Happy Thanksgiving! I wish the best for you and your family and hope you get to spend time today with all of your people. I had a wonderful turkey dinner last night, with good conversation and much ...

The Edmonton Oilers are just finishing up training camp now, and should be NHL ready early next week. It’s not fabulous that other teams are ahead of them, but that’s a remnant from slow-playing ...

Remember how you felt in summer? The Oilers had just delivered a frenzied run to Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final. That made last year’s team one of only eight in franchise history to reach that number ...

The schedule favors them, and getting wins in October paves the way for a strong season contending for the top of the Pacific division. That’s where they should be, but based on last night that’s a ...

Northern Lights dancing at Turtle Lake, SK. Photo by Todd Kirkpatrick When I was a kid growing up 17 miles north of Maidstone (probably 80 clicks from Turtle Lake) I would stand and watch in wonder as ...

Raphael Lavoie didn’t get much power-play as an AHL rookie, and Dylan Holloway received a helluva lot more of it in 2021-22 with the Bakersfield Condors. It doesn’t matter now, Holloway is in St.

He was chosen same year same round (but earlier) than Edmonton selection Reid Schaefer (66, 32-26-58 .88). Schaefer is just three months older than Savoie, but has a full AHL season (63, 7-14-21) on ...

If you pay attention to one team for long enough, you begin to adopt some things as fact, others as fiction and often become a blind devotee of a lost cause. Or 30 lost causes, and maybe it’s 150 for ...

Vancouver Canucks coach Rick Tocchet has the Edmonton Oilers number. Coach Kris Knoblauch is attempting to ease his veterans into the preseason, like he’s handling the third imperial Fabergé egg.

Nurse has passed into the “don’t talk about religion and sex” region of Oilers discussions, which is too bad. If I say “Nurse was poor last year” there’s applause, it I say “but the Oilers badly need ...