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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)...
ANAHEIM — In a series tied at one win apiece, we’d say both teams could make a case for blowing their opportunity to be up 2-0. But, as the...
EDMONTON — There is a weird fascination in watching Connor McDavid struggle like this. Like spotting a lynx in the wild, or watching your golf...
EDMONTON — If there was one thing in Game 1 of Anaheim-Edmonton that stood out as strange, it was Connor McDavid not being able to gain the zone on...
EDMONTON — Somehow, the Anaheim Ducks managed to cut off the head of the snake in their playoff debut at Edmonton, yet still, the rest of the...
EDMONTON — The ‘A’ cliché at this time of year is a true hockeyism: Your best players have to be your best players. So when Connor McDavid goes...
EDMONTON — There is a school of thought that wonders if Connor Ingram, whose mental health journey took him through the NHL/NHLPA Players...
EDMONTON — It’s playoff time, so the Edmonton Oilers aren’t telling us whether Leon Draisaitl — or Jason Dickinson — will play in Game 1...
EDMONTON — “We have this little red box of things. Uh… It’s going to sound corny…” Todd McLellan was taking his 2016-17 Edmonton Oilers...
EDMONTON — Fans will celebrate No Kings Day in Edmonton on Friday, and instead, the Oilers will draw their 2017 selves in a Round 1 series against...
EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oilers’ second season as a recovering Stanley Cup finalist has been… well, let’s just say they’ve taken it one day...
EDMONTON — Looking down from 30,000 feet at an Edmonton Oilers team that has scored just once in its last two games — but allowed only...
EDMONTON – It’s harder to get a straight answer on an injury at this time of year than it is to score on Andrei Vasilevskiy. When it comes to Leon...
You don’t always get rewarded, no matter how well you play. And sometimes, when Los Angeles is playing peak Kings hockey, you don’t get rewarded...
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,...
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