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The Edmonton Oilers and their busy day of moves continued on Wednesday. Defenceman Alec Regula has been loaned to the Bakersfield Condors of the AHL on a conditioning stint, according to the Edmonton Oilers. Regula has played 29 games this season, pitching in three assists along the way. After playing often in the early part…
As the Edmonton Oilers players returned to practice for the first time in two weeks on Wednesday, they were met beforehand with big news behind their bench. Paul Coffey is coming back to the bench as an assistant coach and will run the defence corps, as he did the past two seasons. Mark Stuart will…
The prayers of many Oilers fans have been answered. In the middle of an intense quarterfinal between Canada and Czechia on Wednesday morning, the Edmonton Oilers announced the return of Paul Coffey to the team’s coaching staff. Given how Edmonton’s season has unfolded, some fans have believed they’ve missed Coffey’s presence on the bench. The…
For those concerned about Team Canada not having any adversity so far in the Olympics, you got it. Exhale. Connor McDavid and Team Canada survive and advance as Mitch Marner scored 1:22 into 3-on-3 overtime to complete the comeback and defeat Czechia 4-3 in a tense, thrilling, and dramatic hockey game. Canada will advance to…
The Edmonton Oilers are bringing Paul Coffey back to their coaching staff. Rumours began to swirl ahead of the Olympic break about Coffey’s potential return, but they seemed to be just that. Until Wednesday, that is, when the team announced the move. Paul Coffey is returning to the #Oilers coaching staff. https://t.co/A8ekYJUdwr — Edmonton Oilers…
The mini training camp continues with a second straight day on the ice for the Jets.
Germany’s hunt for Olympic glory has come to an end. They squared up against Slovakia in the quarterfinals on Wednesday, falling 6-2, where Edmonton Oilers players Leon Draisaitl and Josh Samanski were largely held in check. Slovakia got a 1-0 lead with less than two minutes to go in the first period, and never looked…
It was another home-and-home matchup in the extremely tight Pacific between the Bakersfield Condors and the San Diego Gulls this weekend. After splitting the two games, the Condors and Gulls remain six points apart, with San Diego having two games in hand. This opens up a bigger conversation about how close the Pacific division is…
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When the puck hits the ice hours from now for Canada’s quarterfinal matchup against Czechia, the narrative story practically writes itself. It’s the top-seeded Canadians vs. the eighth-seeded Czechs, who survived the qualifying round and eeked out a 3-2 win over Denmark Tuesday morning. Canada has earned the right to call it an easy game,…
Brown has narrowed its coaching choices to four, according to Providence hockey reporter Mark Divver.According to his report, Brown is zeroing in on Dartmouth assistant Jason Tapp; Brown alum Scott Ford, who is an assistant coach in the NHL with Columbus; Tommy Upton, an assistant at Massachusetts; and Arizona State assistant Dana Borges.Current Brown coach Brendan Whittet announced he was stepping...
With four regular-season games left before the CCHA’s Mason Cup Playoffs, the Minnesota State Mavericks sit on the outside looking in at home-ice advantage.For Minnesota State, a program that has won the conference three times since the CCHA reformed in 2021-22, finishing outside of the top four would be something unfamiliar. A 16-9-5 record has the Mavericks sitting at 41 points, where they slimly...
Liam Valente put up 20 points over his two seasons at Providence, as the Swedish forward skated in 59 games for the Friars.Valente committed to Providence relatively late in the game and had never previously considered college hockey. However, one of his best friends and childhood teammates – Philip Svedebäck – was a Providence commit, and the Friars expressed interest in the left-shot forward...
Update from the bench boss on the trio of injured Dmen.
Canada breezed through the preliminary round, going 3-0, outscoring Czechia, Switzerland and France 20-3 and outshooting them 121-65. They were expected to dominate, and they did, but now they enter the playoff round and another date with Czechia. The Czechs defeated Denmark 3-2 yesterday, and they will be looking for a better performance than their…
Didn’t we just see this game? We sure did. Team Canada is facing Czechia in the quarterfinals, just six days after the lidlifter in these Olympics to begin group play, a game Canada controlled in a 5-0 shutout win. The Czechs have dangerous players on their team. The issue is, so far, they aren’t playing…
It’s Tuesday afternoon, and there’s a fresh episode of Oilersnation Radio set, which means the boys were back in the studio to recap the week that was. On today’s episode, the guys discussed Team Canada vs. Team Czechia, Connor McDavid’s success at the games, the State of the Nation survey results, and much more. We…
We’re entering crunch time at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina. With the qualification round complete, the men’s tournament is down to its final eight teams, who will square off in Wednesday’s quarterfinals. On the women’s side, the sport’s two heavyweights have once again emerged, as Canada and the United States advanced to Thursday’s gold…
Back to the Condors? The Edmonton Oilers loaned forward Matt Savoie to the Bakersfield Condors on Tuesday afternoon. The Oilers’ rookie forward has been up with the NHL club since the beginning of the season, scoring nine goals and 18 points this season. He’s played all 58 games. Bob Stauffer of 880 CHED says this…
It's almost like day 1 of a mini training camp during the Olympic break.
It looks like the team without the longest active playoff streak will miss the playoffs in 2025-26. Who knew that losing a superstar winger like Mitch Marner would set back the Toronto Maple Leafs as much as it would? After being bounced in Game 7 in the second round to the Florida Panthers, the Maple…
Despite the logic of having a third BC-based university hockey program under Canada West's watch, the dream of seeing the Simon Fraser University Red Leafs make the jump to U SPORTS hockey is now dead-on-arrival with the news that was reported yesterday. I know that SFU is experiencing a "tightening of the purse strings" like most of the big universities across Canada, but the men's at-large hockey program that played against both U SPORTS and NCAA competitors whenever possible is officially b...
Latest from practice on the AHL club of Manitoba.
A number of transactions made this morning.
We asked. You answered. We at Oilersnation are pleased to report the significant feedback we received from our State of the Nation poll that asked you about the burning questions surrounding the Edmonton Oilers. In fact, a total of 1,778 of you filled out our survey. That’s more than the Angus Reid Institute uses to…