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Ken Holland, like most veteran General Managers in sports, trusts veteran players. Throughout his career running the Detroit Red Wings,…

Ken Holland has a long history of trust in veteran players. That has been especially so when it comes to…

Some will make the argument that the most important thing for Ken Holland to do this off-season is arm the…

The Edmonton Oilers don’t have as many holes to fill this off-season as they have in previous ones. That said,…

The Edmonton Oilers have re-signed forward Patrick Russell to a one-year contract extension. Russell was set to become an unrestricted…

Slowly but surely, more news continues to trickle in surrounding the Edmonton Oilers. On Wednesday, the club saw the future…

The Toronto Maple Leafs began their expected offseason shakeup on Tuesday afternoon. The Leafs sent forward Kasperi Kapanen, a possible…

Had the world not been hit by a global pandemic, the Edmonton Oilers wold have returned to the Stanley Cup…

The Edmonton Oilers have loaned another player to Sweden. Yesterday, the club loaned 2019 second-round draft pick Raphael Lavoie to…

Another Edmonton Oilers prospect is heading overseas. According to reports, 2019 second-round pick Raphael Lavoie is heading to Sweden. Lavoie…

Yesterday, we took a look at the pending unrestricted free agents of interest to the Edmonton Oilers. Today, we shift…

Edmonton Oilers GM Ken Holland will have some tough decisions to make in the lead up to free agency in…

Mikko Koskinen and Mike Smith formed a decent, if not unspectacular, tandem in goal for the Edmonton Oilers this past…

One thing is guaranteed this offseason for the Edmonton Oilers. There will be some sort of changes. The club had…

Many, myself included, believe that a change is needed between the pipes this off-season for the Edmonton Oilers. Mikko Koskinen’s…

Sportsnet NHL Insider Elliotte Friedman released his post-Qualification Round edition of ‘31 Thoughts‘ on Monday. There isn’t a ton of…

Oilers GM Ken Holland made a splash at the NHL’s trade deadline when he acquired forward Andreas Athanasiou from the…

Almost everyone expected the Edmonton Oilers to prevail in their best-of-five Qualification Series against the Chicago Blackhawks. After a disastrous…

There are three things that are certain in life. Death, taxes and Edmonton’s “mainstream” media taking the team’s best players…

The ping-pong balls did not go in the Edmonton Oilers’ favor on Monday night. Instead, the New York Rangers won…

It ended with a thud on Friday night. The Edmonton Oilers dropped a 3-2 decision to the Chicago Blackhawks on…

The 2019-20 season came to a bitter end on Friday night for the Edmonton Oilers. In less than two months,…

For the 13th time in 14 years, the Edmonton Oilers will not be going to the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The…

The Edmonton Oilers will play for their lives on Friday afternoon. After blowing a late lead and falling 4-3 on…

The Edmonton Oilers are down. They aren’t out. The Oilers trail the Chicago Blackhawks 2-1 in their best-of-five Qualification Series…

The Edmonton Oilers probably never envisioned this. The club is just one loss away from being eliminated by the Chicago…

Tyler Ennis is done for the remainder of the Edmonton Oilers best-of-five series against the Chicago Blackhawks. The veteran forward…

They fell behind 1-0. They fell behind 2-1. They took countless unnecessary penalties. Even through all of that, the Edmonton…

After splitting the first two games of this best-of-five series, the Edmonton Oilers ‘visit’ the Chicago Blackhawks in a key…