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Scenes from Morning Skate: Oilers prep for tough game against Hughes’ Wild

The Edmonton Oilers play the Minnesota Wild tonight, and more importantly, they play Quinn Hughes. It’ll be the second time they see him in Wild threads, the first having come just eight days after the deal. And look at what’s happened to Minnesota since that trade. The Wild went from good to great the moment…

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A League-Imposed Break

I'll be fully honest in saying that I don't follow the CHL or its respective leagues likely as much as I did when the Winnipeg Ice were still a team. The Ice gave a reason to check in on the WHL and the other leagues under the CHL's umbrella, but I admittedly have not being doing that since they relocated to Wenatchee. Having spent the day in Brandon, it got me thinking that I should do more, and then social media got into the act tonight as several accounts posted the same clip from the OHL t...

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Top 100 Oilers: No. 50 — Stuart Skinner

Oilersnation is reviving the Top 100 Edmonton Oilers of All Time list, a project originally created by the late Robin Brownlee in 2015. Stuart Skinner comes in at No. 50 on our updated 2025 list. He was unranked on Brownlee’s original list. Born in Edmonton, Stuart Skinner nearly had the perfect story after the Oilers…

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Pre-Scout: Can the Oilers enact revenge on the Minnesota Wild?

Maybe Edmonton Oilers fans can resonate with this quote from Minnesota Wild coach Jon Hynes.  “The one thing I will say is that when you go through 82 games, they’re not all gonna be Picassos, right?” said Hynes.  Right you are, Mr. Hynes. Both teams would approach this ethos from different angles after their last…

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Oilers’ Rogers Place ranked 11th best rink in league, but among least affordable

The construction of Rogers Place in Edmonton in the mid-2010s was imperative for an Oilers franchise that grew out of their old rink at Rexall Place. It helped usher in a new era of hockey with a state-of-the-art facility right in the heart of downtown, inspiring other arenas being built around the league, like Calgary’s…

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Oilersnation Radio: The Oilers finally have a win streak going!

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’ win over the Sharks, the Bobby McMann trade rumours, Connor McDavid’s heater, line combos, and more. We kicked off the Friday episode of ONR…

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Today In NHL History - Morenz's Broken Leg

On January 28th in 1937, Montreal Canadiens superstar Howie Morenz fractured his leg in four places when he crashed awkwardly into the corner boards and Chicago Blackhawks blueliner Earl Seibert landed on top of him. The three-time Stanley Cup (1924, 1930, 1931) and Hart trophy winner (1928, 1931, 1932), who led the NHL in points twice (1928, 1931), goals once (1928), and the Canadiens in both

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Today In NHL History - Longest Road Trip

On January 27th in 2010, the Vancouver Canucks set out on the longest road trip in NHL history. The 46 day sojourn sent them to 13 cities (Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Boston, Tampa, Sunrise, St. Paul, Columbus, Detroit, Chicago, Nashville, Denver, Phoenix) for 14 games. The hellish trip was required to accommodate the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, marking the first time since NHL players

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Today In NHL History - Sullivan's Fan Revenge

On January 26th in 2001, Steve Sullivan of the Chicago Blackhawks was belittled by an out-spoken Avalanche fan as the forward left the ice upon having his nose bloodied by an Alex Tanguay highstick, resulting in a dozen stitches. Sullivan returned to score two shorthanded goals and see the same fan struck by an errant puck from a Patrick Roy clearing attempt. Revenge was sweet for Sullivan who

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Today In NHL History - Burke's Twitter Imposter

On January 26th in 2009, Down Goes Brown blogger Sean McIndoe opened a Twitter account in the name of Maple Leafs GM Brian Burke and proceeded to parody a witty fictional inner-monologue of the brash bossman. What started as a one-off joke evolved into 95 tweets over 63 days. A selection of Sean's tweets are posted below with an entire archive here: In the press box in Minnesota. Just noticed

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Today In NHL History - Erik Johnson's Own Goal

On January 26th in 2011, the top pick from the 2006 NHL Draft, St Louis Blues blueliner Erik Johnson, scored an own goal firing a rebound past backstop Ty Conklin on a failed clearing attempt five minutes into the opening frame. The miscue was credited to Calgary Flames forward David Moss. Moss would add another goal leading his team to a 4-1 victory, marking the Flames fourth straight win and

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Today In NHL History - Ted Leonsis Attacks Fan

On January 25th in 2004, Washington Capitals owner and AOL executive Ted Leonsis attacked season ticket holder Jason Hammer, grabbing his neck and throwing him to the ground, in response to the fan's game long heckling and insulting sign "Caps Hockey; AOL Stock -- See a Pattern?". Embarrassed by the outburst Leonsis apologized to Hammer the next day and the pair agreed to move past the melee.

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Top 100 Oilers: No. 51 — Ethan Moreau

Oilersnation is reviving the Top 100 Edmonton Oilers of All Time list, a project originally created by the late Robin Brownlee in 2015. Ethan Moreau comes in at No. 51 on our updated 2025 list. He was ranked No. 54 on Brownlee’s original list. Wayne Gretzky is known as the greatest player ever, bringing four…

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Oilers Thoughts: Bouchard’s clutch gene, Kapanen’s top line promotion, Samanski making strides, McMann trade talk and Roslovic’s proposed extension

With the Edmonton Oilers’ first three-game win streak of the season and the excitement packed into those games, if you could bottle all that energy into a morning drink, coffee companies would be out of business. The Oilers pulled off their first comeback from a three-goal deficit in the third period since 2022 with a…

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Former Oiler Derek Ryan says depth players need ‘a role’ on current team

A recently retired Edmonton Oiler offered his critique of the team, saying they need to find ways to give depth players roles.  Derek Ryan, who played with the Oilers from 2021-22 to 2024-25, was on Oilers Now with Bob Stauffer on Wednesday.  Stauffer asked Ryan if he viewed Edmonton as a legitimate Stanley Cup contender. …

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A Pacific Division Trade Deadline Preview

The Pacific Division is in an interesting spot with 30 games to go in the regular season. The top two spots are occupied by the two teams that everyone expected to be there at the start of the regular season, the Edmonton Oilers and Vegas Golden Knights, but after that, it’s been fairly chaotic. The…

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I'm looking for your submissions to Nickname Court

As we know, modern NHL nicknames are terrible, with most of them either just being a player's name with an -er or -y ending tacked on, or something based on player initials that features zero creativity. Let's fix that. How it works: Readers send in nicknames for players (or lines or pairings or whatever), and a small group of us rule on whether they were good or not. We're be looking for either of two kinds of submissions: - Brand new nicknames that you came up with, or that are perco...

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