Earlier this month, THW's Mike Coll…
Pittsburgh PenguinsWelcome to our “Halloween Edition” on The Hockey Writers kindly dubbed “Chutes And Ladders”. Riding the fortunes of a fantasy hockey team can be a lot like the original Milton Bradley game. There are enough twists and turns to drive any normal person crazy. So imagine what it is like for the average hockey ...
Don’t look now, but the Edmonton Oilers are on a roll. They’ve won 5 straight games, sit tied for first place in the Western Conference with the Dallas Stars and 2nd overall in the NHL behind only the Pittsburgh Penguins. Despite injuries to Ryan Whitney and Ales Hemsky, the young Oilers are one of the ...
Goaltending was one of the biggest issues for the Edmonton Oilers last season, and the inconsistency in net contributed to their second consecutive last place finish. This season, the Oilers starting goaltender leads the league in goals against average and save percentage, something very few could have predicted. Nikolai Khabibulin’s legal troubles and on ice ...
The injury bug has hit Edmonton Oilers defenseman Ryan Whitney once again, three games into his return to the line-up. Whitney played just 35 games last season before going down with an ankle injury, and had been back for about a week before sustaining a knee injury against the Canucks. Whitney got his skate tangeled ...
Edmonton is a one dimensional sports town, with the Oilers garnering a majority of the attention year round. Whether it’s the draft in mid-June or training camp in September or the heat of playoff races (sorry Oilers fans, I meant golf season), the team owns the airwaves and water cooler talk year round. When the ...
Despite his strong start to the season, there has been some discussion as to whether Ryan Nugent-Hopkins would stay in the NHL or return to junior for the season. Going into Saturday’s game against the New York Rangers, the rookie led the team in scoring, and had already notched his first career-hat trick. However, thanks ...
Among the usual emails about new sponsorships, roster moves and promotions was an AHL recall notice. This time it was from Winnipeg. Unlike the announcements about some phenom with a deadly arm or netminder with superhuman flexibility getting a seat at the big boys table, this press release reported the return of a familiar face to Manitoba’s professional hockey arena. Mick E. Moose would be stepping up as the Jets’ mascot.
The Edmonton Oilers have a record of 2-2-2 through 6 games this season, and all four loses have been 1 goal games. Two of those loses have come in the shoot-out, and perhaps the most frustrating of them all was last night’s loss to the Minnesota Wild. Edmonton took the lead at 16:06 of the ...
By James Phieffer With the new NHL season underway, and all teams now having played a few games, it is interesting to see six of this past draft’s top picks are still with their respective teams. Of these, four look to be with their teams for the duration of the season, while the other two ...
It didn’t take very long for 2011 first overall pick Ryan Nugent-Hopkins to make his presence known in the NHL. The 18 year old has four goals and one assist through four games to start his pro career, including his first NHL hat trick against the Vancouver Canucks. The goals may not have been highlight ...
