Every year I post ten bold predictions surrounding the Edmonton Oilers season. I try to keep these interesting and go beyond the likes of "McDavid scores 140 points." I look forward as always to coming back to these after the season is finished and seeing how I did. 1.) Calvin Pickard Is Not The...
The roster the Edmonton Oilers will send out tonight appears to be what we will see on opening night: RNH-McDavid-Hyman Skinner-Draisaitl-Arvidsson Janmark-Henrique-Brown Podkolzin-Philp-Perry Ekholm-Bouchard Nurse-Emberson Kulak-Stecher Skinner Here are a few thoughts I have on the...
The Edmonton Oilers came up a goal short in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals last season against the Florida Panthers. While I'm sure the memory of that hurts for Oilers fans, for the players it is all in the past. Yesterday McDavid shut down reporter Mark Spector who tried to ask Connor a question...
The Edmonton Oilers slept walked through all of pre-season and thought that they could flip a switch and turn things on once the regular season began. That has proven to be false as the Oilers lose to the Flames 4-1 and are now 0-3 to start the season. In these three games the Oilers have been outsc...
The Flames clearly outworked the Oilers in every facet of the game on Sunday and not only looked like the better team, but the faster team. I saw plenty of comments (and gave my own) about how the Oilers older veteran team certainly looked a step behind for almost the entire game. There is a speed i...
Neither game was perfect but the Oilers have started to right the ship by winning their past two games against the Flyers and Predators to put themselves now 2-3-0 on the season. Here are a few observations now after 5 games. - The Oilers couldn't buy a save in their first three games and while n...
Life is seldom black and white with everything typically being more in shades of gray. Tracking stats and looking at the Oilers start to the season is no different. Two things can be true at the same time; the Oilers have run into some bad puck luck to start the season, and they also have not played...
Panic had settled in once again to start the season as a horrendous start gave Oilers fans PTSD from the beginning of last season. Very similar to last season, the Oilers were outshooting and outchancing their opponents but poor goaltending and unsustainably low shooting percentages were weighing th...
I suppose I deserved that. I wrote a blog yesterday detailing how the Oilers looked like they were finally coming out of their slump and were back on a path of success. The team responded by playing their worst game of the season, looking utterly hapless against the Columbus Blue Jackets. Firs...
The Edmonton Oilers certainly got a trick, not a treat as they will be without their captain for the foreseeable future. McDavid suffered an ankle injury against the Blue Jackets and will miss the next 2-3 weeks, translating to between 6-11 games. McDavid has already been seen on the ice skating...