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Who is hot and who is not on the Bakersfield Condors? Or, better, yet, who should be heading up to the Edmonton Oilers eventually and who should be staying down in the AHL?

After four games, the Bakersfield Condors have just one win and three losses, but the team hasn’t played poorly save for one game. It’s a high-flying, strong-passing squad, with plenty of puck-moving d-men, a number of strong skaters and several excellent prospects. The won-loss record will soon improve, I strongly suspect.

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As for which players are performing the best, here’s my take after four games. You’ll see from the chart that I’m tracking only major contributions to scoring chances, which are generally either a) hard or dangerous shots on net from the slot b) passes inside the slot leading to a slot shot c) passes or shots into the slot leading directly to a slot shot. At the other end, I track only major mistakes on scoring chances against which are all mistakes directly leading to a shot slot, or a pass into the slot for such a shot.