edmonton\u2019s power play, recording 16 PPGs in 2024-25 and owning the franchise record in that department with 162, it\u2019s hard to find more ice time for Leon on the kill when he’s so relied upon at even strength and on the PP.<\/p>\n
As he has grown older, Draisaitl has placed greater emphasis on his defensive game in an effort to find that extra bit of improvement that will help the Oilers achieve their ultimate goal: lifting the Stanley Cup. Trying to do enough to win the Selke Trophy is an excellent motivator for him to gain that extra edge on his opponents and go the extra mile individually for the Oilers.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery highly touted offensive player, the first couple of years, you want to put up numbers, and establish yourself as somebody that can score and make plays, and at times even be flashy,\u201d Draisaitl said. \u201cWith age, I think you just learn that other parts of the game are actually just as much fun as scoring and assists and all those things. Stripping someone and playing good defence is a lot of fun too \u2013 a lot of work, but a lot of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI think if I can continue to do that and continue to chip away at it, maybe just get one percent better at it every year, I think certainly it would help our team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the metrics aren\u2019t fully defined, there are several qualities that you\u2019re looking for in a Selke winner,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-156118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}