Edmonton Oilers center Connor McDavid contributed one goal and four assists in Thursday’s 9-7 win over the Vancouver Canucks at Rogers Arena, splitting their season-opening home-and-home series. Edmonton lost 6-5 in overtime to Vancouver in Tuesday’s opener. While the Oilers walked away with the victory, McDavid made no bones about the need for more consistent […]
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The Calgary Wranglers kick off the 2026-27 season with a home series against the Abbotsford Canucks this weekend. After multiple changes over the off-season, this will be quite a different team this year but some of the core from last year remains. This will start to show how this group works together and what kind…
One of the nice things about having a home-and-home series against the Vancouver Canucks is that round two gave the Oilers a chance to rebound after what was a painful season-opener loss. Edmonton probably played well enough to win, but mistakes and shoddy goaltending were too much to overcome. That made Thursday’s rematch feel a…
The Edmonton Oilers beat the Vancouver Canucks by a score of 9-7 in an absolutely wild game at Rogers Arena on Thursday (Oct. 1). Forward Leon Draisaitl scored twice for…
If you were boxscore-watching Thursday night’s game between the Edmonton Oilers and Vancouver Canucks, you wouldn’t be able to tell that Alberta’s team was short four members of their top-six. In fact, you wouldn’t think they were missing any players, because on a night when the Oilers score nine goals, one would think Ryan Nugent-Hopkins…
Despite losing 9-7 in the home opener Thursday night, it felt like Vancouver emerged from this game in a far happier place than the Edmonton Oilers. Don’t get me wrong, there isn’t a single NHL coach on this planet who is going to enjoy their team giving up 14 goals over the first two games…
When in doubt, outscore your goaltending problems. On Thursday evening, the Edmonton Oilers played their second game of the 2026-27 season, enacting their revenge over the Vancouver Canucks with a 9-7 victory. Let’s take a look at what went on in this one. The game started great for the Oilers, taking a 1-0 lead midway…
Welcome back to Instant Reaction, the series here at CanucksArmy where we give you our instant reaction to tonight’s Vancouver Canucks game and ask our readers to do the same in the comments section below! Lineup DeBrusk-Pettersson-Lekkerimäki Öhgren-Rossi-Boeser O’Connor-Sasson-Karlsson Bains-Cotter-Gallagher Buium-Hronek Oleksiak-Willander EP25-Schenn First Period The Canucks took an early penalty, as Brendan Gallagher was called for tripping. And…
One of the biggest storylines surrounding the Minnesota Wild is the future of defenseman Quinn Hughes, whom they acquired from the Vancouver Canucks in a blockbuster trade last season. Hughes is entering the final year of his contract, which carries a salary-cap hit of just under $8 million. His next deal is expected to be […]
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With the new season upon us, let’s look ahead to the first slate of games for the Edmonton Oilers. They’ve opened their season with a 6-5 overtime loss to the Canucks and will look to get back at them tonight. But after that, they have 13 more games scheduled for October, with seven at home…
The AHL’s Calgary Wranglers have agreed to terms with veteran defenseman Derek Forbort on a professional tryout contract, the club announced Thursday afternoon. Forbort, 34, rejoins the Flames organization after spending the previous two seasons with the Vancouver Canucks. The 6’4″ left-shot defender appeared in the first two games of the 2025-26 regular season with…
A former Vancouver Canucks defenceman has found a new opportunity. According to the Calgary Wranglers’ X account, they have signed defenceman Derek Forbort to an American Hockey League Professional Tryout Contract. Tell a friend to tell a friend, HE'S BAAAACK 🔥 The Wranglers have added former NHLFlames Derek Forbort to the roster on a…
There is no reason the Edmonton Oilers should have a slow start to the season. After a strong first 10 minutes of their season opener, they were sloppy in the final 50 minutes against Vancouver, and it cost them. Tonight will tell us a lot about the psyche and determination of this team. Will they…
As Devon Levi prepares to make his first start for the Edmonton Oilers, the team’s parade to the infirmary continues. Already down top-nine forwards Matt Savoie, Jason Dickinson, and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, on top of Mattias Janmark and Alec Regula, as well as goaltender Freddie Andersen, Zach Hyman is the latest to join the battered and…
The Vancouver Canucks (1-0) play their first home game of the new National Hockey League season tonight, hosting the Edmonton Oilers (0-0-1) at Rogers Arena. The game begins at 7 pm PT. It’s a rematch of Tuesday’s thrilling 6-5 Canucks victory in Edmonton. What we saw #Canucks this morning DeBrusk-EP40-Lekkerimäki Öhgren-Rossi-BoeserO’Connor-Sasson-KarlssonBains-Cotter-Gallagher Buium-HronekOleksiak-WillanderDPetey-Schenn — Jeff Paterson (@patersonjeff)…
Is one game too early to start discussing NHL award races? Undoubtedly it is. Yet after watching the Edmonton Oilers’ season opener on Tuesday, I can’t help but consider the possibility of a Norris Trophy in Evan Bouchard’s future. In their 6-5 overtime loss to the Vancouver Canucks, Bouchard scored the first opening-night hat trick…
A great part of the NHL is that you typically don’t have much time to worry about what happened in the last game. You’re back in the saddle and straight back into battle. After suffering a frustrating loss to the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday, the Edmonton Oilers head west to take on those same Canucks…
The Vancouver Canucks couldn’t have scripted a stranger opening night on Tuesday. They blew a 5-2 lead against the Edmonton Oilers, watched Evan Bouchard score five points, including a hat…
The Vancouver Canucks are indisputably in a rebuild right now. They’ve announced the rebuild, they’ve committed to the rebuild, and they’re doing the rebuild. And with said rebuild seeming to have officially begun with the January 2026 trade of Quinn Hughes to the Minnesota Wild, that makes this current 2026-27 campaign the first full season…
The Edmonton Oilers have made several roster moves ahead of Thursday night’s rematch with the Vancouver Canucks. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, who did not play in the season opener, was officially placed on injured reserve. In response, the Oilers have recalled Josh Samanski under emergency conditions, who was the last cut from the team in training camp….
Well, that didn’t go well. Tristan Jarry had a less-than-stellar performance in the season opener against the Vancouver Canucks. He let in six goals on 23 shots, finishing with a -3.51 goals-saved below expected. Edmonton dominated the game and should have won easily, but they needed a couple of key saves in the third period….
One question from the Vancouver Canucks’ season-opening press conference in Penticton deserves more attention than it received. Ryan Johnson, Manny Malhotra and the Sedin twins were asked about what role Brock Boeser can play as the team moves through its rebuild. It is a reasonable question, especially considering how quickly Boeser has faded into…
Optimism met by immediate crashing doubt, cursing replaced with cheering, then cursing again, a resting heartbeat sent racing for the first time in months — the Edmonton Oilers and their specific brand of emotional manipulation were back in full force in Tuesday’s home opener. Six goals allowed on just eight high-danger chances against in a…
Edmonton Oilers defenseman Evan Bouchard started off the 2026-27 season with a historic performance. Could the 26-year-old's five-point effort against the Vancouver Canucks be a sign of greater things to come?
Welcome back to WDYTT, the only hockey column on the internet where the content is random, but the acronyms stay consistent. Speaking of random, we’re looking for a little more of that today. One of the problems with a weekly call-and-response column is that asking any question inherently limits the answers. That’s become especially…