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 upcoming Oilers season, offered up their predictions on the year, the final pre-season game of the year, line combinations, and more.

We kicked off the Friday episode of ONR with a delicious debate about the RIPNation party for tomorrow night, and which staffer will end up wearing the crown when the night wraps. If you don’t know what the crown is, it’s which staffer will drink too much and make the most of what will be an incredible night for everyone at Nation HQ and the Nation Citizens in attendance. Either way, it’s going to be a fantastic night, and one everyone is incredibly excited about.

Shifting gears, the guys turned the podcast to our season predictions for the 2026-27 season. From goal totals to team points to how the goaltenders will do, it’s almost a lot of fun to take swings at how we think the players will do for the upcoming year. If you’ve heard the boys do their pre-season predictions before, you’ll know that this exercise is something they’ve all struggled with mightily over the years. But can you blame anyone for being bullish right in the middle of Kool-Aid szn.

Finally, we wrapped up the Friday episode of ONR with another round of betting talk, Hot and Cold Performers, any non-prediction takes that popped up after running through the list, and wrapped up the podcast with some pre-party words of hope from Producer Reece. With the NHL season only days away from kicking off, the boys had fun breaking everything down and getting excited about what’s to come.