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Robert TychkowskiEdmonton Sun |
Starting the season 0-2 is nothing. Yes, it’s never good when the season is two games old and you’ve already booted the age-old axiom about good...
So much for redemption, so much for revenge, so much for the adrenaline of a home opener and so much for the impact of getting defenceman Mattias...
You gotta want it. That, in simplest terms, is why the Vancouver Canucks dismantled the Edmonton Oilers and then bludgeoned the pieces Wednesday...
Some day, maybe as early as Saturday night when they have an opportunity to right their ship and gain a measure of revenge, the Edmonton Oilers fans...
Well, that was brutal. After all the preparation, excitement, hype and anticipation, Edmonton Oilers opening night turned into a head-shaking...
When the Edmonton Oilers go on a 9-0-2 run at some point in the season there will be people who tell you they are prohibitive favourites to win a...
There was no bigger, or more welcome, surprise in training camp than Jack Campbell winning back the starting job he let slip through his fingers in a...
In a bit of a surprise that involves significant risk, the Edmonton Oilers put Raphael Lavoie and Lane Pederson, the two leading candidates for the...
Is it the All-Star break yet? The regular season hasn’t even started and it still seems like the Edmonton Oilers have been on the ice forever. ...
After eight long games that didn’t count, it’s only natural to see a little bit of pre-season fatigue setting in, but the Edmonton Oilers made...
In the pecking order of importance on the Edmonton Oilers, nobody is touching Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl, but if Mattias Ekholm isn’t a solid...
Raphael Lavoie is making things nice and complicated for the Edmonton Oilers. With two goal-scorer’s goals in his past three pre-season...
Anyone who’s ever wondered what would happen if the Edmonton Oilers played an American Hockey League team got their answer Wednesday night at Rogers...
Among the more pressing questions that need to be answered before opening night is the one in goal. Who’s going to be the starter? A question...
Two pre-season games is not anyone’s definition of a comeback, but watching Jack Campbell’s work so far in Edmonton Oilers training camp is giving...
Sometimes people get what they deserve and sometimes they just go out and steal it. Monday night in Seattle was a case of the latter. Despite...
On a night when Edmonton sent a bench full of AHL players to take on a much deeper Calgary Flames team, the Oilers would have settled for some kind of...
It’s now or never, really, for the Edmonton Oilers. If the solid defensive structure they’ve been trying to forge for years isn’t part of...
When all they’ve done on the power play over the last four years is shatter expectations, what should we now expect from the Edmonton Oilers power...
With the Edmonton Oilers finally unleashing all of their top guns Wednesday at Rogers Place, fans probably expected a few more bullet holes in...
One guy is coming off a horrific wrist injury. Another one is coming back after a year on the shelf with a devastating knee injury. And the third guy...
Not saying Evan Bouchard will be taking on Joey Chestnut in the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest anytime soon, but you couldn’t rule him out if he...
On the bright side, at least the Winnipeg Jets didn’t get to 10, like the Calgary Flames did against Vancouver on Sunday. But it was still a...
You wouldn’t think that someone who’s 212 pounds would have to worry much about falling through the cracks. But with the Edmonton Oilers pressed...
And so it begins. The long road to the 2023-24 NHL post-season began in earnest Sunday with the first of eight (seriously, eight!) pre-season games...
There is no room for passengers on a Cup contender. The Edmonton Oilers are no longer a bottom of the pack team trying to get its young talent some...
It’s more than a little ironic that not one Sutter brother — the first family of hockey who’ve been headquartered in Northern Alberta since the...
As uncomfortable as things were last year, with a rattled and embattled Jack Campbell full of holes and on the verge of tears after falling on more...
There is no question that last season was a virtually perfect storm for the Edmonton Oilers. The power play eviscerated penalty killers at a level...
Training camp is just days away and the Edmonton Oilers are gearing up once again for what they hope is another deep playoff run. After losing to...
Rookie camp in Penticton used to be the Edmonton Oilers’ time to shine, to show off all the hard work that went into drafting first overall. In...
A skilled, but not especially motivated, former Edmonton Oiler from the 90s once said famously — ‘the problem with scoring 30 goals is that...
When they began this journey all those years ago, players like Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Darnell Nurse were the kids, thrown into the deep end of the...
How good will Connor Brown be for the Edmonton Oilers? Don’t ask the veteran scouts who sit in the press box with their popcorn and coffee or the...
Will they stay or will they go? It’s a question nobody really wants to think about, for fear of the worst. But, with two years left on Leon...
If skill and motivation were all it took to win a championship, you might as well start fitting the Edmonton Oilers for their rings right now. With...
Rocky II is better than the original, The Godfather Part II is better than the first one, Aliens is better than Alien and The Road Warrior is far...