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Monday afternoon’s game between the Edmonton Oilers Rookies and Vancouver Canucks Rookies in Penticton was pretty much the Gold Medal Game of the Young Stars Classic. Both teams won their first two games of the weekend and were coming into Monday’s finale with the winner coming out as the undefeated team.
After beating the Winnipeg Jets Rookies to kick off the tournament on Friday, the Edmonton Oilers Rookies continued to mow through the Penticton Young Stars Classic with a commanding 4-1 victory over the Calgary Flames Rookies on Saturday night.
We’re back! There was an actual hockey game played last night, as the Edmonton Oilers Rookies kicked off the Penticton Young Stars Classic with a 3-2 win over the Winnipeg Jets Rookies. Let’s go through all of the interesting stuff from Friday night…
It’s been a solemn day in Edmonton after the passing of Oilers superfan Ben Stelter, but down at Rogers Place Team Canada’s 2022 World Juniors got underway.
Canada’s quest for gold got off to a perfect start in Red Deer, beating Switzerland 14-0, not a typo, in their first game of the Hlinka Gretzky Cup. More than half of Canada’s goals came in the opening period, with Colby Barlow getting the first on a shorthanded breakaway. Barlow scored a second in the…
Not the result we wanted but that was a hell of a season. Final Score: 6-5 Avalanche in OT
We know the challenge, we know the history, and we know how few teams have done it before, but that doesn’t mean the Oilers should fold their hand and give up. Can it be done? Dare to dream. Look, there’s no sugarcoating the position the Oilers are in right now — it’s not good. Being…
It’s officially do-or-die for the Edmonton Oilers.
Through the first two rounds of the playoffs, the Oilers had played poorly in Game 1 and then came out and won Game 2 with a significantly better effort. The pattern didn’t continue.
They needed a freebie to get this done, bring on Game 2. Final Score: 8-6 Avalanche Coming into this series against the Colorado Avalanche, we all knew how good the opponent was going to be but that our boys are also playing some pretty damned good hockey right now. Even though basically every pundit or…
Eight wins down, eight more to go. Final Score: 5-4 Oilers in OT Can I be honest for a minute? Today was the most stressed out I’ve been about a playoff game so far, and it’s a weird thing to admit considering the Oilers came into this thing ahead 3-1 in the series. Seeing as…
Through three games, the Oilers’ series with the Flames had been much like their first-round series with the Kings.
