Dear NHL: Stop the madness (Updated)
Jonathan Willis
April 24 2013 10:06AM
If there’s one thing that anybody who regularly watches the Edmonton Oilers knows, it’s this: there is some incredibly unwatchable hockey played after a team is eliminated from playoff contention. And there’s absolutely no reason it has to be that way.
The Magic Power Play II
Jonathan Willis
April 23 2013 12:32PM
One of the more underreported stories (including by me) related to the Oilers this season has been the steep decline in the power play since a brilliant run to start the year.
Sometimes, you get surprised
Jonathan Willis
April 21 2013 06:26AM
The Oklahoma City Barons are loaded with relatively high NHL draft picks, and a lot of them are bigger forwards. The 2010 trio of Tyler Pitlick, Curtis Hamilton and Ryan Martindale were all exceptional junior age players, and represented the second tier of rebuild hopefuls. Two years into the professional careers of that group, things have gone badly awry; Martindale leads them with 14 AHL points after being consigned to the ECHL last season.
Instead, one of those itty-bitty forwards the Oilers took a flyer on a few years back leads the pack.
Edmonton Oilers sign Martin Gernat
Jonathan Willis
April 20 2013 11:57AM
On Saturday, the Oilers locked up a prospect who could have re-entered the draft this year. The team announced that 2011 fifth-round draft pick Martin Gernat had agreed to a three-year entry-level contract.
Stats from a six-game losing streak
Jonathan Willis
April 19 2013 09:00AM
The Oilers have lost six consecutive games – and the list of individual players excelling and faltering in that stretch is an interesting one.
