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Why the Oilers should take Anaheim’s strong start seriously
The Anaheim Ducks are off to a scorching-hot start this season, with an 11-6-1 record. They look like a legitimate threat to the Edmonton Oilers in the Pacific Division race for the first time in nearly a decade. Is their early run of success sustainable, or are they just a young team overperforming? PDO measures…
NHL Notebook: Adrian Kempe signs eight-year contract extension with Kings
Another one of the big-name potential unrestricted free agents was taken off the board. On Sunday, the Los Angeles Kings signed forward Adrian Kempe to an eight-year contract extension. The deal, worth a total of $85 million, will carry an AAV of $10.625 million through the 2033-34 season. At one point, Kempe was considered a hot…
GDB 21.0: Oilers Want a Better Second Quarter (5 PM, SNW)
The Edmonton Oilers, Boston Bruins and Vancouver Canucks each play their 21st games of the season tonight, the most in the NHL, and after this coming Saturday’s game in Florida, the Oilers will be the only team to have played 24 games. They’ve had a busy schedule, and their first quarter was average. They went…
Winnipeg Jets Practice Report
The Jets get set for three games at home with a practice.
Scenes From Morning Skate: Why Buffalo is must-win for Matt Savoie
The Edmonton Oilers face the Buffalo Sabres on Monday night at KeyBank Center, and this one’s personal. Not for the organization, not for the coaching staff, but for Matt Savoie—the young forward who gets to show his former team exactly what they traded away. Let’s be honest about the Ryan McLeod trade. When CEO/at-the-time acting…
Pre-Scout: Refuse the temptation to take the Buffalo Sabres lightly
If there is a “trap” game for the Edmonton Oilers on this road trip, it’s this one on Monday night against the Buffalo Sabres. Why? Because the Buffalo Sabres don’t exactly command your full attention. Their rebuild has been the stuff that scares owner and management groups from ever rebuilding, as they are tied with…
The Edmonton Oilers and their Plus-Minus Problem
The man in the picture is Andrew Mangiapane, and I will get to why that is later. Remember when I mentioned that the Oilers have one of the worst goals against totals in the entire league so far this season? I thought it would be worth diving deeper into that. Right now, the Oilers have…
Oilers Thoughts: Hyman’s hits, Howard’s AHL impact, goodbye Stecher, and more
The Edmonton Oilers are approaching the midpoint of their seven-game road trip, and with two wins in their last three games, that’s quite alright in the eyes of Oilers fans for a team that’s struggled with consistency this season and on the current trip. Zach Hyman’s return to the lineup gave the club a nice…
Former Oiler could be best realistic option to solve goaltending woes
The Edmonton Oilers’ need for a new netminder tandem continues. There is a solution that doesn’t involve trading Stuart Skinner. Admittedly, the hometown goaltender has been okay this season, posting an .891 save percentage and 2.77 goals against average in 14 games. Among netminders with 14 or more games played, Skinner’s 2.7 Goals Saved Above…
Monday Mailbag: Do the Oilers do enough to protect Connor McDavid?
Good morning, everyone, and a happy Monday to you all. As per tradition, I’ve got a brand new mailbag set to go after taking your questions and sending them to the crew for their takes. This week, we’re discussing if the Oilers protect Connor McDavid enough, the tight NHL standings, Ken Holland vs. Stan Bowman,…
NHL weekend rankings: These teams are who we thought they were (maybe)
The biggest story through the season’s first month or so was that nobody knew anything. OK, sure, there were a few teams that stuck to the script. The Avs were good. The Predators were bad. But in between, it was chaos. Teams that nobody thought would be all that good were dominating. Teams we thought would be terrible were competitive, or better. And so many presumed contenders were struggling that you could barely hear the goal horns over the sounds of all the windows slamming shut. It seeme...
Winnipeg Jets Morning Papers
Keeping you up-to-date with all the latest pro hockey news in Manitoba.
Eberly Giving Ohio State What it Needs in Net
Kristoffer Eberly never intended to put on a set of goalie pads when he started playing hockey at 7 years old. In his first season of youth hockey, back in his home state of Michigan in a house league, the team didn’t have a designated individual guarding the cage...
The Rundown - Week 7
It's a quieter week than what we normally see as the Alberta Pandas, the Saskatachewan Huskies, and the Manitoba Bisons are all on a bye week for various university-related reasons, but we still had six teams seeking points to improve their chances at a playoff spot this season. Honestly, it's weird knowing that both Saskatchewan and Manitoba have four games in-hand on the Calgary Dinos within the same division, but I'm not in charge of the Canada West schedule. Let's check out the six teams t...
Today In NHL History - Pettersson Injures Calvert
On November 16th in 2019, Colorado Avalanche winger Matt Calvert took an Elias Pettersson wrist shot to the head. Clearly bloodied and injured by the puck, Pettersson paused and alerted the referees in an effort to stop play.The officials ignored Pettersson's plea and twelve long seconds later Alex Edler scored, pulling the Vancouver Canucks within one goal with less than three minutes to
Today In NHL History - Patrick Roy Dekes Gretzky
On November 16th in 1997, trailing by three goals with 3:30 remaining in the third period of a matinee at MSG, Colorado Avalanche goaltender Patrick Roy elected to skate the puck up the ice stickhandling past Wayne Gretzky before crossing center ice where #33 was whistled by referee Paul Devorski.The unorthodox adventure greatly amused MSG color commentator and former
Today In NHL History - First European Referee
On November 16th in 2010, Marcus Vinnerborg became the first European born referee to officiate a NHL game. The milestone was made in the Lone Star State during a midweek Pacific Division matchup between the Anaheim Ducks and Dallas Stars. Find full video highlights here. Director of Officiating Terry Gregson elected to add the overseas outsider to the NHL's zeal of zebra six months earlier
Monotony of Success – Part 2: How do the Oilers compare to others who reached back-to-back Stanley Cup Finals?
In Part 1, I talked about why I decided to compare the 2025-26 Edmonton Oilers to the nine teams post-1990 that attempted to make the Stanley Cup Final for a third straight year. For more background and other notes, including just how bloody hard it is, read it here. This list compares Edmonton’s start through…
Top 100 Oilers: No. 63 — Mike Grier
Oilersnation is reviving the Top 100 Edmonton Oilers of All Time list, a project originally created by the late Robin Brownlee in 2015. Mike Grier comes in at No. 63 on our updated 2025 list. He was ranked No. 49 on Brownlee’s original list. Against so many odds, Mike Grier had quite the career. He…
Zach Hyman and what true leadership looks like
Zach Hyman isn’t wearing a letter on his jersey (yet). He’s not the one giving postgame speeches or handling media responsibilities when things go wrong. But what he brings to the Edmonton Oilers goes beyond any official leadership designation. It’s the kind of leadership that shows up in how other players compete when he’s in…
Winnipeg Jets prospect Garrett Brown injury update: stretchered off ice, taken to hospital, released and returns after game
Good news for the 21-year-old defenseman.
Monotony of Success – Part 1: Why can’t the Oilers start their season on the right foot?
Typically, in the Sunday Scramble, I take a ripped-from-the-headlines approach to the hot topics across the hockey world. But this week I’ve been thinking about history and how it applies to this version of the Edmonton Oilers. Can we really expect this team to start well? They never seem to do so anyway, but what…
Digging into why Edmonton’s offence has been underwhelming at even strength
At the 20-game mark of the 2025-26 NHL season, the Edmonton Oilers have a record of 9-7-4. Overall, it is well below the expectations for this team. On the one hand, underwhelming starts are far from a new phenomenon for Edmonton. After all, they had a horrific record of 2-9-1 to start 2023-24, just two…
Oilers pull off the rope-a-dope, Zach Hyman human wrecking ball, and a big night for Stuart Skinner
The Oilers rolled into Carolina on Saturday looking for a response after a sloppy loss in Columbus, and the big question I had was whether they could take advantage of a Hurricanes team playing the second half of a back-to-back. This was a test of urgency as much as execution against a very detailed hockey…
The Day After 20.0: Bend, don’t break as Hyman’s return lifts Oilers over Hurricanes
Stops in Raleigh are never easy. For many Edmonton Oilers fans, it invokes unpleasant memories from the 2006 Stanley Cup Final. And while that may be almost 20 years in the past, recent trips to visit the Carolina Hurricanes haven’t always been fun. In the Connor McDavid era, the Oilers had gone 3-6 in their…
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