With the summer in full swing, it’s already starting to get harder to find things to write about so I dove into the Interwebz to look at all things Oilers when I found this interview with Cooper Marody from last week’s development camp.
In the continuation of the trend of killing Toronto’s hopes of Toronto-area born players coming home as soon as they can (a trend they finally bucked this year when they signed John Tavares) on this day back in 2017, Connor McDavid signed an eight-year, $100 million dollar extension with the Oilers.
The Edmonton Oilers have eight million in cap space remaining. They need to sign restricted free agents Darnell Nurse and Ryan Strome, but do they have room to sign another unrestricted free agent to a one-year deal? Let’s assume Nurse and Strome each sign for $3.1 million. That eats up $6.2 million leaving the Oilers…
Vincent Damphousse might not rate as highly on this list with some fans as I have him because he only played one season — 80 regular season and 16 playoff games — with the Edmonton Oilers. During the post-1990 era, Damphousse was never face of the franchise material like, say, Ryan Smyth, who would certainly…
