The Edmonton Oilers biggest weapon to lure players to sign contracts in Edmonton? The prospect of competing for a Stanley Cup with Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl. It’s also well known that when the Oilers are winning, fan support and enthusiasm in Edmonton is unlike anywhere else, a cauldron of enthusiasm and joy.
Edmonton Oilers went to the NHL’s discard pile on Monday, signing veteran forward Jeff Skinner who was just bought out by Buffalo Sabres.
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The Edmonton Oilers have brought back “The Janitor”.
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This in from the Daily Faceoff’s NHL insider Frank Seravalli, news that the Edmonton Oilers will look at former Chicago Blackhawk GM Stan Bowman for the team’s vacant GM job now that Ken Holland has left.
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Edmonton Oilers made another depth signing late on Wednesday with the announcement that right-shot defenceman Connor Carrick has joined the fold with a one-year, two-way contract.
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Lots of movement on the goaltending front on Monday, with no fewer than FOUR former Edmonton Oilers stoppers moving to new addresses.
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The Edmonton Oilers have re-signed veteran winger and super-pest Corey Perry.
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This in from Oilers insider Bob Stauffer: “The Edmonton Oilers good bet to be adding a hard-nosed #6 RD who Kris Knoblauch and Connor McDavid know well from their OHL days.”
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Edmonton Oilers have been looking to add a top-6 right winger to put on Leon Draisaitl ‘s line forever. On Monday they found a solution on the open market, namely Viktor Arvidsson .
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This in from the Edmonton Oilers, news they have re-signed promising AHL forward Noah Philp after he took a year off of hockey for personal reasons: “Welcome back, Noah 🙌 The Oilers have re-signed forward Noah Philp to a one-year, two-way contract worth $775,000 at the NHL level.”
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The Edmonton Oilers are bringing back Connor Brown.
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This in from Edmonton Oilers insider Bob Stauffer of Oilers: “On top of taking care of business on some of their own UFAs don’t be surprised if the Edmonton Oilers add a top 6 FWD (preferably a RW) to play with Leon Draisaitl and a 6th/7th D (preferably a right shot).”
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You’ve heard of the hometown discount, hockey players taking a bit less on their contract and/or term so they can stick with their home team in the salary cap era of the National Hockey League. That’s never been too big of a draw for players in Edmonton, possibly because the salary cap era coincided with Edmonton’s Decade of Darkness-plus, 2006-2019.
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Canadian hockey icon Don Cherry stood up for Connor McDavid’s decision not to go out on the ice to accept the Conn Smythe Award after McDavid’s Edmonton Oilers lost in Game 7 to the Florida Panthers.
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The Edmonton Oilers have finally come to the end of the road with Jack Campbell . Their attempt to trade the pricey goaltender having proved unsuccessful, the NHL club has placed him on waivers for purpose of buying out the last three years of the five-year, $25 million contract he signed just two summers ago.
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So close, yet so far away.
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After a lengthy wait while Utah Hockey Club (Zack Kassian trade) and Tampa Bay Lightning (Mattias Ekholm trade) exercised Edmonton’s picks in the third and fourth rounds, the Oilers re-entered the draft with the second-last pick of the fifth round at #160 overall. From there it was a rush of late picks which are all summarized in this post.
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Amid all the comings and goings of picks both before and at the 2024 NHL Draft, Edmonton Oilers managed to hold on to their second-round selection and used it to select Eemil Vinni , a 6’2, 185 pound goaltender from Finland.
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The first round of the 2024 NHL Draft at The Sphere in Las Vegas was a relaxing show for followers of the Edmonton Oilers. The local squad had long since traded away its first-round pick, with a long wait until pick #64 on Saturday morning and an even longer one to #160 and a few more after that.
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After a couple of days to catch their collective breath after a run to the Stanley Cup Finals and take care of details like exit interviews, the Edmonton Oilers got back on the horse Friday with a pair of two-year contract extensions.
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There was no end of surprises for the Edmonton Oilers in the 2024 playoffs including when it came to the performance of well-known players on the squad.
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Edmonton Oilers hockey boss Jeff Jackson said that for now he’s the acting GM, but he’s looking to hire a new one now that Ken Holland is moving on.
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The Edmonton Oilers have made it official: General Manager Ken Holland will not be returning to the NHL club. In a media release attributed to CEO of Hockey Operations Jeff Jackson, the club stated:
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Hockey is a game of mistakes and the Edmonton Oilers made their fair share of them in the 2024 playoffs, with more than 500 individual mistakes leading to 270 Grade A shots and/or goals against.
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This in from Bob Stauffer, the ultimate Edmonton Oilers insider, new information on Vincent Desharnais, Jack Campbell, Hayden Fleury and others.
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This in from Edmonton Oilers ace foward Leon Draisaitl, him telling reporters he would take time to assess his future path, but also giving a solid hint his heart is definitely with staying an Edmonton Oiler.
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There’s no point in reinventing the wheel, nor is there in rewriting history, at least when that history has already been written to the best of one’s ability. Today Glen “Slats” Sather has announced his retirement from the New York Rangers at age 80. We remember him here at Cult of Hockey by republishing, with slight revisions, the piece we posted back on 2015 July 21 when the Oilers announced a banner would be raised in his honour.
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There’s already been plenty of nonsense about the future of star centre Leon Draisaitl with the Edmonton Oilers. We can expect plenty more in coming weeks.
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This in, news that Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final between the Edmonton Oilers and the Florida Panthers broke viewership records for Sportsnet and ESPN in Canada and the USA.
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To win in the National Hockey League playoffs, the hockey experts will tell you, your best players must out-perform the best players on the opposition team.
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The Florida Panthers won their franchise’s first Stanley Cup Monday night, with a hard-fought, 2-1 nail-biter in Game 7.
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Game 7: Live blog, Edmonton Oilers vs Florida Panthers, Stanley Cup Final This is it, Game 7, and here is how it unfolded on social and mainstream media, highlights from around the hockey world of the Edmonton Oilers against the Florida Panthers in the final of the Stanley Cup Final.
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Playoff Game Day 25 Oilers vs Panthers, Stanley Cup Final Game Day 7 It’s the greatest of all game days, Game 7 Stanley Cup Final, with the Edmonton Oilers looking to make history, attempting to complete its comeback against the Florida Panthers.
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Five times previously these playoffs, the Edmonton Oilers took to the ice for what may have been their final practice of the season. Each time they survived to practice another day by winning a game in which a loss meant elimination.
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Former Hockey Night in Canada legend Don Cherry is back it, tossing opinions on his Grapevine podcast about Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final between the Edmonton Oilers and the Florida Panthers, including his take that Florida will win it all.
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Even in Toronto sports commentators are asking if this game is the most significant in the history of the NHL. In Montreal at a pop music concert last night, the fans took up a “Let’s Go Oilers” chance. A Toronto sports executive prodded Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to declare Monday a national holiday.
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