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It’s been another wild week around here with the Oilers rollercoaster making another loop, and I’ve got a fresh episode of Better Lait Than Never ready to recap it all. On today’s podcast, I talked about the Oilers’ inability to string wins together, Tristan Jarry’s first home start, Curtis Lazar’s 600th game, and much more….
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The Bakersfield Condors are officially on a roll. They beat the Calgary Wranglers Friday and Saturday by a combined score of 6-1, making it nine straight games with a point for the young roster. With their recent hot streak, the Condors have moved themselves into second place in terms of goals scored, with 132. The…
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A month ago, the trade market in the NHL looked very weak. The gap between a playoff spot and the bottom of the standings was so slim that it really wasn’t clear how many teams were going to become sellers ahead of the trade deadline. Over the last few weeks, that has changed. There are…
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Edmonton Oilers goalie Calvin Pickard understands why he’s been relegated to third on the depth chart, but that doesn’t make it any easier, he revealed to Sportsnet’s Mark Spector on Wednesday. “It’s been tough,” said Pickard. “It’s been painful, for sure.” Despite allowing just three goals against in their last four games, the Oilers are…
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On January 20th in 2011, Phoenix Coyotes 6'5" forward Martin Hanzal used his stick to strike a puck floating at face level of 6'3" defenseman Matt Greene into the Los Angeles Kings net, violating Rule 78.5(vi). Incorrectly ruled a goal by on-ice official Justin St. Pierre, NHL SVP of hockey operations Mike Murphy upheld the absurd call after a lengthy video review claiming there was no conclusive
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On January 18th in 2023, a fart sound was heard on Sportsnet during the Tampa Bay Lightning and Vancouver Canucks broadcast. Without skipping a beat, Canucks play-by-play legend John Shorthouse quipped to his partner John Garrett "Was that you?". Cheech denied it and Fartgate was born. The moment in question occurred when netminder Colin Delia slid to his left whilst corralling an Alex
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On January 18th in 1958, Willie O'Ree dressed for the Boston Bruins against the Montreal Canadiens becoming the first black person to play in the NHL. The Fredericton native skated in 45 NHL games, collecting four goals and ten assists, before leaving the league in 1961. O'Ree went on to play for 13 years in the WHL, primarily with the Los Angeles Blades and San Diego Gulls, winning two league
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On January 18th in 2014, Calgary Flames coach Bob Hartley iced his fourth line brawlers to commence CBC's Hockey Day In Canada finale. Vancouver Canucks coach John Tortorella reluctantly responded in-kind igniting a line brawl yielding 152 penalty minutes and eight player ejections, two seconds into the match. Sensing the imminent ambush, veteran defenseman Kevin Bieksa swapped spots
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On January 18th in 1997, San Jose Sharks forward Owen Nolan called his shot and scored on a breakaway against Buffalo Sabres goalie Dominik Hasek with 2 minutes left in the 47th NHL All-Star Game in San Jose, completing the hat trick and sending hometown fans into a frenzy. Hasek's Eastern Team defeated Nolan's Western Squad 11-7 with MVP honors going to Mark Recchi who hat tricked for the
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On January 17th in 1999, Vancouver Canucks superstar Pavel Bure was traded to the Florida Panthers along with Bret Hedican, Brad Ference, and a third round pick in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft (Robert Fried) in exchange for Ed Jovanovski, Dave Gagner, Mike Brown, Kevin Weekes, and a first round pick in 2000 (Nathan Smith). The seeds of the trade were sewn on July 5, 1998 when Bure demanded a trade
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There are just 11 forwards at Edmonton Oilers’ head coach Kris Knoblauch’s disposal, but there are 18 available bodies. Running 11 forwards and seven defencemen on Tuesday night against the New Jersey Devils got the Oilers into a bind. Vasily Podkolzin missed 17 minutes due to “instigating” and misconduct for jumping to Connor McDavid’s defence,…
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Latest from practice on the AHL club of Manitoba.
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On Sunday, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins played his 1,000th game with the Edmonton Oilers. As you know, the Oilers have a long and storied history, but the longest-tenured Oiler became the first player in team history to play 1,000 games exclusively with the Oilers, and just the second player to play his 1,000th game with the team….
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This really looked like it was going to be the one. Nine times this season, the Edmonton Oilers have won back-to-back games. Not once have they managed to extend that into a three-game winning streak. After two commanding wins last weekend, 6-0 on the road against the Vancouver Canucks and 5-0 at home versus the…
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Today, we’re going to play a roster-building game based on a relatively straightforward question: Which goalie can make the best six-man team out of players who scored their first career goal against them? That’s it. Nice and simple. But first, a few ground rules™: - Each squad will be made up of three forwards, two defensemen and a goalie. Other than that, position won’t matter. - The forwards and defensemen must have all scored their first career goals against the same goaltender. That goali...
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For the ninth time this season, the Edmonton Oilers had the opportunity to win their third consecutive game. For whatever reason, winning that third game seems to be the Oilers’ kryptonite this season, and Thursday night was another chapter in the same story. The boys kinda snoozed through the first 40 minutes before turning it…
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Kris Mayotte isn’t hanging his hat on moral victories or turning to...
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As someone who has been doing radio for a number of years, I tend to listen to commercials more than I should probably admit. It's not the messaging that I'm interested in nor the product being sold, but it's how the commercial is selling the product that catches me. I say this because hockey games on the radio have a lot of time where commercials can be run, and companies need to have effective messaging for their advertisement to be catchy. In preapring commercials for sponsors of the 2026 F...
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Once again, the Edmonton Oilers have failed to win three consecutive games. On Tuesday evening, the Oilers dropped a 2-1 decision to the New Jersey Devils after sleepwalking through the first two periods. Let’s take a look at what happened in this one. For the first 25 minutes of the game, the Oilers and Devils…
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If there's one thing that I enjoy more than anything when doing radio, it's participating at live events. Live radio has a certain unpredictability to it that is unlike anything else except for live television, and it's that unpredictability that makes covering events a bit of a thrill. It is with great honour that UMFM has been invited to cover the 2026 Female World Sport School Challenge once again, and we are proud to working with the great people at Balmoral Hall School to bring these broa...
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Recap of the game.
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It’s Tuesday afternoon, and there’s a fresh episode of Oilersnation Radio set, which means the boys were back in the studio to recap the week that was. On today’s episode, the guys discussed Ryan Nugent-Hopkins’ 1000th game, back-to-back shutouts, Kasperi Kapanen’s injury, and much more. We kicked off the Tuesday episode of ONR with a…
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Hear from the two captains after today's announcement of the preliminary rosters.
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Oftentimes the nostalgia of the event is more focused on the alumni game than the actual regular season one held by the current team.
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