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EDMONTON — If you’re dissecting the Edmonton Oilers overall game, you can always find a hole or two. No different than any other team, there are...
EDMONTON — Anyone who has listened to sports radio, or watched the afternoon hockey shows, has heard the pleas. “He’s a Top 6 guy! How can you...
EDMONTON — If you came away with anything from the Edmonton Oilers’ 4-3 shootout loss to the Detroit Red Wings Monday night, it was that the young...
EDMONTON — A little help, please. The Edmonton Oilers are a one-line team with a defenceman who is fourth in the NHL in scoring. And they can’t...
EDMONTON — A month into the Mike Babcock era, we’re still waiting for a more telling exchange than the one our Elliotte Friedman had with Leon...
EDMONTON — It’s the curse that rides shotgun next to the absolute blessing of watching the sport’s finest talent on a nightly basis. Or...
EDMONTON — How on earth does a team like the Edmonton Oilers, in the middle of their Stanley Cup window, end up with an emerging, 25-year-old power...
“Every once in a while, you need to get fed your lunch.” — Mike Babcock. EDMONTON — That’s a pretty good line. But on this night, the...
This, friends, was a beatdown. It was a lesson meted out by the old dog to the new pups, those upstarts from Utah who had walked into Edmonton on...
EDMONTON — For hockey coaches, over-playing Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl is like a drug. A drug that Mike Babcock swore he wouldn’t take....
LOS ANGELES — Well, Oilers fan. We hope you enjoyed that California road trip, with its 8 or 8:30 p.m. Edmonton start times. Because from here on...
LOS ANGELES — It was, as Devon Levi so eloquently stated, “a great bad game.” The Edmonton Oilers took a 3-0 lead into the first intermission,...
LOS ANGELES — Usually, when you’ve been on the road for eight days the way the Edmonton Oilers have, you’re in your fourth or fifth city...
LOS ANGELES — If you don’t know who Owen Michaels is, don’t feel bad. Barely anyone inside the Edmonton Oilers dressing room knew who he was...
“The team who won the Cup last year, they are playing like that. Sometimes it's boring, but it works.” — Vasily Podkolzin. SAN JOSE...
SAN JOSE — Filip Hallander (pronounced HAUL-and-er) hails from Sundsvall, Sweden, the gulf town of roughly 75,000 that gave the hockey world such...
SAN JOSE — Dictionary.com defines the word narrative as, "A story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or...
ANAHEIM — It looked like last spring. And then all of a sudden, it didn’t anymore. For 20 minutes on Wednesday, the Anaheim Ducks did pretty much...
ANAHEIM — So long, Stastney; hello, Hallander. Rather than lose defenceman Spencer Stastney on waivers, Edmonton Oilers general manager Stan Bowman...
EDMONTON — We talk a lot in Edmonton about the importance of defencemen who can get pucks to Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl — quickly and on...
EDMONTON — Be careful what you wish for. After two of the young season’s most entertaining games, a pair of hair-on-fire, ‘80s specials against...
EDMONTON — Things We (think we) know. Series V, Volume III. There is high-event hockey, and then there is whatever it was the Edmonton Oilers and...
VANCOUVER — “It was weird to be excited about the ninth (goal),” mused Connor McDavid. “But given the situation …” After dropping a 6-5...
VANCOUVER — It is a high-wire act without, ironically, a net. Two nights after Tristan Jarry failed so fabulously on the national stage, the...
EDMONTON — Organized? Structured? Hard to play against? Those were the slogans that accompanied Mike Babcock to Edmonton. In his first game behind...
EDMONTON — Like Mike Tyson so famously said, everyone has a plan — until you get punched in the mouth. Or get a lower-body injury. After a...
EDMONTON — They’ve tried everything in Edmonton. Heck, they’ve accomplished nearly everything too. There's just the one, big thing that...
EDMONTON — It’s a soft opening for the Edmonton Oilers roster, with four veterans on injured reserve allowing a few players to hang around longer...
EDMONTON — The pre-season began with criticism surrounding the hiring of Mike Babcock and the addition of Alex Formenton. What became clear was, if...
It’s either going to be a great year in Bakersfield or a very long season in Vancouver, after an AHL-laden Edmonton Oilers roster walked into Rogers...
A 2-1 overtime game in the pre-season is not exactly what Ike Howard has in mind when he’s trying to impress the new coach. But give the young guy...
EDMONTON — The ol’ top line switcheroo has become a staple of Edmonton Oilers hockey. For years now, coaches have either started Connor McDavid...
EDMONTON — The goaltending was solid, Ryan Shea looked like he could hang with the top unit, and like it or not, Alex Formenton looks like he might...
EDMONTON — Hang around the game long enough and you’ll see it more than once. A younger player can have a bad season and we chalk it up to...
EDMONTON — The Mike Babcock era began with a loud voice and constant demand Thursday, as the latest head coach to try to get the Edmonton Oilers...
EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oilers are one of two things. A charitable, magnanimous and forgiving organization with an open door for any wayward hockey...
EDMONTON — So, who exactly are the Edmonton Oilers? Are they simply an above-average team that went to two Stanley Cup Finals, tripped up last...
EDMONTON — So you had a bad day. Or in the Edmonton Oilers’ case, a bad season. So what? It happens to the best of ‘em. Two years playing until...
EDMONTON — It’s a process. A legal process. A moral process. A hockey process. A human process. “Throughout this whole process,” began Alex...
EDMONTON — An elite top end, an overabundance of fringe wingers, and as usual, a big, fat question mark in goal. As much change as Edmonton Oilers...
EDMONTON — Among the many personality traits necessary to retain one’s sanity as a National Hockey League general manager, a high panic threshold...
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...
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