Posts About "Adam Larsson"
Adam Larsson and the Edmonton Oilers
April 21st, 2018 At no fault of his own, Adam Larsson was put in an awfully difficult position to start his Edmonton Oilers career. Though any reasonable fan, media member and student of the game would never view the rugged rearguard as fair value for Taylor Hall, one has to remove that part of the equation in order to fairly judge his performance. On...
Oilers Trade Value: Goalies & Defense
March 13th, 2018 The regular season is winding down, and the Edmonton Oilers are gearing up for the off-season. It's been a long and disappointing season and it's time to begin the evaluation period. Edmonton might not be making wholesale changes this summer, but there's a lot that needs to be done; the most pressing is to find a winger for Connor...
What Will Darnell Nurse Cost the Oilers?
February 14th, 2018 Edmonton Oilers defenseman Darnell Nurse is a restricted free agent (RFA) this summer. The Andrej Sekera injury at the start of the season created an opportunity for one of Nurse, or Matt Benning a chance to play top-four minutes. Benning was first but faltered. Once Nurse got his look, he gradually took off and has undoubtedly been one...
The Electrifying Emergence of Darnell Nurse
January 23rd, 2018 It's been well over a decade since the Edmonton Oilers possessed an elite top-pairing defender. Following the Oilers' appearance in the 2005-06 Stanley Cup Final, Chris Pronger was traded to the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for a bounty of players and draft picks. And, in the ten seasons which followed, Edmonton toiled with mediocrity en...
Adam Larsson: A Necessary Trade for Edmonton
December 12th, 2017 During the 2016 off-season, Peter Chiarelli decided to trade away one of the most dynamic forwards in the NHL. In return, he received a relatively unknown Swedish defenseman; unknown, meaning a player who rarely showed up on the score sheet. Outraged at first, fans in Edmonton quickly warmed up to the heavy hitting, shut-down,...
Taylor Hall Trade Revisited
November 9th, 2017 It has been almost a year and a half since the Edmonton Oilers and New Jersey pulled the trigger on the blockbuster deal that saw Taylor Hall and Adam Larsson swap organizations. At the time, the move seemed a rather puzzling one from an Oilers standpoint but after the club put together a surprising campaign in 2016-17, public opinion on...
