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NHL Game Preview: Detroit Red Wings vs. Edmonton Oilers with Line Combinations 10/27/2024
The Detroit Red Wings will return home to face the Edmonton Oilers tonight.
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Game Preview: Nashville Predators vs. Edmonton Oilers 10/17/2024
The Nashville Predators looking for their first win of the season will take on the Edmonton Oilers tonight.
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Edmonton Oilers Game 1 Thoughts
Was Edmonton’s preseason bad? Yeah. Am I concerned? Not really. We’re talking about practice. During the Decade Of Darkness, the Oilers sometimes had much better preseasons than regular seasons. Jack Campbell was pretty good in last year’s preseason and a lot of us thought that meant he’d have a bounce back year. Spoiler alert, he […]
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2024-25 Edmonton Oilers Expectations
There is a famous old joke told by comedian Jerry Seinfeld that was about silver medals in the Olympics. His punchline was, “Congratulations, you almost won.” For fans of the Edmonton Oilers, it was absolutely worth celebrating during the summer how far the team got last season and how close they were to winning it all. […]
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Pittsburgh Penguins 2024-25 Season Preview
The Pittsburgh Penguins have found themselves in unfamiliar territory in the past two seasons. It once felt automatic that a team with Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, and Kris Letang would be in the playoffs, vying for Lord Stanley’s Cup. However, nowadays, it is a battle night in and night out on trying to make the […]
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Projected Oilers Forward Lines
Every once in a while, an Oilers fan on Twitter will retweet Edmonton’s lineup from the 2018/2019 season. We can laugh at it now, but this roster has come a long way from what we used to sit through. The mouths of every fan in Oil Country got watery after July 1st. An already elite […]
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Player Profile: Connor McDavid
Connor McDavid’s rise to become the face of the Edmonton Oilers and the NHL is extraordinary. From an early age, McDavid played against older kids, honing his skills under his father’s guidance. He won four Ontario Minor Hockey Association championships with the York Simcoe Express before joining the Toronto Marlboros in 2011, where he was […]
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How Wrong Were My 2023-24 Season Predictions?
The 2023-24 NHL season is wrapped up completely and we are waiting patiently for training camp to begin for the 2024-25 season. Just days before the 2023-24 season began, I wrote a predictions piece for the year, something I continue to do for as long as I can. I figured that calling myself out for […]
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Breaking the Ice: How Social Media is Transforming the NHL’s Image from Boring to Bold
So gone are the days of cardboard cut-out players and out-of-touch athletes. Social media has reminded us that these are real people too and they can do a TikTok dance just as poorly as the rest of us.
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Lightning Announce 2024-25 Regular Season Schedule; Key Dates
The NHL released all 32 clubs’ regular season schedules today, with a triple header kicking things off Oct. 8th. The Tampa Bay Lightning will start their 2024-25 campaign with a home-and-home, back-to-back series with the Carolina Hurricanes Friday, Oct. 11th, and Saturday, Oct. 12th, with the first game in Raleigh. The Lightning will meet the […]
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