The San Jose Sharks showed the team could compete with a playoff-hardened Edmonton Oilers team, limiting scoring chances and matching up against Connor McDavid’s line through two periods. But two third-period goals exposed the gap between playing a competitive game and finishing one. The Sharks’ ability to maintain defensive structure, win puck battles and respond to momentum shifts will determine whether strong stretches of play can translate into consistent results.
The San Jose Sharks’...
Heavyweight bouts usually feature big swings, a couple of knockdowns and viewers on the edge of their seats in every round. That’s what hockey fans were expecting Saturday afternoon when the Edmonton Oilers and San Jose Sharks, with Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl, Evan Bouchard, Macklin Celebrini, Ivar Stenberg, et al took to the ice in…
The Edmonton Oilers (4-0-1) extended their winning streak to four games after defeating the San Jose Sharks (3-2-0) 3-1 in a Saturday matinee (Oct. 10). The first two periods were…
The Edmonton Oilers’ California road trip continued with a stop in San Jose to square off against Macklin Celebrini and the Sharks. Of course, this game also marked the first time our boys would face Darnell Nurse after being traded to San Jose in a deal for Shakir Mukhamadullin back on July 1st. The table…
Macklin Celebrini returned to the Sharks lineup, but San Jose fell to the Edmonton Oilers in a 3-1 loss at home. With Tristan Jarry in net for the Oilers, who…
The Edmonton Oilers’ great start to their season has continued. On Saturday afternoon, the Oilers defeated the San Jose Sharks 3-1, moving their season record to 4-0-1. This win is the latest of four consecutive victories, as the Oilers take the top spot in the Pacific Division for the time being. Let’s take a look…
The Bakersfield Condors are back to playing hockey again. Last weekend, the Edmonton Oilers’ AHL affiliate was in Henderson for a back-to-back against the Silver Knights on Saturday and Sunday. Bakersfield lost their season opener 4-3, and the team didn’t get their feet under themselves until the third period. In the opening period, the Condors…
On Wednesday (Oct. 7), the Edmonton Oilers acquired forward Filip Hallander from the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for defenceman Spencer Stastney. A native of Sundsvall, Sweden, Hallander has appeared in 18…
On Wednesday, the Edmonton Oilers and Pittsburgh Penguins made an in-season trade for the second year in a row, sending defenseman Spencer Stastney to Pittsburgh for forward Filip Hollander. The…
Mike Babcock still has a long way to go to get in the good graces of hockey fans, Edmonton Oilers fans included. In fact, the amount of negative stories that…
Update: Nothing to worry about here. Celebrini and Sherwood are both going today.
The San Jose Sharks get ready to face another tough test today, and hopefully the team is prepared this time. The Sharks play the Edmonton Oilers and may again be without captain Macklin Celebrini. San Jose barely escaped from St. Louis with two points on Thursday night. It was pummeled in Dallas . The Oilers are built much closer to the Dallas end of the spectrum...
The Edmonton Oilers are in San Jose this afternoon for a 2 PM dance with the Sharks, and this is going to be another one of those measuring stick games to see how our boys fare against an up-and-coming squad ripe with young talent. Coming into this one, the Oilers are riding a three-game win…
With Macklin Celebrini’s status for Saturday still uncertain, the San Jose Sharks could face the Edmonton Oilers without the team’s captain, putting Ryan Warsofsky’s emphasis on roster depth and contributions throughout the lineup to the test.
Fresh off a two-game road trip, the San Jose Sharks face a new challenge in the team’s search for identity. Head Coach Warsofsky is preparing the team to take on the Pacific Division-leading Oilers, focusing on his roster’s depth without its star. A...
Darnell Nurse spent the first 12 seasons of his NHL career with the Edmonton Oilers — but he’ll face them for the first time Saturday afternoon. The now-San Jose Sharks defenseman, who was traded to California on July 1, is looking forward to the challenge of taking on his old club. “One of the best […]
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San Jose Sharks captain Macklin Celebrini will be a game-time decision for Saturday’s matchup against the Edmonton Oilers as he continues recovering from a lower-body injury. The 20-year-old forward has missed the team’s last two games, leaving his availability for the contest dependent on how he feels before puck drop. Head coach Ryan Warsofsky confirmed […]
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It’s the Sydney Sweeney of starts for the Edmonton Oilers — top-heavy through their first four games. Such is the grind, missing an entire top-six line worth of forwards. Under the circumstances, no one is turning down a 3-0-1 record, especially with Evan Bouchard setting NHL records for offensive production for a defenceman, and the…
Drafted seventh overall by the Edmonton Oilers in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft, Darnell Nurse slowly ascended to being a legitimate top-pairing defenceman for the team, carrying the blue line through the COVID years after Oscar Klefbom’s career was cut short due to injury. After having an excellent shortened 2021 season that saw him finish…
The Oilers have yearned for a solution between the pipes. Could Devon Levi finally be the No. 1 they’ve been looking for?
After the Edmonton Oilers traded Spencer Stastney earlier this week, three of the seven defencemen remaining on their roster are former San Jose Sharks. Since the Sharks’ inception in 1991-92, the Sharks and Oilers have linked up for just seven trades, with those three trades for former Sharks defencemen coming in just the past two…
It’s Friday afternoon, which means a fresh episode of Oilersnation Radio is ready to massage your eardrums with an hour of in-season Oilers talk. On today’s podcast, the fellas discussed the Oilers’ California road trip, Tristan Jarry getting back in the net, the Saturday’s matchup against San Jose, line combinations, and more. We kicked off…
The Seattle Kraken have barely had time to get their sea legs, and already
they're being asked to navigate some choppy waters.
After opening the 2026-27 season with a mix of encouraging wins and
stumbles against Vegas and Edmonton, there is a lot we still don’t know
about this Kraken squad. Seattle is heading out on a five-game road trip
that will test its depth, resilience, and ability to compete when the
comforts of Climate Pledge Arena are nowhere to be found. It’s hard for
fans to g...
As the Dylan Larkin and Simon Edvinsson situations continue to play out in a chaotic start to the season for the Detroit Red Wings , questions have begun to arise about the future of Alex DeBrincat as well. The three-time 40-goal scorer is a pending UFA, and is off to another fine start, with a couple of goals and four points through three games thus far for Detroit. He's playing out the final season of his four-year, $7.875 million deal he signed with the Wings back in 2023. He'll be looking ...
Things didn’t look good after the first period on Wednesday night in Anaheim. The Edmonton Oilers were down 2-0 on two point-blank power-play goals from Beckett Sennecke. Despite rebounding to erase the last five power plays of the game, including a late two-man advantage that the Ducks turned into a six-on-three, the penalty kill has…
Nail Yakupov is one of the NHL’s most notable draft busts in recent memory. The Edmonton Oilers surely whiffed on this first-overall pick in 2012, as Yakupov contributed next to…
The reinforcements are starting to arrive. Days after the Edmonton Oilers got centre Jason Dickinson back from injury, winger Zach Hyman is nearing a return to the lineup. Banged up in the final pre-season game against the Calgary Flames on Sept. 26, Hyman drew in for Edmonton’s season opener three days later, but an upper-body…