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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...
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)...
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