Edmonton Oilers

By noreply@blogger.com (Lowetide) Potulny had the big season (38 goals) a year ago in Springfield and came to the organization from the Flyers (Danny Syvret trade). Where they'll slot in is anyone's guess, but based on last game (against the Rangers) the two candidates to come out of the lineup might be Robert Nilsson and Ste...

By noreply@blogger.com (Lowetide) The Oilers had some useful hands (Smyth, Weight, Marchant, others) and Kovalenko popped 32 goals in his best season in Edmonton. They also had Doug Weight, Ryan Smyth, Jason Arnott and the underrated Todd Marchant and Dean McAmmond who could do a few things.

By noreply@blogger.com (Lowetide) The Rangers of my childhood always had about 10 guys who were famous but spent the heart of their career in Toronto, Detroit or Montreal. Boom Boom Geoffrion was the obvious example from 1967, but in later years men like Phil Esposito, Marcel Dionne and others represented the group of playe...

By noreply@blogger.com (Lowetide) The worst team in Oilers history was probably the 1992-93 team. They lost 50 games, traded away half the team and were so bad the draft gave them Jason Arnott the following summer. Today we find out if Shawn Horcoff will miss any real time and if the answer is "yes" then the Oilers have a choice: f...

By dj-abisalih For the past decade or so, the Edmonton Oilers haven't exactly enjoyed facing the Boston Bruins. Entering Saturday afternoon's game, the Bruins had won seven straight games against the Oilers, including back-to-back victories via shutouts. Edmonton's bad luck continued on Saturday,...

By dj-abisalih Here are the rosters for this afternoon's game between the Boston Bruins and Edmonton Oilers. Face-off is scheduled for 1:00 at the TD Garden in Boston. BOSTON BRUINS (5-5-1, 11 pts.): #6 D Dennis Wideman 1-1-2-2 #16 F Marco Sturm 2-5-7-4 #17 F Milan Lucic 0-3-3-9 (IR – finger) #20 F Daniel Pai...

Here are your Puck Previews: Spotlighting the key games in NHL action, news and views as well as general...

By noreply@blogger.com (Lowetide) The problem for the Oilers is this: can you reasonably expect the fanbase to endure another season of getting run over by Calgary, Vancouver, Minnesota and (incredibly) Colorado? I think that's a massive business risk, especially considering the incredible amount of good faith that i...

Roberto Luongo made 27 saves for his first shutout of the season to lead the Vancouver Canucks to a 2-0 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Sunday night. Rookie Michael Grabner and Henrik Sedin scored on deflections for the Canucks, who have won three straight games for the first time this s...

The marriage between Edmonton Oilers defenseman Sheldon Souray and former "Baywatch" babe and Maxim...

By noreply@blogger.com (Lowetide) Chorney's numbers are impressive offensively and on the powerplay, but as with most kids getting the call he won't see those kinds of minutes in the show. Chorney has looked good in both training camps he's been to and clearly is one of the top rated prospects for the Edmonton Oilers organiz...

By noreply@blogger.com (Lowetide) Denis Grebeshkov had a fine draft pedigree. speeds mentioned him as a possible Oilers selection in the middle of the 2002 draft (Oilers went with Jesse "hi can I take your order" Niinimaki) and he was selected 18th overall by the Los Angeles Kings.

By noreply@blogger.com (Lowetide) The Edmonton Oilers have become big fans of the misdirection play. The verbal counter-trey. Edmonton Northlands is currently winding themselves into a lather after a beauty counter-trey that (incredibly) appears to have them endorsing their own demise (the study that produced the dow...

By noreply@blogger.com (Lowetide) It's been forever since the teams that populate the NW division won the Stanley. Vancouver and Minnesota have never won, Calgary and Edmonton have several generations of fans who weren't alive when Stanley came to town and Colorado won it a few weeks before the Oilers drafted Hemsky.

By noreply@blogger.com (Lowetide) Louise and I were talking today and she mentioned something interesting: at some point this season the Oilers are going to have to start talking about contracts for Grebeshkov and Gags/Cogs and that conversation will contain the names of two defensemen.

NHL season previews often sell you an impressive bill of goods before you realize, at the end of the season,...

By noreply@blogger.com (Lowetide) I was struck by the fact that Peckham seemed more comfortable than most of the recalls on the blue over the last few seasons. He's still a born minus in the NHL, but he's already displaying a confidence in himself and a willingness to rise to the challenge.

 IN The Oilers shocked the home crowd as they defeated the host Senators 7-3 to advance to the semifinal round. Lowe was excited to battle against one of the best pitchers in the region, Washington's Josh Biggs, an University of Evansville recruit. ...

 VA EDMONTON, Alberta - The Edmonton Oilers hired Pat Quinn as coach. Quinn, 66, has been out of the NHL since being fired as coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs after the 2005-06 season. Quinn replaced the fired Craig MacTavish. The Oilers were 11th in the ...

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By noreply@blogger.com (Lowetide) Kevin Lowe was told the 1979 draft (via telephone) was to start at 10am. He expected a call from Alan Eagleson around 10:15 to tell him which team had selected him in the first round. Lowe waited, and waited, and waited. By 10:45am the phone hadn't rung and Lowe's mom said "My God, they're not dra...

By noreply@blogger.com (Lowetide) Let's look at the pre-season top 6 forwards (predicted V actual) Hemsky P:41gp, 15-37-52 (1.27) A:36gp, 14-27-41 (1.14) Horcoff P: 40gp, 15-24-39 (.975) A: 46gp, 11-21-32 (.696) Penner P: 46gp, 17-13-30 (.652) A: 44gp, 11-12-23 (.523) Next up: 6 more forwards.

By noreply@blogger.com (Lowetide) Glenn Anderson treated hockey's neutral zone like Roberto Clemente played right field. To the point of pure physical violence, Glenn Anderson mashed everything in sight--defensemen, linesmen, sticks, pucks, goalies, nets and if the boards hadn't been there he would probably have ki...

By Greg Wyshynski • Reassessing the Dallas Stars' two-headed GM monster and asking yet again: What is it, exactly, that Brett Hull does? [Dallas Stars Blog] • Pavel Datsyuk and his Detroit Red Wings teammates discuss his awesome skills competition goal against the Minnesota Wild. Which Dats has decided t...

By Greg Wyshynski The Rangers goalie earned his first shutout of the season in a 4-0 win over the plummeting Pittsburgh Penguins. King Henrik made 27 saves -- including 12 in the first period and some thievery against Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin -- for his 20th win of the season.

By Greg Wyshynski The Rangers goalie earned his first shutout of the season in a 4-0 win over the plummeting Pittsburgh Penguins. King Henrik made 27 saves -- including 12 in the first period and some thievery against Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin -- for his 20th win of the season.

By noreply@blogger.com (Lowetide) For Oilers fans we're probably a couple of weeks away from the point where we can safely begin talking about the June draft. As of this morning, Edmonton is close to 8th but also close to 15th, which in the Kevin Lowe "Groundhog Day" era smells a lot like poetic justice. The Edmonton Oilers sinc...

By Greg Wyshynski • What killed the Edmonton Oilers' Kid Line? [CBC Sports] • Lost in all of that Pittsburgh Penguins celebration from earlier in the week: Darren McCarty scored a nice goal for the Detroit Red Wings. Now, when is he going to drop the gloves again? [Snapshots]

By Matt(noreply@blogger.com) The Northwest Division is tough to predict in any season and especially difficult for 08-09. Agreed, but I'll give it a shot too, having agonized over it for the past several weeks. FIFTH: EDMONTON OILERS FOURTH: COLORADO AVALANCHE THIRD: MINNESOTA WILD FIRST: VANCOUVER CANUCKS

By Christopher Mango All Western Conference First Team All Western Conference Second Team All Western Conference Third Team C - Joe Thornton, San Jose W - Rick Nash, Columbus W - Marian Hossa, Detroit D - Chris Pronger, Anaheim D - Sheldon Souray, Edmonton G - Roberto Luongo, Vancouver

By Khalil Kassam 1.       New York Rangers 3.       Montreal Canadiens 4.       Pittsburgh Penguins 5.       Philadelphia Flyers 6.       New Jersey Devils Western Conference: 1.       Detroit Red Wings 2.       San Jose Sharks 4.       Dallas Stars 5.       Chicago Blackhawks

By The Last Line of Defence. Written by: lady_lilith and lady_death. Title: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. Chapter Five. Fandom: NHL: Edmonton Oilers. Characters: Jarret Stoll, Raffi Torres, Ashley Stoll, Chris Pronger. Word Count: 3,815. Rating: PG. Summary: Raffi has some Stoll issues. Author's Notes: This is set during...

By The Last Line of Defence. Written by: lady_lilith and lady_death. Title: Picking up a Pirate. Series: Beautiful Mess, Chapter Thirty-four. Fandom: NHL: Edmonton Oilers. Characters: Raffi Torres, Aaron Rome, Jarret Stoll. Word Count: 6,776. Rating: PG. Summary: Raffi goes on a date, and then gets into trouble. Autho...

By The Last Line of Defence. Written by: lady_lilith and lady_death. Title: Not a Punching Bag. Fandom: NHL: Edmonton Oilers. Characters: Raffi Torres Word Count: 1,282. Rating: PG. Summary: He takes out some frustrations. Author's Notes: This is set on May 10, 2007, in California. It is an interlude in the Beautiful Mes...

By noreply@blogger.com (Lowetide) look for) Kyle Brodziak to see significant minutes on the third line, including first unit penalty-killing. (Brodziak) has been one of the Oilers who has been prominent at team functions, such as the Daryl Katz press conference and the unveiling of Graham Rahal's Oilers-sponsored car a...

By The Last Line of Defence. Written by: lady_lilith and lady_death. Title: The Set-Up. Fandom: NHL: Edmonton Oilers. Characters: Raffi Torres, Joffrey Lupul, Danny Syvret. Word Count: 778. Rating: PG. Summary: Joffrey tries to set Raffi up with a friend. Author's Notes: This is set on March 9, 2007. Danny had just been ca...

By The Last Line of Defence. Written by: lady_lilith and lady_death. Title: Blues Brothers Reunion. Fandom: NHL: Edmonton Oilers. Characters: Jarret Stoll, Chris Pronger, Keith Tkachuk, Dallas Drake. Word Count: 4.258. Rating: PG. Summary: Chris goes out for his birthday and gets a suprise. Author's Notes: This is set...

By The Last Line of Defence. Written by: lady_lilith and lady_death. Title: On Being a Duck. Series: Beautiful Mess. Chapter Twenty-two. Fandom: NHL: Edmonton Oilers. Characters: Jarret Stoll, Chris Pronger. Word Count: . Rating: PG. Summary: Chris talks about his new team. Author's Notes: This is set on September 22, 20...

By The Last Line of Defence. Written by: lady_lilith and lady_death. Title: We Won. Series: Beautiful Mess. Chapter Twenty-One. Fandom: NHL: Edmonton Oilers. Characters: Jarret Stoll, Chris Pronger, Joffrey Lupul. Word Count: . Rating: PG. Summary: After a good game, Jarret makes a phone call. Author's Notes: This is se...

By noreply@blogger.com (Lowetide) The Edmonton Oilers have traded C Jarret Stoll and D Matt Greene to Los Angeles. At first blush it is terrific news for Marc Pouliot and Ladislav Smid, but I think there are probably other moves to be made. Here's a guess at the current depth chart on Lowe's back wall in his office:Horcoff-Penn...

By noreply@blogger.com (Lowetide) The Oilers draft players all the time who have slipped through the previous season. Guys like Mathieu Roy, Kyle Brodziak, Danny Syvret and yesterday Jordan Bendfeld. Edmonton has been able to get a lot of quality out of that area of the draft.

By noreply@blogger.com (Lowetide) I always like to offer a disclaimer when talking about ranking prospects. Rita is one end of the scale, someone like Fernando Pisani is the other. Rita was much ballyhooed (don't see that word much anymore, I always thought it deserved better) as a prospect while Pisani couldn't get arreste...

By noreply@blogger.com (Lowetide) Interesting interview, sounds like the Oilers are going to try and make a deal to improve the club now and prune the forward group. Kevin Lowe had mentioned it before and this looks like a variation on the theme."It's up to him" in regard to Schremp and MacT detailed some of the issues that have...

They didn't. It's the same this summer with regard to Shawn Horcoff. The Sheldon Souray and Dustin Penner deals are going to look even more ghastly should Edmonton sign Jarret Stoll and allow Shawn Horcoff to come to camp as an impending UFA.

By Oilers Editorial Oilers defenceman Sheldon Souray owns a pizzeria in Montreal with former teammate Martin Brodeur. In this video feature, Souray invites us into his kitchen and shows us how to make a delicious gourmet pizza.

By The Last Line of Defence. Written by: lady_lilith and lady_death. Title: He's Not There. Fandom: NHL: Edmonton Oilers. Characters: Jack Pronger, Jarret Stoll, Chris Pronger. Word Count: 1,864. Rating: PG. Summary: Jack is worried about his father. So is Jarret. Author's Notes: This is set during the off-season, July...

Injury. Edmonton Oiler fans have seen a lot of good young defense prospects lose most or all of their careers to injury over the years. Selmar Odelein, Nick Stajduhar and Doug Lynch among the names who washed out before making names for themselves at the NHL level.

The Edmonton Oilers complained to the NHL on Tuesday that they had an agreement with freeagent center Michael Nylander before he signed with the Washington Capitals.

By speeds Oops, forgot the Oilers had Sykora, lol. I'd have gone Smyth, Sykora, and Pouliot. And Horcoff is shaken up. Promising start, lol Starting goalies are, not surprisingly, Roloson and Hasek. Oilers start with Horc's line, DET with Z, Datsyuk and Holmstrom.

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CJADThe Bruins traded Sergei Samsonov to the Edmonton Oilers Thursday ...  Canada - Edmonton, Vancouver and Ottawa strengthened their lineups, as did Carolina, the New York Rangers and Nashville. The Oilers got Samsonov, a scoring threat most ... Exchange rate at an NHL high Ottawa Sun