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The Rundown - Week 4

It's had to believe that some teams will have played more than one-quarter of their seasons after this week, but that's how Canada West hockey works. With the UBC Thunderbirds taking a week off to prepare for next week's games, the remaining eight teams trying to hunt down the conference leaders were in action as games were played in three of the four provinces. We even had Calgary and Alberta tangle on CBC as six of nine Canada West cities had games played in those rinks. Who won, who lost, a...

Pre-Scout: Canucks couldn’t hang with Oilers in first meeting

Both the Edmonton Oilers and the Vancouver Canucks will be coming off Saturday night losses when they converge tonight for their second matchup of the season. The Canucks had a 2-0 lead into the latter stages of the second period, before a collapse. Vancouver surrendered four unanswered goals and dropped a 4-3 defeat at the…

The Day After 9.0: Oilers scoring struggles stay in the spotlight

The Edmonton Oilers took some steps in the right direction Saturday night. The good: They outshot the Seattle Kraken 33-23, with a +10 shot differential, their highest since Game 2 of the season against the Vancouver Canucks. The not-so-good: Too few of those pucks went into the Kraken net. The bad: Off the back of…

There Was Hockey Tonight?

If hockey was played at any level tonight, I wasn't watching. A bad case of Blue Jays Fever has set in at HBIC Headquarters, and their battle against the Los Angeles Dodgers tonight was the only game I was watching. Call me out for my lack of hockey passion on this one, but Canada's only Major League Baseball team being in the World Series on Canadian soil playing against a team that has been portrayed as "invincible" in the postseason is must-watch television for me. Combine that with the fac...

Looking at potential options if the Oilers decide to trade for a goalie

The conversation surrounding the Edmonton Oilers and their goaltending never seems to go away. While the Oilers have gotten off to another ho-hum start at 4-3-1, the issue has been more due to their offense than their goaltending. But, we’ve all seen how the combination of Stuart Skinner and Calvin Pickard has held the Oilers…

Identities Matter

Choosing a team name for an expansion franchise usually happens before jerseys are debuted in order to have the franchise's new logo based on the name affixed to said jerseys. As we know, the PWHL didn't do that with their first six franchises, waiting over a year to actually attach names to those teams. The six names chosen still seem rather ridiculous, but the PWHL made it through Year Two as the Minnesota Frost celebrated their second Walter Cup victory over the Ottawa Charge. Knowing two e...

NHL Notebook: Golden Knights place Mark Stone on LTIR

On Thursday, the Vegas Golden Knights announced they have placed team captain Mark Stone on LTIR. The 33-year-old forward is currently recovering from a wrist injury, exiting a contest against the Calgary Flames last Saturday shortly after scoring his second of the game. The injury appeared to have initially happened against the Boston Bruins two…