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EDMONTON — Things We (Think We) Know. Series V, Volume II. In all of our years, we’ve never met a three-goalie system that anybody inside a...
EDMONTON — By gawd, the Edmonton Oilers have found a goalie. Call the kids, Martha. They’ve gotta see this too. On the day that Connor McDavid...
EDMONTON — The Doctor is out. Darnell “Doc” Nurse never found the antidote to making people forget about the eight-year, $74 million deal that...
EDMONTON — We’ve learned a few things about goaltending here in Edmonton, ironically, through years of observing a series of general managers...
EDMONTON — It’s a lot easier to make Team Latvia than it is to find a spot on Team Canada, at every level of the hockey world. So international...
EDMONTON — It’s really not so much about the draft this weekend for the Edmonton Oilers, so much as it is about another milepost in their limited...
EDMONTON — On Tuesday, the Edmonton Oilers announced their new head coach. On Wednesday, they got a new captain. The old one never spoke like this....
EDMONTON — All the wins. All the playoff series. The two Stanley Cup Finals. What has it all got the Edmonton Oilers? Their roster is "poorly...
EDMONTON — If the Edmonton Oilers’ bounce back season is to be framed by team defence, not more offence, then Jason Dickinson and Connor Murphy...
EDMONTON — Darryl Sutter had one foot up on the bottom rail, his arms folded over the top rail as he watched the Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers...
EDMONTON — Even in a light least favourable … In its Thursday press release announcing that Mike Babcock’s awkward, early resignation from the...
EDMONTON — The Connor McDavid Era has entered be-careful-what-you-wish-for territory. Next stop, either a Stanley Cup parade or an entirely new...
EDMONTON — Darnell Nurse and the Edmonton Oilers are headed for a breakup. The clock is ticking on the veteran defenceman’s time in Edmonton,...
EDMONTON — There are some constants that have been established in Edmonton, over the arc of a competitive window that has lasted for most of a...
EDMONTON — For good reason, the go-to question at a time like this has always been, “So, that’s how many coaches for Ryan Nugent-Hopkins…?”...
EDMONTON — Well, this is awkward. As hockey insider Frank Seravalli broke the news on Tuesday that the Vegas Golden Knights were withholding...
EDMONTON — It’s a fair debate, which job presents a more difficult task for a National Hockey League general manager: Is it starting at the...
EDMONTON — Things We (Think We) Know. Series V, Volume I. I’ve covered 35 years of the National Hockey League, give or take. Which means I’ve...
EDMONTON — Leon Draisaitl is not a subtle man. On Saturday morning, the superstar who signed a new eight-year deal to be an Edmonton Oiler for life...
ANAHEIM — They’ve been searching for it all year long. As it turns out, “it” was never there. The Edmonton Oilers were eliminated by the...
ANAHEIM — With their team’s season on the line again, Edmonton Oilers fans will watch nervously Thursday night. More so than the players,...
EDMONTON — We’ve reached the point in this series when we’re spending more time spent in the air and airports than inside hockey rinks, as we...
EDMONTON — It’s still unknown whether the Edmonton Oilers have two more wins over these Anaheim Ducks in them this spring. But the Oilers...
EDMONTON — With the Edmonton Oilers’ season on the line, Connor McDavid was listed as a game-time decision Tuesday morning. McDavid missed morning...
EDMONTON — The fact that the Edmonton Oilers’ entire season was suspended in time — players and coaches waiting/praying on a decision from a...
ANAHEIM — Can’t get a bounce, can’t catch a break. Is it because the Edmonton Oilers, 4-3 losers in overtime Sunday, haven’t earned a break...
ANAHEIM — The fast, young Anaheim Ducks are giving the playoff-tested Oilers fits. Anaheim leads the NHL playoffs with an average of 5.33 goals per...
ANAHEIM — Too quick. Too big. And so far, too good. They’re making the Edmonton Oilers look old and slow, these flashy young Anaheim Ducks....
ANAHEIM — Whether he likes it or not, Tim Washe has become the face of Anaheim’s effort to shut down Connor McDavid. Washe (pronounced WASH-ee)...
ANAHEIM — In a series tied at one win apiece, we’d say both teams could make a case for blowing their opportunity to be up 2-0. But, as the...
EDMONTON — There is a weird fascination in watching Connor McDavid struggle like this. Like spotting a lynx in the wild, or watching your golf...
EDMONTON — If there was one thing in Game 1 of Anaheim-Edmonton that stood out as strange, it was Connor McDavid not being able to gain the zone on...
EDMONTON — Somehow, the Anaheim Ducks managed to cut off the head of the snake in their playoff debut at Edmonton, yet still, the rest of the...
EDMONTON — The ‘A’ cliché at this time of year is a true hockeyism: Your best players have to be your best players. So when Connor McDavid goes...
EDMONTON — There is a school of thought that wonders if Connor Ingram, whose mental health journey took him through the NHL/NHLPA Players...
EDMONTON — It’s playoff time, so the Edmonton Oilers aren’t telling us whether Leon Draisaitl — or Jason Dickinson — will play in Game 1...
EDMONTON — “We have this little red box of things. Uh… It’s going to sound corny…” Todd McLellan was taking his 2016-17 Edmonton Oilers...
EDMONTON — Fans will celebrate No Kings Day in Edmonton on Friday, and instead, the Oilers will draw their 2017 selves in a Round 1 series against...
EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oilers’ second season as a recovering Stanley Cup finalist has been… well, let’s just say they’ve taken it one day...
EDMONTON — Looking down from 30,000 feet at an Edmonton Oilers team that has scored just once in its last two games — but allowed only...
EDMONTON – It’s harder to get a straight answer on an injury at this time of year than it is to score on Andrei Vasilevskiy. When it comes to Leon...
You don’t always get rewarded, no matter how well you play. And sometimes, when Los Angeles is playing peak Kings hockey, you don’t get rewarded...
EDMONTON — So you’re sitting around a table at the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto, arguing with Dave Bidini over the future of the Maple Leafs. Or...
Total command. Absolute control. We could be talking about Connor McDavid’s five-point night in a 5-2 win at San Jose. Or perhaps it was an Edmonton...
As it turns out, in a game the Edmonton Oilers led for all but 11 seconds, they were lucky to escape Salt Lake City with a point in a 6-5 overtime...
EDMONTON — There is a veteran calm in Edmonton now, as they head out on the road for one last, meaningless trip and into the final five games of...
EDMONTON — Frankly, the Edmonton Oilers were due for one of these. You know, a night where the guy who took a puck in the head but didn’t spill...
EDMONTON — There are two things hockey players have always told us: You can’t expect to just “flick a switch” when March rolls around and...
EDMONTON — During the Oilers’ McDrai era, Edmonton has become a place where fourth liners come to disappear. It emerged as an unintended...
EDMONTON — Now they’re just showin’ off. The Edmonton Oilers got one empty net goal from its Top 6, zero points from its top defensive pairing,...
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