Tag: NHL
Oilers Lose Sekera To Torn Achilles
Updated:Andrej Sekera has not been able to catch a break since he suffered a torn ACL on a Friday night…
Read more »Oilers Will Play Seven Times On US National TV, HNIC Slate Revealed
Updated:NBC and NBCSN waited an extra few weeks before making their 2018-19 NHL broadcast schedule public. On Monday, Oiler fans…
Read more »It is Playoffs or Bust for the Iowa Wild in 2018-19
Updated:As pre-season play is in full swing for the National Football League, it marks the first hint that another hockey…
Read more »Happy B-Day Sid! Old videos of Crosby and Johnson chatting up teenage womenfolk
Updated:The captain turns thirty-one today and is about to embark on his fourteenth NHL season. Time flies. Sidney Crosby stopped…
Read more »PTO Options For The Oilers
Updated:We’re at that point of the summer where the talk shifts from free agent signings and trades to training camp…
Read more »Inside the money, Part 2: Comparing older defensemen by GAR and contracts
Updated:We were given a gift from the heavens last Friday. Capitals sign Tom Wilson. Six year contract, $5.17 million AAV….
Read more »It’s Time For The Oilers To Honor Ryan Smyth and Kevin Lowe
Updated:I have to admire the Edmonton Oilers for their rule about retiring numbers. No one wants to retire so many…
Read more »The Return of Our Let’s Read (Hockey) Videos…
Last summer we started producing a series of videos on YouTube called Let’s Read segments. The idea came from a…
Read more »Ten Bold Predictions For The Edmonton Oilers In 2018 Revisited
Updated:On New Year’s Day, I posted ten bold predictions for the Edmonton Oilers over the course of the calendar year….
Read more »What Should The Ideal NHL Jersey Look Like?
Updated:It’s time for some summer fun. We are firmly in the dog days of summer and news has crawled to…
Read more »Jason Zucker signs 5-Year, $27.5 million deal with the Minnesota Wild
Updated:A little over a week ago I posted an article about the Minnesota Wild signing restricted free agent defenseman Matt…
Read more »Post Vacation Oilers Thoughts
Updated:Two weeks on the beach was nice, but it’s time to get back to hockey and talking about the Edmonton…
Read more »Wild Re-Sign Matthew Dumba to 5-Year, $30 Million Deal
Updated:It is a scenario that plays out in just about every family at least at once. A family sits down…
Read more »Oilers Sign Evan Bouchard To Three-Year Deal
Greetings from vacation, as the Edmonton Oilers have made news for the first time since re-signing Ryan Strome about ten…
Read more »A Summer Circuit
As we all know in the hockey world this time of the year is when we unwind from hockey. The…
Read more »Inside the money, Part 1: Jack Johnson’s contract vs. future production
Updated:It’s been ten days since defenseman Jack Johnson signed with the Penguins for $16.25-million over the next 5 years. The…
Read more »Quantum Leap: Minnesota Wild Edition, 3 Moments in Team History We Would Change
Updated:[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjK9GJMBpt0&w=560&h=315] I hope you enjoyed that little trip down memory lane. Quantum Leap, the Don Bellisario-created action adventure drama that…
Read more »Oilers Re-Sign Ryan Strome For Two Years
The Oilers have locked up one of their two remaining RFA’s this morning by signing Ryan Strome to a two-year…
Read more »2018 Minnesota Wild Prospect Development Camp Announced, Camp Thoughts
Since the NHL Entry Draft, teams across the league have been calling in their prospects to be put through their…
Read more »Adding a 14th Forward, On Lance Bouma And More
Bob Stauffer had an interesting tweet last night that touched on the Edmonton Oilers adding a 14th forward. We should…
Read more »Free Agent Frenzy as the Minnesota Wild Sign 7 New Players
Updated:Yes Wild fans, we get it. Free agency was certainly busy for the Minnesota Wild, even if it was more…
Read more »An Updated Look At Peter Chiarelli’s Summer List
Updated:The draft is over, day one of free agency has come and gone, and all 31 NHL teams have made…
Read more »Oilers Quiet But Successful On July 1st
The Edmonton Oilers made only three signings on Sunday, but did quite well in what was a quiet Canada Day…
Read more »Oilers Sign F Tobias Rieder
Updated:Credit where it is due, Peter Chiarelli is having a very good day. The Oilers GM has inked F Tobias…
Read more »Oilers Sign D Kevin Gravel
Updated:The Oilers have agreed to terms with D Kevin Gravel on a one-year contract as per The Athletic’s Michael Russo….
Read more »Oilers Sign C Kyle Brodziak
Updated:First off, happy Canada Day to my friends up north! Secondly, happy free agent frenzy day to all my fellow…
Read more »Are The Oilers Trading Milan Lucic?
Updated:On Wednesday, Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli told the Edmonton media that he didn’t expect to be involved in the ‘star…
Read more »Hall of Fame (Part 1): Willie O’Ree earns rightful place in hockey history
Updated:“See that man sitting in the blues? That’s Conn Smythe, owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs. He says he’d take…
Read more »Wahlstrom, Dobson finding motivation in being passed over in NHL Draft
EAST MEADOW, N.Y. — There was no shortage of confidence or motivation from two of the Islanders newest members on day…
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