The man who took out one of the Edmonton Oilers‘ top stars has shared his side of the story. When speaking to the media on Thursday, Nashville Predators forward Ozzy Wiesblatt was asked about the hit on Oilers sniper Leon Draisaitl that led to the latter being ruled out for the remainder of the 2025-26…
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He's closing in on his first game since January 13th.
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The Edmonton Oilers made a pair of roster moves and blended their lines Thursday ahead of their Stanley Cup Final rematch with the Florida Panthers. Leon Draisaitl was placed on the long-term injured reserve with a lower-body injury sustained Sunday night on a hit by Nashville Predators winger Ozzy Wiesblatt. He was initially expected to…
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Sure, there are injuries to key players from the recent Stanley Cup Finals, forcing them out of tonight’s game. But as long as the Edmonton Oilers are playing a team wearing Florida Panthers’ jerseys, the game means more. The Oilers didn’t paint a Picasso against the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday night, but withstood mistakes…
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The 2024 2nd rounder is in Winnipeg where he'll spend the rest of the season in the AHL.
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At the GM meetings GMKC spoke 1-on-1 with Gino Reda.
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This won’t be a preview of a third straight Stanley Cup Final between Edmonton and Florida. The Oilers are still chasing top spot in the Pacific Division, but the Panthers are running out of time, sitting 13 points back of a playoff spot with just over a month left. With their season slipping away, the…
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The Hockey Show , Canada's only campus-produced radio show that strictly talks hockey, is back tonight with one of our favourite people talking about one of our favourite topics! Our guest is well-versed in the game of hockey, and her experiences with both the ECHL's Fort Wayne Komets and ACHA's Indiana Tech Warriors has led to her going to school to get even more knowledge on the game. Tonight, it's excited to welcome back Fiona Quinn who will give us some insight on ECHL news, Komets news, W...
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A look at the projected lineups and pre-game interviews.
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Oilersnation is reviving the Top 100 Edmonton Oilers of All Time list, a project originally created by the late Robin Brownlee in 2015. Bill Guerin comes in at No. 42 on our updated 2025 list. He was ranked No. 31 on Brownlee’s original list. It feels like Bill Guerin was an Edmonton Oiler for longer…
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The first year of the NCHC Championship game being on campus is here, and Denver wins the prize of getting to host. Of course, it earned it with a No. 2 seed and by winning its semifinal, while No. 1 seed North Dakota was knocked off.The team that knocked off North Dakota is Minnesota Duluth, which comes in at No. 6 in the NPI, while the Pioneers are No. 5. Last week, Denver defeated No. 4 Western...
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For the second consecutive season, Bentley finds itself in the Atlantic Hockey championship game, this time with the title of defending champion and current regular-season champion. The last team to win both titles was RIT, two seasons ago.“I’ve seen some growth in this playoff run, some encouraging growth. I think our collective is growing, I think our ability to sustain a hard game for 60 minutes...
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This year’s ECAC championship weekend looks a lot like last year’s — Cornell, Dartmouth and Clarkson have all returned to Lake Placid, looking to claim the coveted Whitelaw Cup.One usual suspect will not be in attendance — Quinnipiac, after being swept by J.F. Houle’s Golden Knights in the quarterfinals. Instead, Princeton takes the place of the Bobcats, making its first trip to Herb Brooks...
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For the first time in three years, there will be a new Big Ten Tournament champion.In a rematch of last year’s championship game, where Michigan State downed Ohio State in double overtime, the Buckeyes were in another tight battle with the Spartans.But this time, the underdogs got the better of the defending back-to-back champs thanks to Felix Caron’s overtime winner 2 minutes, 36 seconds into...
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For the second-straight year, the CCHA’s champion will be decided in a duel between Minnesota State and St. Thomas in Mankato, Minn.The championship scenario is almost a one-to-one recreation of the 2025 final, with the only difference being that the Tommies enter the game as the conference’s two-seed instead of being the three-seed like the previous championship game. And also, this year, if ...
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It's not exactly a surprise that Bob Motzko is no longer the coach at Minnesota. After every recent season, there's been speculation he would retire.The school called Wednesday's move a "mutual" agreement.Coming one day after athletic director Mark Coyle fired women's coach Brad Frost, it does seem, however, that Motzko was squeezed out the door.It's a move that you can understand, on some level, ...
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The veteran journalist shares his insight.
It’s been another wild week around here with the Oilers rollercoaster making another loop, and I’ve got a fresh episode of Better Lait Than Never ready to recap it all. On today’s podcast, I talked about the Oilers‘ trades at the deadline, the first few games for our new friends, a tough luck run of…
Connor Ingram is 4-0-1 in his last six starts, with a .898 save percentage and a 2.50 goals-against average for the Edmonton Oilers. In the last five games, his five-on-five save percentage is 15th best in the NHL. Those are average numbers, you might say. Said with different intonation: Hey, those are average numbers! I’m…
The 2026 trade deadline has come and gone. In total, the Edmonton Oilers traded three roster players in two separate trades. They acquired Colton Dach and Jason Dickinson from the Chicago Blackhawks, sending a 2027 top-12-protected first and Andrew Mangiapane in return. In December, the Oilers also thought they solved their goaltending situation, acquiring Tristan…
Recap of the game.
When news broke that Leon Draisaitl would be out of the lineup for the remainder of the regular season, I think everyone in Oil Country went through their own mini stages of grief, before the reality set in that it would take a team-wide effort from the rest of the Edmonton Oilers to fill his…
The 2nd rounder is in Winnipeg.
With leagues around the world either in the midst of, or gearing up for, playoff season, attention naturally begins to shift toward notable free agents. While additions from the European free-agent market don’t always pan out, as we saw with the Edmonton Oilers’ recent experiment with David Tomášek, it remains a low-cost, relatively low-risk avenue…