A #NationVacation Recap: Smashville with Love
My friends, I am writing to you live, from deep within the friendly confines of another Nation Vacation.
Oilersnation Radio Episode 158 – Calgary will never be Edmonton and other positives
It’s not Thursday nor Saturday and it’s the end of the week so that can mean only one thing, it’s Friday in the City of Champions and ONR podcast day once more. Each and every week for 158 weeks so far, the folks at ON come together to talk your collective ears into exclaiming your…
Oilers Prospect Update: The One with the Champions
This week’s prospect update is all about the Condors and the final prospect update of the season for me. The Condors had all the drama that an abbreviated playoff run could offer. Starter being pulled, OT wins and losses. Just a wonderful run. Zach Laing broke it down here: Bakersfield Condors win AHL Pacific Division…
Oilers Prospect Update: Condors teetering
This week’s prospect update is all about the Condors and their own version of the playoffs. If you missed it, the AHL playoffs are not happening in any other division than the Pacific. The Condors are in a best of three series with the San Diego Gulls. They lost Game 1 5-3 and pulled out…
Oilers Prospect Update: Condors Clinchmas
This week’s prospect update is all about the Condors once more (and into the playoffs) Bakersfield Condors clinch AHL playoff spot As of Saturday’s victory, the Condors are playoff bound. It looks as though they will be matched up against the San Diego Gulls. More to come next week. Have a prospect you want to…
Edmonton Oilers Prospect Update: Playoffs Format Set
This week’s prospect update which has essentially become your stats update on a weekly basis for the Condors is here again. As a reminder, the Condors are in the only division this season in the AHL that will have a playoff. This is the format: 🗣️PLAYOFFS! After a play-in, single elimination, tournament to decide the…
Oilers Prospect Update: DOWN THE STRETCH
This week’s prospect update is the start of a few more weeks of solely AHL updates. With signings making their way over to NA and up from Bakersfield now. Coupled with the fact that there will be no playoffs for the rest of the AHL (the pacific will have a top four tournament) I will…
Oilers Prospect Update: House Griffith-dor
This week’s prospect update features a first timer in Seth Griffith. With his one goal and two assists, Seth leads the weekly update and led the baby Oilers/Condors with a 2-1-0 record on the week. The Condors continue their season and rolling in the Pacific Division, 2nd place there. The top 10 in scoring has…
Oilers Prospect Update: Ta Da Lavoie
This week’s prospect update features the young man picked 38th overall in 2019 by your Edmonton Oilers. Raphael Lavoie has arrived in Bakersfield with a vengeance. In his first eight games for the baby Oil, he has amassed a boxcar of 4-3-7. Five points coming just this week alone. The news coming out of Bakersfield…
Oilers Prospect Update: Floating on a McLeod
This week’s prospect update features Ryan McLeod who had himself a week with a huge game against the King’s farm squad, the Reign. An assist that paired up with a hat-trick that included a shorthanded goal (see below) and the overtime winner. The Condors again lived up to the billing I gave them last week,…
Oilers Prospect Update: April 5th, 2021
This week’s prospect update is beginning to turn into the Condors update. This topsy turvy season keeps rolling on with three or four games each week from here to the end (barring COVID cancellations). The baby Oil have been yo-yoing up and down in some streaks, five losses; nine wins; one loss; three wins; and…
Kelty can run – Calling on the Nation
If you have been visiting Oilersnation for a while, you’ll probably remember a little girl named Kelty. Back in 2014 2014, a then four-year-old Kelty was dealing with spastic, quadriplegic Cerebral Palsy and required an expensive muscle lengthening surgery in the United States. The Nation rallied and many items were donated from across the city…