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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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+ ...

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 ...

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 December 2013 glance at Edmonton's goaltenders. In January 2014, Craig MacTavish would do Devan Dubnyk a favour and send him on his way. Dubnyk was back in the NHL as a solid starter in ...

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 ...

Welcome to the ‘training camp hopeful’ series the 2025 summer. Over the next few weeks I’ll look at players who are … ...