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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,...
EDMONTON — Up here in their little corner of a Pacific Division they’ve won for the past two seasons, the Edmonton Oilers are watching the mayhem...
EDMONTON — No team comes back at you in the third period like the Anaheim Ducks. A franchise that was conceived by a movie has embraced Hollywood...
LAS VEGAS — Slowly, and we’re not yet ready to say surely, all the elements of a good hockey team are beginning to arrive for the Edmonton Oilers....
LAS VEGAS — “Let’s get ready to STUM-BLLLLLLLLE!” If they promoted this Pacific Division showdown the way boxing promoters put their kitschy...
SALT LAKE CITY — Try being Tristan Jarry these past few months, a struggling goalie in a high-profile Canadian market. Your name is on every tongue...
EDMONTON — Did Connor McDavid throw shade at his head coach after the Tampa game? Or was he innocently paying respect to his Olympic coach, Jon...
EDMONTON — Welcome to the Pathetic Division. Out here, losses grow on trees, and playoff berths fall from the sky. Out here, it’s Oprah country:...
EDMONTON — Here’s the difference between you and I, and an actual National Hockey League hockey player. The Oilers fan woke up sour Friday...
EDMONTON — They ripped your heart out, two Stanley Cup Finals in a row. Left your captain in tears, then rubbed your city’s noses in it at the...
EDMONTON — The not-so-secret secret here in Edmonton, where the Oilers’ roster houses a pair of mega stars, is that Connor McDavid and Leon...
EDMONTON — So, let’s see what these Edmonton Oilers have. Who this year’s Edmonton Oilers really are. If they’re good enough to survive the...
EDMONTON — What does it mean for an Edmonton Oilers team that has finally discovered a defensive game to lose a provider like Leon Draisaitl? Well,...
EDMONTON — The mystery around the Edmonton Oilers — a team having a meh season inside a decidedly average Pacific Division — is that...
Sometimes you just don’t get what you might deserve. But most times, you get what you earn. Reeling after a 7-2 loss the night before in Dallas, the...
If you’re going to lose, and it became apparent fairly early on Thursday that the Edmonton Oilers would do just that, then you might as well go down...
DENVER — They’ve muddled through 60-plus games in search of a game like this one. A road trip like this one, where something gets built rather...
DENVER — The addiction is real. Dave Tippett and Todd McLellan both had it. Jay Woodcroft did his best to recover from it. And now, Kris Knoblauch...
LAS VEGAS — We’re the writer, and Connor Ingram is the goalie. But I don’t think I could put it any better than he did, after the Oilers played...
EDMONTON — Too fast, too organized, too good. Whatever it is that mysteriously stops this Carolina Hurricanes system from winning enough playoff...
EDMONTON — We may one day look back and conclude that consecutive July 1 busts are the reason this team fell one or two games short of its goal. But...
EDMONTON — There was once an old defenceman named Rob Scuderi, whose nickname was actually a bit of a joke. Scuderi — a low-scoring,...
EDMONTON — They say you should never critique a win. But "they" likely haven’t been around the Edmonton Oilers of late, the worst...
EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oilers have been the National Hockey League’s second-best team for two years running. They've played the second-most...
EDMONTON — Let’s think of an NHL roster like a car. A confluence of interconnected parts that come together to produce a single entity — a...
SAN JOSE — This is about the Edmonton Oilers' best players. The guys who wear the letters. Darnell Nurse. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins. Leon Draisaitl....
SAN JOSE — One would think, the way this season has unfolded for Connor Ingram, that 2025-26 would simply be an endless procession of awesome day...
LOS ANGELES — Country Night backfired on the Los Angeles Kings Thursday, as the Edmonton Oilers busted their truck, stole their girl, and took the...
ANAHEIM — It can’t get much worse for Edmonton Oilers general manager Stan Bowman. His big free agent signing, Andrew Mangiapane, has been on the...
ANAHEIM — Wayne Gretzky lost his first Stanley Cup, made that fabled walk past the New York Islanders dressing room door, and won the next four...
ANAHEIM — Here we are again. Another “recovery” deadline for the Edmonton Oilers. On July 1, 2024, acting general manager Jeff Jackson blew $7...
EDMONTON — Perhaps the most enlightening part of being in Edmonton these last few days has been all the helpful information being volunteered by our...