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Former Manitoba Moose forward Samuel Fagemo signs in SHL with Frölunda HC
The sharpshooter is heading back home after one season in Manitoba.
Brady Tkachuk and Nikita Kucherov lead the 2026 NHL playoffs all-bust team
The NHL playoffs have been going on for over a month now, and I think I speak for everyone when I say that we’re very disappointed. Not over everything, because a lot of this year’s postseason has been pretty fun. But we’re hockey fans, and we like to be cranky. And like every season, the playoffs give us plenty of opportunity to single out individual players for a disapproving head-shake or two. Today, we’re making a team out of those guys. We’ll be building a full 21-man roster, which is to ...
Spencer Stastney can succeed in a sheltered role: Oilers 2025-26 player review
Welcome to Oilersnation’s annual player review series, where we dive into the Edmonton Oilers season player by player. We’ll look back at the season that was, what kind of impact each player had, and what we could see from them next season. You can read about the analytics behind my analysis here. Midway through the 2025-26 season,…
Winnipeg Jets Morning Papers: Today’s Hockey Headlines | May 20, 2026
A daily roundup of Jets, Moose coverage — all the pro hockey news that matters in Manitoba and beyond.
Former OSU Center, Miami Coach, Davidge Passes Away at 72
Former Ohio State player and Miami coach Bill Davidge passed away this week. He was 72 years old.Davidge played at Ohio State before becoming a graduate assistant coach at Miami's burgeoning program, under Steve Cady.Davidge eventually took over for Cady, after receiving a master's degree from the university. He was head coach from 1985-89, going 39-111-3.He continued to reside in Oxford and support...
Hockey Community Rallies Around NCAA Counter-Proposal
College hockey's commissioners are making a final push to the NCAA this week, submitting a counter-proposal that would amend the proposed new age eligibility rules, with the backing of the entire hockey landscape.The NCAA's Division I Cabinet is meeting this Friday to deliberate the final makeup of the new rules. The NCAA's leadership and legal team has proposed a new "5-for-5" rule that would grant...
NHL Notebook: Canucks fire Adam Foote, Canadiens win Game 7 in overtime
Another NHL team is on a hunt for a new head coach after the Vancouver Canucks announced that Adam Foote has been fired. Assistant coaches Kevin Dean, Scott Young, and Brett McLean will also not return for the 2026-27 season. General Manager Ryan Johnson announced today that Head Coach Adam Foote and Assistant Coaches Scott…
Evaluating the Isaac Howard and Sam O’Reilly trade one year later
One area that the Edmonton Oilers have improved in the past few years is their prospect pool. They’ve signed quite a few players from the NCAA and Europe, but one of the most notable moves to bolster their prospect pool came last off-season when they traded Sam O’Reilly for Isaac Howard. During the 2024 draft,…
Tyrel Bauer media avail after winning the Yanick Dupré Memorial Award as AHL Man of the Year
Lots of good stuff in this chat as he reflects on giving back to the community in Manitoba.
Stan, we have a problem here
Stan Bowman is throwing rocks up to hit Bruce Cassidy’s bedroom window, but Bruce just shakes his head, grounded, unable to talk. Cassidy can wipe his tears with $100 bills, a well-paid hostage for a year if Bill Foley deems it the case. And this is a big problem for the Edmonton Oilers. Cassidy is…
NHLCA calls Vegas block on Bruce Cassidy ‘unprecedented’
The National Hockey League’s Coaches Association has released a statement in defence of Bruce Cassidy, calling the Vegas Golden Knights’ potentially denying him speaking to other NHL teams “unprecedented.” The statement comes a week after news broke that the Oilers had been trying to receive permission to speak with Cassidy and that the Golden Knights…
Why the next Oilers head coach will find instant success
The next head coach of the Edmonton Oilers will have early-season success regardless of who it is. The next Oilers head coach will be set up for success for four simple reasons. He will have a good roster led by Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl, and Evan Bouchard. The Oilers will have some question marks on…
The Oilers can wait for Bruce Cassidy, but they can’t wait forever
We’re more than a week out from the news leaking that the Oilers were denied permission to speak to former Golden Knights head coach, Bruce Cassidy, and all I can think about is how long Stan Bowman plans to wait. With Vegas dragging their feet on giving Edmonton permission to speak to the guy they…
Manitoba Moose defenceman Tyrel Bauer won 2026 Yanick Dupré Memorial Award as AHL Man of the Year
He is the second Moose player to accomplish this in the last four seasons.
Connor Murphy stabilized the second pair: Oilers 2025-26 player review
Welcome to Oilersnation’s annual player review series, where we dive into the Edmonton Oilers season player by player. We’ll look back at the season that was, what kind of impact each player had, and what we could see from them next season. You can read about the analytics behind my analysis here. The Edmonton Oilers have had a…
Winnipeg Jets Morning Papers: Today’s Hockey Headlines | May 19, 2026
A daily roundup of Jets, Moose coverage — all the pro hockey news that matters in Manitoba and beyond.
Seravalli: NHL won’t ‘overrule’ Golden Knights on Cassidy permission if they keep paying contract
Frank Seravalli believes that as long as the Vegas Golden Knights keep paying Bruce Cassidy’s contract, they can deny the Edmonton Oilers and other teams permission to talk to their former head coach. On Frankly Hockey on Monday, Seravalli talked about the hottest coaching candidate right now, who still hasn’t been granted permission to interview…
Another Roadside Attraction: The Channel Cat
Being that it's the Victoria Day long weekend, I had some extra time to get some errands done this weekend as Monday is a holiday. Normally, this would be a weekend where I would be planting vegetables in my garden, but the near-freezing temperatures that have settled over Manitoba have made that nearly impossble. Instead, I got a few things done around the yard, and I was up early enough to visit another well-known gigantic statue in the province! Today's adventure took me north to Selkir...
Arena conflicts reportedly keeping the PWHL out of Edmonton
The Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL) is in the process of expanding from eight teams to twelve. On Wednesday, the league announced that Detroit was going to be the next city to have a team, and on Wednesday this week, Hamilton and Las Vegas were named the most recent additions. The extension to Hamilton is…
2026 IIHF World Championship Day 4: Josh Samanski logs lone Oilers point
It was a quiet day for Edmonton Oilers players at the 2026 World Championships. All five Oilers players participating in the tournament played on Victoria Day, but only one player got on the scoresheet. Canada remains undefeated, beating Denmark 5-1. However, USA dropped another game, losing 6-2 to Finland, while Germany fell 6-1 to Switzerland,…
Edmonton must move on from Henrique after offence dries up: Oilers 2025-26 player review
Welcome to Oilersnation’s annual player review series, where we dive into the Edmonton Oilers season player by player. We’ll look back at the season that was, what kind of impact each player had, and what we could see from them next season. You can read about the analytics behind my analysis here. When the Edmonton Oilers acquired Adam…
Who wins Game 7 tonight, the Sabres or Canadiens? Yes, obviously, and here's why
We’ve got a winner-take-all showdown tonight in Buffalo, as the most entertaining series of the second round concludes with a Game 7 that’s felt inevitable all along. The eyes of the hockey world will be focused on the KeyBank Center tonight, as fans feel the weight of suspense over who’ll win. But they shouldn’t be. Because it’s pretty obvious. I mean, the hockey gods aren’t even really trying to disguise the ending here. If you’ve been paying attention to this series, you know who’s going to...
Finding a true solution in net is the only way to salvage the Oilers’ window
The last time the Oilers had a starting goaltender with a save percentage above .910 was in the 2022-23 season, when Stuart Skinner was a finalist for the Calder Memorial Trophy. Connor McDavid’s prime has been wasted by poor defending and mediocre goaltending, and Stan Bowman’s attempt to solve this was Tristan Jarry, who makes…
Thanks for the memories, Kris Knoblauch
After having a couple of days to think about the Oilers firing Kris Knoblauch, I don’t know that my opinion has changed much from where it started. I don’t think any of us were surprised that Knobby got gassed, but I also don’t think everything that went wrong during the 2025-26 season was his fault…
Leafs analyst calls Oilers’ pursuit of Berube ‘baffling’
Few have had a better seat in the Craig Berube era in Toronto than Arun Srinivasan. As the managing editor of our sister website The Leafs Nation, Srinivasan has been on the Leafs beat for years, getting day-to-day access to one of the NHL’s most interesting organizations. So when news broke Monday morning that the…
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