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Oilersnation Radio: Will the Oilers really trade Darnell Nurse?

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By baggedmilk
Jun 5, 2026, 22:00 EDTUpdated: Jun 5, 2026, 17:19 EDT
It’s Friday afternoon, which means a fresh episode of Oilersnation Radio is ready to massage your eardrums with an hour of off-season Oilers talk. On today’s podcast, the fellas discussed the Darnell Nurse rumours, free agency, the Stanley Cup Final, line combinations, and more.
We kicked off the Friday episode of ONR with a delicious debate about the Darnell Nurse rumours that kicked up this week after Mark Spector wrote an article at Sportsnet citing that the player and team are heading for a split. And while the rumours certainly got Oilers fans talking, there is no guarantee that Stan Bowman will be able to find a suitor for a contract this big. There’s also the angle that removing Darnell Nurse creates a 20-minute hole on the back end that will need to be filled.
Shifting gears, the boys looked at a burgeoning scandal that’s happening at Nation HQ after a bunch of tiny plastic ducks have been appearing around the office. As you’ll hear, the appearance of the Ducks around the office has prompted an offseason investigation that is taking up everyone’s bandwidth until the mystery is solved. Getting back to hockey, the boys spent some time looking at the Stanley Cup Final, and how both teams are showing reasons why either could win.
Finally, we wrapped up the Friday episode of ONR with another round of Ask the Idiots, betting talk for our friends at bet365, and Hot and Cold Performers to look back on the week that was. With the conference finals nearly wrapped up, the guys spent the bulk of the podcast moving through a range of topics, most related to the Oilers’ needs for the off-season, some not, but that’s the way things go on the Friday episode of ONR.
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