It’s been ten games since the Oilers made the switch from Todd McLellan to Ken Hitchcock and the team is winning. It feels good, doesn’t it Oilers fans? Yet, there are still some of you who aren’t satisfied. Some of you say that Ken Hitchcock has made this a boring team and some of you…
With the Western Conference and the Pacific Division as tight as they are, every single game has massive implications on the standings. Tonight’s opponent, the Minnesota Wild, sat just two points ahead of the Oilers in the wild card standings. It was a good ‘ol four-point swing and those points were ripe for the picking….
When a team has two goaltenders that are struggling, it’s not really as much a goaltending “controversy” as it is a straight up goaltending “problem”. Cam Talbot came into this season as a lock to be the Oilers number one goalie, but that title quickly evaporated as Talbot struggled and Mikko Koskinen began to surge.
Tuesday’s loss to the Dallas Stars was a sobering reminder of what this hockey club looks like without Connor McDavid. They are a dull team, who can stay competitive in any given game, but lack their offensive engine. There was no ‘wow factor’. There was not one point in that hockey game where I was…
The theme of the year for the Edmonton Oil Kings has been their inconsistency. The team started the year with a five game winning streak, then lost eight in a row before going on to grab points in ten straight, and now, they’ve dropped four consecutive decisions.
Back in the early ’80s, when he was playing for the Edmonton Oilers, Marc Habscheid had an eye on coaching.
The Edmonton Oil Kings have grabbed points in 11 of their last 12 games, winning nine of them, and honestly, you could argue that they’ve deserved a better fate in every game they’ve lost.
Over the past month, we’ve heard Peter Chiarelli say on multiple occasions that the group of defenders that the Edmonton Oilers have simply don’t move the puck well enough. Today, he made a move to address that, acquiring Chris Wideman from the Ottawa Senators in exchange for a conditional 6th round pick in the 2020…
Earlier today, at 11:45am to be exact, Edmonton Oilers General Manager Peter Chiarelli held a conference call with members of the local and national media to address the firing of Todd McLellan and subsequent hiring of Ken Hitchcock. I watched the earlier press conference which featured Chiarelli and some of the local travelling media. In the…
There is plenty of blame being thrown around and almost all of it is deserved. Fans are mad at Chiarelli, they want McLellan fired, and Cam Talbot’s play has been a constant headache. Those are legitimate reasons to be mad at this organization. Right now, I want to focus on a different part of the…
The deal is fresh, but on the surface, it’s two teams simply swapping struggling players. Ryan Strome played a total of 259 minutes in 18 games with the Oilers this season and he managed just one goal and one assist. It was an ugly start for Strome, who carried a cap hit of $3.1 million…
I have not been ‘covering’ hockey for very long, but my short time doing so, I haven’t been around a team that has gone from one extreme to another the way the 2018-19 Edmonton Oil Kings have.
