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Pencils down, front offices. The NHL’s roster deadline came and went on Monday at 3 p.m. MT, when all 32 teams needed to get their cap-compliant teams set. Fans, pundits and scribes, such as your deskman here, waited into the night for PuckPedia to send the telegram of who was in and who was out. After all, who else...
PREVIEW: Oilers vs. Canucks | Edmonton Oilers NHL.com
How the Oilers set the tone of their game in the pre-season During the Edmonton Oilers’ exhibition game against Vancouver on Sept. 24, Filip Chytil collided with an official below the goal line to the immediate left of Tristan Jarry. In other words, deep in Edmonton’s zone. It was an ugly play, and one I’m surprised...
Every year, there is a big surprise at Edmonton Oilers training camp. Some years it’s a young Magnus Paajarvi, some years it’s Ty Rattie, and some years it’s Jesse Joensuu. This year it was Owen Michaels, but unlike some of the other pre-season heroes that we’ve had around these parts, Michaels didn’t earn his spot...
A blockbuster trade went down on Monday. The Columbus Blue Jackets sent Kirill Marchenko, Elvis Merzlikins, and Miles Wood to the Toronto Maple Leafs, while Matthew Knies, Steven Lorentz, Emil Andrae, and a conditional 2027 second-round pick were sent the other way. MONDAY EVENING MOVES!💥 We’ve acquired F Matthew...
It’s hot take season, and NHL insider Frank Seravalli is hot off the press with some of his own. He dove into 32 predictions in an article for Sportsnet, predicting a Stanley Cup Final between the Minnesota Wild and Alex Ovechkin’s Washington Capitals, with the Wild acquiring Dylan Larkin and him helping them reach...
Chaz Horton was a big deal in Edmonton in 1979. So big a deal that the sports reporter was cryogenically frozen until he was needed most. With the Oilers in “show me” mode with McDavid, that time is now. Hey Oilers fans, Chaz here. Stop what you’re doing right now, put that mobile phone down for three seconds. I’m a...
There is something to the rumours linking the Edmonton Oilers and Montreal Canadiens forward Kirby Dach. Elliotte Friedman on the latest 32 Thoughts on Monday spoke on this speculation, with the Oilers deep on left-shot centres, but not on righties. “I think Edmonton is looking for a right-shot centre,” said...
Oilers notebook: Shakir Mukhamadullin, Owen Michaels turning heads this preseason Edmonton Journal
Edmonton Oilers go from cap heaven to cap purgatory due to five injuries Edmonton Journal
As the Edmonton Oilers approach Game 1 of the NHL season, "how" has become more focus than "who": 9 Things Edmonton Journal
GAME RECAP: Oilers 4, Flames 1 (Preseason) | Edmonton Oilers NHL.com
Oilers cap perfect pre-season with another shutdown effort Sportsnet.ca
Sunday Scramble: The Edmonton Oilers’ questionable centre experiment, and is hockey today ‘very dumb?’ oilersnation.com
RELEASE: Oilers make roster moves | Edmonton Oilers NHL.com
Opinion: Oilers tell sexual violence survivors hockey isn't for them edmontonjournal.com
Thirty minutes after the press conference ended, Mike Babcock walks down the north stairs and made his way through a quiet corner of Rogers Place. He found me. Shook my hand. I wanted to ask him about Emma Lake - where, I think, he has a place - in Saskatchewan: something small, a thread of common ground between...
The air inside the old gym carried a heavy weight in the fall of 1979. The kind of cold that settles into your bones. But we were shifting. Something new was taking root on the hardwood. Gary McPherson took the helm as the Alberta Northern Lights wheelchair general manager that year from his Aberhart Hospital room...
Don’t be surprised if you see Boris Rybalka pacing outside the Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena this morning. It’s his ritual, his way of preparing for the biggest moments. The Canadian Para ice hockey coach has always been this way-focused, intense, and deeply connected to the game. I’ve seen it before. Back in...
The Vietnam War ignited a disability rights revolution that blazed across North America. Veterans stormed back demanding access and equality, forever reshaping history. Today, we witness that same fierce determination fuelling the explosive USA-Canada para ice hockey rivalry. Can you imagine Sunday’s gold-medal...
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