It came as a bit of a surprise on Thursday that the USHL will be making an announcement on June 24 about expansion into California, Nevada, and Arizona. We know that all the junior hockey leagues are looking to expand their footprints on the North Ameican map - sometimes with teams switching leagues to do so - but expansion by the USHL into these three states is a big move for a league that's generally only had games played in the US midwest. For a league whose furthest southwest team was in K...
Three games in, and this year’s Stanley Cup final is on track to achieve all-time classic status. And while we’ve still got what we hope are four games left to go, the action so far has got me thinking about great playoff series through NHL history. Let’s start with a question: How many different ways are there to win a playoff series? There are a few ways to answer that question. We could go existential and say the answer is “an infinite number of way”, because of every series is a unique sno...
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It’s time to dig into this week’s Letters to the Editor. Want to join in the fun? Details about how to reach out are at the bottom of the article. Dylan Larkin, future Edmonton Oiler? “The more you win, the more you want to win.” Larry Ellison said this in an interview with Charlie Rose,…
On the first anniversary of the most gut-wrenching Edmonton Oilers loss I’d ever seen in person – the Brad Marchand double overtime game-winner of Game 2 – I couldn’t help but put myself in a Carolina Hurricanes fan’s shoes watching that spectacle last night. Back on June 6, 2025, it was the only time in…
It's hard for me to sit here and read through the Dallas Stars' proposed plan for a new arena and not be angered by what they're doing. I will, in no way, be affected by the decisions that the Stars and the poltiicians in and around Dallas make, but it seems that their official colour of Victory Green should be renamed to Greedy Green based on their new arena idea. After all the bad press they took over Kenny Jacoby's USA Today article that exposed the Stars' efforts to create an arena monopol...
If there's one thing that I realize as I get older, it's that time is a finite resource. People always tell me that I could "make time" if I really wanted to, and I'm sure that's true if I simply didn't care about obligations and responsibilities. Tonight will be the third-straight night of me working all day at my normal full-time job before heading to the ballpark for some minor-pro baseball which will see me arrive at home some 14 hours after I left this morning. This schedule will continue...
NHL teams and private analytics companies track an enormous range of detailed, event‑level data, such as zone entries, zone exits, puck retrievals, blocked passes, and far more. These sorts of metrics are what we can call “microstats,” which help us understand how and why a player or team achieves their given macro-level results. Inside NHL…
The NHL announced early Saturday morning that Connor McDavid has been named the 2025-26 Ted Lindsay Award winner, marking the fifth time the Edmonton Oilers captain has been voted by his peers as the best player in the NHL. And while I’d love to pretend there’s some big surprise here, there really isn’t, nor should…
One thing that the two teams competing in this year’s Stanley Cup Final have is that neither one has any dead cap space on its books. No buyouts. No retained salaries. Nothing. A clean sheet. If you head over to the Edmonton Oilers PuckPedia page and scroll down a little bit, your eyes will eventually…
VEGAS — You know a hockey game has been good when you can ask the question, “Which of the three NHL records was your favourite?” The hockey world was treated to another classic in the 2026 Stanley Cup final as the Vegas Golden Knights and Carolina Hurricanes battled it out in Game 3 of the…
Kris Knoblauch was relieved of his duties as Edmonton Oilers coach on May 14, and the organization is three weeks and counting into a search for the next bench boss. It’s the longest stretch in over a decade that the Oilers haven’t had a head coach, the last public headhunt being when Ken Holland was…
Mike Mcintyre of the Freep joined the Buffalo based show to talk about 37.
Oilersnation is reviving the Top 100 Edmonton Oilers of All Time list, a project originally created by the late Robin Brownlee in 2015. Jordan Eberle comes in at No. 28 on our updated 2025 list. He was ranked No. 35 on Brownlee’s original list. Before the days of Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl, the superstars of…
Welcome to Oilersnation’s annual player review series, where we dive into the Edmonton Oilers season player by player. We’ll look back at the season that was, what kind of impact each player had, and what we could see from them next season. You can read about the analytics behind my analysis here. When the Oilers traded for Mattias…
Guests: Sean Reynolds of Sportsnet and former NHLer Mike Commodore.
Darnell Nurse was upset that the news got out last off-season that the Edmonton Oilers had asked him to waive his no-move clause, according to Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman. General manager Stan Bowman is set to meet with Nurse in the coming days, according to Spector, and he is “ready and willing to trade Nurse as soon…
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The NCAA, two weeks after seeming to reject the concept, has amended its new age eligibility proposal and embraced a counter-proposal forwarded by college hockey officials. The counter-proposal, which is for all sports, helps maintain college hockey's existing ecosystem.Currently, college hockey operated under "delayed enrollment" rules, which allowed for players entering at 20 or 21 to maintain ...
It’s Friday afternoon, which means a fresh episode of Oilersnation Radio is ready to massage your eardrums with an hour of off-season Oilers talk. On today’s podcast, the fellas discussed the Darnell Nurse rumours, free agency, the Stanley Cup Final, line combinations, and more. We kicked off the Friday episode of ONR with a delicious…
Montreal Canadiens captain Nick Suzuki has won the 2025-26 Frank J. Selke Trophy, awarded to the NHL’s best defensive forward, the NHL announced Friday morning. Suzuki edged out fellow nominees Anthony Cirelli of the Tampa Bay Lightning and Brock Nelson of the Colorado Avalanche for the honour. This marks the eighth time a Canadiens player…
How did it come to this for Darnell Nurse and the Edmonton Oilers? Since Sportsnet’s Mark Spector sounded the train whistle to whisk the career Oiler out of town, it’s more of a reality than ever that Nurse has played his last game with the team that drafted him. When I think back to the…
There’s no hiding the fact that Bruce Cassidy is the guy the Edmonton Oilers want behind their bench as soon as possible. The Oilers have waited patiently to get permission to interview the former Vegas Golden Knights bench boss since at least when the news leaked on May 12. Vegas seemingly doesn’t want to play…
The idea of the Edmonton Oilers trading Darnell Nurse is no longer just speculation; it’s now a question of when, not if. According to Sportsnet’s Mark Spector, the Oilers are set to approach Nurse “in the coming days about his wishes” and that the team “are ready and willing to trade Nurse as soon as…
As Jeff Petry’s career winds down, it’s getting harder and harder to remember him in the orange and blue. Sure, there are more forgettable Edmonton Oilers in the Decade of Darkness, but the lone Petry game that I personally remember is when he scored a goal in a game against the Detroit Red Wings. Unfortunately,…