It wasn’t long ago that the rationale for handing out lucrative, long-term contracts to players like the pact the Edmonton Oilers signed Tom Gilbert to was: “It might seem like an overpayment now, but it will be a bargain two years from now.”
Every Nation has it’s official Holidays — and our boy Charlie and his crew in Lethbridge have the honour of coining the very first National Holiday in the OilersNation. Gretzmas.
Where do you go when it’s freezing in your hometown? Somewhere warm? Somewhere you can sit on a beach and have a margarita? To a knitting convention in Missouri? Well we went to Moose Jaw and we got our drink on.
Sabremetrics and Moneyball have worked in baseball, but would the same work in hockey?
Statistics and mathematical modeling have changed the way society functions.
Browsing through TSN yesteryday, I couldn’t help but notice an item on Canucks’ GM Mike Gillis complaining about his team’s travel schedule.
Looking ahead to next season and how the salary cap, more than performance, will affect some of Steve Tambellini’s decisions.
Here’s the transaction wire for Josef Hrabal since this summer
This is a continuation of a concept that I test-ran at the end of December -– using the AHL website to test quality of competition.
Dany Sabourin, the ex-Pittsburgh Penguins backup goaltender who Edmonton acquired last weekend as part of the deal that sent Mathieu Garon out of town, cleared waivers as of noon on Wednesday.
We have had four messages from buddies/readers that basically say, “WHOA, you can actually see the bandwagon start to fill up on the Nation right now can’t you?
They’re in it together now. If for no other reason than that, I like the Edmonton Oilers’ chances of making the playoffs a lot more today than I did when this season began.
