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Winners and Losers of 2024 NHL Free AgencyWith the dust mostly settled from a frenetic NHL free agency period, let's break down the winners and losers of hockey’s offseason to date....

Florida Panthers Need To Contain Connor McDavid To Win Stanley Cup FinalsThe Florida Panthers need to stop Connor McDavid in order to finish this series against the Edmonton Oilers....

Thursday June 13 Best Bets & Picks For MLB, Stanley Cup Final, & US Open GolfThese are our best sports betting picks and predictions for the Stanley Cup Final, US Open, and MLB on June 13th....

The Golden Knights are trying to build the wall

No, not that wall. Calm down, Jethro. ...

NHL 'tough guys' are always cheapshot artists; The cause of increased scoring revealed

For a sport that really loves to tout how tough its players are, hockey players don’t seem to have much tolerance for anything that makes them feel bad in the slightest. At least on the ice. Morgan Rielly of Toronto was just the latest to wet himself when an opponent reminded him just a little too m...

Edmonton can’t beat the team they want to beat most

With all apologies to the Vancouver Canucks, actually, no, no one should ever apologize to the Canucks for anything. They know what they are and what they’ve done. While they may be on top of the Pacific Division, the other teams in that division are still going to measure themselves against the Veg...

Islanders lose way with Patrick Roy; Sex assault charges rock WJC; Why is Corey Perry with the Oilers?

The hammer may be coming down on members of the 2018 Canadian World Junior team faster than we thought. Over the past couple of days, two players — Carter Hart of the Flyers and Dillon Dube of the Flames — had taken indefinite leaves of absence from their teams. - Sam Fels Read More...

What do the Edmonton Oilers want with Corey Perry?

The Edmonton Oilers have been the NHL’s hottest team for a good long while now. They’ve won 13 in a row, and since that woeful 2-9-1 start, they’ve gone 24-6-0, which over a full season would be a 131-point pace. They’ve vaulted themselves out of the Motel For Men where the Sharks live, that they sp...

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Eastern Conference is a mess; Bruins don't need centers?; Sam Reinhart makes history

We’re halfway through the NHL season, which is now meant as a device to make everyone look stupid. Or really, to make me look stupid, which isn’t all that hard, because I’m stupid. After 41 games, we should have an idea of who is what and who’s going where. But in the Eastern Conference, we really d...

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|Sat Jan 20 2024

Edmonton is showing what a coaching change really means

That dull roar you hear in the distance would be the momentum of the Edmonton Oilers. They’re kind of out there, admittedly, which is why your house isn’t shaking. Only so much a team can do from the hinterlands of Alberta. ...

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|Wed Dec 13 2023

2023 NHL plus/minus leaders

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|Wed Mar 13 2024

This week in the locker November 18, 2023

I and many other Chicagoans used to sit in our simple Midwestern homes, huddled by the coal stove or whatever people picture us doing in the winter (it’s not that far off, it’s just huddled at the bar), and have a good chuckle at how New Yorkers were sentenced to a life with James Dolan. Here was a ...

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|Sat Nov 18 2023

The Oilers season is already slipping away

One month into an NHL season isn’t probably the time to panic — unless you’re the Edmonton Oilers and the pressure cooker started a couple years ago. A 3-9-1 start has already left the Oil with something close to a Sisyphian climb. Sure, there’s 69 games left, but we’re just a week from Thanksgivin...

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|Mon Nov 13 2023

Jonathan Marchessault’s natural hat trick cements Golden Knights as Stanley Cup favorites

The Edmonton Oilers’ potential to turn back the clock officially stopped on Sunday night. Despite having two of the top five players in the league, a deep playoff run wasn’t in the cards, again. Three straight uninterrupted goals came in the second period off the stick of Jonathan Marchessault in th...

by Eric Blum|

|Tue May 16 2023

Joel Embiid’s play in Game 7 said more than all the pressers in the world

There isn’t really anything Joel Embiid could have said after his Game 7 beer belch that would have made up for it. He could have laid out all the mea culpas in the world, and Sixers fans are going to be pretty sharp-eyed and tongued (pardon for making you think about Philadelphian tongues) come nex...

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|Tue May 16 2023

The Edmonton Oilers keep dressing the worst player I’ve ever seen

Thanks to the flat salary cap for the past few years, and the existence of a hard cap at all for nearly two decades, a lot of NHL rosters look the same. You can’t build super teams, and if you weren’t lucky in the past few years to get a high draft pick to take a true star, you’re left with a lot of...

by Sam Fels|

|Thu May 04 2023

edmonton-oilers - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights | DeadspinThe Stanley Cup will be lifted by the Oilers-Golden Knights victor

Among a final eight that feels like a changing of the guard in hockey more than most years, with old standbys proving their age by exiting the ice until the fall, the duo of the Las Vegas Golden Knights and the Edmonton Oilers stand out like a sore thumb. Not necessarily because they don’t also repr...

by Eric Blum|

|Wed May 03 2023

Connor McDavid isn’t going to get a better chance

Every generationally great player, or every player that can safely say they’re one of the five best of all time, eventually bores the public with their greatness. Or at least fails to spike the EKG when news of their latest heroics crosses the wires. Connor McDavid is there. ...

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|Wed Mar 29 2023

The waiting is the hardest part

The Colorado Avalanche are waiting. And waiting for a Stanley Cup Finals opponent hasn’t treated those favorably in returning from mini-vacations in the past. We’re finishing up the 35th NHL postseason in which first-round games are contested as a best of seven, starting in 1987 and featured every y...

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|Thu Jun 09 2022

This is probably as close as Connor McDavid will get

There’s not much more that Connor McDavid can do. For that matter, Leon Draisaitl should be attached to that lament permanently now, after he also averaged two points per game in the playoffs with maybe two functioning limbs. They’re the only players to average two points per game in the playoffs ov...

by Sam Fels|

|Tue Jun 07 2022

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