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The Oilers need to be willing to give their young players more opportunity

The Edmonton Oilers remain among the older teams in the NHL. In fact, in 2024-25, they were the oldest team in the league. Their aging roster can be attributed to a variety of different factors, such as the frequent trading of draft picks during cup contention years, debatable drafting decisions with the picks they did…

4 months ago | 4 reads

The First To Take Flight

There was a pile of excitement in Greenboro, North Carolina tonight as the ECHL's 2025-26 expansion franchise opened the season. The Greenboro Gargoyles were hosting the Jacksonville Icemen tonight as they began writing their history in the ECHL, and there was obvious hope that the home team would send the fans home with a celebrated and historic win. That would also mean that the team had to score some goals, so the opportunity to write one's name into the Gargoyles' history was waiting for s...

4 months ago | 1 read

Holy Shooting Gallery, Batman!

Canada West men's hockey is one of those sports where there are different levels for teams based on how aggressively they recruit, their own expectations for their season, and the people running the programs. We've seen the Alberta Golden Bears hold a standard that few teams could meet, but the recent emergence of the Saskatchewan Huskies, the Calgary Dinos, and the Mount Royal Cougars gave brought a little more parity to the conference. Tonight, though, the Huskies reminded everyone why they'...

4 months ago | 0 reads

Pickard starts, Howard sits, and Lazar debuts as Oilers face Devils

The Edmonton Oilers are going with Calvin Pickard between the pipes for Saturday’s matinee against the New Jersey Devils. It wasn’t the only notable change in the Oilers’ lineup, as rookie forward Issac Howard will watch the game from the press box, allowing Curtis Lazar to make his team debut against his former club. Lazar,…

4 months ago | 8 reads

Does Adrian Kempe make sense as a target for the Oilers?

Ever since Connor McDavid announced his two-year contract extension worth just $12.5 million per season, social media has been ablaze with discussion on how the Oilers will spend the extra cap space at their disposal this summer. Last week, amidst the Buffalo Sabres’ disastrous start, names like Alex Tuch and Tage Thompson started to pop…

4 months ago | 5 reads

Top 100 Oilers: No. 69 — Vincent Damphousse

Oilersnation is reviving the Top 100 Edmonton Oilers of All Time list, a project originally created by the late Robin Brownlee in 2015. Vincent Damphousse comes in at No. 69 on our updated 2025 list. He was ranked No. 56 on Brownlee’s original list. Vincent Damphousse may be one of the most under-discussed top players of…

4 months ago | 3 reads

How Did Rockford Get That Name?

Cities across the map have acquired unofficial names over the course of time. As we know, Las Vegas is affectionately known as Sin City, New York owns The Big Apple, and a pile of cities are called Queen City including all of Regina, Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal. No one, though, seems to have the moniker that the Rockford IceHogs use for their alternate jersey as seen to the left. Those jerseys are known as the "Screw City" jerseys, amd that's a heckuva name for any city to have. Let's fin...

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4 months ago | 0 reads

Oilers Thoughts: Missing Hyman, Howard’s Reset, and a Plea to McDavid

The Oilers’ first road swing gave us a bit of everything — a power play without bite, a rookie still finding his place, and a few questionable lineup calls. There’s plenty to like and plenty to fix, but one thing’s clear: this team misses Zach Hyman. Missing Hyman Without Zach Hyman, the Oilers’ power play…

4 months ago | 2 reads