Mattias Ekholm is top-20 in scoring by defensemen this season, the man is rolling. He is one of the key players on this team and has delivered some of the best and most consistent defensive play in ...

During the 1980’s the Edmonton Oilers prospect pool fed the big-league team with trade assets and actual NHL players. Charlie Huddy, Andy Moog, Don Jackson, Steve Smith, Esa Tikkanen, Jeff Beukeboom, ...

I believe the strongest AHL farm club in recent Oilers history is the 2019-20 team. The question is: Does that Condors team represent the best farm club all-time for Edmonton’s minor leaguers? You ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...