Highlights: Oilers vs. Leafs
Jonathan Willis
March 14 2010 10:14AM
Toronto Maple Leafs: 6
Edmonton Oilers: 4
Oilers vs. Canadiens Postgame: Firewagon Hockey
Jonathan Willis
March 12 2010 07:44AM
Edmonton: 4
Montreal: 5 (SO)
The Positive Take: Chris Minard
Jonathan Willis
March 11 2010 10:47AM
In a year where there’s been a shortage of feel-good stories about the Oilers, it’s been very difficult to find positives in the performance of the players, the coaches or the management group.
At first glance, Chris Minard, who was recalled by the Oilers yesterday, isn’t an exception to that pattern. He’s been hurt for most of the year, and struggled after coming back from injury. He’s coming up to replace the disappointing (and now injured) Patrick O’Sullivan. Not much there to feel good about.
But there is one thing worth mentioning amid the doom and gloom: not only is Minard a pretty good player, but his results in Springfield have been exceptional.
The Rebuild Conundrum, Part II
Jonathan Willis
March 10 2010 10:45AM
Yesterday, we looked at the difficulties with assuming that a lottery pick is a magic bullet that fixes a team’s problems. Because there’s so much more to building a team than just finding a superstar and then glomming random players around him, a bad general manager can make even the greatest pick almost completely irrelevant.
The problem is that the kind of managers who see their teams fall into a position to make a lottery pick are generally the same kind of managers who have that sort of reverse-Midas touch.
Oilers Vs. Senators: A Good Night For The DFF
Jonathan Willis
March 10 2010 07:33AM
Edmonton Oilers: 1
Ottawa Senators: 4
