When last we heard from the Edmonton Oilers’ President of Hockey Operations Kevin Lowe, he was retreating to the recesses of Rexall Place, leaving GM Steve Tambellini to clean up a mess that makes Haiti look like a spring cleaning. Of course, prior to pulling the best disappearing act since Bin Laden, Old No. 4 [...]
Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic
With the Oilers on pace for their worst season ever, the hearts and minds of Oiler Nation have turned to the Taylor Hall lottery and the much needed rebuild to come.
What remains unclear however is the fate of the Oilers’ management team with rumours beginning to swirl that [...]
In case you missed it, the best game played by an Oiler this season was Jordan Eberle’s clutch performance against the US in the final of this year’s World Juniors.
I know, Eberle wasn’t technically playing for the Oilers at the time, but you wouldn’t know it by the way both Oilers’ GM Steve Tambellini & [...]
In the first part of this two part series, I invited readers to peruse Detroit GM Ken Holland’s Nine Secrets to Stanley Cup Success and compared the Red Wings’ winning formula over the last decade to the approach of the Edmonton Oilers, a club currently mired in last place in the Western Conference.
In the second [...]
With nearly half the season in the books, this year’s edition of the Edmonton Oilers sit dead last in the Western Conference. Despite one of the highest payrolls in the league, the team has been grossly inept in all phases of the game. More specifically, the Oilers have:
The 3rd worst defensive record in the NHL [...]
The Montreal Canadiens, The New York Yankees, The Boston Celtics, The Green Bay Packers. These are the most hallowed teams in professional sports and with good reason. From the four major North American sports leagues, only these clubs can boast the ultimate accolade: the most championships won in their respective sport.
In sports, winning is everything, [...]
It may be the defining moment of the Edmonton Oilers’ season.
On Sunday, November 24th, head coach Pat Quinn held a closed door meeting with his veteran players. The timing of the meeting was as obvious as its intent. With the Oilers sinking fast in the Western Conference standings and the threat of an impending 5 [...]
The Edmonton Oilers are a team going nowhere fast.
3-10-2 in their last 14 games and tied with Carolina for dead last in the league with 49 even strength goals against, the Oilers look every bit the underachieving squad that has missed the playoffs for three consecutive seasons and five of the last six.
With 105 man [...]
Following the NHL’s despicable treatment of Wayne Gretzky in the ongoing Phoenix Coyotes debacle, the Great One is taking a well deserved break from the pressures and politics of professional hockey. Given his illustrious history with the Edmonton Oilers, hope spring eternal in Oil Country that Gretzky will consider the franchise as a viable destination [...]
Recent ineptitude aside, for most hockey fans, mention of the Edmonton Oilers conjures up images of one of the most storied teams in hockey history. Led by the legendary Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier and replete with a roster of Hall of Famers, the Oil were a franchise most closely identified with speed, skill & [...]
