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Oilers 2026-27 pre-season schedule gets underway Sept. 19
Save the date! The Edmonton Oilers have announced their 2026-27 pre-season schedule. The puck will drop at Rogers Place on Saturday, September 19, at 6 PM MST against the Winnipeg Jets in their first of four pre-season games. Here are the dates, with time listed in MST: Saturday, Sept. 19 — Winnipeg @ Edmonton, 6…
Oilers free agent targets: Ilya Mikheyev could add speed and scoring
The 2025-26 NHL campaign is officially a wrap, and the offseason is about to ramp up as teams look to improve their rosters in an attempt to unseat the newly crowned Stanley Cup champions, the Carolina Hurricanes. And with the way the Edmonton Oilers have been hogging the hockey headlines lately, expect them to explore…
Winnipeg Jets 2026-27 preseason schedule
The NHL has moved to just four exhibition games rather than six.
Random Thoughts: The Oilers offseason, rumours, and bloggers getting Cup rings
The Stanley Cup has been handed out, we’re just under two weeks out from the NHL Draft, and that gave me a minute to put a few Random Thoughts together about our beloved Edmonton Oilers. Even though it’s been months since they got knocked out of the playoffs, it’s been anything but boring around here….
Did the Hurricanes just become the best team with no Hall-of-Famers in NHL history?
This week is always a weird time on the NHL calendar. The Stanley Cup final has just ended, and everyone is trying to catch their breath before the offseason truly gets going. The draft, trade rumors, and UFA boards are all happening against the backdrop of Cup parties and parades. But we’re also just days away from the announcement of this year’s Hockey Hall of Fame class, which comes Monday. That timing always struck me as a bit odd, since what should be a huge announcement ends up being ove...
Why buyouts aren’t a viable option for the Oilers this summer
Just 48 hours after the Carolina Hurricanes won the Stanley Cup on Sunday night, the first milestone of the offseason has arrived: the NHL’s buyout window. PuckPedia describes buyouts as “a mechanism that allows a team to end a player’s contract early by paying a portion of the remaining value over a period that is…
Winnipeg Jets Morning Papers: Today’s Hockey Headlines | June 17, 2026
A daily roundup of Jets, Moose coverage — all the pro hockey news that matters in Manitoba and beyond.
NHL Notebook: Torts out in Vegas; Woll traded to Flyers
More coaching shake-ups are occurring around the league, as John Tortorella is officially out for the Vegas Golden Knights. The team is expected to promote Ryan Craig, according to The Fourth Period’s David Pagnotta. Vegas announces John Tortorella won’t be back as head coach next season — David Pagnotta (@TheFourthPeriod) June 16, 2026 Craig has…
It's Just Business, Right?
The announcement today was certainly a long-time coming, but it was still unexpected in its arrival. The costs of broadcasting NHL hockey have risen beyond any sort of comprehensible amount of money that you and I will ever know, and CBC's involvement in the game that they helped to popularize, to curate, and to advance was already done outside of a sublicensing agreement from Rogers Sportsnet that was, at best, a charitable offering to keep the public broadcaster involved. Yes, the CBC showed...
Hockey Night in Canada leaving CBC after historic run
A near-century-long Saturday night staple for hockey fans of Hockey Night in Canada has come to an end. Sportsnet and CBC released a joint statement revealing that the public broadcaster will no longer be airing NHL games on Saturday night. While the Hockey Night in Canada moniker will come to an end, Sportsnet will continue airing games on…
10 Thoughts: Oilers coaching search, NHL trade rumours, and Stanley Cup aftermath
The 2026 season is over. The Carolina Hurricanes are the champions, and now teams will buckle down and start preparing for next season. The NHL entry draft begins in 10 days, and free agency starts in 15 days. The first buyout window opens later tonight, and teams have 14 days to decide which players they…
Shane Malloy talks 2026 NHL Draft and potential options for the Winnipeg Jets at 8th overall
With the NHL Draft fast approaching get more insight into a potential Winnipeg target at 8.
Will hiring Mike Babcock hurt the Oilers in free agency?
What’s going through Connor Murphy’s head right now? What is Jason Dickinson thinking about? Or Kasperi Kapanen? What do these pending free agents think about the Edmonton Oilers coaching search? Do they share the vocal majority’s opinion on Mike Babcock? Of course, I’d just be guessing. Surprise? Frustration? Or is there excitement and enthusiasm, like…
TSN | Key priorities for the Winnipeg Jets off-season
Hockey analyst Frankie Corrado joined SC with Jay Onrait to discuss.
Remembering the 10 biggest controversies from the 2026 playoffs
The NHL playoffs are over, and they were controversial because they always are. But just how controversial did the 2026 postseason get? After all, every NHL postseason has its share of controversial moments. But some are more memorable than others, and some have a staying power that can last decades or more. Whether it’s missed calls by Leon Stickle or Kerry Fraser, Brett Hull’s goal that counted or Martin Gelenias’ that didn’t, some moments become part of hockey’s permanent lore. Others will ...
As trade rumours swirl, Oilers should be all over Senators’ Jordan Spence
If the Edmonton Oilers want to continue to build towards the future by acquiring young talent who could make an impact, they should look no further than Ottawa Senators defenceman Jordan Spence. Oilers fans will know the name well, as he spent his first four NHL seasons with the Los Angeles Kings, playing 13 playoff…
NHL Notebook: Jordan Staal becomes the oldest Conn Smythe winner
Jordan Staal won the biggest trophy in hockey Sunday night, along with it, securing another prestigious piece of hardware: the Conn Smythe Trophy. “Good time to get hot, hey,” he told Sportsnet’s Kyle Bukauskas when asked about winning the award that’s handed to the most valuable player in the playoffs. “I just wanted to win…
Winnipeg Jets Morning Papers: Today’s Hockey Headlines | June 16, 2026
A daily roundup of Jets, Moose coverage — all the pro hockey news that matters in Manitoba and beyond.
Oilers Notebook: Could the team approach John Tortorella for coaching job?
John Tortorella might not be the Edmonton Oilers’ first choice out of Vegas Golden Knights’ head coaches. But with Bruce Cassidy’s status unknown and the perceived legal ability for Vegas to deny permission, would Edmonton consider Tortorella? Many people believe the Golden Knights’ plan is to promote Ryan Craig, head coach of their AHL team…
Oilers player agents concerned as NHL begins Babcock investigation
The NHL will officially begin an investigation into Mike Babcock and whether the league takes issue with the Edmonton Oilers hiring him to be their next coach, Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman reported Monday. In a Sportsnet article, Friedman says multiple parties will be interviewed during the investigation into the events in Columbus from 2023, which led to his…
Replacing Darnell Nurse: 3 free-agent defencemen the Oilers could target
If the Edmonton Oilers are successful in their goal of trading Darnell Nurse ahead of next season, the team is going to have to figure out how to replace his minutes. One of Nurse’s strengths has been his ability to remain healthy, and munch minutes for the Oilers. He averaged 20:58 this season, his fewest…
‘Give him his flowers’: Oilers fans celebrate Taylor Hall’s Stanley Cup victory
In 2010, when the Edmonton Oilers selected Taylor Hall first overall, there was hope amongst Oilers fans that he would be the one to lead the franchise back to the promised land. Unfortunately, Hall never got the chance to see it through with Edmonton and didn’t even get to dress for a playoff game. His…
TBC: Home And Away
If there's one thing that will always remain as a constant in my life, it's my undying, unwavering support for anything that goes against the Toronto Maple Leafs. As long as the Leafs continue their streak of not capturing the Stanley Cup nor appearing in a Stanley Cup Final, I will remain fairly content in my pursuits of hockey stories. To this degree, it would should be weird to some that I would voluntarily pick up a book that's primarily about one player's career wearing the Maple Leafs lo...
‘If anyone deserves to win the Stanley Cup, it’s him’: Taylor Hall’s high praise for Oilers’ McDavid
When the Edmonton Oilers drafted Connor McDavid first overall in 2015, he was able to join a team that already had a deep forward group. Leon Draisaitl was coming off his first full season in the league, unbeknownst to anyone the offensive ceiling he would hit in his years that followed. Jordan Eberle, at 24,…
The Biggest Storm Surge
While I legitimately had no team in the Stenley Cup Final I wanted to see win, there was a team that I definintely didn't want to see win. That made me a Carolina Hurricanes fan by proxy, and the Hurricanes showed everyone that they were for real this year with a convincing 3-0 win tonight to capture the Stanley Cup in six games over the Vegas Golden Knights. After running into and being bullied by the Florida Panthers in the Eastern Conference Final the last few years, the Hurricanes showed t...
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