Posts About "Cam Talbot"
Oilers’ Koskinen Making Most of Opportunity
November 16th, 2018 It has been just over two months since Mikko Koskinen kicked off his return to North America and what a whirlwind it has been. After spending the last seven years tending twine in the KHL and SM-liiga, the Edmonton Oilers goaltender has gone from unknown commodity...to pre-season disaster...to fan-favourite over the course of...
3 Things to Watch for Early in the Oilers Season
October 11th, 2018 To say the Edmonton Oilers' season-opening loss to the New Jersey Devils was a letdown would be like saying Connor McDavid is pretty good at hockey; it's an understatement. During their 5-2 loss to the Devils on Saturday in Gothenburg, Sweden, the Oilers looked like a team trying to figure out IKEA furniture instructions instead of the...
Oilers With the Most to Prove: Lucic, Rattie & Talbot
September 17th, 2018 As the pre-season gets underway, there's one player in the Edmonton Oilers dressing room that is embracing a 'clean slate' in 2018-19. Milan Lucic's 2017-18 season has been well documented within the Northern Alberta market. He managed just ten goals and 34 points in a tumultuous 82 games and had brief stints on the third and fourth...
Oilers Goalie Cam Talbot - Bounce Back or Bust
September 2nd, 2018 The stakes for Oilers' goalie Cam Talbot are higher than Edmonton's Stantec Tower, which will be Canada's tallest building outside of Toronto when construction of the skyscraper wraps up this fall. And, if he hopes to appease the Oilers' rabid fanbase and silence his critics, he'll need to stand almost as tall. Coming off his worst...
Predicting Oilers 2018-19 Opening Night Roster: Goalies & Defense
August 22nd, 2018 In 2016-17 the Edmonton Oilers made the playoffs for the first time in 11 years, finished second in the Pacific Division, and came within one win of the Western Conference Final. In 2017-18 they were projected to be Stanley Cup contenders but ultimately missed the playoffs by 17 points. So in 2017-18, the big question is what are the...
5 Predictions for Oilers' 2018-19 Season
August 13th, 2018 It's prediction time, and the thing most fans want to know is whether or not the 2017-18 season was an aberration and if the Edmonton Oilers can get back to the playoffs in 2018-19. For that to happen, a few things need to go their way. The Oilers' roster constructed by general manager Peter Chiarelli is faith-driven. What that means is...
