Darvin Babiuk
Darvin Babiuk has worked as a dishwasher, janitor, paper boy, grocery clerk, researcher, historical interpreter, oil and gas trainer and university lecturer. He covers the Edmonton Oilers for The Hockey Writers. Friends and relatives say he has never been the same after the tragic incident at the Moosomin 47th annual Dmitro Petrycyshyn Pickerel and Perogies Cribbage tournament. He has lived more places than Sinbad the Sailor.
Author's Posts
Ex-Oiler Reinhart May Be the Most Expensive Non-NHL Player Ever
November 16th, 2020 Griffin Reinhart last played professionally in 2019-20 with Beijing’s Kunlun Red Star in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). That’s a long way from being drafted 4th overall by the New York Islanders in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft. Griffin Reinhart failed to live up to his junior hockey promise. Many high draft choices have had...
Georges Laraque Wants to Fight Mike Tyson for Charity
November 10th, 2020 Former NHL enforcer Georges Laraque wants to be the next man to fight “Iron Mike” Tyson who's preparing for his upcoming Nov. 28 exhibition boxing match against Roy Jones Jr. on American Thanksgiving weekend. In an interview with the French-language Montreal radio station, 91.9 Sport, Laraque claimed that arrangements for the fight...
Sabres’ Davidson Keeps Battling Back
November 1st, 2020 Taylor Hall isn’t the only former Edmonton Oiler who signed with the Buffalo Sabres this offseason. Fellow 2010 draft pick Brandon Davidson joined Hall and Tobias Rieder as former Oiler draft picks signing with the Sabres in free agency. Ex-Oilers' coach Ralph Krueger also coaches the team. Taylor Hall and Brandon Davidson were...
Oilers Hope Broberg Keeps on Surprising
October 23rd, 2020 A number of Edmonton Oilers’ bubble roster players have been loaned to teams in European leagues in order to help continue their development until the NHL starts its next season sometime in 2021. From HockeyDB, the boxcars for some of the more prominent of them as of this writing are: PLAYERTEAM/LEAGUEGAMES PLAYEDPOINTSGaetan...
Oilers Need to Re-sign Nugent-Hopkins
October 19th, 2020 Edmonton Oilers' general manager (GM) Ken Holland is well into his offseason re-tooling of the Oilers' roster. His decisions can be divided into three categories: (1) Those that could be completed immediately. Moves that fell into this category included deciding not to make new contract offers to any of Andreas Athanasiou, Matt...
Time for Oilers' Puljujarvi to Turn Promise into Performance
October 14th, 2020 Ever since former Edmonton Oilers general manager Peter Chiarelli bounded up the stage in Buffalo on June 24, 2016, to announce the fourth-overall NHL Entry Draft pick with the same self-satisfied grin he had on his face the day he signed Milan Lucic to one of the worst NHL contracts in history, there has been no bigger lightning rod in...
