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The Day After 41.0: Three New Year’s resolutions for the Oilers in 2026

So long, 2025. It was a long, difficult year, and that’s something the Edmonton Oilers can surely attest to after a second straight Stanley Cup...

yesterday 10

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Zach Laing

Lightning bias shines through in Team Canada’s unsurprisingly predictable roster

Hockey fans hoping Team Canada would be young and exciting, Edmonton Oilers-laden, or that management would set aside their biases for Tampa Bay...

yesterday 9

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Michael Menzies

Scenes From Morning Skate: The Oilers lines just got weirder

So, let’s get this straight. The Edmonton Oilers are about to face the Boston Bruins tonight on New Year’s Eve, and Andrew Mangiapane — yes, the...

yesterday 10

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Caprice St. Pierre

NHL trade rumours: Three teams who could acquire Oilers’ Andrew Mangiapane

The Edmonton Oilers gutted out a 3–1 win over the Winnipeg Jets last night, doing so without forward Andrew Mangiapane, who was a healthy scratch....

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Sean Panganiban

Oilers Prospect Update: Asher Barnett and David Lewandowski at the World Juniors as Tommy Lafreniere continues to score

With the holiday break also comes the start of the World Juniors tournament, and this year, the Edmonton Oilers have a pair of prospects playing....

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Spencer Pomoty

Top 10 Oilers stories of 2025: #7 — Kings’ arrogance cost them against Oilers in playoffs

Welcome to Oilersnation’s top 10 stories of the year, where we count down the most-read stories you, the reader, clicked on in 2025.  The Edmonton...

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Zach Laing

The Day After 40.0: Win over Jets has Oilers atop Pacific Division standings

The Edmonton Oilers have sole possession of first place in the NHL’s Pacific Division. It’s the first time all season such has been the case for...

previous day 20

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Zach Laing

Pre-Scout: Bruins desperate for victory on sluggish streak, but play improved vs Calgary

How about one more Edmonton Oilers game in this crazy year called 2025, taking out the calendar slate with a desperate Boston Bruins team right...

previous day 10

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Michael Menzies

Oilers: Game film shows what Alec Regula needs to do to avoid further healthy scratches

The Alec Regula experiment has hit a stumbling block recently with the Edmonton Oilers, so much so that Kris Knoblauch opted to play Riley Stillman,...

previous day 10

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Liam Horrobin

Noah Philp the latest example of Oilers erroneous decision to prioritize veterans over development

Noah Philp is a 27-year-old who has only appeared in 30 career NHL games, and most of those games were far from memorable. Losing him on waivers is...

tuesday 10

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Tyler Yaremchuk

Amid trade rumours, Oilers healthy scratch Andrew Mangiapane against Jets

There’s some intrigue heading into Monday’s game. A few minutes before the start of the game, 880CHED’s Bob Stauffer reported that the Edmonton...

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Ryley Delaney

Pre-Scout: Jets look for elusive win against Oilers after five straight one-goal losses

You could call it a freefall.  In the span of a few months, the Winnipeg Jets have gone from a first-place President’s Trophy regular season to...

tuesday 5

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Michael Menzies

Scenes From Morning Skate: Knobluach shuffles the forward group

Edmonton Oilers head coach Kris Knoblauch changed the lines ahead of Monday night’s game in Winnipeg. Matt Savoie is back with Leon Draisaitl and...

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Caprice St. Pierre

The Case for Zach Hyman to make Team Canada

Canada’s roster for the 2026 Olympics in Milan will be revealed in just a few days on Dec. 31st. Connor McDavid was already named as one of the...

29.12.2025 10

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Golden Hockey

How Vasily Podkolzin has emerged into Leon Draisaitl’s go-to winger

Throughout the past two regular seasons at five-on-five, Leon Draisaitl’s most common forward linemate has not been Connor McDavid. It has not been...

29.12.2025 8

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Nhl Sid

The Flames grit embarrassed the Oilers depth

Saturday night was one where hard work defeated skill as the Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames collided for the second time in a week. The Flames’...

29.12.2025 2

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Liam Horrobin

The Day After 39.0: Connor Ingram’s case to be Oilers backup grows stronger

Connor Ingram started his third game for the Edmonton Oilers Saturday night. The overall result wasn’t what the team was hoping for, losing 3-2 to...

28.12.2025 6

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Zach Laing

Terminating Tomášek’s contract a win-win for player and Oilers

David Tomášek is set to join the legion of overseas free agents signed by the Edmonton Oilers who just didn’t work out. He’s not the first —...

28.12.2025 10

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Zach Laing