It’s Nation Vacation weekend in Vancouver, and that means we’ve got a crew of Nation Citizens with boots on the ground for a few days of shenanigans, memories, and hopefully a win to cap off the adventure. Both teams come into this one hovering around .500, with the Oilers sitting at 4-4-1 and the Canucks…
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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…
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Since we’re so close to Halloween, do you remember the internet phrase going around a few years ago? My culture is not your costume. Looking back at this week in hockey, you’d have thought we took a time travel machine back to the old days of the Adams Division. The Colorado Avalanche donning the fleur-de-lis…
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The Edmonton Oilers have begun the 2025-26 regular-season with a 4-4-1 record in their first nine games. This is identical to their 4-4-1 record in the first nine games of 2024-25. While there are numerous things to be concerned about thus far, a mediocre start is far from new for this team, and I would…
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A look at the projected lineups and pre-game interviews.
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We made it to Vancouver for the Nation Vacation, and last night, we got together as a group to watch the Oilers take on the Kraken. Unfortunately, it did not go our way. Unfortunately, the same mistakes kept coming up over and over again. Oilers lose, and it’s hard to argue that it wasn’t deserved….
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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…
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Keeping you up-to-date with all the latest pro hockey news in Manitoba.
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The Edmonton Oilers’ early-season struggles have continued. On Saturday night, the Oilers played the first game of a back-to-back, falling 3-2 to the Seattle Kraken despite outplaying one of the newest teams in the National Hockey League. Let’s take a look at what went wrong in this one. Less than 90 seconds into the game,…
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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...
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Big change for number 17.
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Thursday’s win against Montreal felt like watching two different hockey teams wearing the same jerseys. For forty-ish minutes, the Oilers looked flat, careless, and completely disconnected. The passing was off, the mistakes piled up, and it felt like we were about to sit through another one of those nights where self-inflicted wounds ruined the result….
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Guests: Dan Robertson at 26:09 and Cole Bagley at 1:27:35.
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One of the more surprising starts to the NHL season, the Seattle Kraken capped off a six-game road trip with a 3-0 shutout victory over the Winnipeg Jets. Through eight games, the Kraken are right near the top of the Pacific Division, two points behind the Vegas Golden Knights for first, and one point better…
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A couple of big wins so far this week for the Oilers. Things hadn’t been going the team’s way — some defensive issues, tough time scoring — but they got a bit of everything they needed against the Senators. Connor McDavid got a beauty, which we all knew was coming. Isaac Howard scored his first…
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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…
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Keeping you up-to-date with all the latest pro hockey news in Manitoba.
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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...
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Recap of the game.
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It’s Friday afternoon, which means a fresh episode of Oilersnation Radio is ready to massage your eardrums with an hour of off-season Oilers talk. On today’s podcast, the fellas discussed the Oilers two recent wins, some recent milestones on the roster, David Tomasek’s first NHL goal, line combos, and much more. We kicked off the…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Getting you set up for tonight’s Jets game.
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Good news for the Edmonton Oilers: they may soon have one of their big names back on the ice. On Thursday, head coach Kris Knoblauch told the media that the team is still aiming to have Zach Hyman back in the lineup as early as November 1, potentially in time to slot in as Edmonton…
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