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This August, Oilersnation will ask one question about every Edmonton Oilers player projected to be on the 2026-27 roster in preparation for the upcoming season. From Connor McDavid to Mattias Janmark, let’s ask some questions. When the Edmonton Oilers acquired Mattias Ekholm ahead of the 2023 Trade Deadline, he completely transformed their blueline and pushed them toward…
There are fans who have watched Edmonton Oilers superstar Connor McDavid for the last 11 seasons and believe that he is the best hockey player they have ever seen. That…
This is the make or break season.
Confidence is low in the Edmonton Oilers front office, according to a public and fan-base-driven poll by The Athletic. How low? The Oilers ranked 27th in the NHL, falling six spots from 2025. The only teams below them were the Columbus Blue Jackets, Los Angeles Kings, Detroit Red Wings, Seattle Kraken, and the New York…
Connor McDavid leads NHL 27 ratings, ahead of Nathan MacKinnon and Nikita Kucherov.
The Edmonton Oilers are feeling the pressure heading into the 2026-27 season in what is another Stanley Cup or bust type of year. With their aging core along with Connor…
Leon Draisaitl is returning home. The Edmonton Oilers are going overseas to Cologne, Germany, to play two games in Leon Draisaitl’s hometown this season. The NHL announced this news on Thursday morning, as part of the Global Series. This is the second time in Draisaitl’s career that the Oilers played in Germany, dating back to…
The Edmonton Oilers and Boston Bruins will play a pair of games in Munich in December.
The hockey-deprived are scrounging social media, watching old highlights, reading lists, and arguing with them twice, trying to find something to feed their fix. For those who follow Gary Roberts Performance on Instagram, well, you got a six-second snippet of Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid doing Connor McDavid things on Wednesday. They released a montage…
The NHL is going to Germany for four regular-season games on the 2027-28 schedule.
Morgan Rielly's name spent much of the summer floating around the trade rumor mill. That chatter has gone almost entirely silent. The San Jose Sharks were rumored to have interest in Rielly earlier this offseason. Instead, San Jose acquired Darnell Nurse from the Edmonton Oilers , removing what had been considered one of the more realistic landing spots for the veteran Toronto defenseman. Why San Jose Made Sense The Sharks were viewed as a logical fit for months. San Jose has been rebuil...
It’s been another boring week around here with the Oilers and NHL at large still right in the middle of the off-season dead zone, but I’ve still got a fresh episode of Better Lait Than Never ready what little has happened anyway. On today’s podcast, I discussed Connor McDavid’s EA Sports ranking, the whining about…
Hall. Omark. Pääjärvi. Eberle. Diehard Oilersnation fans will remember the days of H.O.P.E. and the umpteen references Wanye made about them over the years, but that hope dwindled as time went on. One quarter of that hope was Magnus Pääjärvi, and it was easy to see why. Selected by the Oilers 10th overall in the…
Matvei Petrov will be sticking around in Russia. The former Edmonton Oilers prospect originally signed a professional tryout with Spartak Moscow of the KHL in late July. That PTO has translated to a two-year contract for the 23-year-old, according to multiple sources. He had been offered a qualifying offer by the Oilers at the start…
After the equal parts deserving and headlining announcement that Connor McDavid is the first member of the “99 Club,” EA Sports released more of the Edmonton Oilers players’ ratings. Leon Draisaitl is the fourth-highest-ranked player in the game at 96 overall, behind only Nathan MacKinnon and Nikita Kucherov. That’s the same ranking he had in…
If you’re my age, I’m sure many of you have spoken with someone who experienced the Edmonton Oilers’ Stanley Cup glory days firsthand. Maybe you are that person. Ask them about those powerhouse teams of the ’80s, and when they talk about their favourite players from that time, there’s no shortage to choose from. Players…
There was a time, back when I was producing The Lowdown with Lowetide on TSN 1260, when I would shout “PTO everybody!” My thinking at the time was that the Edmonton Oilers depth was almost always abysmal, and if there was a somewhat decent NHLer out there, why wouldn’t you bring them into camp for…
Fans are waiting patiently for the new season to start up, and with a little over a month left before the 2026-27 regular season gets underway, there are still some…
Where are all my Anton Fanders at? Anton Lander carved out a run of hockey in North America that saw him be a strong contributor to the Edmonton Oilers AHL teams, but never with the big club. He was drafted by the Oilers in the second round of the 2009 draft, and arrived in Edmonton…
Something unique happened to Edmonton Oilers forward Matt Savoie at the end of the 2025-26 NHL season. Before the Feb. 6-24 Olympic break, Savoie was struggling to produce and only…
Expectations for the Edmonton Oilers are high heading into the new season. The disappointment of last season’s first-round exit still looms, plus there’s the lingering question of what the future holds for Connor McDavid. Does another disappointing campaign lead to his departure? Hopefully we don’t find out. While the bulk of the pressure is on…
Last year marked the 30th anniversary of the only time in their long and storied history that the Edmonton Oilers have hosted the NHL’s annual entry draft. On July 8,…
McDavid will carry a 99 rating for NHL 27, becoming the inaugural member of EA Sports’ ’99 Club.’
Welcome to Oilersnation’s countdown of the Top 20 prospects in the Edmonton Oilers system. No. 14 on the top 20 is yet again another defenceman, but this player is newer to the Oilers system, and that’s Zack Sharp. He was acquired alongside Shakir Mukhamadullin in the trade that sent longtime Oiler Darnell Nurse to the…
The recent trade between the Edmonton Oilers and San Jose Sharks involving Darnell Nurse isn’t the first time the two franchises have connected on a deal to swap blue liners.…