Author: Stephen Vani

Oilers fan in Toronto. Staying up past my bedtime for Western games since the mid 2000s.

WHL Prospect Signs With Edmonton Oilers

A couple of hours before Thursday night’s game against the Buffalo Sabres, the Edmonton Oilers signed 20-year-old undrafted forward prospect James Stefan to a three-year entry-level contract. A right winger, the Laguna Beach native has played 5 seasons in the WHL with the Portland Winterhawks, recording 254 points in 251 games. Of the 48 goals […]

NHL Game Preview: Edmonton Oilers vs. Buffalo Sabres | 03/21/2024

It’s not the cleanest way to win a hockey game, but Edmonton will take it. Give the Canadiens credit for battling back in the third period. They wanted to show a high level of effort for head coach Martin St. Louis, who recently needed to take an indefinite leave of absence to be with his […]

NHL Game Preview: Edmonton Oilers vs. Montreal Canadiens | 03/19/2024

Game 65 against Colorado on Saturday night had the feel of a Playoff game, didn’t it? It was 1-0 after the second period, but who says low-scoring games can’t be exciting? So much speed was on display at both ends of the ice. The final score should’ve been a barnburner, but Stuart Skinner and Alex […]

Edmonton Oilers Desharnais Injury Update

It was reported yesterday that Edmonton Oilers defenseman Vincent Desharnais broke his finger when fighting Avalanche defenseman Josh Manson in the second period of Edmonton’s Saturday night game against Colorado. Due to this injury, he did not return for the third period or Overtime. The 27-year-old sophomore NHLer has 6 points, 104 hits, and 96 […]

Edmonton Oilers Sign USports Goalie

Yesterday afternoon, it was announced that the Edmonton Oilers signed goalie Connor Ungar to a two year entry-level contract. The 22 year old Calgary native had 26 starts for Brock University in the OUAA this season, posting a 20-6 record with a .932 SV% and 2.15 GAA. In 6 Playoffs games with the Badgers, he […]

New Cancer Treatment Coming To Canada

Two years after losing 6 year old Edmonton Oilers superfan Ben Stelter to cancer, proton therapy will now be making it’s way to the nation of Canada in order to help treat Canadian cancer patients of all ages. Ben caught the hearts of all Oilers fans back on March 24th of 2022, during a pregame […]

Connor Brown celebrates his first goal of the season

NHL Game Preview: Edmonton Oilers vs. Colorado Avalanche | 03/16/2024

Hell froze over, and pigs were flying. On Wednesday night, Connor Brown finally scored a goal for the Edmonton Oilers. In his 55th game of the season, he got the monkey off his back, or as he put it, full-blown gorilla. His last goal before that was scored on March 24th, 2022, almost exactly two […]

Edmonton Oilers: Ekholm Out? Stecher In?

The word out of Edmonton this afternoon is that Oilers defenseman Mattias Ekholm might miss tonight’s game against the Washington Capitals with an illness or, at the very least, be a game-time decision. Newly acquired defenseman Troy Stecher may be making his Edmonton debut. Related Post: NHL Game Preview: Edmonton Oilers vs. Washington Capitals | […]

NHL Game Preview: Edmonton Oilers vs. Washington Capitals | 03/13/2024

In Edmonton’s second blowout win against the Penguins this season, Darnell Nurse had himself a really good bounce-back game after some shifts in Buffalo that I wasn’t a huge fan of. He did take one needless penalty in the first period that Twitter showed no mercy towards. He made up for it the rest of […]

Edmonton Oilers: The Oily Awards

I hope you all enjoyed the Oscars this weekend. To celebrate the winners of that evening, I would like to add my own awards show and present the first annual Oily Awards. The categories and winners are… Winningest Zero: And the Oily goes to (opens envelope) Connor Brown. 54 games played as an Oiler and he […]