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Sunday's Three Stars: Potulny, Oilers hand Avs 1st home loss

08 Nov 2009 21:37:04 PST

No. 1 star: Ryan Potulny, Edmonton Oilers Called up from the AHL thanks to injuries and illness in the...

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Edmonton Oilers goalie Nikolai Khabibulin(notes), front, of Kaza...

08 Nov 2009 20:02:31 PST

Edmonton Oilers goalie Nikolai Khabibulin(notes), front, of Kazahkstan, deflects a shot off the stick of Colorado Avalanche left winger Wojtek Wolski(notes), third from left in back, as Oilers defenseman Denis Grebeshkov(notes), of Russia, far left in back, right winger Dustin Pe...

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Oilers at Avalanche, G17, 09-10

08 Nov 2009 06:15:00 PST

Written by noreply@blogger.com (Lowetide)
When the WHA folded into the NHL, the following teams survived: Edmonton Oilers, Winnipeg Jets, Quebec Nordiques, Hartford Whalers. It should be mentioned that the teams who voted against the merger were the Vancouver Canucks, Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, Boston Bruins a...

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Rangers at Oilers, G16, 09-10

05 Nov 2009 05:30:00 PST

Written 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...

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A Quality Taylor?

01 Nov 2009 08:50:00 PST

Written by noreply@blogger.com (Lowetide)
During MacT's 8 seasons as Oilers coach his team sent a lot of rookie defensemen to the majors. There were high picks and low picks and kids who didn't get picked in the draft. There were juniors and college seniors and puck movers and stay-at-homes. There were Canadians and Americans and Russ...

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Rask Continues Oilers’ Misery in Boston

01 Nov 2009 01:29:05 PST

Written 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,...

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Edmonton Oilers news and blogs - November 09, 2009

09 Nov 2009 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit Edmonton Oilers news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• Horcoff - Penner - Hemsky -- by Vic Ferrari(noreply@blogger.com) from Irreverent Oiler Fans
• Reddox, Potulny Recalled -- by noreply@blogger.com (Lowetide) from Lowetide
• Outshooting in Toronto -- by Vic Ferrari(noreply@blogger.com) from Irreverent Oiler Fans
• Bright Future? -- by noreply@blogger.com (Lowetide) from Lowetide
• The Problem With "Shots on Net" -- by Vic Ferrari(noreply@blogger.com) from Irreverent Oiler Fans
• The Puck Has To Be Somewhere -- by Vic Ferrari(noreply@blogger.com) from Irreverent Oiler Fans
• Kotalik's Goal, 2 Assists Lift Rangers Over Oilers -- by By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT > Edmonton Oilers
• Powerless play and questionable goaltending doom Wild in 5-2 home loss to Vancouver -- by derek-felska from MVN
• Shark Notes - November 5th -- by PJ Swenson(jon@sharkspage.com) from Sharkspage San Jose Sharks NHL hockey and local sports blog
• Oilers asst. Renney set to face Rangers -- from AP

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10/31 Pregame Notes and Rosters – Oilers at Bruins

31 Oct 2009 02:44:16 PDT

Written 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...

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A Few Home Truths

28 Oct 2009 12:23:00 PDT

Written 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...

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Canucks' Luongo has 27 saves in 2-0 win vs. Oilers

25 Oct 2009 20:53:44 PDT

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...

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Canadiens at Oilers, G4, 09-10

10 Oct 2009 07:28:00 PDT

Written 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.

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Opinion: TC Comments: Team B Blue and G

14 Sep 2009 18:30:00 PDT

Written 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.

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Opinion: Oiler Draft Notes

21 May 2009 15:58:00 PDT

Written 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...

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Opinion: "Reasonable" At the AS Break (F's 1-6)

21 Jan 2009 17:09:00 PST

Written 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.

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Podcast: Puck Headlines: Our Milan Lucic man-crush is at critical mass

14 Nov 2008 08:57:43 PST

Written 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]

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Fanfiction: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. Chapter Five.

07 Aug 2008 23:05:00 PDT

Written 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...

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Fanfiction: Picking up a Pirate.

07 Aug 2008 02:11:00 PDT

Written 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...

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Fanfiction: Not a Punching Bag.

07 Aug 2008 02:03:00 PDT

Written 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...

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Opinion: Brodziak A Key Component

25 Jul 2008 17:02:00 PDT

Written 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...

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Fanfiction: The Set-Up.

22 Jul 2008 01:21:00 PDT

Written 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...

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Fanfiction: Blues Brothers Reunion.

21 Jul 2008 13:21:00 PDT

Written 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...

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Podcast: MacT on Gregor's Show

23 May 2008 06:34:00 PDT

Written 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...

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How To: Cooking with Sheldon Souray

13 Mar 2008 06:35:00 PDT

Written 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.

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Podcast: Oilers say they had deal with Nylander

04 Jul 2007 00:00:00 PDT

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.

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Opinion: Oilers/ Wings thread

23 Feb 2007 16:41:58 PST

Written 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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Opinion: NHL: San Jose 5, Edmonton 2

10 Mar 2006 03:23:00 PST

SLAM! SportsNHL: San Jose 5, Edmonton 2 UK - SAN JOSE, CA, United States (UPI) -- Rookie Steve Bernier had the best night of his young career with two goals and an assist as San Jose downed Edmonton, 5-2 ... Thornton Helps Sharks Defeat Oilers Forbes NewKerala.com Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

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