The Edmonton Oilers had a Calder Trophy finalist in 2022-23, plus a couple of players who could last a decade to boot. Last season wasn't a stellar year for Oilers freshman, but 2025-26 has real ...

The Edmonton Oilers have been scandalously poor at getting value in trade for many years. The stories are legend and painful. Steve Tambellini with a chance to acquire Ben Bishop, balking at including ...

Every new general manager is in a helluva hurry to turn over the 50-man list upon arrival. It's the old George Carlin line ...

Trades can be lots of fun for a fan base. If you're an old nerd like me, trades that are made now sometimes bring back ...

Much of what Stan Bowman wants to do with the current Oilers roster relies on other teams and willingness to make changes in ...

The Edmonton Oilers have a roster that can be described as complete, but there are things that general manager Stan Bowman ...

Noah Philp is eligible for waivers this fall. So is Alec Regula. Every year we talk about waiver worries and are (I believe) about evenly split about how much harm/good it can do for a team. I think ...

These are NHL equivalency numbers from 12 to 15 years ago, followed by the points-game totals in rookie seasons for some of Edmonton's bright young talents during that era. As you can see, all of ...

This is Ziggy. She came to our house for the first time in fall 2011, making her 14 this year. She still has a non-stop motor, but doesn't motor as often as she used to do. The photo above is from the ...

The estimated icetime comes via friend of the blog Eric Rodgers, who used an innovative tool involving goals-for and against laid against total even-strength minutes. Among players who dressed for 40+ ...

Welcome to the 'training camp hopeful' series the 2025 summer. Over the next few weeks I'll look at players who are not clearly on the roster, but could find the NHL through various means this fall.

This is the 2014-15 Oklahoma City Barons blue. Oscar Klefbom did all that damage in nine games. Brandon Davidson would still be playing NHL hockey if not for Matt Tkachuk and Dustin Byfuglien. Dillon ...