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Going into last night's matchup against Vegas, the Golden Knights had won 6 straight and the first period showed why. The Oilers couldn't touch the puck, Vegas stood them up at the blue line repeatedly, and easily took away the cute plays Edmonton tried to make. Luckily someone threw a chair or b...
The format of the regular season is pretty straight forward. Play a bunch of games from October to February to get yourself into the playoff conversation. Then, make your moves to add at the deadline. From March until the middle of April, teams make their final pushes, build chemistry and hopefully...
Tonight Ryan Nugent Hopkins will be out due to illness and the Edmonton Oilers are limping instead of sprinting to the finish line. Tonight the Oilers will ice a 42 million dollar roster with McDavid, Draisaitl, RNH, Ekholm, Skinner, Kane, and Frederic all out of the lineup. My mind goes to the m...
The Oilers could look very different next season with a potential injection of younger talent. Let's start with Quinn Hutson, a 24 year old forward out of Boston University and the eldest Hutson brother. His younger brother Lane is currently the Calder favorite in Montreal. Hutson is a pure shoot...
The table has finally been set and we now know all of the matchups in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Jets vs. Blues Stars vs. Avalanche Golden Knights vs. Wild Kings vs. Oilers Without wasting any time, here are my predictions for each matchup in the Western Conference along wit...
Here we go.... again...again...again. For the fourth year in a row the Edmonton Oilers and LA Kings will face off in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The first series went to the Oilers, winning 4 games to 3. The second series was also won by the Oilers 4-2 and the third series also t...
At the start of Game 1, hockey fans were forced to endure the American anthem played on harmonicas... I thought it was going to be the most painful I had to watch... Then the first two periods happened. For nearly 40 minutes the Edmonton Oilers were obviously the lesser of the two teams. Every...
The Edmonton Oilers are fighting an uphill battle and Kris Knoblauch and his coaching staff continue to make things difficult on themselves. In the post-practice scrum Knoblauch specifically said to not focus on the D pairs they were running but here is the practice lineup. Draisaitl-McDavid-Hym...
In my last blog I talked about how Knoblauch was being outcoached by Hiller, the goaltending not being close to good enough for the Oilers, the struggles of Evan Bouchard, Kane not being a factor for Edmonton, and how if the Oilers are going to have any chance of winning this series they need to win...
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