After waiting around all summer for the hockey season to roll back around the time has come. It’s that time of year when Oilers fans are filled with hope, recharged, and ready to watch games without a feeling of dread. This season, we wanted to find more ways to bring the Nation together aside from hoping for meaningful…
Jordan Eberle is obviously the big name that comes up in this week’s injury report. Ebs hurt his shoulder last Tuesday in the first period against Arizona, ironically right after last week’s injury report was posted. The injury will keep him out of the lineup for four to six weeks. That’s a big hit to the Oilers’ offense before…
Sports fans and media types alike love making predictions. If we’re right, or even remotely close, we can say,” I called it,” whether our choice of crystal ball is flipping a coin, reading tea leaves, delving into analytics or relying on the still-popular combination of gut and eyeballs.
Undersized and undrafted, Norm MacIver was an over-achiever who played 500 games in the NHL, including 79 with the Edmonton Oilers in the 1990s, because he figured out early on in his career brains not brawn would have to be his calling card.
