Top 3 All-Time Oilers Goalies THW Archives | November 3, 2025 Goaltending: hockey’s most precarious and polarizing position. The masked men often take the blame when the team loses, and receive little credit when they win. They face 100 MPH slap…
Cujo, Marchant, and the Game 7 That Revived the Oilers The Old Prof | August 25, 2025 April 1997 wasn’t supposed to be the Edmonton Oilers‘ year. They were young, unproven, and had just barely made the playoffs. Their first-round opponent? The Dallas Stars—a structured, hard-hitting team…
Andy Moog: The Unsung Heartbeat of the Oilers Dynasty The Old Prof | July 30, 2025 For fans who lived through the early days of the Edmonton Oilers dynasty, the name Andy Moog still carries weight. Long before he ever put on a Boston Bruins jersey,…
3 Stanley Cup Winning Goalies Not in the Hockey Hall of Fame Ryan Gagne | July 10, 2025 The Hockey Hall of Fame, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, opened its doors to the first class of inductees in 1945. Every year since then, fans and writers across the…
Oilers Can’t Afford to Overplay Stuart Skinner Dale Bochon | December 10, 2023 The Edmonton Oilers and their second-year goaltender Stuart Skinner are currently on a good run. Winners of six games in a row, Skinner and the Oilers have clawed their way…
Andy Moog Inspired a Generation: A Career Retrospective Ryan Gagne | November 25, 2023 Andy Moog made his NHL debut with the Edmonton Oilers as a 20-year-old on Dec. 23, 1980, and appeared in seven regular season games. As an unproven rookie with limited…
Oilers Best Sleeper Picks in Franchise History Brian Swane | June 27, 2021 The Edmonton Oilers hold just five picks in next month’s National Hockey League Draft: 19 (first round), 115 (fourth round), 179 and 185 (both sixth round), and 211 (seventh round).…
Oilers’ Best Backup Goaltenders by Decade Andrew Mulville | January 17, 2021 The importance of having a high-quality goaltender in the NHL cannot be understated. Furthermore, having a “hot” goaltender can be the difference between bowing out in the first round of…
5 Backup Goalies Who Shined in the 1980s Scott Blair | December 18, 2020 The NHL has had quite a few backup goalies go on to great careers. Many of them backed up legends or future Hall of Famers and eventually had great careers…
When The Northlands Coliseum Closes on the Oilers Peter Chau | December 17, 2013 To those who know me, I wasn’t originally a Canucks fan. To a fault, I will admit that I am a bandwagon jumper. Yes, I am guilty of jumping from…
Edmonton Oilers All-Time Roster Carl Maloney | July 27, 2012 With the Edmonton Oilers previous season well over, and the upcoming season months (hopefully) away, Oiler fans are sitting, awaiting the next big Oiler news. They have had an eventful offseason already…