Posts About "Andrew Ference"
Andrew Ference's Best Bruins Moments
July 18th, 2017 After 16 years in the NHL, defenseman Andrew Ference has hung up his skates and sheathed his hockey stick. Wearing the threads of four different NHL teams over the course of his career, he decided to retire at the age of 38. The Edmonton native finished his career with his hometown Oilers. Ference was a member of the Boston...
Oilers' Deadline Success May Mean Clearing Money
March 1st, 2017 It appears the Edmonton Oilers are still one of the many teams actively trying to make something happen at the trade deadline. There are rumours the Oilers are looking for a backup goaltender, depth forward and potentially a faceoff specialist. Names like Jaroslav Halak, Radim Vrbata and even Ales Hemsky have been thrown around. One...
Poor Culture "History", New Oilers Here
February 16th, 2017 When the Edmonton Oilers traded Taylor Hall, Peter Chiarelli publicly called it 'the price you pay to get a No. 1 defenseman." On the surface, that is and was likely true. Underneath, however, there were rumblings that part of what made Hall dispensible was the rumored locker room issues that existed between he, other players and...
Ference's Career May Be Over, Says McDavid Should Captain Oilers
September 17th, 2016 Andrew Ference's NHL career may be coming to a close because of injury and he says Connor McDavid should be the next captain of the Edmonton Oilers. Ference suffered micro-fractures in his right hip and played in just six games with the Oilers in 2015-16. Although he has gone on 100 km bike rides this summer, Ference has not...
Should Connor McDavid be the Oilers Captain?
February 27th, 2016 The Oilers had the right idea when they named Andrew Ference team captain. He was a veteran, a Stanley Cup champion, and a character guy in the room. For such a young team with a core of budding stars all under the age of 25, it made sense to have a player with years of experience in the league to wear the "C" until one of the younger...
On Milan Lucic's Return to Boston
February 10th, 2016 By now, the Boston Bruins should be used to this. Tim Thomas. Andrew Ference. Shawn Thornton. Johnny Boychuk. Each returned to Boston with a different jersey, but came back to an acknowledgment of the time they spent as a Bruin. It's a symptom of past success; a stiff reminder of the way things were. There was a tribute for...
Is This The End For Andrew Ference?
January 22nd, 2016 The Edmonton Oilers have announced that defenseman and former captain Andrew Ference will be out the remainder of the 2015-16 season as he undergoes hip surgery. Ference, 36, has played in just six games this season averaging just 13:03 TOI. That's the lowest minutes in comparison to all 11 defensemen that have suited up for the...
Andrew Ference to Have Surgery, Out for Season
January 21st, 2016 The year of the injury in Edmonton continued on Thursday, when the team announced that former captain Andrew Ference will have hip surgery that will prevent him from playing again this season. Prior to this announcement, it had already been a tough year for Ference. He started the season with the potential to be a healthy scratch...
Peter Chiarelli's Impact On The Boston Bruins
December 15th, 2015 In hockey (or any sport for that matter), it's a "what have you done for me lately" business. No one has time to relish the memories of years past when it comes to making personnel decisions. When the Boston Bruins missed the playoffs last season, someone would be left to face the wrath of upper management. Unfortunately for...
Edmonton Oilers Strip Ference of Captaincy, Name 4 Alternates
October 7th, 2015 The Edmonton Oilers have, as expected, have stripped Andrew Ference of his captaincy. This was the expectation in no small part because of the fact that Ference has become a bubble player on Edmonton's blue line. The announcement on Wednesday revealed that the team will not have a captain at all during the 2015-16 season, but a group...
Edmonton Finalize Opening Night Roster, Send Draisaitl To AHL
October 6th, 2015 If there is one thing we can take away from Edmonton Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli's press conference today, it's that you can't revamp a roster overnight. That said, the Oilers have made some surprising moves over the summer as well as into finalizing their roster for the October 8th season opener. They've buried $6.8 million in the AHL...
Oilers Send Darnell Nurse To AHL To Start 2015-16 Season
October 1st, 2015 The Edmonton Oilers have made their second round of cuts this preseason with two games and eight days remaining in training camp before the season opener against the St. Louis Blues on October 8th. Among those names re-assigned to the Bakersfield Condors in the AHL was defenseman Darnell Nurse. Nurse, 20, was thought to have a shot...
Oilers Trying to Pawn Off Nikita Nikitin?
September 27th, 2015 Say nice things about Nikita Nikitin. Write good stuff about him too. After a slow, seemingly out-of-shape start to training camp — picking up where he left off last season — the enigmatic Russian defenceman has suddenly been getting glowing reviews and a strange amount of praise during pre-season...
