Evan Bouchard had a jarring night on defense, it was beyond the pale. I’m a big fan, and his overall numbers this season indicate strong possession and good outscoring results. However, he wasn’t ...

The last time the Edmonton Oilers won the Stanley Cup (1990) there were five rookies who played for them. Only two reached the 40-game mark, just one (Geoff Smith) would play the entire season for the ...

That seems to be a solution worth monitoring, although the experts tell us to wait for 200 minutes before beginning to draw strong conclusions. While we are on the subject of small samples, the ...

Jeff Skinner is quickly becoming my favourite new winger, and that’s a tough chore because Viktor Arvidsson is golden. Both veterans are so damn good at the hockey, in different ways, and it’s clear ...

Alas, the gales of November did not come early. Kris Knoblauch and his coaching staff managed to hoist up the John B’s sail, and to see how the mainsail set. Not the powerful start all hoped for, but ...

This is the ‘rolling top 20’ Oilers prospects from the winter of 2016. All of Taylor Hall, Nuge, Nail Yakupov, Darnell Nurse, Leon Draisaitl and Connor McDavid had already graduated (50 NHL games for ...

I wrote about Leon Draisaitl yesterday and about his importance to the Oilers organization. The big man marched in to Nashville and flattened the Predators again. One never knows why these things ...