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Tonight the Edmonton Oilers have an opportunity to finish off the LA Kings and move on to the Second Round to play the winner of the Canucks and Predators. Throughout these playoffs, the Oilers have played excellent hockey, scored timely goals, defended well when they needed to and had some strong g...
The Edmonton Oilers have defeated the LA Kings 4-1 and have moved on to the Second Round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs where they will face the winner of the Canucks and Preds series. I wrote prior to yesterday's game that the Edmonton Oilers would need to hone their killer instincts and push hard...
One Canadian team is going to advance to the Western Conference Finals this season and time will tell if it's going to be the Edmonton Oilers or the Vancouver Canucks. The Oilers and Flames rivalry has died down in the last couple seasons as the Flames begin a rebuild. Looking through social media i...
Tonight Round 2 finally begins for the Edmonton Oilers and the Vancouver Canucks. The Canucks have been off since Friday while Edmonton has been sitting for exactly a week as of today. Both teams should be well rested but a critical area to watch will be if either team is trying to shake off the rus...
The Edmonton Oilers deserved to lose Game 1. Full stop. Edmonton did not have a shot on goal for 22 minutes of play and sat back thinking that their work was finished after the first period. To the Canucks credit, they exposed a couple key weaknesses of the Edmonton Oilers. This is the first true te...
The Edmonton Oilers tied the series up at 1-1 as we now head back to Edmonton. The good news is that Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl, Zach Hyman, Evan Bouchard, and Mattias Ekholm absolutely dominated the Canucks by every possible standard. The bad news is they were the only combination able to co...
The Oilers officially have a goaltending problem. Despite outshooting the Canucks 42-18, Edmonton lost 4-3 against the Canucks in Game 3. Most of the damage was done in the first period with a hat-trick (one goal later credited to Lindholm) by Brock Boeser. There were some brutal mistakes in front o...
With under a minute left in the game after the Canucks scored two goals in rapid succession, tying the game, Leon Draisaitl from behind the net made a perfect pass to Evan Bouchard who wired one clean past Silovs. Oilers win 3-2. That is what the Stanley Cup Playoffs are all about. This series ha...
No other way to say it, in Game 5 after a decent first period by Edmonton, the Vancouver Canucks absolutely had their way with the Oilers. From the top of the lineup through to the bottom the roster just looked gassed. Vancouver skated far better, hit way more, and were overall the better team. N...
It all comes down to this. Oilers. Canucks. Game 7. It doesn't get any closer than this as whoever wins this game will move on to the Western Conference Finals to take on the Dallas Stars. No team has won two games in a row in this series. That is exactly what Edmonton will have to do, on the roa...
The Edmonton Oilers were the first team in this series to win two games in a row and they made it count when it was the most needed. The Oilers win 3-2 against the Canucks and move on to face the Dallas Stars in the Western Conference Finals. From the moment the puck dropped, the Edmonton Oilers...
Tonight the Western Conference Finals begin with the Edmonton Oilers facing off against the Dallas Stars. This is the second time in the past three seasons that the Oilers have made it to the Western Conference Finals. The last time, Edmonton was swept by arguably the most dominant team the NHL has...
The Edmonton Oilers proved not only that they have the ability to hang with the Dallas Stars in Game 1, but to exceed them as well. I wrote before that game that in order to win, Edmonton was going to need to have a full team performance and some help from their netminder. That is exactly what they...
The Edmonton Oilers once again came out flying, putting all the pressure on Jake Oettinger and the Dallas Stars. As the game moved into the second period, Peter DeBoer and the Stars made noticeable adjustments and were far better at suppressing the Oilers from maintaining and form of pressure in the...
For what felt like the 10th time in these playoffs, the Edmonton Oilers started a game strong, took a commanding 2 goal lead and due to a combination of sitting back and some key defensive zone mistakes, found themselves quickly behind and struggling to find their way back into the game. In some of...
After going down 2-0 early in the first period, it looked like the Oilers were going to be in a situation where they were down 3-1 in the series. Instead, the whole team regrouped and attacked the Stars relentlessly for the remainder of the game. Even after the team went up 3-2 on a shorthanded goal...
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