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Pre-Scout: Canucks couldn’t hang with Oilers in first meeting

Both the Edmonton Oilers and the Vancouver Canucks will be coming off Saturday night losses when they converge tonight for their second matchup of the season. The Canucks had a 2-0 lead into the latter stages of the second period, before a collapse. Vancouver surrendered four unanswered goals and dropped a 4-3 defeat at the…

2 months ago | 2 reads

The Day After 9.0: Oilers scoring struggles stay in the spotlight

The Edmonton Oilers took some steps in the right direction Saturday night. The good: They outshot the Seattle Kraken 33-23, with a +10 shot differential, their highest since Game 2 of the season against the Vancouver Canucks. The not-so-good: Too few of those pucks went into the Kraken net. The bad: Off the back of…

2 months ago | 2 reads

There Was Hockey Tonight?

If hockey was played at any level tonight, I wasn't watching. A bad case of Blue Jays Fever has set in at HBIC Headquarters, and their battle against the Los Angeles Dodgers tonight was the only game I was watching. Call me out for my lack of hockey passion on this one, but Canada's only Major League Baseball team being in the World Series on Canadian soil playing against a team that has been portrayed as "invincible" in the postseason is must-watch television for me. Combine that with the fac...

2 months ago | 0 reads

Looking at potential options if the Oilers decide to trade for a goalie

The conversation surrounding the Edmonton Oilers and their goaltending never seems to go away. While the Oilers have gotten off to another ho-hum start at 4-3-1, the issue has been more due to their offense than their goaltending. But, we’ve all seen how the combination of Stuart Skinner and Calvin Pickard has held the Oilers…

2 months ago | 2 reads

Identities Matter

Choosing a team name for an expansion franchise usually happens before jerseys are debuted in order to have the franchise's new logo based on the name affixed to said jerseys. As we know, the PWHL didn't do that with their first six franchises, waiting over a year to actually attach names to those teams. The six names chosen still seem rather ridiculous, but the PWHL made it through Year Two as the Minnesota Frost celebrated their second Walter Cup victory over the Ottawa Charge. Knowing two e...

2 months ago | 1 read

NHL Notebook: Golden Knights place Mark Stone on LTIR

On Thursday, the Vegas Golden Knights announced they have placed team captain Mark Stone on LTIR. The 33-year-old forward is currently recovering from a wrist injury, exiting a contest against the Calgary Flames last Saturday shortly after scoring his second of the game. The injury appeared to have initially happened against the Boston Bruins two…

2 months ago | 1 read

Oilers Prospect Update: Positive early results for new-look AHL Condors

The Bakersfield Condors have a lot of new faces this year, and this roster is a fun one to watch. Not only that, it’s a deep group. With all the interesting additions made by Stan Bowman over the summer, it’s actually Rem Pitlick leading the team in scoring with six points in three games. Another…

2 months ago | 2 reads

Oilers know they need to be better despite taking two points from Habs

The Edmonton Oilers know they didn’t fully deserve to win Thursday night’s game against the Montreal Canadiens. They were sloppy, disorganized, and looked disinterested at times for the first 50 minutes of the game, but they woke up in the final 10 minutes, erased a two-goal deficit, and won 6-5. It wasn’t pretty. It wasn’t…

2 months ago | 3 reads